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| The Experience of Rebirth and Its Archetypal Dimensions | ||
| 作者 | Caswell, Susan Eileen |
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| 出版日期 | 1994 |
| 出版者 | California Institute of Integral Studies |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.ciis.edu/ |
| 出版地 | San Francisco, CA, US [舊金山, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | California Institute of Integral Studies |
| 指導教授 | Sircar, Rina |
| 畢業年度 | 1994 |
| 關鍵詞 | 輪迴=轉世=Reincarnation=Rebirth=Samsara; KARMA |
| 摘要 | This dissertation is a phenomenological research study with a Buddhist and Western depth psychological literature review of the archetypal dimensions of the rebirth phenomena. Each co-researcher's life grew out of cross-cultural world communities. In the search for the essential structure and essence of the rebirth experience, the researcher found the following six final comprehensive themes from the 52 comprehensive themes: (1) Intensely felt a wide range of heightened somatic sensations; (2) Intensely felt a wide range of emotions; (3) Experienced a wide range of cognitive states; (4) Experienced a shift in consciousness and perspective due to an ontological, philosophical questioning of the meaning and purpose of one's personal reality; (5) Experienced rebirth as a process with two distinct shifts, ending with the feeling that one's life is completely changed or different in a positive way; (6) Feeling an at-oneness and perceiving the interrelatedness of all existence. Chapter One considers the importance of this investigation. Chapter Two contains a cross-cultural literature review of the significance of the rebirth archetypal expression in Western depth psychology and through the Buddhist psychology and religion. Chapters Three, Four, and Five describe the phenomenological methods used in the actual research on the experience of rebirth with the results and conclusions. The result of this phenomenological study is the following statements which describe the essential structure of the experience of rebirth: The experience of rebirth involves intensely felt emotional, spiritual, cognitive, and somatic states. It is felt as a "going into and coming out of" process with two distinct shifts of consciousness. The first shift begins with the feeling of not being in control and proceeds to a sense of psychological ego death. The ego death is usually brought on by a profound personal crisis which is generally felt as a negative experience. The second shift or "coming out of" is experienced as a transcendental union, a sense of the interrelatedness of all existence and one's highest Self. The Divine Love felt in this union results in a consciousness transformed and enhanced by a deeper understanding of the meaning and purpose of one's personal reality. |
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| 更新日期 | 2016.03.31 |
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