Jan Olof Bengtsson

Wayne W. Dyer (1940-2015) was one of the best-known of those popularizers of Maslowian humanistic psychology who partly went beyond it by adding spirituality of the “New Age” kind. Their academic counterpart is, or at least used to be, the American Association of Transpersonal Psychology, a branch of the American Psychological Association. It is important to understand this kind of psycho-spirituality, and the extent to which it has shaped contemporary America and to some ext