Transpersonal Psychology and an Agnostic Experiential Exploration of Mediumship and the Ostensible Phenomenon of Life after Death

Benjamin, Elliot

doi:10.24972/ijts.2015.34.1-2.34

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“…In summary, while other autoethnographic methods have faced criticism for being excessively subjective, overly descriptive, and filled with esoteric jargon (Adams et al 2022), the SVA maintains an academically presentable reflexive voice (Pitard 2019), rather than an introspective self-indulgence distancing readers from the researcher's experiential presentation and interaction (Chang 2007). Its hermeneutic kernel allows researchers to achieve a high level of self-awareness, externalize, and articulate their innermost experiences in qualitative research (Benjamin 2014).…”

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Toward a Phenomenological Understanding of Internet-Mediated Meme-ing as a Lived Experience in Social Distancing via Autoethnography

Zhang

2023

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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As the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social distancing measures have rendered online communication a “new normal” in the post-pandemic era, the production and consumption of internet memes have also emerged as a significant communicative paradigm in this context. However, academic discourses on internet-mediated meme-ing have tended to focus on socially oriented macro-perspectives with a pursuit of positivistic objectivity, leaving the experiential and subjective aspects of “everyday internet-mediated meme-ing” vis-à-vis individuals in a lifeworld less explored. To address this gap, this study uses structured vignette analysis (SVA) coupled with individual-oriented phenomenological reflexivity to elaborate on how internet-mediated meme-ing reveals itself as a meaningful lived experience for a “solitary conscious self” in the overall context of social distancing. It seeks to demonstrate the phenomenological applicability of the SVA as an autoethnographic method as well as highlight the individual-oriented phenomenological substantiality of meme-ing that involves self-other relations in social distancing.

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Toward a Phenomenological Understanding of Internet-Mediated Meme-ing as a Lived Experience in Social Distancing via Autoethnography

Zhang

2023

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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The creative artists support group: a therapeutic environment to promote creativity and mental health through person-centered facilitation

Benjamin

2018

Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

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Heuristic Inquiry

2019

Autoethnography and Heuristic Inquiry for Doctoral-Level Researchers

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This chapter presents current research insights into the selection of heuristic inquiries for a doctoral-level inquiry. Heuristic inquiry within social science research allows for self-as-subject representations in search of the essential meaning of phenomena or constructs explored and through the analysis of the individual experience, results may inform larger sociocultural contexts. While receptivity of heuristic inquiry as rigorous doctoral-level research varies by discipline and institution, the research design in doctoral education remains widely accepted for doctoral-level inquiry as it often appeals to the doctoral scholar due to the deep introspection expected in the phases of analysis. While heuristic inquiry emerged within psychology, doctoral scholars use the introspective research design across fields of study, the doctoral degree program, and institution to meet all institutional requirements and ethical assurances. Like autoethnography, the relational aspects between doctoral scholar and research supervisor are vital to successful heuristic inquiry and the doctoral scholar's development as a new investigator.

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Transpersonal Psychology and an Agnostic Experiential Exploration of Mediumship and the Ostensible Phenomenon of Life after Death

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Toward a Phenomenological Understanding of Internet-Mediated Meme-ing as a Lived Experience in Social Distancing via Autoethnography

Toward a Phenomenological Understanding of Internet-Mediated Meme-ing as a Lived Experience in Social Distancing via Autoethnography

The creative artists support group: a therapeutic environment to promote creativity and mental health through person-centered facilitation

Heuristic Inquiry

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