Ontological Experience and the Ontic Ontological Human Being

Bauer, Rudolph

doi:10.32351/rca.v5.172

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“…A differentiation of Ashton’s model from the model presented here can be attained by applying Bauer’s (2020) previously described phenomenology of awareness to the clinical processing of states of emptiness. It supplies a missing link in considering the ego‐Self axis in experiences of emptiness which can lead to what Jung described as the pleroma or fullness of Being.…”

Section: Eastern Concepts Of Emptiness Based On Non‐dualistic Frameworkmentioning

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“…Reading Ashton’s model of emptiness‐as‐lack through Bauer’s (2020) distinction of duality and non‐duality reveals mainly a subject/object view of self and other, i.e. a dualistic separation of one’s awareness from one’s self, experiencing something about one’s self.…”

Section: Eastern Concepts Of Emptiness Based On Non‐dualistic Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When ego contracts into its own bondage of complex‐bound fears, it needs the transcendence or ‘bridge’ between contracted, dualistic states of mind, and the experience of one’s being as such, that creates a restorative wholeness. Pure consciousness here is understood as a spiritual goal (Bauer 2020, p. 3). It can also be understood as a psychological healing release from emptiness‐related attachments to negatively charged ego states.…”

Section: Non‐dualistic Consciousness and The Jungian Transcendent Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bauer (2020) integrates two aspects of understanding and experiencing our own being that I am here applying to the experience of emptiness. The first pertains to a conceptual encounter with what is known about categories of ideas, feelings or perceptions.…”

Section: Introduction: Sorting Out Western and Eastern Concepts Of Emptiness In Psychotherapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These distinctions of meaning applied to emptiness become less complicated when they are described as either dualistic or non-dualistic. Bauer (2020) integrates two aspects of understanding and experiencing our own being that I am here applying to the experience of emptiness. The first pertains to a conceptual encounter with what is known about categories of ideas, feelings or perceptions.…”

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Sitting through the emptiness

Smith¹

2021

J Analytical Psychology

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This article explores clinical encounters with experiences of the ‘empty ego’ which arise from early relational trauma. The ego’s emptiness is held in repetitious complexes and arises out of affectively charged experiences between self and other which remain split‐off from awareness. This kind of consciousness is viewed as dualistic, separating non‐dual subjectivity from its dualistic objects of consciousness. In contrast, what I am calling healing void states of non‐dualistic consciousness, when admitted to awareness, allow the individual to dis‐identify from the traumatizing representations of self and other through an experience of non‐duality. In contrast to an objectified, dualistic emptiness of the ego, healing void states come about in moments of non‐dual, unified consciousness. These states occur in the ego‐Self relationship by linking the ego’s dualistic awareness in chronic subject/object splits to ones of non‐dual pure consciousness. The healing void state is always incipiently present and potentially able to bridge the ego‐Self connection in bogged‐down treatment. The paper explores potential integrations with non‐dual models of consciousness such as Vedantic and Kashmir Shaivism, among other mystical traditions. A combined Vedantic‐Jungian understanding can provide a transcendent bridge that integrates Eastern concepts of non‐duality in treating emptiness.

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Section: Eastern Concepts Of Emptiness Based On Non‐dualistic Frameworkmentioning

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