In the realm of academia and the profound intricacies of the human mind, Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner stands as a distinguished figure whose journey has seamlessly intertwined the realms of Social Sciences and Clinical Psychology. Armed with a Ph.D. from the prestigious University of Chicago, her early years were devoted to rigorous research, laying the foundation for a career that would seamlessly blend scholarly expertise with a profound spiritual awakening. As a licensed Clinical Psychologist, her focus shifted towards safeguarding the innate divinity of her clients, becoming a beacon of support during their spiritual metamorphosis. Driven by a commitment to holistic well-being, she continued her exploration into the realms of consciousness, psychological processes, and practical applications, crafting a unique approach that integrates academia, spirituality, and compassionate counseling. In this Mystic Mag‘s article, we delve into the fascinating journey of Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner, unraveling the tapestry of her career marked by a harmonious fusion of academic prowess and a profound connection to the spiritual dimensions of the human experience.
Can you share more about your journey from being a licensed Clinical Psychologist to incorporating spiritual awakening experiences into your practice? How did this shift impact your approach to helping clients?
This quote from Steve Jobs describes my professional and personal journey. Several childhood experiences laid the foundation of my spiritual process, although, at the time, I had no idea where any of what I was interested in would lead. One of my sisters gave me two books when I was a teenager. One book was The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and the other was Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung.
When I read these books, I felt a deep stirring that opened my awareness to dimensions I realized I’d been aware of from birth. I majored in psychology, anthropology, and sociology during college because I intuitively understood them. My background made me a perfect candidate for the Ph.D. program I entered at the University of Chicago, an interdisciplinary department that synthesized psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology.
My Ph.D. would give me financial independence and credibility as a professional with spiritual gifts. At the University of Chicago, I thrived with the freedom to do my thesis research with full financial and emotional support. I immersed myself in academics, and my advisors were open to me reading Carl Jung and writing about his works because I was a diligent student. Once I finished my Ph.D. I decided that teaching and research were not my path in life. I had two young children, and although I had trained with great child psychologists and even taught college classes on child development, I recognized that the practical application of theoretical constructs required different skills.
I left the University setting, did a postdoctoral clinical internship, got licensed, and went into private clinical practice. In 1973, I began having dreams of knowing with a K. I understood these dreams told me that when I felt an inner knowing that was strong and unwavering, I should trust it. I entered training as a Jungian Analyst and initiated divorcing my husband, whose values turned out to differ significantly from mine.
Retrospectively, I understood that the Holy Spirit was guiding me as a whispered voice within me that let me trust myself and do what was outside the ordinary. I was intrigued by Transcendental Meditation and began practicing TM in January 1974. Within a couple of weeks, I asked: “of what am I afraid?” As I meditated on this question, a light appeared, came toward me, and enveloped me. I gasped in awe as I realized I was having a direct experience of the divine. God showed me death and rebirth, religious origins, relationship dynamics, and much that I cannot verbalize. At the end of the experience, I wrote an outline of a book about deciding the viability of a relationship, and I sent it out to a publisher. I received a contract to write Marriage in Trouble: A Time of Decision, which changed the course of my life.
Because I was uninformed about psychic and kundalini experiences, I began to study and research what was happening to me during my ongoing experiences with other dimensional energies. I remembered past lives that I was able to validate. I had energy experiences that I learned were Kundalini experiences, and with each one, my psychic abilities and awareness of other dimensions increased. I began recognizing that I knew things about clients they had not told me. And, because of my relationships of trust with my clients, they validated what I was seeing and perceiving, thus validating my perceptions.
While my growth in psychic realms accelerated, I realized I had to learn how to control what I was seeing and perceiving. At the time, I also met Katherine de Jersey, who was a master astrologer. Katie and I became close friends, and because of her uncanny accuracy, I decided to study astrology to be versed enough to learn her secrets. My journey continued to deepen, and in August 1976, I attended a Jungian conference in Malibu, California. I felt I had come home as I drove to the venue and saw the Pacific Ocean and its coastline. After the meeting, I relocated to Pacific Palisades (a move predicted by Katie, which I thought impossible), which meant starting a practice again and moving my license.
In 1977, a Voice told in a mediation to go to India to Osho’s ashram. I had no interest in the ashram, but when the Holy Spirit told me to do something, I did it. I went to India, and on August 14, 1978, the day and time that Katie had told me I would meet someone significant in my life, I met my soulmate, Marvin. He had left his medical practice in Beverly Hills, California because he was a healer and holistically oriented, and he did not feel right seeing patients for 15 minutes and not having time to get to know them clinically. Marvin and I have been together since we met 45 years ago.
From 1977 until 1987, I worked in my practice and held weekend groups every six weeks, including creative therapeutic and consciousness-expanding work. I studied Kabbalah, knew about chakras, and was the 10th Reiki Master/Teacher in the West. Then, while reading an astrology magazine in March of 1996, I saw an advertisement showing a Mandala with a person at the center. I immediately recognized the image as one offering an essential synthesis of consciousness, a synthesis I had worked with and studied while training at the University of Chicago and as a Jungian Analyst. The action I took next set me on a life course that evolved and deepened as I continued to decode the Mandala’s elements and further understand its profound ability to activate human consciousness.
I studied the Mandala being marketed as the Human Design System to understand the synthesis and determine its usefulness as a psychological tool. In 1999, because of my expertise in using the System, I was asked by Ra Uru Hu, the messenger of the Human Design System, to use my skills as a social science researcher to test its components medically and statistically. After running extensive statistical analysis on over 30,000 cases, I determined what held up within the Human Design System and what did not. Because I am a social science researcher, the data presented me with a dilemma regarding preserving what in the Human Design System was reliable and valid and what modifications it needed to satisfy the requirements of an accurate and viable psychological tool.
After considerable study and contemplation, I hypothesized the importance of bringing the multidimensional perspective into the equation. I tested and expanded the Mandala and its calculations. When I could confirm that my calculated charts delineated accurate, critical developmental sequences in early life, I knew I had uncovered a system that could show individuals how to use their energy best to manifest wholeness, i.e., to self-actualize. This expanded System became the Beyond Human DesignTM or Noble Energy MapsTM work I continue using and validating.
It has been an exciting journey, filled with great awe and respect for the information I can access about an individual. It fulfills my mission as a healer, teacher, and researcher, and it honors the soul and spirit of an individual who entrusts their soul to me when they come to me for my professional services.
Since 1996, I have read charts for 15,000 individuals and published many articles and study guides. I taught classes and have spent much time studying the Mandala of Synthesis, as I like to call it. The Mandala of Synthesis is complex. It synthesizes the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, The Hindu Chakra System, Astrology, the I-Ching, and Developmental Psychology. It graphically integrates cosmically-based information and shows how someone functions beyond third-dimensional reality.
We live in multiple dimensions all the time. However, at this point in our evolutionary journey, we primarily function in the Mental Third Dimensional World, and many people operate mainly in this dimension and energy. With education, anyone who is so motivated can raise their vibrational rate to access the other dimensions in which they live. The Mandala is a graphic image showing how energy bodies are activated and anchored in the last trimester of pregnancy and the first three months of life. Interpreting the data provides a blueprint for recognizing the flow of energy that transforms our conscious awareness in powerful ways, allowing us, as humans, to function in multiple levels of understanding.
Having trained as a Social Sciences researcher, how do you integrate academic knowledge into your work with clients navigating spiritual awakening? Are there specific psychological theories or frameworks that have proven particularly useful in this context?
My struggle since meeting and studying the Mandala has been one of integrity. After doing the initial studies on 30,000 cases, I had to stand firm on the scientific data showing that much of what the Human Design teachers claimed was formulaic and incomplete. It did not honor the synthesis the Mandala depicted. Because of my Social Science background and my ability as a psychic educated extensively in esoteric disciplines, I feel responsible for publishing material and writings that stand on a firm social scientific foundation. My work expanding the Human Design System based on scientific research documents the data and its powerful transformative quality.
Anyone interested can grow and expand using the knowledge of Noble Energy MapsTM. When an individual understands energy frequencies prenatally, and in the first three months of their life, they begin to understand and recognize how they make decisions and how they can use their consciousness to live their life purpose. Experiences prenatally and in the first three months of life set in motion many critical foundational perceptions and reactions that characterize our personality. We are much more than our personality. We are multidimensional, energetic beings who vibrate on multiple frequencies in multiple dimensions of consciousness. Being able to experience our complex vibrational nature and embrace our peace is a true gift of consciousness.
By the time a baby is three months old, it has developed volition and experienced every cosmic energy in the zodiac. Thus, humans are designed to be conscious in the Four Worlds as described in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Psychology generally operates solely in the Mental World, describing other dimensions as conscious or unconscious. In my work, I recognize that we live in the Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Worlds, and they integrate into our consciousness, propelling us forward toward our life mission and consciousness. If we embrace our multidimensional nature, we can manifest our true potential.
What type of services do you offer?
Many disciplines facilitate access to higher dimensional consciousness through various self-growth practices. When I work with individuals or groups as a coach, I teach them how to navigate the Four Worlds. Each World has its style of communication, its energetic matrix, and frequency. Noble Energy MapsTM uses my proprietary program. I offer readings on these maps, and from them, I can describe a person’s strengths and vulnerabilities, the best timing for making decisions that honor their highest potential, when and how individuals pick up energy from other people and how to clear it, how breathing can help balance energy, and what someone’s life purpose is.
Given your background in exploring consciousness, could you discuss any specific practices or techniques you find particularly beneficial for individuals undergoing spiritual awakening?
My mission has been to support consciousness at the highest level of integrity in all I do and with those I can serve. One of my work’s most significant statistical findings is that at least 95% of the population functions as a Manifesting Generator. Humans can achieve infinite intelligence, infinite being, and infinite manifestation. We are designed to live a life of abundance, happiness, and love. The wisdom in Noble SciencesTM offers a blueprint for an individual to manifest their highest potential.
In your opinion, how can the field of psychology better incorporate and address the spiritual dimensions of human experience?
Since starting my professional practice in 1974, I have documented, validated, and published my proprietary multidimensional tools. These tools honor the integrity and individuality of my clients as they transform their self-direction from ordinary to extraordinary.
Now, it is time for everyone to learn that their consciousness spans more than their Mental World. Each individual lives in Four Worlds: Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical. These worlds operate in different vibrational frequencies and can be delineated for expanded self-growth and understanding. Reviewing my journey from childhood to now, I recognize that my inner guidance led me to integrate all the knowledge and wisdom I could absorb. My work is to describe a comprehensive personality theory that empowers people to live consciously in all Four Worlds. And I have the data and the map to show them how.
Given your rich background in both academic research and practical applications, what advice would you offer to emerging psychologists or therapists who are interested in integrating spiritual perspectives into their practice?
My advice to anyone entering the field of psychology, coaching, or self-help is to consider studying the Four Worlds and learning how each World is unique and has its own communication style, frequency, and perceptive qualities. The Worlds integrate to empower us to soar to our highest consciousness, manifesting the deep Self in abundance. When you tune in to your deep Self, you support your process and can then trust that you are honoring your divinity and the mission you came here to complete.
