Carlisle
Bergquist,
MA, LCMFT
Psychotherapist,
psychological researcher, systems theorist, author, and
relationship counselor, Carlisle Bergquist is skilled in
Psychosynthesis, creativity, spiritual emergence and transpersonal
issues. His therapeutic experience includes work with families in
crisis, adolescents, prison inmates, creative artists, and
individuals undergoing spiritual crises.
Transpersonal
psychology extends the traditional theories about the psyche to
include the mind, body, and spiritual dimensions of our being.
This paradigm incorporates both empirical and esoteric
perspectives from global traditions. Carlisle's broad
educational, professional, and experiential background provides a
unique perspective on the human spirit. He proposes that each of
us has an innate power to create, and as "creators" we scout for
humanity. Thus, through our collective consciousness, we each hold
the human potential to heal, or "re-create" ourselves, and help
heal society.
Carlisle is a
Doctoral Candidate in dissertation at Saybrook Institute, San
Francisco, California. His psychological research focuses on the
therapeutic effect of sound on states of consciousness. Vantage
Quest is a sound tool for consciousness exploration available to
anyone with a compact disk player that results from his research.
A further outgrowth of Carlisle's work are the “Creativity,
Healing & Shamanism,” and the “Accessing Your Inner Creator”
workshops and seminars. Carlisle has a MA. in Transpersonal
Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and is a
licensed Marriage Family Therapist in Kansas and California.
Undergraduate studies include a BS. in Biology from Kansas
Wesleyan Univ. specializing in native prairie flora at The Land
Institute, and extensive training in music and drama at Univ. of
Southern Calif.
With three
seemingly diverse professional interests; i.e., Transpersonal
Psychology, creative & performing arts, and the life sciences,
Carlisle has become a synthetic thinker developing common patterns
and themes from divergent areas of knowledge. Carlisle brings his
heart centered, transpersonal perspective to his writing, product
innovation, and counseling work.
Published works
Books and Articles
* The Coyoté
Oak: Burgeoning Wisdom, (2007). Foresthill, CA: Reality Press
* The Magenta Phenomena: An Exploration of A Brazilian Healer, The
Journal of Exceptional Human Experience, 1994, Co-authored with
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
* A Comparative View of Creativity Theories: Psychoanalytic,
Behaviorist, & Humanistic
Multiple publications.
* Creativity, Healing, & Shamanism: A Dynamical Systems
Model of exceptional encounters in Brazil
* Accessing Your Inner Creator: The Way of Beginning. Hot Rod
Your Head, Dec., 1996, An Ezine on human potential.
* Dancing With the Whole: A Theory of Creative Entrainment. Hot
Rod Your Head, May 1997.
* Doorways in Consciousness: An Exploration of Resonant Being,
Future Harmonix, Spring, 1998.
* Building A Better Thought Trap, Mother Natures General Store,
1997.
Music and CDs
* Vantage Quest
VI, ©1994 Vantage Quest Publishing - Innovative sound product
for meditation .
* Alabaster Light, @2006 Vantage Quest Publishing - Ambient Music
by R. Lee Steele, Produced by R.Lee Steele and Carlisle Bergquist
For more
about Carlisle Bergquist, to purchase his book ‘The Coyoté Oak:
Burgeoning Wisdom’ –
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For more about Carlisle’s company Vantage Quest –Click
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Articles and Interviews with SouthwestBlend.com
Deep
Relationship
– We are always giving and taking with everything around us. Carlisle
Bergquist, author and therapist, explains how being conscious of the
exchange and by “giving at least as good as what you received” to
everything, can strengthen your relationships with friends and family,
within your community, and ultimately with nature.
Read more.
Flight of the Hummingbird
– Carlisle Bergquist shares that if we realize the magnitude of
the possibilities we embody, we need not look so cautiously
before we leap. We just need to take off trusting that our soul
will find the route and provide everything that is required even
if we don’t know exactly what we are doing. Read
more.
*
Groove, Pocket, and
Flow -
Searching for connectedness in
a body/mind/spirit system.
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* Review & Interview – The Coyoté Oak: Burgeoning Wisdom.
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to Read.
