Self-reflection experienced when “Being alone” and Care for the self as a Spiritual Action

이정희; Euna Yang

This study has examined the trajectory of introspection and transformation experienced in three dimensions of human mind-intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions ― when focusing on transformation of self-understanding, through the context of “being alone” which has been scarcely noted as a learning context. This study, for which in-depth interviews with seven informants had been used, is divided into four parts. First, the context in which entry into “being alone/aloneness” as a variation of daily life takes place and methods which mediate the entry have been reviewed. Second, the appearance and levels of internal change shown in the process of detaching from daily method of existing and contextualizing “being alone / aloneness” have been examined. Third, meaning of “self-reflection” which is experienced during compact reflective time of “being alone” and the layer of dense friendly relations with self has been analyzed. Lastly, a bridge towards spiritual dimension and the process of reflection and transformation in it has been traced. As a result of the examination, it has been revealed that “being alone” with the process of self-reflection triggered expansion of subjective frame which limits existence through restricting ‘my’ knowledge, thinking, value, or emotion; and caused enlargement of relationship and horizon on which one’s own problem is placed. In other words, one learns oneself in a new way. Through this, the ultimate questions, which cannot be solved in the frame of self-awareness, become self-transcendent: not confining oneself to one’s own desire or narrow awareness, but attempting to connect oneself to a bigger world than him/her or a higher existence who can objectify him/her. Existence expanded through spiritual communion concerns overall view of life beyond one aspect of reality and actualizes his/her ability to reflect on him/herself in view of inherent and transcendental world.

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