Carlisle Bergquist,
MA, LCMFT

Psychotherapist, psychological researcher, systems theorist, author, and relationship counselor, Carlisle Bergquist is skilled in Psychosynthesis, creativity, spiritual emergence and transpersonal issues.  His therapeutic experience includes work with families in crisis, adolescents, prison inmates, creative artists, and individuals undergoing spiritual crises.

Transpersonal psychology extends the traditional theories about the psyche to include the mind, body, and spiritual dimensions of our being.  This paradigm incorporates both empirical and esoteric perspectives from global traditions.  Carlisle's broad educational, professional, and experiential background provides a unique perspective on the human spirit.  He proposes that each of us has an innate power to create, and as "creators" we scout for humanity. Thus, through our collective consciousness, we each hold the human potential to heal, or "re-create" ourselves, and help heal society.

Carlisle is a Doctoral Candidate in dissertation at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, California.  His psychological research focuses on the therapeutic effect of sound on states of consciousness.  Vantage Quest is a sound tool for consciousness exploration available to anyone with a compact disk player that results from his research.  A further outgrowth of Carlisle's work are the “Creativity, Healing & Shamanism,” and the “Accessing Your Inner Creator” workshops and seminars.  Carlisle has a MA. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist in Kansas and California.  Undergraduate studies include a BS. in Biology from Kansas Wesleyan Univ. specializing in native prairie flora at The Land Institute, and extensive training in music and drama at Univ. of Southern Calif.

With three seemingly diverse professional interests; i.e., Transpersonal Psychology, creative & performing arts, and the life sciences, Carlisle has become a synthetic thinker developing common patterns and themes from divergent areas of knowledge.  Carlisle brings his heart centered, transpersonal perspective to his writing, product innovation, and counseling work.

Published works
Books and Articles
* The Coyoté Oak:  Burgeoning Wisdom, (2007).  Foresthill, CA:  Reality Press
* The Magenta Phenomena: An Exploration of A Brazilian Healer, The Journal of Exceptional Human Experience, 1994, Co-authored with Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
* A Comparative View of Creativity Theories:  Psychoanalytic, Behaviorist, & Humanistic

Multiple publications.
* Creativity, Healing, & Shamanism: A Dynamical Systems Model of exceptional encounters in Brazil
* Accessing Your Inner Creator: The Way of Beginning.  Hot Rod Your Head, Dec., 1996, An Ezine on human potential.
* Dancing With the Whole:  A Theory of Creative Entrainment.  Hot Rod Your Head, May 1997.
* Doorways in Consciousness: An Exploration of Resonant Being, Future Harmonix, Spring, 1998.
* Building A Better Thought Trap, Mother Natures General Store, 1997.

Music and CDs
* Vantage  Quest VI,  ©1994  Vantage Quest Publishing - Innovative sound product  for meditation .
* Alabaster Light, @2006  Vantage Quest Publishing - Ambient Music by R. Lee Steele, Produced by R.Lee Steele and Carlisle Bergquist

Articles and Interviews with SouthwestBlend.com
Flight of the Hummingbird – Carlisle Bergquist shares that if we realize the magnitude of the possibilities we embody, we need not look so cautiously before we leap.  We just need to take off trusting that our soul will find the route and provide everything that is required even if we don’t know exactly what we are doing.   Read more.
* Groove, Pocket, and Flow - Searching for connectedness in a body/mind/spirit system. Click Here to Read.
* Review & Interview – The Coyoté Oak: Burgeoning Wisdom. Click Here to Read.