Cosmic Play

Metabletics, the “theory of changes,” is van den Berg’s (1961) method of phenomenology.

Phenomenology, in its faithfulness to the experience of things, is a love affair with the world, a bond first between experience and the thi

I returned to lyric poetry, autobiography and biography. I engaged in an immersion process, open and receptive to the nature of discovery, w

Personal experience plays an absolutely essential and inescapable role in depth psychological research and theory, because when we deal with

Tacit knowledge cannot be put into words but is at work behind the scenes, essentially explaining from another view the underlying dynamics

Heuristic research is a method that was developed by Moustakas (1990) which describes how personal experience is used as a valid research me

Hermes is integral to hermeneutics; he is also at the center of Jung’s stone, and has played a central role in my dissertation and my life.

Now that we have the “lay of the land” of hermeneutics, we can proceed to explore a few of the concepts that will be central to my dissertat

The hermeneutic circle was anticipated in Plato’s notion of recollection or anamnesis: we can learn about the unknown only by recognizing it

Hermeneutics, the study of understanding, has ancient roots. It comes from the Greek word hermeneuin, “to interpret” and is associated with