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Rosemarie Anderson, Ph.D. is a teacher and scholar of transpersonal psychology and spirituality. She now offers consulting services and professional resources to the public.
Life began near New York City in June 1947. A mental image of the Manhattan skyline, seen from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, dominates memories from childhood days. Much of what I know now about intuition and body intelligence originates in my Scandinavian parents’ athleticism and my teenage training as a gymnast. From gymnastics, I learned four things that have helped me tremendously in life. First, I learned to fall “softly” without hurting myself. Second, I learned the value of discipline and structure in the learning process. Third, I learned to stop my workouts moments before I started to hurt. Fourth, I learned to love the rhythm of movement through space. Movement became a constant companion as close as breath.
My college years in the late 1960s were spent at a private college in rural Iowa, where I spent much of my time reading in the library or walking the prairies near the college. Immediately after college, I attended graduate school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where I studied experimental social psychology. After completing my graduate training, my first professorial position was at Wake Forest University where I taught and conducted research in social psychology and the psychology of women. After a several years there, I grew weary of established approaches to research, so I joined the University of Maryland’s Asian Division to see the world while otherwise teaching undergraduate and graduate psychology courses in Japan, South Korea, and Australia. For two years, I visited monasteries throughout Asia on my free time. Upon returning to the U.S., I attended seminary at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, and completed academic preparation for ordination in the Episcopal Church. In 1983, I returned to the University of Maryland--but this time to the European Division--and served as a university dean for four years in Germany. After ordination as an Episcopal priest in 1987, I worked as a parish priest in San Diego and as a university chaplain at the University of California Santa Cruz.
In 1992, I joined the Core Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Dedicated to transformation and spiritual growth for professional psychologists, ITP was and is a perfect “match” for my interests and skills. While supervising ITP dissertation students who studied a wide range of psycho-spiritual experiences, I began to develop Intuitive Inquiry as mixed-methods approach to the study of transpersonal and spiritual experiences. The method has been popular among like-minded colleagues and students, drawing me into dialogue with researchers worldwide. In the 90s, I also began to wonder about the importance of place and pilgrimage to scared sites in spiritual growth. So I initiated an on-going seminar on the Psychology of the Body that focused on the participation of the body in psycho-spiritual development. This course proved more popular than I could ever have imagined. In many ways, this website is an acknowledgment of the many things I have learned in that seminar and from my colleagues and dissertation students over my years at ITP. From my heart to yours, thank you.
Contact Rosemarie Anderson at rosemarie@wellknowingconsulting.org for information, fees, and appointments.
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