Kimberly Mccann

Dr. McCann holds a PhD in psychology with a focus on transpersonal research. She is concerned with self-transcendence, spirituality, and how those phenomena contribute to and/or shape transcendent awareness in the lived experience.

Courses Taught

RSCH 8360 - Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

PSYCH 9000 - Dissertation Research

PSYCH 8185 - Write a Quality Prospectus

RSCH 8110 - Research Theory, Design, and Methods

Education

PhD, Capella University

MA, Southern New Hampshire University

MS, Capella University

BA, Morehead State University

Public Service

Assistant editor / resourcer for Journal of Transpersonal Research, Committee Member -

Awards / Honors

Grant Received , , 2018

Faculty Excellence Award, University of Phoenix, 2011

Grant received , , 2017

Leadership Excellence Award, BAE Systems, Inc. and NGA , 2013

NGA Award for Excellence in Service- received 5 separate times , National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 2011

Publications

Mccann, K. (2018). Mindfulness and self-efficacy in an online doctoral program: Quantitative investigation.. Journal of Institutional Research.

Mccann, K. (2015). Of man’s search for meaning. [Review of the book Man’s Search for Meaning, by Vicktor Frankl]. .

Mccann, K. (2016). The role of triggers in inducing hypnotic altered states: Perceptions of transpersonal hypnotherapists.. Journal of Transpersonal Research

Mccann, K. Triggers and mystical experience: A function of self-transcendence.. Study in progress (IRB approval obtained)

Mccann, K. (2006). Mindfulness based cognitive therapy techniques as effective treatment measures for depressive and anxiety disorders. .

Mccann, K. (2015). Neuropsychology of the unconscious. [Review of the book Neuropsychology of the Unconscious: Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy]. .

Mccann, K. Perceptions of self-transcendence and mysticism among American Zen Priests: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Mccann, K. (2014). Strange New World: History, Hypnosis & Trance. .

Mccann, K. (2014). Five Writers Who Suffered Mental Illnesses and The Impact It Had on Their Art. .

Mccann, K. (2014). [Review of the book, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic, by Jonathan Rottenberg]..

McCann, K. M. (2020). “As raw as it can Be: Like vulnerable and unapologetic”: A qualitative study of mystical experience in ordinary life. . International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

Davis, M., Mccann, K. (2022). Gratitude and self-perceived stress in an online doctoral program. Journal of Instructional Research

Mccann, K., Davis, M. Ego-dissolution and nondual awareness in substance and non-substance induced non-ordinary states. .

Mccann, K. (2018). Mindfulness and self-efficacy in an online doctoral program: Quantitative investigation.. Journal of Institutional Research.

Mccann, K. (2016). The role of triggers in inducing hypnotic altered states: Perceptions of transpersonal hypnotherapists.. Journal of Transpersonal Research

Mccann, K. Triggers and mystical experience: A function of self-transcendence.. Study in progress (IRB approval obtained)

Presentations

Mccann, K. (2018). Mystical experience and self-transcendence.. Science and Nonduality Conference

Mccann, K. (2010). Imprinting the Layered Consciousness: Effective Utilization of Triggers for Altered State Access. Selected for presentation to the Society for Scientific Exploration 29th Annual Conference

Mccann, K. (2010). Imprinting the Layered Consciousness: Effective Utilization of Triggers for Altered State Access. Society for Scientific Exploration 29th Annual Conference:

Mccann, K. (2018). Mystical experience and self-transcendence.. Science and Nonduality Conference

Mccann, K. (2010). National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) capability insertion into NTISR. BAE Systems, INC.