Publication: Espiritual pero no religiosa: la cultura de la transformación personal
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2012
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En este estudio se analiza la relevancia cultural que ha adquirido el tema de la transformación personal en las sociedades contemporáneas, analizando las orientaciones que adopta y los factores que lo propician. La nueva cultura de la transformación personal unifica psicología y espiritualidad, enfatiza el poder transformador de las experiencias de trascendencia y florece en un milieu heterogéneo y flojamente organizado donde dominan la orientación individualizadora y la hibridación de enfoques y tradiciones. En el estudio se avanza la hipótesis interpretativa de que este desarrollo cultural es una respuesta a un proceso de cambio societal en el nivel del individuo al que denominamos la expansión del yo. El vínculo entre la expansión del yo y la cultura de la transformación personal es el malestar existencial que es inherente a la expansión del yo, para el que la cultura de la transformación personal provee una respuesta.
This study analyzes the development of a culture of personal transformation in contemporary societies, showing its forms and orientations, and pointing to the factors that favor its development. This new culture unifies psychology and spirituality, emphasizes the transformational power of the experience of transcendence, and flourishes in an heterogeneous and loosely organized milieu driven by trends toward individualization and hybridization. The interpretative hypothesis is that this cultural development is a response to a societal change at the level of the individual: the expansion of the self. The culture of personal transformation can be explained as a response to the existential turmoil that is inherent to the expansion of the self.
This study analyzes the development of a culture of personal transformation in contemporary societies, showing its forms and orientations, and pointing to the factors that favor its development. This new culture unifies psychology and spirituality, emphasizes the transformational power of the experience of transcendence, and flourishes in an heterogeneous and loosely organized milieu driven by trends toward individualization and hybridization. The interpretative hypothesis is that this cultural development is a response to a societal change at the level of the individual: the expansion of the self. The culture of personal transformation can be explained as a response to the existential turmoil that is inherent to the expansion of the self.