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Inner Peace and Global Harmony: Individual Wellbeing and Global Solutions in the Art of Living

Author(s) -

Stephen Jacobs

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

culture unbound journal of current cultural research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256

H-Index - 7

ISSN - 2000-1525

DOI - 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146873

Subject(s) - meditation , harmony (color) , ethnography , meaning (existential) , sociology , aesthetics , psychology , hinduism , social psychology , environmental ethics , psychotherapist , anthropology , philosophy , art , religious studies , theology , visual arts

his paper explores the discourse in the Art of Living (AOL), a Hindu derived transnational meditation movement, which suggests that solutions to global problems are best addressed at the individual level. Ethnographic fieldwork, qualita-tive interviews and an analysis of published material suggest that the primary concern of the AOL is the reduction of stress and anxiety for the individual practitioner. This reduction of stress not only means that the individual practitioner develops ‘inner peace', but also contributes to global harmony. AOL is an exemplar of ‘therapeutic solutions', which are characterized by disillusionment with estab-lished institutions and a quest for inner meaning. AOL articulates this therapeutic solution, not only in terms of narcissistic needs, but links this quest for inner meaning to wider social and global concerns

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