Tobin Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 5454469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobin Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7760-430X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Angels, AI, and psychospiritual development
Initiated by a surprising encounter at my daughter’s bedside, this article traces my developing understanding and activity in the field of children’s spirituality over the past 30 years. It emphasises children’s innate spiritual potentials including transpersonal experience and identifies activities and some trends especially in the US in which I have been involved. The article describes the need for cultivating interior capacities related to psy…
Living transcendence
What makes someone a spiritual exemplar to another
The aim of the study is to shed light on the perception of spiritual exemplars by those who consider them as such. The authors asked 300 experts in the religious-spiritual field from different traditions to nominate spiritual exemplars they knew and describe them “specifically indicating what it is that makes each of them exemplary.” Seventy-seven expert informants provided descriptions of 180 spiritual exemplars. In thematic analysis of the desc…
The (Deep) End of Empathy
Following an overview of the trends in contemporary scholarship on empathy, this article describes the lived experience of individuals with deep empathic sensitivity. Narrative accounts were drawn from 30 participants who were identified as deeply empathic. The epistemic contours are sketched through five themes describing: the complexity of boundary permeability, embodied knowing, expansive spiritual identifications, reacting versus responding, …
Unseen worlds
"Unseen worlds: looking through the lens of childhood." International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 16(4), pp. 376–377
The soul of teaching
The Refinement of Empathy
This article traces refinements in empathic knowing, highlighting the phenomenon of deep empathy. Nine different levels or facets of the activity of empathic knowing are described. Included is discussion of therapeutic resonance, deep reactivity, and alterations in self-other boundaries. In recognizing his or her own underlying epistemic process, the therapist may be better able to appreciate, cultivate and deepen his or her own unique ways of me…
Inspiration
This article reports a qualitative research study of the experience of inspiration in ordinary persons. Results gleaned from analysis of 70 in-depth interviews suggest that this phenomenon is a significant and distinct epistemic event that many people experience. As such, this evidence may help to shift the center of gravity of knowing away from the exclusivity of a narrow form of rational empiricism. Although inspiration cannot be willed, it may…
Recovering meaning at the edge of suicide
Transcendental empathy in the therapeutic encounter
The experience of many therapists suggest that most contemporary conceptions of empathy underestimate empathic potential. This paper describes deep or transcendental empathy as a more direct knowing of the client's world. The author examines the epistemic process or the activity of knowing of transcendental empathy by considering two broad forms: transcendental countertransference and psychological resonance. Difficulties and distortions are expl…
The self as research instrument
The self as research instrument The I in Science: Training to Utilize Subjectivity in Research. Judith R. Brown. Oslo/Boston: Scandinavian University Press, 1996
In service of a spiritual path
Inspiration
This article reports a qualitative research study of the experience of inspiration in ordinary persons. Results gleaned from analysis of 70 in-depth interviews suggest that this phenomenon is a significant and distinct epistemic event that many people experience. As such, this evidence may help to shift the center of gravity of knowing away from the exclusivity of a narrow form of rational empiricism. Although inspiration cannot be willed, it may…
The Refinement of Empathy
This article traces refinements in empathic knowing, highlighting the phenomenon of deep empathy. Nine different levels or facets of the activity of empathic knowing are described. Included is discussion of therapeutic resonance, deep reactivity, and alterations in self-other boundaries. In recognizing his or her own underlying epistemic process, the therapist may be better able to appreciate, cultivate and deepen his or her own unique ways of me…
In service of a spiritual path
The self as research instrument
The self as research instrument The I in Science: Training to Utilize Subjectivity in Research. Judith R. Brown. Oslo/Boston: Scandinavian University Press, 1996
Recovering meaning at the edge of suicide
Transcendental empathy in the therapeutic encounter
The experience of many therapists suggest that most contemporary conceptions of empathy underestimate empathic potential. This paper describes deep or transcendental empathy as a more direct knowing of the client's world. The author examines the epistemic process or the activity of knowing of transcendental empathy by considering two broad forms: transcendental countertransference and psychological resonance. Difficulties and distortions are expl…
Inspiration
This article reports a qualitative research study of the experience of inspiration in ordinary persons. Results gleaned from analysis of 70 in-depth interviews suggest that this phenomenon is a significant and distinct epistemic event that many people experience. As such, this evidence may help to shift the center of gravity of knowing away from the exclusivity of a narrow form of rational empiricism. Although inspiration cannot be willed, it may…
The soul of teaching
The Refinement of Empathy
This article traces refinements in empathic knowing, highlighting the phenomenon of deep empathy. Nine different levels or facets of the activity of empathic knowing are described. Included is discussion of therapeutic resonance, deep reactivity, and alterations in self-other boundaries. In recognizing his or her own underlying epistemic process, the therapist may be better able to appreciate, cultivate and deepen his or her own unique ways of me…
Unseen worlds
"Unseen worlds: looking through the lens of childhood." International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 16(4), pp. 376–377
The (Deep) End of Empathy
Following an overview of the trends in contemporary scholarship on empathy, this article describes the lived experience of individuals with deep empathic sensitivity. Narrative accounts were drawn from 30 participants who were identified as deeply empathic. The epistemic contours are sketched through five themes describing: the complexity of boundary permeability, embodied knowing, expansive spiritual identifications, reacting versus responding, …
Angels, AI, and psychospiritual development
Initiated by a surprising encounter at my daughter’s bedside, this article traces my developing understanding and activity in the field of children’s spirituality over the past 30 years. It emphasises children’s innate spiritual potentials including transpersonal experience and identifies activities and some trends especially in the US in which I have been involved. The article describes the need for cultivating interior capacities related to psy…
Living transcendence
What makes someone a spiritual exemplar to another
The aim of the study is to shed light on the perception of spiritual exemplars by those who consider them as such. The authors asked 300 experts in the religious-spiritual field from different traditions to nominate spiritual exemplars they knew and describe them “specifically indicating what it is that makes each of them exemplary.” Seventy-seven expert informants provided descriptions of 180 spiritual exemplars. In thematic analysis of the desc…
Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)