Consciousness in Oscillation
Worldviews and their Transcendence as Spiritual Practice
©2013
Thesis
179 Pages
Summary
The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual’s lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. At the centre of attention is a group of individuals and their unfolding life-stories as they move through a journey of transformation, seeking to explore and understand the complexity of their own consciousness. The emphasis is on the embodiment of belief systems and the individuals’ inherent existential power to transcend cultural precepts. Methodologically, the study is based in phenomenological anthropology. It thus employs the first-person perspective and includes subjective personal experience as primary data.
Details
- Pages
- 179
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653030921
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631642757
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-03092-1
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (November)
- Keywords
- The individual Religion Embodiment and agency Spirituality
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 179 pp.