BROWN, Dan

Title of contribution:

Post-formal Stages of Cognitive Development from the Perspective of Tibetan Great Completion Meditation

Where & when:

Post-formal Stages of Cognitive Development from the Perspective of Tibetan Great Completion Meditation

In his spectrum model, Ken Wilber mapped out seven levels of post-formal cognitive development. Testing this spectrum model has been limited by finding a sufficient number of Western subjects that operate out of these higher levels of cognitive development. Great Completion Tibetan meditation offers detailed descriptions of each of these stages.

About Dan Brown:

Dr. Brown received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA in molecular biology and his Ph.D. in Religion & Psychological Studies at the University of Chicago. He received a Danforth Fellowship given for promise in teaching excellence, and as part of that fellowship received specialized training in how to teach. While in graduate school he was particularly interested in interdisciplinary studies. At the University of Chicago he worked in religion & psychological studies, the history of religions, anthropology, human development, and clinical psychology. Erika Fromm, Ph.D. a noted hypnoanalyst, served as his primary clinical mentor–a relationship that spanned 35 years. Dr. Brown has taught hypnotherapy for 38 years. His books on hypnosis include a standard textbook on clinical hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, and Hypnoanalysis (with E. Fromm), Hypnosis and Behavioral Medicine (with E. Fromm), and Creative Mastery in Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis, on the permissive style of hypnotherapy. While in graduate school in Chicago he commuted to the University of Wisconsin, Madison for part-time studies in the Buddhist studies program, where he learned Tibetan, Buddhist Sanskrit, and Pali