Abstract
This article extends a grounded theory (GT) of online dialogic practice by theoretically sampling an autobiographical incident supplied by the guide of the original corpus (anonymized as P-01). The prior analysis advanced a core category, Regrounding Through Bodily Orientation (RBO), addressing the main concern of stabilizing experience amid symbolic proliferation. Here we integrate a childhood encounter with a perfectly quasilinear, minimally arcing white light whose sudden absence provoked arousal, boundary-securing, and a decades-long search for the perfection intuited in the event. Open, selective, and theoretical coding (constant comparison and memoing) elaborate four additional concepts that densify RBO: Perfection–Absence Switch (PAS), Arc-Breath Entrainment (ABE), Boundarying Rituals, and Quest-Vectoring. We relate the emergent theory to literatures on embodiment, interaction order, awe/numinous experience, ecological/enactive and predictive accounts of sense-making, memory, and Buddhist analyses. The result is a modifiable theoretical grammar for how actors convert overload or otherness into situated traction by recruiting somatic vectors, social micro-rituals, and long-horizon meaning projects.
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Citation
Space-Coyote, L. G. N. R. (2025). Regrounding through Bodily Orientation (RBO) revisited: From digital symbolic proliferation to an “Arc of Absence” numinous event. Shugyokai.org. https://shugyokai.org/4bax