# Transpersonal and psychedelic cinema [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_film) ( Late 1960s–present ) ## Description Films and scholarship that depict or theorize psychedelic and transpersonal experience on screen — cinema as a vehicle for representing altered states, cosmic consciousness, and non-ordinary perception, and the transpersonal-psychology framework used to read such films critically, as in [[Jordan Belson]]'s "cosmic cinema." ## Key Tags #transpersonal #psychedelic #cinema ## Essential Works - Kaplan, Mark Allan. *Resources for Further Inquiry into Transpersonal Dimensions of the Cinema*. n.d. - Bibliographic resource specifically on transpersonal readings of film - Charles, Debbie. *An Exploration into the Role of Transpersonal Psychology within Existing Film Theory*. n.d. - Direct application of transpersonal psychology to film theory - Kackar, Hayal, and Thomas B. Roberts. *Fight Club and the Basic Perinatal Matrices: A Movie Analysis Via a Grofian Frame*. n.d. - Applies Stanislav Grof's perinatal-matrix theory to a specific film reading ## Details Related film examples discussed elsewhere in the vault: [[Expanded Cinema]] (Part Three, "Toward Cosmic Consciousness") contrasts Kubrick's *2001: A Space Odyssey* Stargate sequence with [[Jordan Belson]]'s small-scale "cosmic cinema" as two routes to depicting expanded/transpersonal consciousness on screen. ### Key Theorists %% none yet — see [[Transpersonal and Consciousness Studies]] for the broader theoretical bibliography (Grof, Kaplan, Gaylinn) %% ### Exemplary Practitioners - [[Jordan Belson]] - "cosmic cinema" filmmaker profiled in [[Expanded Cinema]] as a model of expanded/transpersonal consciousness achieved through small-scale abstract film ### Related Concepts - [[Transpersonal and Consciousness Studies]] - shares the theoretical grounding in transpersonal psychology (Grof, Wilber) and much of its bibliography - [[Visual Music]] - abstract, non-narrative visual-music practice overlaps with psychedelic/cosmic cinema ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Kaplan, Mark Allan. *Resources for Further Inquiry into Transpersonal Dimensions of the Cinema*. n.d. Charles, Debbie. *An Exploration into the Role of Transpersonal Psychology within Existing Film Theory*. n.d. Kackar, Hayal, M.S. Ed., and Thomas B. Roberts. *Fight Club and the Basic Perinatal Matrices: A Movie Analysis Via a Grofian Frame*. n.d. Gaylinn, Daniel L. *Reflections on Transpersonal Media: An Emerging Movement*. n.d. "TRANSPERSONAL MEDIA - Editor's Note." n.d.