Sacred Mandala inquiry: the lived experience of painting a Mandala as research

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dc.contributor.authorJohnston, M. Jane
dc.contributor.supervisorHurren, Wanda
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-05T23:58:19Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-09-05
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis phenomenological hermeneutic research explores the author’s lived experience of painting a Sacred Mandala over the course of 15 months while focusing on child-loss by adoption. In this dissertation, the structure, process, and mindful practice of Sacred Mandala Inquiry are presented—incorporating methodological considerations, related theories, and illuminated through personal examples. Although the focus in the paper is on an individual Sacred Mandala practice, it is with the understanding that the individual is embedded within a community and world in a web of relationships. Impetus for research often arises from personal lifeworld experience. The Sacred Mandala provides structure and containment for inquiry, for those who are attracted to the form, assisting in bracketing that which has previously been accepted while simultaneously becoming a sacred boundary for the unknown to emerge, protected and witnessed. The practice and process may be taken up by inquirers in the social sciences, humanities, arts and within the community of adult learners. The mindful and embodied painting and journaling practices necessitate the inclusion of processes occurring outside of awareness—hosted in emerging images, dialogues, stories, synchronistic events, myths, metaphors, and poetry; inviting the unconscious forward. Opening both eyes—the rational and imaginal—provides a depth perspective. Both are needed, each is as real as the other, one illuminating the inner world, one illuminating the outer world, in wholeness. Importantly, the meanings embedded within the work continue to resonate, unfold, and inform over time.en_US
dc.description.embargo2020-08-27
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11127
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectmandalaen_US
dc.subjectinquiryen_US
dc.subjectlived experienceen_US
dc.subjectdepth psychologyen_US
dc.subjectphenomenologyen_US
dc.subjecthermeneuticsen_US
dc.subjectsynchronicityen_US
dc.subjectnon-dualen_US
dc.subjectpoetryen_US
dc.subjectcreative expressionen_US
dc.subjectadoptionen_US
dc.subjectcurriculumen_US
dc.titleSacred Mandala inquiry: the lived experience of painting a Mandala as researchen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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