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Aug 28, 2006 · But in each slow-burning episode of McCallum, there is as much existential contemplation as there is action surrounding the untraceable poisonings, murderous widows, and seamless...
Jan 12, 2020 · Contemplation should be distinguished from routine forms of thinking, thought rumination, reminiscing, remembering, problem solving or being absorbed in a task.
Oct 1, 2024 · McCallum notes how Williams discusses the existential protagonists of Camus and Sartre in the context of modern tragedy (p. 12-13).
I wrote this book to explore examples of existential science fiction across time and medium, from 2001 to the present, and theorize that contemporary media contains a more concentrated version of contemplation, deeply examining examples that include films like Interstellar, television shows like Westworld, and video games like Death Stranding.
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Contemplative practices have been researched since the proto-universities of Ancient Greece, and through modern Psychology forefathers such as William James and Wilhelm Wundt. But empirical research into the health benefits of contemplation really began in earnest in the 1960s and 1970s (Van Gordon et al., 2021). Anchored in an objectivist science ...
Schon (1983) proposed that to develop the wisdom and artistry required for professional development, individuals need to engage in contemplative reflective practices. However, while intended to derive meaning and insight from experience, this form of reflection has been criticised for being instrumentalist and positivist whereby contemplative insig...
It’s this engagement with the world around us where we feel contemplation is influential and under-appreciated… woven into the very social fabric of our lives. Social fabric is the value system that acts as the invisible driving force behind the collective behaviour that binds societies together (Beck & Cowan, 2006). This value system is made up of...
Each time we reach an inflection point in human development and undergo a significant reweaving of our social fabric, from traditionalism, through modernism and postmodernism, to an emergent metamodernism, there appears to be a re-emergence of some form of contemplative practice. Contemplation enables us to transcend modes of thinking that create o...
Mar 5, 2024 · Existentialism brought nothingness to the forefront of human experience. Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche explored the despair and nihilism that can arise from contemplating the void,...
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Jun 29, 2021 · Contemplative psychology is concerned with the psychological study of contemplative processes and practices, such as meditation, mindfulness, yoga, introspection, reflection, metacognition, self-regulation, self-awareness, and self-consciousness.
