RT Article
T1 GOD-TALK AS A MEANS OF HEALING A Spiritual Rebirth through Novel Writing and Auto-Analysis
JF Journal of Dharma
VO 37
IS 3
SP 325
OP 338
A1 Dagmang•, Ferdinand D.
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837808074
AB Candlelights is a novel based on my experiences in a monastic setting, including my own reflections gained through the novel’s writing process. The experience/re-experience of trauma (and its ‘domestication’) is one major element of the novel which served 1) as the central motif in the way I gave flesh to my own character, Kari, the protagonist, 2) as a driving force for the simple acts of making myself disposed to and in constant communion with the Divine, and 3) as a main strand that links together the following: (a) my past and present life, (b) the religious life which has a long contemplative tradition and a mystical approach to experiences of trauma, (c) the Transcendent as object of my personal quest, and (d) the potential readers and myself as the novel’s central character.
K1 Contemplative Way: Spiritual-Theological Reflections
K1 Kari’s Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
K1 Novel’s Plot
K1 Writing the Novel: Communicating the Human-Divine Encounter