The Phenomenological Method: In the Light of Our Mind Knowing Phenomenological Forms and Our Awareness Knowing Phenomenological Being

Rudolph Bauer

doi:10.32351/rca.v5.165

Authors

Rudolph Bauer Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-007X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v5.165

Política de Crossmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.32351/politica-crossmark

Keywords:

tantra, field of Being, awareness, phenomenology, da sein

Abstract

This article reviews the unfolding of the transcendental phenomenological reduction process and reviews the unfolding of the ontological phenomenological reduction process as articulated by Heidegger and contemporary ontological phenomenology. It also reviews the phenomenological reduction in the light of contemporary Existential Phenomenology. Our discussion is elaborated in light of the two ways of knowing: the knowing of mind knowing phenomena and the knowing of awareness knowing Being integrating it with the Eastern philosophical tradition of Tibetan Dzogchen and vajrayāna –tantric– Buddhism. The focus has been on the power of the intertwining of these ontic-ontological capacities.

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Author Biography

Rudolph Bauer, Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P. and Co-Director of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies. For a number of years He was Director of Psychology Training at The University of Maryland Medical School and also taught at Johns Hopkins University. He did post doctoral studies in phenomenology at The Institute of Time Perspective at Leuven, Belgium. He has studied the Tantra of Kashmir Shavism with Swami Muktananda and has studied Dzogchen with many Tibetan Lama's including Lama Tharchen, Lama Norhla, and many others. He is an Existential Psychoanalyst in Washington,DC and is currently opening a Center for Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, California. His website for published papers on tantra and phenomenology is rudolphbauer.academia.edu. The website of The Washington Center is meditatelive.com. Through video streaming he consults and leads seminars with people in many different countries.

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