Beyond Duality and Polarization: Understanding Barack Obama and His Vital Act of Participation

by Paul Koziey

Overview

Beyond Duality and Polarization explores an experience-based learning model, the Phenomenal Patterning approach for personal transformation. Rather than traditional prescriptive learning, methods of personal discovery help us understand how the human mind actually functions. Dr. Koziey introduces two modern Zen skills, watching and catharsis, to increase self-awareness. This frees us from habitual patterns we learned in childhood. We identify the patterns of our own thinking and behaving and see that many of the problems we face are self-created. Repressions are revealed in the shadow psyche and we are able to dissolve our negativity. The overriding message is that when we stop fighting, life starts flowing again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761856962
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	07/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Paul Koziey is professor emeritus of counseling psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is best known for his seminal work applying two modern Zen mediation skills — watching and catharsis — to help us prepare for the new millennium. He examines the fundamentals of our thinking and behaving, particularly in educational, social, and political organization, and introduces new ways of transforming our traditional, conditioned patterns of conflict into a relaxed and inclusive Participant Observer worldview, what Friedrich Nietzsche calls “The Lion” perspective of courage and interdependence.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: Unlearning the Unnatural
Chapter One: Hillary and Barack: Different Mindsets
Chapter Two: Self-As Instrument on a Path without Form
Chapter Three: Transcending Duality
Chapter Four: Framing Reality: Four Styles of Reasoning
Part Two: Nietzsche’s Three Worldviews
Chapter Five: Metamorphoses of the Spirit
Chapter Six: Barack Obama’s Mindset: Camel, Lion, or Child?
Chapter Seven: Beyond the Hope/Hopelessness Duality
Part Three: Skills for Transformation
Chapter Eight: Relaxed, Alert, and non-Judging
Chapter Nine: Learning through the Heart
Chapter Ten: Zen is Self Discovery
Chapter Eleven: Self-Knowing: Mind and Emotions
Chapter Twelve: Meditation to Creativity
Chapter Thirteen: Unio Mystica
Part Four: Transforming Leaders
Chapter Fourteen: Second Order Transformation
Chapter Fifteen: Cutting the Roots of Violence
Chapter Sixteen: Effective Leaders
Chapter Notes
Bibliography