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Item Defining a post-metaphysical pedagogy for serving growth into higher levels of consciousness and introducing integral evolutionary coaching: a new role within a new ecology of roles(2007)This thesis contains the following sections: Introduction: I set forth the thesis' theoretical context, as well as its research questions, assumptions, scope, and overview. Integral research: I summarize the results of a process of deliberately engaging all the primary Integral research methodologies in turn, bringing them to bear on aspects of this topic and the pilot program through which I have been exploring it. Theoretical thesis: I attempt to define higher consciousness and conduct an exploration of all the key fields, helping roles, and praxes, both modern and ancient, that help people grow into higher states and stages of awareness. Conclusion: I introduce my hypotheses, explore the particular issues they raise, and set forth my conclusions.Item What are the common denominators that have allowed battered women to leave an abusive relationship(1990)This study investigated the major factors enabling battered women to permanently leave their abusive relationship. Seventeen ex-battered women who had left their abusive relationship for at least a period of one year answered a questionnaire composed of 95 questions. Ten out of these 17 women participated in a two-hour individual audiotaped interview which was transcribed for analysis. The factors investigated as reasons for leaving their abusive relationship were: economic dependency, support from family and friends, legal and social help provided to battered women, safety of the children and concern for personal survival.Item Project deuce: treatment + punishment for the california dui offender(1989)Underlying the development of the DEUCE program was the assumption that the law must provide treatment as well as punishment, and if the DEUCE Program is maximally effective it would significantly alter the rates of DUI recidivism and road crashes. This research project represents the first attempt to measure the effectiveness of the DEUCE program, by measuring the rate of recidivism of program Graduates with the rate of recidivism of a control group comprised of men who did not participate in an alcohol recovery program.Item Through darkness to light: a phenomenological inquiry into suffering and transformation(2003)The main research question of this study is 'how universally applicable are the experiences and insights recorded by literature from different cultures and times, when viewed in the light of contemporary individuals trying to create meaning from experiences of extreme loss and adversity?' In addressing this question, I have chosen a number of frameworks that seem to honour and offer meaning for experiences of loss and suffering in a way that the mainstream of modern western society does not. The contexts I have chosen to present range from an ancient Sumerian myth involving a descent to the underworld, to the teachings of Buddhist saints and Christian mystics, and even to a 201h century psychological/ philosophical perspective represented by theorists such as C. G. Jung and Viktor Franki. These examples may be viewed in conjunction both with each other and with the data gathered from interviews, in an attempt to discover whether the human experiences of loss and suffering, as well as the significance with which these experiences are imbued by those who undergo them, are universal in nature.Item The wheel: symbol of life's sacred motion(1984)This thesis comprises two parts, a journey and a journal, and describes the cyclic processes of life as seen personally and cross-culturally through the symbolism of the wheel. The journey is my personal history and travels: the intuitive and creative experiences which reveal my process as an artist, my tools of growth and transformation, the shaping forces which inspired my symbolic quest. Woven into the journey are the cross-cultural interpretations of the wheel. These historical and traditional finds provide a balance for my personal experiences and give evidence of the wheel's universal impact on the practical and sacred life of man. The journal is composed of the manifestations of my personal history and travels; it is a presentation of visual art, poetry, prose commentaries and observations; reflective of my symbolic quest. The works appear in the same sequential order as my gallery exhibition of June 17, 1984 and simulate the cycle of life as seen in the design and motion of the wheel.
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