Journey in Search of Wholeness and Meaning.
Title:
Journey in Search of Wholeness and Meaning.
Author:
Collister, Rupert Clive.
ISBN:
9783035101218
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments 9 -- Introduction 11 -- Section one: Contexts -- CHAPTER ONE: Contexts I 15 -- Worldviews 16 -- Western worldview 17 -- Mythology and archetypes 18 -- CHAPTER TWO: Contexts II 27 -- Transformation 27 -- My story 34 -- Section two: Meta-narratives -- CHAPTER THREE: Holism 65 -- Wholeness and oneness 65 -- Holistic wisdom, insight, and praxis 70 -- CHAPTER FOUR: Indigenous cultures 85 -- Indigenous wisdom, insight, and praxis 85 -- CHAPTER FIVE: Eastern traditions 103 -- Eastern wisdom, insight, and praxis 103 -- Section three: Crystallisation -- CHAPTER SIX: Cosmology 131 -- Universal wisdom, insight, and praxis 131 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Archetypes and structures 143 -- Archetypes 143 -- Structures 146 -- Holistic, transformative ways of knowing 158 -- Section four: Reflections and applications -- CHAPTER EIGHT: An emergent understanding of a holographic life 167 -- Reflection 167 -- CHAPTER NINE: Evolving understanding 175 -- Understandings 175 -- CHAPTER TEN: What does all this mean? 199 -- Implications 199 -- What next? 210 -- Reference list 213 -- Index 237.
Abstract:
This book explores the concept that the reality which is created by the consciousness inherent in the Western worldview is exceptionally limiting and probably unsustainable. After describing the contexts within which the book was written the author documents his personal journey in search of wholeness and meaning. From his experience of this journey he suggests that the wisdom, insight, and praxis contained within - what he describes as the meta-narratives of - Holism, Indigenous cultures, and Eastern traditions are manifestations of a holistic consciousness. The author explores the concept that a shift to such a holistic consciousness is required in order to redress the imbalance that is evident in all humanity's relationships, and he suggests that enabling such a shift in consciousness would have deep implications for the concepts and contexts of community, adult learning, meaningful work, and sustainability.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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