TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sonja Lenk
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0721-3549
SN  - 9783653030921
TI  - Consciousness in Oscillation
T2  - Worldviews and their Transcendence as Spiritual Practice
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03092-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047656
N2  - 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.
KW  - The individual, Religion, Embodiment and agency, Spirituality
LA  - English
ER  -