The Practice of Process Meditation * Ira Progoff

The Intensive Journal Way to Spiritual Experience. It provides a unique way to awaken and renew spiritual experience in the very midst of your life. It opens a path to the depth beyond the doctrines, whatever the doctrines of your beliefs may currently be. Within the framework of your religious background, or your personal evolving philosophy, Process Meditation provides an ongoing spiritual discipline.

This advanced psychological companion guide takes the structured writing frameworks of the Intensive Journal system and applies them directly to meditation, mapping out a step-by-step method to safely trigger deep spiritual experiences and clarify inner purpose.

The Story: Written by prominent humanistic psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Ira Progoff, this foundational 1980 volume transforms silent contemplation into a highly structured, active personal workspace. Published by Dialogue House Library as the direct spiritual sequel to At a Journal Workshop, the text completely looks past traditional mantra repetitions or eastern breathing constraints. Instead, Dr. Progoff establishes an organic, non-analytical framework that helps individuals map out their unconscious mental tracking lines down to their exact parameters. The technical manual guides seekers, meditators, and clinical counselors step-by-step through a versatile landscape of internal tracking loops. Utilizing a sharp therapeutic diagnostic toolkit, Progoff details how to navigate the specialized "Process Meditation" segments of his famous binder system—focusing heavily on deep-cut modules like the Mantra/Prayer Log, Inner Wisdom Dialogues, and Spiritual Milestone Files. The text instructs practitioners on how to harvest inner feedback loops, helping users clear old emotional blockages and integrate conflicting life parameters without forcing an intellectual interpretation. An active psychological protective shield against anxiety, spiritual burnout, and decision paralysis. By anchoring deep meditative shifts onto physical paper under structured tracking routines, this definitive handbook constructs an invaluable everyday reference tool. It teaches the behavioral science community the absolute metrics of depth psychology, helping practitioners transform a simple writing desk into a profound, permanent sanctuary of spiritual clarity.

Perfect For: Meditators, spiritual directors, and counselors looking for a disciplined, western-friendly framework to explore deep altered states of consciousness; individuals studying the historical crossover between Jungian depth psychology and modern mindfulness practices; and book collectors maintaining a complete shelf of Dr. Ira Progoff's core Dialogue House hardcovers.

First Published 1980. This Edition 1980 by Dialogue House Library