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On the Edge of Devotion: Cult Attitudes and Shugyō
Abstract Intensive self-cultivation practices (i.e., shugyō, 修行) and the psychology of cultic attitudes share striking structural features: demanding regimens, strong social bonds, and narratives…
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Regrounding Through Bodily Orientation (RBO) Revisited
Abstract This article extends a grounded theory (GT) of online dialogic practice by theoretically sampling an autobiographical incident supplied by the guide of the…
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Regrounding Through Bodily Orientation
Abstract This paper reports grounded theory (GT) of Regrounding Through Bodily Orientation (RBO), evidenced in multi-party text communications where participant main concern crystallized as…
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Beyonding as Unfixating: A Grounded Theory of De-Limiting Sense-Making in a Master-Student Dialogue
Abstract This paper develops and presents a grounded theory of beyonding as unfixating from a synthesized and anonymized conversation between mentor and learner. Beyonding…
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Dissipative Open–Dynamics Model of Experience
The current research project, ~40 years in the making, focuses on arriving at a mathematical-physics argument supporting ethical frameworks for beings of curved spacetime…

