Consciousness in Oscillation
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A01=Sonja Lenk
Anthropological
Author_Sonja Lenk
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- ISBN 9783631642757
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
