GOD-TALK AS A MEANS OF HEALING A Spiritual Rebirth through Novel Writing and Auto-Analysis
Candlelights is a novel based on my experiences in a monastic setting, including my own reflections gained through the novel’s writing process. The experience/re-experience of trauma (and its ‘domestication’) is one major element of the novel which served 1) as the central motif in the way I gave fl...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2012
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2012, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-338 |
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Kari’s Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
B Novel’s Plot B Contemplative Way: Spiritual-Theological Reflections B Writing the Novel: Communicating the Human-Divine Encounter |
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| Summary: | Candlelights is a novel based on my experiences in a monastic setting, including my own reflections gained through the novel’s writing process. The experience/re-experience of trauma (and its ‘domestication’) is one major element of the novel which served 1) as the central motif in the way I gave flesh to my own character, Kari, the protagonist, 2) as a driving force for the simple acts of making myself disposed to and in constant communion with the Divine, and 3) as a main strand that links together the following: (a) my past and present life, (b) the religious life which has a long contemplative tradition and a mystical approach to experiences of trauma, (c) the Transcendent as object of my personal quest, and (d) the potential readers and myself as the novel’s central character. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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