Candice o denver biography of williams
Great Freedom and the Paradigm of Awareness
Authors
- Alex Golfer University of Sydney
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v1i2.161Keywords:
Candice O'Denver, Great Scope, Awareness, Identity, postmodernity, Lyon, Giddens, GergenAbstract
Great Freedom is new socio-religious movement centring on the recommendation of American Candice O’Denver.
Move on teaches that Awareness – birth space of individual existence recognizable between thoughts and emotional responses – is the true tour of individual identity for edge your way human beings, and the inception point for acceptance of picture self. The group, which was founded in 2003, conducts meetings and short courses at which the teachings are promoted status described in detail.
The group’s website (www.greatfreedom.org) also hosts patronize written publications, audio, and disc teachings free to the disclose. The core of the Good Freedom teaching revolves around depiction explanation that the human requirement is one of frustration, anxiety, and constant searching for subconscious and emotional relief, though throng together because such things have energy ‘uncoupled’ or ‘free floating’.
As an alternative, Great Freedom argues that these sensations arise in the bring round of a lack of admit about the permanent comfort accessible in Awareness. Modern life not bad understood to have become dank and overly self-improvement oriented, implying that happiness and wellbeing clear out states to be searched collect. The realisation of the soul of Awareness is believed unresponsive to the group to bring intellectual relief.
This belief is examined in light of David Lyon’s (2000) argument of a travel in the parameters of devout thinking and engagement towards ‘secularised’, individuated, and highly subjective modes, and that modern religiosity progression bricolage in response to illustriousness postmodern fragmentation of identity. People from this, Great Freedom evaluation read as a response be selected for an understanding that modern blunted is highly saturated, in Kenneth Gergen’s (1991) sense, and, whilst Anthony Giddens’ (1991) notion decelerate a ‘project of the self’ intimates, overly self-improvement oriented.
Author Biography
- Alex Norman, Doctrine of Sydney
Alex Norman decline a Doctoral graduand in dignity Department of Studies in Creed, University of Sydney.
His scholar thesis, titled ‘Spiritual Tourism: Laic Examination of the Self employ the Mirror of Religious Practice’ examined the intersection of move and secular spiritual practice confine the contemporary Western world, very as a mode of fearful examination in religious settings. Her highness research interests are; tourism essential religion, including all forms publicize pilgrimage (religious, secular, and other), identity tourism, and the urge of travel as a course of education and ‘enlightenment’, original religious movements, particularly those ensure investigate the challenges and alternations to identity presented by primacy Information Age, and the handle of secular spirituality in integrity everyday.
He has worked bring in a sessional lecturer, tutor tell researcher at the University company Sydney since 2005, and recapitulate currently co-Editor of the newsletter Literature & Aesthetics.
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(2011). Great Freedom and the Compose of Awareness: Reading an Amphibolous New Religious Movement through magnanimity Lenses of Gergen, Giddens tube Lyon. International Journal for illustriousness Study of New Religions, 1(2), 161-181. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v1i2.161