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Kahn, Theodore. "The Denial of Transcendental Freedom is Self-Refuting." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2066.
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The questions of what kind of freedom morality requires and how to reconcile the capacity for free agency within a determined temporal sequence represent the crux of the free will debate. Traditional compatibilists claim that determinism does not preclude our capacity for moral agency. Nuanced determinists, such as Derk Pereboom, deny the existence of moral agency and argue that free will is not required to save the basic modes of our practical lives, such as our capacity to affect each other and to lead practically morallives. I will argue in favor of Kant’s view, which holds that since freedom and moral agency is metaphysically possible we cannot deny the possibility of free will and morality. The object of this thesis is to argue for why Kant’s position holds an advantage over determinism and compatibilism; it is not necessarily to argue for Kant’s argument, although I do explain and argue for aspects of it in support of my broader goal of establishing the superiority of Kant’s account.
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Loukas, Georgios. "Defence against denial of service in self-aware networks." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11531.
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Rochester, Stuart Thomas. "Honour as a foundation for self-denial in the gospels." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Hamilton, Aida M. "The twentieth century evangelical interpretation of cross-bearing in discipleship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Reid, Douglas Baird. "Attribution and denial in socially desirable responding." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28271.
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Paulhus's (1984) Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) contains scales designed to assess the two major components of socially desirable responding. The Self-Deception Scale (SDS) assesses the tendency to give favorably biased but honestly-held self-descriptions; the Impression Management Scale (IMS) assesses the tendency to give deliberately favorable self-descriptions. Research by Millham (1974) and Roth, Snyder and Pace (1986) has distinguished two tactics of desirable responding: (a) attribution: the claiming of positive attributes, and (b) denial: the rejection of negative attributes.
This thesis presents three studies designed to evaluate the relative importance of these two distinctions in the BIDR. The first study, a factor analysis of 130 cases, demonstrated that both the content (self-deception vs. impression-management) and tactic (attribution vs. denial) were important in determining responses to the BIDR. The IMS items, including both attribution and denial, formed one factor. The attribution SDS items fell on a second factor. Surprisingly, the denial SDS items fell closer to the IMS factor. Rosenberg's Self-Esteem scale was most highly correlated with the attribution SDS items.
Study 2 was a similar factor analysis of the data from a much larger dataset (N = 670). The factor pattern was identical to that in Study 1. Moreover, the SDS attribution items again predicted adjustment, including high self-esteem, low social anxiety and low empathic distress.
Study 3 (N = 137) was designed to determine whether the critical difference between the attribution and denial items depends on: (a) whether the item refers to positive or negative attributes, or (b) whether the statement as a whole is favorable or unfavorable. To test these competing hypotheses, 20 negations were written, one for each of the 20 original assertions on the SDS. Results showed that items referring to positive characteristics (I am a saint; I am not a saint) formed a distinct factor from items referring to negative characteristics (I am a sinner; I am not a sinner). Simple negations (I am not a sinner) fell on the same factor as their corresponding assertions (I am a sinner) but at the opposite pole. Finally, the correlations with various personality measures were consistent with Studies 1 and 2.
These results clarify the distinction between attribution and denial components. The distinction is not simply one of keying direction, that is, whether the statement as a whole is desirable or undesirable. Rather, the critical factor is whether the item content refers to a positive or negative characteristic. This distinction is critical in measuring self-deception, but not impression management.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Psychology, Department of<br>Graduate
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Cojer, Hardy. "Denial of rights and self-determination, the case of the kurds of Iraq." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21541.pdf.
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Fernando, Ruwani Kumari, and n/a. "A good woman : silencing the self, rumination and depression in romantic relationships." University of Otago. Department of Psychology, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060829.122313.
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"Rumination" and "Silencing the Self" have both been theorised to explain women�s greater vulnerability to depression. Rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema, e.g., 1987, 1991) refers to a passive focus on mood and symptoms, while Silencing the Self (Jack, 1991) refers to the socially-based belief that, broadly speaking, one should actively suppress one�s negative emotions and thoughts within romantic relationships. This thesis proposes that frequent suppression of negative emotional material within romantic relationships (self-silencing) makes that material more likely to be a target for rumination, resulting in greater depressed mood and depressive symptoms.
It seems paradoxical that the more one tries to suppress one�s thoughts, the more one thinks about them. Wenzlaff and Luxton (2003) have demonstrated that frequent suppression may make material more accessible and a more likely target of rumination. Study 1 was a pilot investigation. It was found that self-silencing (the broad construct) and thought suppression (a narrower construct) were related, and that both were positively correlated with rumination. Furthermore, thought suppression contributed to the relationship between self-silencing and rumination for women.
It was hypothesised that the more women suppress their negative feelings in romantic relationships (what Jack, 1991, describes as "Silencing the Self"), the more they will ruminate about these feelings and experience symptoms of depression. In Studies 2 and 3, the correlations among rumination, self-silencing and depression in adults and high school students were investigated. There were positive correlations among all the measured variables for adults and teenage girls, supporting the hypotheses. Regression analyses showed that for female adults and teenagers, rumination and self-silencing made unique, additive contributions to the prediction of depressive symptoms.
In Studies 4 and 5, the causal relationship among self-silencing, rumination and depressed mood was investigated. Participants were asked either to write about a sad event that had happened in their relationships, or a typical (neutral) event. In Study 4, participants were also instructed to write either factually about these events, or to write in a ruminative way about them. Participants� chronic tendencies to self-silence were measured and they were classed as "high" or "low" self-silencers based on a median split. Female participants who chronically self-silenced more frequently and who ruminated experienced the most dramatic decrease in mood. In Study 5 participants wrote factually or suppressed their feelings about sad or neutral events and their tendency to ruminate was measured. Participants were divided into "high" and "low" ruminators based on a median split of their rumination scores. There was no support for the alternative hypothesis that chronic ruminators who suppressed would report depressed mood.
Study 6 confirmed that in women, the combination of both chronic self-silencing in romantic relationships and acute rumination resulted in more severe symptoms of depression. Participants were e-mailed daily for one month about their self-silencing, rumination and negative mood. Chronic self-silencing, rumination and depressive symptoms were measured at the start and end of the month. Again, the combination of chronic self-silencing and acute rumination emerged as a better predictor of depressive symptoms than either variable alone.
The six studies reported in this thesis support the hypothesis that self-silencing and rumination together explain short term negative mood as well as depressive symptoms even after one month. These studies explain why certain women are more likely to experience depressed mood in the context of romantic relationships. In particular, the combination of being a high self-silencer and ruminating makes one especially vulnerable to depressed mood and depressive symptoms.
Clinically, there are already interventions targeted at rumination that are effective in reducing distress. However, the current research demonstrates that self-silencing may also be a promising target for intervention. Self-silencing is based on a wider understanding of the social context of depression. By targeting self-silencing, as well as rumination, depression may be more effectively treated.
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Vanchhawng, Lal Malsawma. "A study on Hindu asceticism in the light of the New Testament teachings on self-denial." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Chatel, Daniel Mark. "The cadaver experience: The effects of self-esteem and denial on existential terror in medical students." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185930.
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Eighty-four medical students at the University of Arizona were administered measures of self-esteem, medical attitudes, social desirability, purpose in life, satisfaction with life, state and trait anxiety one week before their first cadaver dissecting experience. On the day of the experience, half of the subjects completed these measures again in addition to a death anxiety scale just prior to their first cadaver exposure. The other half completed these measures immediately after their first cadaver exposure. Results found main effects of self-esteem with high self-esteem subjects endorsing higher purpose in life and medical attitudes and lower state anxiety and death anxiety. Time by condition interactions were found for state anxiety and purpose in life, with both significantly higher in subjects assessed following exposure to the cadaver. Finally, a main effect for condition was also seen with regard to fear of death, with those exposed to the cadaver scoring significantly higher. Implications with regard to terror management theory and medical education were discussed. In particular, the results tend to support the notion of self-esteem as a psychological buffer against the existential anxiety resulting from an awareness of mortality. Further, results also suggest that cadaver dissection is a powerful emotional experience for physicians in training, significantly affecting their attitudes and requiring sensitivity of medical educators to the psychological impact of cadaver dissection.
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Leithart, Peter J. "The iron philosophy stoic elements in Calvin's doctrine of mortification /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Brignoli, Delio. "DDoS detection based on traffic self-similarity." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2105.
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Distributed denial of service attacks (or DDoS) are a common occurrence on the internet and are becoming more intense as the bot-nets, used to launch them, grow bigger. Preventing or stopping DDoS is not possible without radically changing the internet infrastructure; various DDoS mitigation techniques have been devised with different degrees of success. All mitigation techniques share the need for a DDoS detection mechanism. DDoS detection based on traffic self-similarity estimation is a relatively new approach which is built on the notion that undis- turbed network traffic displays fractal like properties. These fractal like properties are known to degrade in presence of abnormal traffic conditions like DDoS. Detection is possible by observing the changes in the level of self-similarity in the traffic flow at the target of the attack. Existing literature assumes that DDoS traffic lacks the self-similar properties of undisturbed traffic. We show how existing bot- nets could be used to generate a self-similar traffic flow and thus break such assumptions. We then study the implications of self-similar attack traffic on DDoS detection. We find that, even when DDoS traffic is self-similar, detection is still possible. We also find that the traffic flow resulting from the superimposition of DDoS flow and legitimate traffic flow possesses a level of self-similarity that depends non-linearly on both relative traffic intensity and on the difference in self-similarity between the two incoming flows.
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Hogue, Todd Edmund. "The sex offence information questionnaire : the development of a self-report measure of offence related denial in sexual offenders." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430091.
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Raney, Rachel Lea. "Consistency in Self-Report of Symptoms Following Concussion in College Athletes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303408583.
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Schimel, Jeff. "Can we level the playing field? The effects of ease of denial on psychological reactions to threat for people with high and low self-esteem." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280587.
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A good deal of research suggests that high self-esteem individuals cope with failure by engaging in self-serving biases that allow them to deny the negative implications of failure. If high self-esteem individuals cope successfully with failure through a process of denial, then making it easier for low self-esteem individuals to deny negative feedback might allow them to cope successfully with failure too. To test this notion, high and low self-esteem participants took a test of creativity and were given feedback that they were either creative or non-creative. Following this procedure, the ease of denial of the feedback was manipulated by telling the participants that the creativity test was either highly valid or invalid. Participants' evaluations of the test, positive and negative mood, and self-ratings on creativity were then assessed. It was expected that high self-esteem participants would generally make more self-serving evaluations of the test than low self-esteem individuals, and as a result, experience more pleasant affect and view themselves more positively on creativity than low self-esteem individuals following negative feedback. However, it was also expected that if the negative feedback was easy to deny, low self-esteem individuals would be just as self-serving as high self-esteem individuals in their evaluations of the test and experience a similar increase in positive mood, and rate themselves higher on creativity. The results did not support these predictions. Both high and low self-esteem individuals made self-serving evaluations of the test regardless of the ease of denial manipulation. Limitations of the current research and directions for future research are discussed.
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Uugwanga, Tulonga Tulimeutho. "An investigation of the coping mechanisms of novice teachers : a study of selected high schools in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2155_1318832634.
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<p>Although there are several achievements made by the Namibian government after independence, there are still many constraints and challenges facing the education system, particularly with regard to novice teachers&rsquo<br>support and professional development. Most novice teachers are coming into the teaching profession and receive little or no assistance. Nevertheless, novice teachers are expected to perform the full teaching responsibilities despite their inexperience. Novice teachers are expected to formulate their own coping strategies and to grapple with the challenges they encounter during their first year of teaching on their own. This study aims at investigating the coping mechanisms used by novice teachers to achieve their teaching goals during their first year of teaching. The study recommends that the teacher training institutions, the Ministry of Education and schools have an important role to play in facilitating the use of effective coping mechanisms and in assisting novice teachers in alleviating these challenges. Teacher training should ensure that a balance is maintained between theory and practice. In addition the Ministry needs to provide favourable working conditions and put up support systems for novice teachers. Schools should also provide orientation to all novice teachers and most especially render support to all novice teachers until they are fully integrated into the school and teaching culture.</p>
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Muharish, Essa Yahya M. "PACKET FILTER APPROACH TO DETECT DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/342.
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Denial of service attacks (DoS) are a common threat to many online services. These attacks aim to overcome the availability of an online service with massive traffic from multiple sources. By spoofing legitimate users, an attacker floods a target system with a high quantity of packets or connections to crash its network resources, bandwidth, equipment, or servers. Packet filtering methods are the most known way to prevent these attacks via identifying and blocking the spoofed attack from reaching its target. In this project, the extent of the DoS attacks problem and attempts to prevent it are explored. The attacks categories and existing countermeasures based on preventing, detecting, and responding are reviewed. Henceforward, a neural network learning algorithms and statistical analysis are utilized into the designing of our proposed packet filtering system.
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Wheeler, Ramona Dee. "Blogging in Defense of Themselves: Social Media Implications for Rhetorical Criticism and the Genre of Apologia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3940.
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The advent of social media has provided an arena where barriers to entry are low. Individuals may persuade, question others and defend both their philosophies and their actions. This study examines the classic role of rhetorical criticism as it may apply in new media venues. A blog written by a public figure was examined through a synthesis of rhetorical criticism analyses derived from Ware and Linkugel, Vartabedian, and Downey. Four strategies and associated positioning in the practice of apologia were identified in selected blog posts, indicating the genre of apologia applies to social media apologies and extends the genre of apologia. Rhetorical criticism was found to be an effective tool in identifying rhetorical postures and strategies used in social media.
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Bain, Katherine Alison. "Chased by the dragon the experience of relapse in cocaine and heroin users /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10192004-100341.
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Lila, Halima. "Perceptions of risk for hiv amongst south african university students: the impact of the mtv film “shuga”." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3676.
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The main purpose of this study was to assess UWC students’ knowledge about HIV and their attitudes towards it, while investigating the impact of the MTV-produced Shuga film on the students’ self-perception of risk and their attitudes toward HIV.<br>Magister Artium - MA
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Patterson-Hyatt, Kimberly. "Distress Among Psychologists: Prevalence, Barriers,and Remedies for Accessing Mental Health Care." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1473186387.
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Chapellon, Sébastien. "Le besoin de mentir : aspects cliniques et enjeux théoriques." Phd thesis, Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00959860.
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Cette recherche s'attache à saisir les logiques inconscientes qui président au besoin de mentir. Elle s'intéresse au type de vulnérabilité psychique que le sujet contre-investit ainsi qu'à la nature de la communication inconsciente qu'il instaure avec ceux qu'il trompe. Après avoir recensé les différentes approches métapsychologiques existantes, les fonctions psychiques du mensonge sont explorées en regard de son rôle au cours du développement de l'enfant. Ensuite, l'examen de cas d'adultes rencontrés dans un dispositif d'accueil pour personnes en errance permet d'expliquer comment les sujets se défendent d'un vécu d'empiètement et le font vivre à ceux qu'ils trompent. Enfin, des exemples d'adolescents, observés dans le contexte de la protection de l'enfance contribuent à l'analyse des dynamiques intersubjectives impulsées par cet acte-parlé. L'ensemble de cette thèse démontre que malgré la difficulté que cette configuration clinique pose à l'observation, sa prise en compte permet de saisir la manière avec laquelle le sujet exprime une souffrance autrement indicible.
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Sewell, Rowan A. "The Truth to Sentencing: Analyzing the Construction of Truth in Bill C-25." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26304.
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Bill C-25, The Truth in Sentencing (TIS) Act legislates the reduction of credit awarded for time served in pre-sentencing custody. The Act is but one initiative that reflects a shift toward punitiveness by the West. In reading the literature, a gap was identified concerning TIS activities in relation to the current Canadian predicament of crime control, and a socio-legal perspective provided a creative means of looking at this gap. The primary data was coded and analyzed using sensitizing categories derived from a leading theoretical framework. This framework posited the existence of conflicting criminologies and resulting strategies together forming the present regime of truth. This thesis concludes that 'truth' in sentencing is premised upon contradictory understandings as defined by the framework, that conflicting rationalities are reproduced within TIS and that although the Act is touted as an administrative reform, it also reasserts sovereign power over issues of crime and its control.
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Thames, John Lane. "Advancing cyber security with a semantic path merger packet classification algorithm." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45872.
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This dissertation investigates and introduces novel algorithms, theories, and supporting frameworks to significantly improve the growing problem of Internet security. A distributed firewall and active response architecture is introduced that enables any device within a cyber environment to participate in the active discovery and response of cyber attacks. A theory of semantic association systems is developed for the general problem of knowledge discovery in data. The theory of semantic association systems forms the basis of a novel semantic path merger packet classification algorithm. The theoretical aspects of the semantic path merger packet classification algorithm are investigated, and the algorithm's hardware-based implementation is evaluated along with comparative analysis versus content addressable memory. Experimental results show that the hardware implementation of the semantic path merger algorithm significantly outperforms content addressable memory in terms of energy consumption and operational timing.
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Fox-Decent, Evan. "Anarchal egalitarianism : equality, happiness and a denial of self-ownership." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/17574.
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Baliah, Barnabas Sundrum. "The role of the Holy Spirit in actualization, denial, empowerment, renewal and consummation of the human self." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1576.
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The content of this dissertation delineates the crucial and incisive role of the Holy Spirit in terms of God's grand and majestic acts of creation, that is the creation of the multiversity of universes, redemption that is the cross, the exemplar of Christ in self denial, reconciliation and restoration, and his resurrection, that is self-empowerment, self-renewal and self-fulfillment observed within the context of God, being human and the physical organic environment as it interacts with the human acts of personal and social responsibility observed within the context of a five dimensional approach of self-actualization, self-denial, self-empowerment, self-renewal and self-fulfillment, ingested into ones identity, internalised and witnessed as meaningful daily praxis, seen through the prism of the cross and the resurrection. A didactic method has been followed to engender insights into and conviction regarding the relevance of the subject for our present day and a hortatory method to exhort to an obedient response and to urge an appropriate action.<br>Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics<br>M. Th. (Systematic Theology)
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Tai, Meng, and 戴濛. "Writer’s Note on the Reportage “A Visit to In-laws: The story on the self-identity and the self-denial of the contemporary Chinese young women as the only-child in the family”." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98usp4.
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Lila, Halima. "Perceptions of risk for HIV amongst South African university students: the impact of the MTV film âshugaâ." Thesis, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3204_1392210428.
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<p>he Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic continue to endanger the lives of many people in the world, particularly in developing countries like South Africa (UNAIDS, 2010).  <br>South Africa has the largest percentage of people living with HIV &<br>AIDS in the world, with  <br>AIDS continuing to be the leading cause of death (UNAIDS, 2010). Yet, as Svenson et al.,  <br>(1997), <br>Cain, (2005), Shisana et al., (2009) and Kalichman et al., (2005) argue, in spite of the HIV epidemic, risky sexual behaviour has increased among young people. Problematically, youth in university environments are reported to be uninterested in hearing about HIV, claiming to be tired and bored with the subject (HEAIDS, 2010). They think they have sufficient knowledge on HIV transmission and prevention. Regardless of this claim, a high rate of new infections of HIV among youth continues (The South African Department of Basic Education Report, 2010). The main purpose of this study was to assess UWC students&rsquo<br>knowledge about HIV and their attitudes towards it, while investigating the impact of the MTV-produced Shuga film on the students&rsquo<br>self-perception of risk and their attitudes toward HIV. The study assesses the value of a follow-up conversation on the film after it is viewed by students. n order to identify respondents&rsquo<br>perceptions, the study used a qualitative approach using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions as main instruments and a quantitative approach using questionnaires as a main instrument. The study used a gender-balanced convenience sample of 40 undergraduate and post-graduate students selected from University of Western Cape campus. These respondents were later divided into four focus group discussions guided by semi-structured interviews. The study findings established that although students&rsquo<br>knowledge levels were very high for modes of transmission and prevention of HIV, they still had a poor perception of their own risk - a factor noted as a key need in HIV prevention by Douglas Kirby (2011). his study found that, prior to watching the MTV Shuga film, the level of students&rsquo<br>awareness of HIV issues as related to their own risk and health was at best inconsistent. While some held accurate knowledge of HIV and understood their own vulnerability, others saw it as someone else&rsquo<br>s problem and had yet to personalise the disease in a manner that would increase their own awareness of risk. After viewing the MTV Shuga film, study data indicated a reasonable level of positive change in attitudes and risk perception among the 40 students. However, the data clearly indicated that the follow-up discussion sessions provoked more change in the students&rsquo<br>attitudes and perceptions of risk than the film on its own. The study therefore suggests the importance of discussion sessions that follow up on edutainment media pieces attempting to promote positive ehavioural change vis-à<br>-vis HIV. While the study did not focus in depth on why the follow-up discussion sessions had a higher impact than film-viewing alone, the discussion sessions allowed students to personalise the content of the Shuga film, sharing with each other how they identified with various characters, situations and beha <br>viours. Shuga became &lsquo<br>real&rsquo<br>through the personal discussions between students, and the film&rsquo<br> <br>s intent to prompt positive change was further supported.</p>
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Lila, Halima. "Perceptions of risk for HIV amongst South African University students : the impact of the MTV film "SHUGA"." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3727.
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)<br>The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic continue to endanger the lives of many people in the world, particularly in developing countries like South Africa (UNAIDS, 2010). South Africa has the largest percentage of people living with HIV & AIDS in the world, with AIDS continuing to be the leading cause of death(UNAIDS, 2010). Yet, as Svenson et al., (1997), Cain, (2005), Shisana et al., (2009) and Kalichman et al., (2005) argue, in spite of the HIV epidemic, risky sexual behaviour has increased
among young people. Problematically, youth in university environments are reported to be uninterested in hearing about HIV, claiming to be tired and bored with the subject (HEAIDS,2010). They think they have sufficient knowledge on HIV transmission and prevention. Regardless of this claim, a high rate of new infections of HIV among youth continues (The South African Department of Basic Education Report, 2010). The main purpose of this study was to assess UWC students’ knowledge about HIV and their attitudes towards it, while investigating the impact of the MTV-produced Shuga film on the students' self-perception of risk and their attitudes toward HIV.The study assesses the value of a follow-up conversation on the film after it is viewed by students. In order to identify respondents' perceptions, the study used a qualitative approach using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions as main instruments and a quantitative approach using questionnaires as a main instrument. The study used a gender-balanced convenience sample of 40
undergraduate and post-graduate students selected from University of Western Cape campus. These respondents were later divided into four focus group discussions guided by semi-structured interviews. The study findings established that although students' knowledge levels were very high for modes of transmission and prevention of HIV, they still had a poor perception of their own risk – a factor noted as a key need in HIV prevention by Douglas Kirby (2011). This study found that, prior to watching the MTV Shuga film, the level of students' awareness of
HIV issues as related to their own risk and health was at best inconsistent. While some held accurate knowledge of HIV and understood their own vulnerability, others saw it as someone else's problem and had yet to personalise the disease in a manner that would increase their own awareness of risk. After viewing the MTV Shuga film, study data indicated a reasonable level of positive change in attitudes and risk perception among the 40 students. However, the data clearly indicated that the follow-up discussion sessions provoked more change in the students' attitudes and perceptions of risk than the film on its own. The study therefore suggests the importance of discussion sessions that follow up on edutainment media pieces attempting to promote positive behavioural change vis-à-vis HIV. While the study did not focus in depth on why the follow-up discussion sessions had a higher impact than film-viewing alone, the discussion sessions allowed students to personalise the content of the Shuga film, sharing with each other how they identified with various characters, situations and behaviours. Shuga became 'real' through the personal discussions between students, and the film's intent to prompt positive change was further supported.
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Baston, Grant Alexander. "Rediscovering pastoral identity : the influence of church role expectations in undermining a pastor’s personal ministry identity." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25580.
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This thesis explores the relationship between a pastor’s personal ministry identity and the church role expectations that he encounters in the local church within which he ministers and takes place in the context of the discipline of “Building up the local church”. It is the hypothesis of this thesis that many Baptist pastors within the Baptist Union of Southern Africa are compromising the integrity of their own personal ministry identities in an attempt to meet the church role expectations of their local churches. The study considers firstly the nature development of personal identity in general as a precursor to understanding the nature of development of a personal ministry identity. At least six key elements are identified as being important in the development of an authentic personal ministry identity namely, spiritual gifting, personality, natural talentsabilities, divine call, congregational influence and finally passion. Pastoral ministry can be understood as an interface of expectations between the church role expectations of the church and the pastor’s expectations derived from his personal ministry identity. The consequences of this interface of expectations may be both positive and negative and may include role confusion, conflict, collusion or congruence. Role negotiation and renegotiation may be used to address some of the negative consequences of this interface. Empirical research results obtained as part of the study that explored the relationship between a pastor’s personal ministry identity, church role expectations and the current approach to ministry, clearly indicate that church role expectations are far more influential on current pastoral practice than are the personal ministry identities, indicating that the identities of these pastors have been undermined by church role expectations. A correct understanding of the Biblical view of self-denial and self-esteem would result in a greater freedom on the part of pastors to resist the undermining of their personal ministry identities. Copyright 2005, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Baston, GA 2005, Rediscovering pastoral identity : the influence of church role expectations in undermining a pastor’s personal ministry identity, MA(Theol) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06172005-101131 / ><br>Dissertation (MA (Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.<br>Practical Theology<br>unrestricted
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Goldsmith, Sam. "China’s Anti-Access & Area-Denial operational concept and the dilemmas for Japan." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9721.
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The People's Republic of China is developing a sophisticated Anti-Access/Area-Denial operational concept utilising a variety of defensive military capabilities, entwined with offensive components. The United States, Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries remain sceptical about China's defensive rationale for developing this operational concept because it threatens to undermine Asia-Pacific security. Specifically, the threat posed by China's military modernisation to the security of Japan may force the Japanese Government to adopt a more self-reliant defence posture. However, there are a variety of factors that complicate Japan's perception of China and restrict the number of feasible response options open to the Japanese Government. As such, this sub-thesis will examine the nature of China's Anti-Access/Area-Denial operational concept in addition to the factors complicating Japan's response and finally the ways that Japan may respond to the rising power of China.
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Dubois, Sébastien. "Demi-vérités et vrais mensonges : une analyse des processus liés à la dissimulation dans les questionnaires informatisés." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11470.
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De nombreux chercheurs et cliniciens sont sceptiques quant à la validité des questionnaires autoadministrés, lorsqu’utilisés auprès d’une population carcérale (Gendreau, Irvine et Knight, 1973), surtout si celle-ci est composée de délinquants sexuels (Marshall et Hall, 1995). La sensibilité des sujets investigués jumelés à la transparence des questions expose l’évaluateur à la possibilité que le participant dissimule et modifie ses réponses (Tierney et McCabe, 2001). L’objectif de ce projet est de comprendre les processus impliqués dans la performance des participants à une évaluation autoadministrée. Les données de 282 délinquants sexuels ayant complétés le Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Agression (MIDSA) ont été analysées afin de mieux comprendre l’interaction entre les échelles de désirabilité sociale, les temps de latence et les coefficients d’ajustement du modèle de Rasch. La convergence des analyses de temps de latence et des échelles de désirabilité sociale semble indiquer que certains participants dissimuleraient consciemment leurs réponses. Notamment, les participants détectés par les échelles de désirabilité sociales sembleraient répondre de manière de plus lente aux échelles d’évaluations, et certains d’entre eux offriraient des patrons de réponses incohérents à la prescription du modèle de Rasch. Les hypothèses permettant d’expliquer les potentiels mécanismes liés à la dissimulation seront discutées.<br>Many researchers and clinicians are skeptical towards the validity of self-reported assessment used within a forensic population (Gendreau, Irvine, & Knight, 1973), especially when used within a sexual offender population (Marshall & Hall, 1995). The sensitivity of the topics addressed as well as the transparency of the questions expose the evaluator to possible dissimulations or distortions in the subject responses (Tierney & McCabe, 2001). Responses of 282 sexual offenders who completed the Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression (MIDSA) were analyzed in order to understand the interaction between response time, social desirability scales and Rasch person-fit scores in order to account for response distortion. The convergence of latency times and social desirability scales seems to indicate that certain participants consciously manipulate their responses. Notably, participants detected by social desirability scales seem to respond more slowly to particular items. Other participants may answer in ways that are incoherent with the predicted responses according to the Rasch model. Hypotheses as to potential mechanisms underlying this process will be discussed.
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Ferreira, Adelino Alcides Abrunhosa. "Cuidado de si e renúncia a si em São Paulo." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/117546.
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O problema central desta dissertação é o modo como o cuidado de si pode conter uma negação, isto é, como pode transformar-se em renúncia a si, no horizonte ético de epístolas de São Paulo. Mais precisamente, visa esta investigação detectar categorias éticas que possam, primariamente, representar cuidado e renúncia e, de seguida, confirmar se o modo como se associam poderá configurar entre estes conceitos uma relação paradoxal. O percurso ético terá início numa sucinta análise fenoménica da experiência fáctica do quotidiano, procurando reconhecer aí sinais de cuidado de si e de renúncia a si, provavelmente inconsistentes para fundar uma ética. De seguida, mostrar-se-á que a ética e a religião, cada uma com os seus instrumentos de categorização, intervêm sobre essa experiência para a conduzir à lucidez, transfigurando-a em outros horizontes de sentido. É sobretudo a experiência religiosa (particularmente do Cristianismo) que parece conter mais poder de superar as aparentes inconsistências do cuidado de si, apoiado que está em bases efémeras, assim como anular o colapso da experiência fáctica e resgatar o homem da perda do sentido existencial. A identificação da especificidade da experiência cristã irá contribuir para melhor reconhecer o que o registo epistolar de São Paulo tem de peculiar. Ora, será precisamente a partir de um discurso dirigido a comunidades cristãs, em que o seu autor expressa, por um lado, a dramaticidade da existência humana (exposta à perda de si), e, por outro lado, se empenha arduamente em contribuir para que o humano se deixe ganhar pelo anúncio de Jesus Cristo morto e ressuscitado, que iremos poder reconhecer as categorias éticas que configuram a relação entre a procura de tudo aquilo que garante o autêntico e perene cuidado de si e a necessidade de renunciar a tudo o que limita ou impede essa procura. Assim, virão a ser analisadas as relações entre cuidado de si e: conhecimento e mérito, virtudes éticas (prudência e carácter), cuidado com outrem; analogamente, as relações entre renúncia a si e: imoralidade e pecado, legalismo, servidão/escravidão, morrer. A relação dialéctica que se virá a verificar mostrará como cada categoria pode ser vista como o inverso de outra, por isso é incontornável uma certa circularidade de conceitos. Todas as categorias convergem para o desafio de aceitar a passagem da mundaneidade à identificação do humano com Jesus Cristo. Trata-se, enfim, de mostrar a necessidade da renúncia como condição do verdadeiro cuidado de si, incluindo a renúncia a si mesmo, representada no morrer, o que traduz o paradoxo de que a autêntica autonomia do homem consiste numa peculiar heteronomia: é tanto mais humano, quanto mais se identifica com Jesus Cristo. Portanto, parece resultar a ideia de que o fundamento ético do agir é antes de mais dado por excesso: a interpretação ética aqui seguida coloca o fundamento do sentido do agir numa personalização transcendente: o que tem o poder de conduzir e justificar o agir não é um princípio abstracto universal, mas uma pessoa.<br>The main concern of this dissertation is how the care for the self can hold a denial, this is, how it can become self-denial, in the sense of the ethical scope of St. Paul’s Epistles. More precisely, this research aims at establishing ethical categories that may reveal care and denial on a first stage and then proving if the way in which both these concepts intertwine can shape a paradoxical connection between them. The ethical journey starts off by a concise study of the phenomena of the everyday experience of facts, trying to identify in them signs of care for the self and of self-denial, that will not probably be solid enough to base a system of ethics on. After that, it will be shown that ethics and religion, each using its own means of categorization, have a role in that experience to lead it into clarity, changing it into other ranges of meaning. It is the religious experience (of Christianity in particular) above all, that seems to be more powerful to overcome the apparent inconsistencies of the care for the self, dissolve the break-down of the everyday experience of facts and redeem man from the loss of the meaning of existence, as well. The identification of the particularity of the Christian experience will contribute to a better understanding of the specific nature of St. Paul’s epistolary writings. It will be from a talk addressed to Christian communities - in which the author expresses on one hand, the tragedy of the human existence, and on the other commits himself deeply into contributing for the human being to surrender to the activism by the announcement of Jesus Christ dead and resurrected – that we will be able to identify the ethical categories that shape the relationship between the search for everything that grants the authentic and ever-lasting care for the self and the need to renounce all that limits or stops that search. Thus, the connections between care for the self and: knowledge and merit, ethical virtues (prudence and character), care for others; similarly, the connections between self-denial and: immorality and sin, legality, bondage/slavery, dying, will be analysed. The dialectical connection that will arise will show how each category may be viewed as the opposite of another, so somewhat of a circularity of concepts can not be avoided. All categories meet in the dare of accepting moving on from the worldliness to the identification of the human with Jesus Christ. So, it is a matter of showing the need for denial as a condition of the care for the self, including self-denial, represented in dying, which expresses the paradox that the true autonomy of man lies in a peculiar heteronomy: the more man identifies with Jesus Christ, the more human he is. So, the notion arises that the ethical basis for acting is before all taken by excess: the ethical interpretation here in adopted, places the reason for acting on a transcendental personalization: acting is led and justified not by a universal, abstract principle, but by
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Rorich, Veronica Johanna Maria. "Support to parents with children with learning disablities." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/796.
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This dissertation attempts to understand what support from the school parents would most value when their child has been diagnosed with a learning disability. The method employed was qualitative in nature, using eight in-depth interviews with the mothers. The interviews confirmed that parents experience emotions similar to those when grieving. They also tend to feel isolated from their communities. Before embarking on a support program the school needs to recognize the depth of these emotions. The interviews also revealed that parents require timeous communication from the teacher. Parents concerns should be taken seriously or time goes by without the disability being attended to. The terminology used by professionals is often not fully understood by parents, and this causes them to feel unsure of how therapy is helping their child in the classroom and what its value is. Various guidelines are offered to support parents with regard to the above-mentioned aspects.<br>Educational Studies<br>M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)
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Engelbrecht, Gerhardina Cornelia. "Cognitive dissonance in trauma: the conflict between belief, autobiographical memory and overt behaviour." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19956.
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Text in English<br>This research was aimed at giving a voice to three women, who are constructed as having had a traumatic event recalled from their autobiographical memory.
To achieve this objective an epistemological framework of social constructionism was used to investigate autobiographical memory recall of trauma. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with participants who constructed themselves as having had a traumatic event. A case study approach was used to gain access to the information and to compare themes. The research explored the way in which dissociation, voluntary thought suppression, minimisation and outright denial enabled the three participants to alter unbearable memories through the use of recurring themes. To interpret these stories the content of the themes was analysed using thematic content analysis.
The participants represented different cultures, languages and religions. In sharing their symptoms this did not necessarily mean they attached the same meaning to a specific theme, as individual meaning-making corresponded to the individual‟s background and history and their perception of the trauma. The stories related by the three participants revealed a shattered worldview that brought them into opposition with community norms and standards, which the narrators experienced as silencing and judgemental. In this regard the researcher‟s aim was to generate information from the participants themselves. This inquiry into the personal trauma stories and meanings suited a qualitative research approach, a form of methodology that allowed personal insight into the meanings the three participants attributed to their trauma and the autobiographical recall of trauma. At the same time it allowed a co-constructed reality to take shape between the researcher‟s reality and the participant‟s reality, always acknowledging the importance of their being the expert of their own individual trauma memory. This is in contrast to a quantitative approach which focuses on numbers to quantify the results; a qualitative approach on the other hand is a personal, rich information-gathering tool that takes into account the emotions and meaning-making of each individual story without any intention to generalise the information gathered to a larger population
It is hoped that through this research there is a realisation that although trauma victims share symptoms, the meaning-making of the individual attached to this trauma is influenced by their society and history within their respective environments.<br>Psychology<br>M.A. (Psychology)
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Du, Toit Jacoba Johanna. "Riglyne vir die psigoterapeutiese hantering van die vigslyer en sy gesin." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16711.
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Text in Afrikaans<br>Summaries in Afrikaans and English<br>Vigs is 'n "sluipende moordenaar "_ Dit toon geen respek vir kultuur, status,ouderdom of geslag nie. Vigs veroorsaak 'n onnnatuurlike dood wat vriende en familie bedreig en vervreem, lank na die dood van die
vigsslagoffer. Die navorsingsdoel van hierdie studie was om riglyne daar te stel vir die
psigoterapeutiese hantering van die vigslyer en sy gesin. Die navorsing het getoon dat 'n stigma en skuldgevoelens rondom die vigslyer en sy gesin ontstaan het, en dat hulle direk verantwoordelik gehou word vir die siekte bloot omdat hulle betrokke is by mekaar. 'n Vraelys wat aspekte (soos dit uit die literatuurstudie geblyk het) inkorporeer, is opgestel en aan die vigslyer en sy gesin gegee om te voltooi. Van die belangrikste elemente wat na vore gekom het, is die vrees vir die onbekende, die stigma verbonde aan die siekte en die pad wat die siekte loop ten opsigte van naiwiteit en valse gerugte ten opsigte van die siekte. 'n Verdere hoofstuk fokus op die literatuur om die hoofaspekte van die probleem vas le stel, en sodoende riglyne vir 'n terapieprogram daar te stel om die vrese te onderskep en die familie te help om die siekte beter te begryp_ Die doel is om
die samelewing te laat begryp dat vigs nie 'n kulturele of "klas" siekte is nie, maar dat dit alle lae van die samelewing kan tref. 'n Afdeling is gewy aan 'n wye verskeidenheid terapeutiese tegnieke wat geimplimenteer kan word tydens hulpverlening aan die vigslyer en sy gesinslede. Verder verskaf hierdie studie ook riglyne om ondersteuning en hulp aan die vigslyer en sy gesin te bied, om sodoende hulle selfkonsep te verbeter.<br>Aids is a "stalking killer''. It has no respect for culture, breeding, age or sex. It is an unnatural death which offends and alienates many friends and family, even after the victim has died. A questionnaire incorporating important aspects of the cause and effect of aids was compiled and given to the aids sufferers and family to complete. From the responses it was clearly evident that the fears of the unknown, the stigma attached to the victim's close associates and family, was a problem, and the route course of incredible naive and false rumours. A chapter of the research focused on literature to establish what was the major aspects of the problem expressed by the media. Guidelines were provided whereby therapy could address and allay these fears to assist the family to better understand the illness and it's effects. This chapter has in mind to provide the Psychologist with guidelines to provide therapy to both the victim and the family in this regard. This study confirms that the survivors are the actual victims.<br>Educational studies<br>M.Ed. (Voorligting)
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Collins, Jody. "A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11216.
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The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And so, in the style of a memoir, in the way of contemplative prayer, I contemplate and share my soul as a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. With the first, initiating loss, the loss of my nine-year-old nephew, Caleb, I experience an epiphany that gives me spiritual instructions that will not be ignored. I experience loss as an abundance of meaning that comes to me as gnosis, as “knowledge of the heart” according to Elaine Pagels or divine revelation in what Evelyn Underhill calls mystical illumination in the experience of “losing-to-find” in union with the divine. Then, with gnostic import, in leaving the ordinary for the extraordinary, I enter the empty room in the painful yet liberating experience of the loss of my self. In the embrace of emptiness, I proceed to the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the dark corner of denial, the return to centre, and, finally, to breaking the fourth wall in the empty room so as to keep my promise to you. Who are “you”? You are God. You are Caleb. You are spirit. You are my higher soul or self. And, you are the reader. You are my dear companion in silence. And then, through a series of broken promises and more loss, within what John of the Cross calls, “the dark night of the soul,” I am stopped by the ineffability of the dark corner of denial, the horror of separation and the absence of meaning, which is depicted as the grueling gap between the spiritual abyss and the breakthrough. What does it mean to keep going through a solemn succession of losses? I don’t know. In going into the empty room, I simply put pain to work in order to reach you. Through loss, though there are infinite manifestations, there is only one way: keep going. And so, in a triumph of the spirit, I keep going so as to be: a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. As for you, through my illumined and dark experiences of loss, what is my promise to you? I keep going to reach the unreachable you. In the loss of self, with embodied emptiness, in going into the dark corner of denial, with a return to the divine centre of my emptied self, in an invitation to you, I give my soul to you in union with you.<br>Graduate<br>2020-06-25