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dc.contributor.advisor | Bristol, John | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Marusich, Sasha A. N. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:05:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:05:24Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2014-01-02 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1987-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/8679 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 9775 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 4950162 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13846 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>The aim of this work is to bring into play views from various disciplines in order to support the claim that we can change our realities.</p> <p>The shift from classical to quantum physics shows that reality, even within the scientific framework, the specific paradigm with which it is subject to is approached, and as such, the reality it lays claim to is not absolute, but rather, relative to an interpretive framework.</p> <p>Coupled with Kuhn's ideas on scientific revolutions, and Feyerabend's claim that epistemological anarchy is a requisite for expanding our knowledge of the world, the discussion of science points to the view that the reality we believe to exist is dependent upon our view of it, and is, therefore, subject to change.</p> <p>Studies of symbol and myth are employed as supporting frameworks which show that we create and maintain our realities.</p> <p>Symbol is that which we use to point to, hold on to, and maintain a specific interpretation of an aspect of the world. Myths, and in turn models, are the formalized patternings or frameworks bringing symbols into a unified and coherent picture of the world.</p> <p>The final step of this work is to show one methodology for changing our lived world.</p> <p>Ritual, by deleting or replacing symbols, or by changing the patterns of interconnections between symbols or the connotations of the symbols themselves, effect changes to the extent that one can be brought into a new and different world.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.title | Science, Myth And Ritual: Ideas On Changing One's Reality | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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