Transpersonal psychology is a branch of psychology that studies transpersonal experiences, altered states of consciousness, and religious experiences, combining modern psychological concepts, theories, and methods with traditional spiritual practices of the East and West. The first person to talk about the "transpersonal unconscious" was C. Jung. As an independent branch of psychological science, transpersonal psychology was formed in the late 1960s as one of the areas of humanistic psychology. The founders of this direction were well-known philosophers, psychologists and psychotherapists A. Maslow, E. Sutich, S. Grof, A. Watts, M. Murphy and others.
Transpersonal experiences include two broad groups: the expansion of experiences within " objective reality "and the expansion of experiences beyond"objective reality". First group: embryo and fetal experiences, ancestral experiences, evolutionary experiences, past incarnation experiences, foresight, identification with other beings, oneness with everything in the world. The second group: spiritual experience, archetypal and mythical experiences, merging with the Universal Consciousness, comprehending the Great Void, etc
. A feature of transpersonal psychology is the integration of various schools of psychology. Various schools of transpersonal psychology are considered only models or "territory maps" that seek to describe some often very limited aspect of reality, but cannot claim equivalence with reality itself.