Dancing With Non-duality for Healing Through the Shadows of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22163257 |
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| Authors | Heesoon Bai (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Kevin Berry (0000-0002-6904-4349, Simon Fraser University), Jesse Haber (College of New Caledonia), Avraham Cohen (Adler) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2504-284X • E-ISSN: 2504-284X |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/feduc.2021.647764 |
| OpenAlex | W3136860014 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed torrents of global suffering at a devastating scale, necessitating a strong response to alleviating suffering. This paper begins with noting that the conventional approach to suffering in North America is to be positive and not to be negative. The paper summarily explores the philosophy of positive psychology underlying the first- and the second-wave of positive psychology, commenting on the evolution from dualism and a binary conceptualization in the first wave (PP 1.0) to a non-dualism of integrating binaries in the second wave (PP 2.0). PP 2.0’s enhanced therapeutic efficacy is noted for its non-dual framework. The paper then explores and suggests a different conceptualization possibility of non-duality, fundamental non-duality , that is related to but distinct from the one in PP 2.0. A case is made that fundamental non-duality has a radical possibility of therapeutic efficacy. Being consistent with the philosophy of non-duality, further suggestions are made that non-duality of PP 2.0 and fundamental non-duality can be therapeutically deployed together for greatest efficacy. The exploration contained in the paper is largely philosophical, arts-based, and autobiographical, creating an enacted and lived experience of applying theory to practice
Conceptualization · Dualism · Epistemology · Pandemic · Pure mathematics · Computer Science · Mathematics · Medicine · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Philosophy · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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