Introducing transpersonal phenomenology: The direct experience of a sudden awakening

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dc.contributor.authorSolowoniuk, Jason
dc.contributor.authorNixon, Gary
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-31T04:16:38Z
dc.date.available2013-10-31T04:16:38Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionPermission to include this article granted by Dr. Gary Nixon, editor of Paradoxicaen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper introduces a transpersonal approach to conducting phenomenological research with the emphasis on illuminating a first person account of a sudden awakening. Although within Eastern cultures awakening is typically understood as the purposeful undertaking of spiritual or religious practices toward transcending the ego, liberating the self, contacting the divine, or becoming consciousness itself, the unsuspecting Westerner who suddenly finds himself or herself without a self may not have the reference to ground such a radical shift in identity. This was the case for the first author in this study. Through our transpersonal inquiry (i.e, dwelling and beholding, noetic reduction, noumenal parsing, and recognition) we were led to understand that a sudden awakening can involve psychological upheaval, terror, mental collapse, a search for balance and integration, and an understanding of how to trust existence in the absence of a permanent self-orientation.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationSolowoniuk, J., & Nixon, G. (2009). Introducing transpersonal phenomenology: The direct experience of a sudden awakening. Paradoxica: Journal of Nondual Psychology, 1. Retrieved June 25, 2009 from http://www.paradoxica.ca/index.php/issue-1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3296
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.publisherParadoxica: International Journal of Nondual Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectAwakeningen_US
dc.subjectTranspersonal phenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectTranspersonal inquiryen_US
dc.titleIntroducing transpersonal phenomenology: The direct experience of a sudden awakeningen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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