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An Existential-phenomenological Historical Inquiry Into the Awareness of Silence as a Transpersonal Paradigm |
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Ballou, Steven Francis (著)
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| Date | 1996 |
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| Pages | 221 |
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| Publisher | The Union Institute |
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http://www.tui.edu/
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| Location | Cincinnati, OH, US [辛辛那提, 俄亥俄州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | Union Institute |
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| Advisor | Ormont, Joan |
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| Publication year | 1996 |
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| Keyword | 心靈=Spiritual; 正念=覺知=Mindfulness=Awareness; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 空性=Sunyata=Sunnata=Emptiness; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 靜坐=Meditation; 禪修=Meditation |
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| Abstract | This review began with an extensive review of the literature in western psychology, its relation to eastern philosophy, and to spiritual teachings. Using this as a foundation, the historical beginnings and the evolution of psychology were discussed as a precursor to the transpersonal explorations currently being researched today.
This was a heuristic study into the awareness of Silence. The intent and goal was to interview men and women who practice meditation, or, contemplative techniques, to find if they had any transformational relationship to Silence.
This study found: that (a) Silence is not always a focal point in the practice of meditation and contemplation. (b) Silence can be a reference point in the practice of meditation and contemplation. (c) Silence can, at times, precipitate a change that is mild, humorous, dynamic, transformative, or adorational. (d) Silence as a tool for contemplative therapy is a possibility that still needs to be explored since there was not enough evidence in the literature to either accept it or reject it.
The study did find, through the review of the literature that Silence has a relationship to the Tibetan Buddhist reference to shunyata, to (Japanese) Zen Buddhist reference to sunyata, to American Quakerism reference to quietism, and to Christian Benedictine Order's reference to solitude.
The study also indicated that a state-specific definition of Silence is dependent on an individual relationship to the comprehension of Silence, that is also dependent on the individual's awareness of the psycho-social or psycho-spiritual contextualization of Silence.
Finally, Silence can be benefited by further study in the area of psychotherapy, for its relevancy to communication, insight, and psychopathology. This current study does not substantiate the conclusive findings in this particular area of psychotherapy, but it certainly points others in that direction.
In conclusion, Silence as a reference point, has the ability and capacity to increase awareness of one's relationship to noise, thinking, experience, to being 'there', to reality, to other people, and to one's self. It is not a focal point of dialectical substance. It does not have the ability to constitute a field of cognitive ideation in the area of philosophy, religion, education, or psychology. However, as part of the perennial philosophy throughout documented history, it pre-supposes and superimposes the structural content of all the above-mentioned fields of cognitive ideation. Because of this point, Silence does have a relevancy to our lives, scientifically and spiritually. |
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| Created date | 2008.03.14 |
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| Modified date | 2022.08.15 |
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