Consciousness in Oscillation: Worldviews and their Transcendence as Spiritual Practice

by Sonja Lenk

Overview

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. It discusses the embodiment of belief systems and the individual's power to transcend cultural precepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631642757
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	08/26/2013
Pages:	179
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sonja Lenk, PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews (UK); MA in Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg (Germany); Research interests: consciousness, worldviews, the individual, embodiment, Buddhism, meditation and cosmopolitanism.

Table of Contents

Contents: Fieldwork setting – Methodology – Existence, cosmology and understanding – On the complexity of a relationship with life – Transformation and the process of embodied learning – Belief system territories and the wiping of horizons – Turning givenness into choice while encountering our own hearts – A critique.

Preface

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