Embracing ambiguity: Transpersonal development and the phenomenological tradition

Authors: Todres, L.A.

Journal: Journal of Religion and Health

Volume: 39

Issue: 3

Pages: 227-237

ISSN: 0022-4197

DOI: 10.1023/A:1010358507163

Abstract:

This article offers a perspective on transpersonal development that has been inspired by the phenomenological tradition. This philosophical movement as exemplified by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty may provide a non-dualistic vision in which human beings participate in both development and no development. Some implications of this paradox are taken forward to indicate a basic open and non-deterministic dimension of our depths which enters 'nature' and 'time' in unknown ways. In this view, the tension between the 'personal' and the 'transpersonal' functions in any moment and forms a deep motivation and creative tension in the human heart. How is this tension resolved? © 2000 Blanton-Peale Institute.

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Embracing ambiguity: transpersonal development and the phenomenological tradition.

Authors: Todres, L.

Journal: Journal of Religion and Health

Volume: 39

Pages: 227-238

ISSN: 0022-4197

Abstract:

This article offers a perspective on transpersonal development that has been inspired by the phenomenological tradition. This philosophical movement as exemplified by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty may provide a non-dualistic vision in which human beings participate in both development and no development. Some implications of this paradox are taken forward to indicate a basic open and non-deterministic dimension of our depths which enters ‘nature’ and ‘time’ in unknown ways. In this view, the tension between the ‘personal’ and the ‘transpersonal’ functions in any moment and forms a deep motivation and creative tension in the human heart. How is this tension resolved? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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