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Abstract
This dissertation investigates daily work, specifically housebuilding, as a suitable arena for identifying and practicing various aspects of transpersonal psychology. The role of work in daily life and in a number of historic and current-day communities and spiritual groups is identified. Using the housebuilding process as the medium and backdrop within which a wide spectrum of transpersonal themes and psychological issues present themselves for investigation, this dissertation demonstrates how such work, both necessary and widespread in modern America life, has the potential to serve as a disciplined transpersonal practice Twenty stages of the housebuilding process are identified over the course of constructing a modern, wood-frame house. At each stage themes and issues generally regarded as belonging in the realm of transpersonal psychology are discussed as they arise in conjunction with the work. Successful interventions are initiated and described along with others that proved to be less than successful. The duration of the project, taking approximately one year, begins with first planning the undertaking, and is completed when the house has received local government approval and has been sold. The separate, written presentation of the project serves several purposes: (1)~as a written, self-reflection report; (2)~as a manual/teaching story to transpersonal psychologists and members of the building community describing the possibility of work in general, and of housebuilding specifically, being done in a transpersonal manner; (3)~as a description of a path taken by one individual in his work to incorporate the practice of transpersonal psychology into daily life.