| Titel: | An Intimate Exploration of Rock Stacking as a Sacred Art Form Evoking the Numinous Experience |
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| Autor: | Stringer, Peggy C. |
| Mediengruppe: | dissertation |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering |
| Jahr: | 2000 |
| Band: | 61 |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | --- |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | Numinous encounters can inspire the individuation process. Rock stacking is a sacred meditative art which creates a receptive atmosphere conducive for insight to have its full transformative effect. This dissertation explores the numinous landscape of the individuation process. This dissertation enters the sacred realm of psychotherapy and acknowledges that transformation occurs especially when highly refined skills of deep looking, deep listening, intuitive balancing, radical acceptance, providing a safe sanctuary, creating a tranquil hospitable atmosphere, honoring subtle energies, allowing all things to be exactly as they are, trusting that the numinous will be present, and mindfulness are practiced. Another way to practice these and a multitude of similar skills is to practice through an attitude of genuine intent to cultivate stillness, spiritual observation, bare attention, and an open mind. Rock stacking, intensive journaling, meditation, and similar contemplative exercises are a way to practice these skills. This dissertation addresses, enters, and goes on an exotic journey into the many dimensional realms of the problem, or mystery, of the transformative effects of living and practicing a life of sacred genuine intent to be kind, mindful, gentle, compassionate, and centered. Heuristic methods of immersion, twilight imagery, symbolic amplification, intensive journaling, and personal explorations have all been a part of the process of discovery while exploring this numinous landscape of transcendent reality, of interconnectedness. The mythical, historical, and cultural legacy, significance, and relevance of rock and sacred rock gardens are presented. Contemporary artists who evoke numinous experiences through their magnificent work with rock are presented. Several cases of healing and transformation through twilight imagery involving rocks are presented, as is the extensive contemplative work Carl Jung did with stone. Rock stacking as a sacred art informing the individuation process and clinical practice is presented. An adventurous journey and exploration into many of the terms and concepts which are the structural foundation of this work are presented. This work sacredly honors the transformative power of the numinous experience. This work realizes that equanimity is an ultimate skill that can be practiced through learning the sacred art of balancing rocks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |