Dinu-Stefan Teodorescu's  short spiritual autobiography:

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Born in Brasov-Romania in 1960, have  experienced from 5 years age old spiritual awakenings episodes, motivated by a similar quest(question) as the great sage of India, Ramana Maharishi. But unfortunately, he haven't been as successfully to take this question to the end, as Ramana Maharishi did, and at present, he is still in the process of Permanent Awakening.

Curriculum vitæ:

· Karate teacher in Romania (1978-1987)

· President of Romanian Cultural Association from Norway (1987-1989)

· Founder and the first president of the Norwegian Transpersonal Association (1995-1998)

· Student in History of Religions at Oslo University (1996).

· Student in Tibetology at Institute for Cultural Studies, Oslo- Norway with prof. Per Kværne (1997)

· Professional study of psychology at Oslo and Tromsø University in Norway (1995-2004).

· Certificate in Transpersonal Psychology from French Transpersonal Psychology Institute (2000).

· Student in East Asia Religions at Oslo University (2003)

· Clinical psychologist working at a government clinic for adults in Norway (2005-2008).

· Ph.D. Candidate at Psychiatric Institute, Medical Faculty - Oslo University (2008-2012).

· NORWEGIAN RESEARCH NETWORK ON SPIRITUALITY and HEALTH (no new activity since 2010)

· DIN CENTER for SPIRITUALITY, PEACE and HEALTH (the center is no longer active)

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Publications:

· Strong meaning systems have more positive impact on less psychiatric disorders and higher quality of life than intrinsic, private, organized and posttraumatic growth in a clinical sample of severely traumatized out-patients immigrants in Norway (2010)

· Proposal for ICD-10 Update for a new diagnosis “Kundalini Awakening Syndrome“(2009).

· ICD-10’s limitations to distinguish between psychosis and spiritual emergencies: the need for a new diagnosis in ICD-11 for spiritual or religious problems (2008)

· Proposal for ICD-10 Update for a new diagnosis with “ Z code “: Spiritual or Religious problems”(2007).

· An Integral approach to depression. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (2003)

· Promotion or Prevention: The development of the Chronic Self Focus Scale (2003)

· Eye scanpaths during visual imagery reenact those of perception of the same visual scene( with Bruno Laeng Ph.D. in the  Journal of Cognitive Science)(2002).

· The same pattern of oculomotor activity during encoding and retrieval in fix-gaze and free-gaze in man (Tromsø-2000).

· Eye movement & Visual Meditation - Paper for the French Transpersonal Institute ( Paris-1999)

· Visualization Without Eye-Movements is the only visual meditation technique conducive to Samadhy (1999)

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Research interests and collaborations (past and present):

· Research collaborative for developing Integral Intelligence (a Web based program-2010)

· Development of DIN Spiritual Practice (2006-2011).

· Translation of DUREL into Norwegian (2008)

· Ph.D. Project on traumas, PTSD, religiosity and post traumatic growth (2008-2011).

· Investigation of ethical problems in the psychiatric interviews PANSS and SIPS (2008).

· Research collaborative “The Blue Project” for implementation of an internet based therapy for depression in Romania (2008-2009).

· Research collaborative “ The Karasjok group” for a new non-verbal and culture free IQ test for the SAMI people (2004)

Memberships (past and present):

· The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Special Interest Group: Spirituality and Trauma)

· Norwegian Association for Psychologists

· American Association for Transpersonal Psychology

· European Transpersonal Psychology Association

· The European Transpersonal Association

· French Transpersonal Association

Conferences (past and future)

· “ Religion at the borders” – Sweden- Stockholm 2007

· Kropp og sjel i behandling og habilitering – Norway-Biri-2010

· Conferinta Nationala de Arte Martiale- Cluj-Romania-2011

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