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The Fall 2024 issue will celebrate Collaboration’s 50th anniversary.

50 Years of Collaboration

Fall 2024 | VOL. 49 NO. 3

Due by July 1, 2024

Remarkably, the Fall 2024 issue of Collaboration will mark the journal’s 50th anniversary! It’s hard to believe that Collaboration will soon be five decades old! Collaboration, a journal of Integral Yoga, has come a long way since its early beginnings as a mimeographed newsletter sent out to Sri Aurobindo centers in the U.S. It was first published in September 1974 by Eric Hughes, who cofounded Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center with Sam Spanier in upstate New York, and we are grateful for its longevity. We invite our readers to reflect on their experience with Collaboration over the years, and/or to submit favorite articles from past issues (all of which are online at https://www.collaboration.org/journal/issues). Thank you all for continuing to be readers of this our precious journal of the Integral Yoga.

Whole-Person Psychology

Spring 2025 | VOL. 50 NO. 1

Due by Nov. 1, 2024

Sri Aurobindo has described his yoga as “practical psychology.” His approach is experiential, with a transformative orientation in the service of the evolution of consciousness, both individually and collectively. This approach, which has been termed integral psychology, integral yoga psychology, and more recently, consciousness-based psychology, is centered around the quest for wholeness as the main motive for human psychospiritual growth and development. Integral psychology is concerned with understanding the totality of the human experience—the behavioral (karma), affective (bhakti), and cognitive (jñāna) domains of experience, and their relationship. It covers the entire physical/vital/mental/psychic/spiritual spectrum and the full range of gradations of consciousness, from the least conscious to the supraconscious levels. It seeks to assist humanity in healing, transformation, and evolution toward a divine life on earth.

We look forward to your submissions in the context of whole-person psychology, especially in the following areas:

  • Experiences of healing or transformation in integral yoga or integral psychotherapy
  • Psychological insights on what helps or hinders the practice of yoga
  • The relationship between spirituality and psychology
  • Transformation of consciousness and personality, including emergence of the psychic being
  • The relationship between physical disorders and psychological states
  • New perspectives on common psychological issues such as trauma, anxiety, and depression

Mission

Collaboration is the journal of Integral Yoga published in the United States. Our mission is to share articles, conversations, poetry, and art that deeply engage our transitional times with the beauty, joy, and hope of the vast wisdom and practice of this evolutionary tradition and its founders, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We explore and celebrate particularly the individual practice of yoga in this country as well as currents and expressions of the collective yoga of the American soul in our times.

Audience

Collaboration is a means of reflection, encouragement, and inspiration for the Integral Yoga community here at home. We also want to highlight friends and allies in related areas of personal and social transformation. Including these fellow travelers requires sensitivity from our contributors, whom we ask to refrain from using references and terms of Integral Yoga and the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother without explaining or clarifying them.

Content

We welcome many kinds of contributions, especially those that share, in ways both personal and universal, the surprises of grace, intuition, and delight in the widening—or stuck—moments of our lives. We also love to publish submissions that challenge the increasing polarization of our personal and social lives or embrace that fragmentation and find its deeper meaning and healing in the integrative and inclusive currents emerging in our time.

Guidelines

Please contact our editorial team at editor@collaboration.org for the word count suitable for your contribution before submitting. This allows us to provide you with writer’s guidelines that reflect our editorial criteria.