Sexuality, cakras, and "raising consciousness": Synthesising a Western psychology and an Eastern philosophy

The hypothesis for this dissertation is that (a) there is an increasing call for something called 'raising consciousness', and (b) sexuality and spirituality are integral to the process. It is, however, argued that sexuality in it's relationship with consciousness is incompletely considered in the mainstream of academic and lay discourse; and seems to not be accorded a positive position in the problematic landscape of human affairs. In this investigation, sex, gender, sexpression (the link between the previous two), sexuality, and spirituality are shown to be generally confused and in need of differentiation, and re-integration into a coherent unit.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Religious Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• O'Donnell, Neal

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Chidester, David

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10888

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10888