The Heart Speaks: Personal Transformation Through Illness – Louise Livingstone

This paper explores my personal journey with cardiac illness through discourses including transpersonal psychology, religious mysticism, comparative religion and cultural history. Considering the consequences of the modern reference for rational, linear approaches towards knowledge production, this paper makes the case for the imagination as a way of knowing that offers the opportunity to look into the world beyond outward appearances and create deeper  meaning in life (1991, 1992), specifically in relation to the phenomenon of illness.

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