I learned about transpersonal psychology after I spent slightly over a decade investing in a long-term, professional-level seminary education at the Graduate Theological Union on Holy Hill, in Berkeley, CA, where an interfaith consortium of loosely networked seminaries has been parked for well over a century. After several years, I had opened myself up in spiritual direction at the Chaplaincy Institute, which is affiliated with Starr King. The instructors there steered me into Sex Addicts Anonymous, both as a member dealing with problematic behaviors I had self-identified as “addictive,” and as a student of 12 Step spirituality.