139 thiempactofmysticalexperienceonself-actualizationw,orldviewu,nderstandinga,ndtoleranceinbuddhisme,asternorthodoxhy,induisma,ndislam e.g., pragmatic neutrality of Constantine’s Edict of Milan; and finally, the more recent (c) respect, and (d) esteem conceptions. The respect and esteem conceptions, which emanate from the expansion, (and moreover, transcendence), of worldviews with low levels of empirical justifiability, psychological functionality, social cohesion, meaning and purpose, and comprehensiveness; consequently facilitate selfactualization, as described above, and are therefore the reference points in this work (Forst, 2003; 2004; 2008). 1.6.4 The phenomenological method. The most useful component of the phenomenological method is that it provides the opportunity to distill experiences into essences. It was therefore of utmost importance for the researcher to bracket all of his preconceptions and biases when reducing the lived-experiences of the identified religious psycho-spiritual therapeutic methodologies to essence. However, it is similarly important for the reader to be informed by the data itself through a process of epoché, (i.e., the bracketing of preconceptions), which provides an opportunity for a shift in the understanding of intentionality from subject-object duality to nonduality, transcendence, and integration. The latter do not negate the importance of embodiment, individuality, and personhood, but rather propose the validity of a paradigm directed towards movement from the conditional and conditioned to an awareness that is deeper, broader, and more unified with the whole. Once this presupposition is admitted, even as a possibility, the supersensory mystical experience, which so often appears to evade logicality, may then assist in cultivating the knowledge and understanding of spiritual reality as encompassed in the human condition of embodiment. ii. methodology This section describes the components of the transcendental phenomenological approach and methodology used in this study, which integrates Martin’s (in Braun & McCutcheon, 2000) naturalistic theory for the study and comparison of religious traditions (Moustakas, 1994). Phenomenological reduction is particularly appropriate to this study, (which seeks to compare and contrast the religious psychospiritual therapeutic methodologies of Buddhism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Hinduism, and Islam, and determine the impact of these therapeutic e impact of mys ic l experience on self-actualiza i n...
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