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Lyall Crawford

2 papers in the library · 10 citations · publishing 1996

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WORDING-OUR-WAY TOWARD ALTERED STATES

ETC: A Review of General Semantics March 22, 1996 Lyall Crawford

Three linguistic themes or elements inform this narrative: virtual reality, philosophical Taoism, and altered states of awareness. The initial purpose of this symbolic experience is to enable us to become mindful of symbolic experience through exploring the three themes or linguistic elements of this essay. Ours is an excursion of words and words have their ways -- ways essentially...

Everyday Tao: Conversation and contemplation

Communication Studies March 1, 1996 Lyall Crawford 10 citations

This essay suggests that the perspective of philosophical Taoism may be a means of transforming everyday conversations into instances of contemplation where our ordinary encounters become sites for spiritual practice and mystical experience. A different kind of communicating ability is explored through the awareness of certain principles of philosophical Taoism during the course of our...