Abstract
The perceptual-sensory expression of transpersonal emotion-virtues as a feeling of joy, compassion, forgiveness, awe, gratitude, and humility and its accompanying cognitive-evaluative awareness as an emotion is often reported as concomitants, antecedents, or results of nondual states of awareness. The goal of this study is to examine those spiritual/religious aspects and ascertain how nondual consciousness on the one hand and transpersonal affective states that, with time and cumulatively, transition into virtues (i.e., traits) synergistically or causally impact each other and further the transcendence of consciousness. Each of six outlined emotion-virtues is analyzed with an emphasis on their spiritual-religious, developmental-transformational, psychotherapeutic-healing aspects and their correlation to nondual awareness. The quantitative part consists of administering questionnaires for each emotion-virtue and for nondual awareness and establishing their mutual correlations. The heuristic inquiry part compares the researchers personal experience to her quantitative findings. The goal of this research is to confirm that transpersonal emotion-virtues strongly correlate with states and stages of nonduality as the highest possible spiritual being-in-the-world. The role of religious traditions is considered in their historical and transformational contexts.
Presenters
Milica ZegaracStudent, PhD candidate - Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, California, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Awe, Compassion, Emotion, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Humility, Joy, Nonduality, Spiritual, Virtue
