Experiential Approach and Non-Dualistic Meditation in Philosophical Practice

 

50th International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 9-12, ICPP2021 Copyright © 2021

FORMAT | Presented paper              

LANGUAGE | English

HOW TO CITE| SANDU, Antonio (2021). Experiential Approach and Non-Dualistic Meditation in Philosophical Practice. Acceptata la prezentare in cadrul 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 9-12, 2021. Chicago (Argonne National Lab), Illinois, USA.

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ABSTRACT:


The theoretical foundation of experiential psychotherapy originates in philosophy, more precisely in that of phenomenological and existentialist orientation. The mentioned philosophical perspectives were operationalized from a psychotherapeutic point of view by psychologists who belong to the current of humanistic psychology. The experiential perspective includes meditative experiences, including those corelated to the experience of trance states or altered consciousness experience. In philosophical practice, this approach aims at experiencing existential phobias and anxieties and the specific limitations of the human condition. In this lecture we will emphasize the use in philosophical practice of meditative techniques originated in the non-dualistic practices of Kashmiri Shivaism recovered from the existential perspective, as an experience of pure subjectivity.


KEYWORDS:


experiential therapy; philosophical counseling; non-dualistic meditation.