| Titel: | Behold the power of word when voice and vision are one: An exploration into changing conscious awareness through word play |
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| Autor: | English, SJ |
| Mediengruppe: | --- |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 142 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Abstract: | Language causes us, makes us who we are. Although the causal relationships between Language, Thought, and Power are not new, I desire to take yet another look at the working orders of these relationships as they constitute individual conscious awareness because, it is an “illusory impression to think that adequate attention is already being paid to the function of Language, Thought, and Power” (Bohm 1995, 32). Motivating the inquiry are the questions, how does Language create, shape, even determine levels of individual conscious awareness? How does language, the listening and speaking and writing of it change the way self and world are experienced and known? How does one actually experience the word phrase, <italic>a change in conscious awareness?</italic> The general description of the purpose of this dissertation project is to create “the inception of new content, which unfolds into a sequence of moments that is not completely derivable from what came earlier in the sequence or set of such sequences” (Bohm 1984, 212). This purpose will be performed by employing textual skills received via graduate studies in the Humanities; a singular name in plural form wholly devoted to the enhancement of human being. The specific purpose then is to offer teachers and students, homemakers and researchers, writers and readers tools for practicing enhanced conscious awareness within any chosen discourse field. The claim is made that the primary tool for enhancing conscious awareness is by engaging, with repeated efforts of self-reflection and self-forgetfulness, in the stories and games of Word Play. In an attempt to creatively participate in the task at hand, I will do the following: (1) gather together five seemingly unrelated scientific disciplines—namely, Sanskrit, quantum theory/mechanics, Tibetan medicine, Osteopathic medicine, and Yoga—in such a way as to, (2) point out the ways in which these disciplines share a fundamental conceptual basis, and from that basis, (3) generate insights into how individual human consciousness changes including, (4) how to recognize moments or experiences wherein <italic>authentic</italic> (or enduring self-conscious) change actually occurs in order to, (5) move an individual out of fragmented consciousness into holistic awareness. |