The Structure of Illness Space: Video and Illness Experience as Spiritual Practice

Personal Spiritual Inquiry (PSI) in a post-traumatic existence creates a dialectical complexity between the past and the present—living in the moment while reliving the past. The ability to fully recover past trauma is paradoxically entwined with the inability to gain access to all of the experience...

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Auteur principal: Serenati, Nicholas Quin (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Common Ground Publishing 2020
Dans: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Année: 2020, Volume: 11, Numéro: 1, Pages: 13-27
Sujets non-standardisés:B Spirituality
B Personal Spiritual Inquiry
B Illness Experience
B House
B Vidéo
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Résumé:Personal Spiritual Inquiry (PSI) in a post-traumatic existence creates a dialectical complexity between the past and the present—living in the moment while reliving the past. The ability to fully recover past trauma is paradoxically entwined with the inability to gain access to all of the experience. In order to access fragments of trauma memory, a process of PSI creates contact with these memories and is translated through the means of video production. In this project, the PSI framework is organized by paradigms of meditation that deeply reflects on post-traumatic experience with illness, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), and the process of video documentation. In the seminal text, "The Poetics of Space," Gaston Bachelard claimed the house to be a great force that amalgamates the unique dreams, memories and thoughts of humans. Through the lens of Bachelard’s thinking, this project’s PSI with illness experience became represented by the image of the house as a signifier of decay, and the house as a signifier of a cocoon. The material derived from this research is an experimental documentary entitled, The Structure of Illness Space. Personal Spiritual Inquiry is a unique process of spiritual practice that functions as a conduit for spiritual growth, artistic expression, and transformative healing.
ISSN:2154-8641
Contient:Enthalten in: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v11i01/13-27