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- Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
summary
Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human spirituality will find something of value in Michael Washburn’s new book. Drawing on a rich variety of psychoanalytic, Jungian, and existential-phenomenological sources and on both Western and Asian spiritual texts, Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World provides a theoretical foundation for the idea that human development follows a spiral path. Washburn shows that ego development early in life requires us to turn our backs on original sources of our existence and, therefore, that spiritual development later in life requires us to spiral back to these sources on the way to whole-psyche integration. He elucidates the underlying causes and pivotal events that set development on its spiral course and traces six major dimensions of experience as they unfold along the spiral path: the unconscious, the energy system, the ego system, the perceived other, the experiential body, and the life-world. In providing a theoretical foundation for the idea of the spiral path, Washburn defends the idea against its critics and helps explain why the idea has been compelling to so many people in diverse traditions.
Table of Contents
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- TWO. The Spiral Path: A Stage View
- pp. 13-36
- THREE. The Dynamic Ground
- pp. 37-59
- FOUR. Energy
- pp. 61-90
- FIVE. The Ego
- pp. 91-123
- SIX. The Other
- pp. 125-148
- SEVEN. The Body
- pp. 149-168
- EIGHT. The World
- pp. 169-197
- References
- pp. 223-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791486269
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
61367840
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No