Ordinary People As Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-Discovery
by Marsha Sinetar
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An organizational psychologist looks at the stories of ordinary people who choose a solitary lifestyle to find wholeness and self actualization.Tags
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The method for producing this essay is unusual. The author ran an ad asking for people to contact her to share their spiritual way. She groups their responses in three parts: The way of the Monk, the way of the Mystic, and the way of Wholeness.
We do gain an appreciation for some different lifestyles; however nothing comes across like a whole person does in autobiographical stories. One easily concludes that her respondents were not "ordinary people".
R. Baty CSBS
We do gain an appreciation for some different lifestyles; however nothing comes across like a whole person does in autobiographical stories. One easily concludes that her respondents were not "ordinary people".
R. Baty CSBS
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Marsha Sinetar, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist, mediator, and writer who for the past several years has been increasingly immersed in the study of self-actualizing adults.
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1986
- First words
- "My research began several years ago [i.e.,1980] when my own inclination and interest made me pull away from the way I saw most people living, in favor of a more solitary, silent, reflective way of life. Although it isn't my ... (show all)purpose to describe my own experience in this book, every book is in some sense autobiographical, and surely this one is no exception. In a very real sense, I am one of the subjects I studied....
- Quotations
- "..I simply needed a word which embraced the imagery of silence, the dignity and obedience that automatically accompanies those who embark on an inner journey, whatever route that may take, whatever the costs..."
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- Genres
- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 248.22 — Religion Christian practice & observance Christian experience, practice, life Religious experience Mystical Christianity
- LCC
- BV4501.2 .S4726 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Practical Theology Practical Theology Practical religion. The Christian life
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
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