Abstract

The article discusses little known spiritual themes from Piaget's life and work. Piaget wrote about many aspects of spirituality, identifying God with the evolution of life into the Good -- a theme that echoes the perspectives of many contemporary transpersonal authors. Although Piaget produced most of his spiritual work in the first half of his life, there is evidence that these themes continued to be important for Piaget in later life. A characterization of Piaget as a transpersonalist and mystic as well as a psychologist and epistemologist is appropriate. Arguably Piaget's spiritual experiences motivated the world famous psychological studies themselves. The article seeks to inform readers of the nature of Piaget's spirituality, whilst setting that spirituality in the context of the changing relationship between qualitative and quantitative data sources in the history of the study of consciousness