147 thiempactofmysticalexperienceonself-actualizationw,orldviewu,nderstandinga,ndtoleranceinbuddhisme,asternorthodoxhy,induisma,ndislam iv. essences, worldview, self-actualization, and tolerance The creative synthesis is the description of the essences of the experiencings of the path of spiritual ascendancy and mystical experience in Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. After constructing the creative synthesis (see Appendix D), the implications are discussed, limitations tendered, and recommendations made. The impact of the path of spiritual ascendancy and mystical experience in Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam on worldview, self-actualization, and interreligious and/or intercultural understanding and tolerance are then examined. 4.1 creative synthesis The creative synthesis is constructed from the combined textural and structural descriptions drawn from the data and presented in Appendices A and B. It is accomplished by moving beyond subjectivity to inter-subjectivity and objectivity to trans-objectivity, and moreover transcending the aspects of the experience that are specific and/or particular to the each tradition under investigation, in order to identify that which is central to the experience itself. The creative synthesis is then the invariant structure of ultimate essence and epitomizes the meaning of the experience. In order to construct a creative synthesis: “the researcher must move beyond any confined or constricted attention to the data itself and permit an inward life on the question to grow, in such a way that comprehensive expressions of the essences of the phenomenon investigated is realized” (Moustakas, 1990, p. 32). The creative synthesis is presented in Appendix D. 4.2 implications The phenomenological reduction process reveals significant and essential patterns of invariance between the Buddhist, Eastern Orthodox, Hindu, and Islamic traditions of spiritual ascendancy and mystical experience. These patterns of invariance transcend the manifest similarities between the traditions in terms of theory, terminology, specific methods and practices, and/or outcomes, and moreover, the patterns of variance in terms of religious doctrine. The e impact of mys ic l experience on self-actualiza i n...
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