http://transformancejournal.com The AEDP Journal Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=351 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=351#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:48:26 +0000 Yuko Hanakawa http://transformancejournal.com/?p=351 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=351 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=347 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=347#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:44:10 +0000 Jennifer L. Imming http://transformancejournal.com/?p=347 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=347 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=325 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=325#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:50:45 +0000 Carrie Ruggieri http://transformancejournal.com/?p=325 to elicit and ‘fan those sparks of courage’ (Ossefort-Russell) and resilience in them.” (emphasis mine) (Susan Walton, 2011). Laura Hillenbrand is the best selling and award winning author of two non-fiction historical novels, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001) [1], the story of a racehorse who inspired the nation during the Depression era, and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010), the story of Louie Zamperini: a delinquent boy turned Olympic runner expected to break the 4 minute mile, turned fighter pilot hero, turned survivor of 47 days adrift at sea, turned POW survivor, turned survivor of PTSD and alcoholism, turned national inspirational speaker who thrives to this day in his mid-nineties [2]. This review of Laura Hillenbrand’s novels is, true to AEDP ethos, less about the stories as it is a reflection on the phenomena of inspiration and resilience; not everyday resilience, but extraordinary, quantum resilience. The central theme of this review is that quantum resilience can and does happen in everyday life – propelling an ordinary person into acts astounding even their own expectations. The second theme is an exploration into the True Other mind frame that is a necessary condition to both inspire and to receive inspiration. The receiver of inspiration must in some way experience the source of inspiration as a True Other. And, the receiver must be a True other in receptivity to the source of inspiration. Hillenbrand’s work masterfully illuminates True Otherness, in all its variations: her tender sensibilities as biographical author, her writing that compels us toward a receptive willingness to be inspired, and the True Otherness among her subjects that fragrances every page. Examples of how inspiration works its magic in the context of True Otherness is dramatized by a particular genre of resilience her characters portray in abundance – the entire arc of the natural course of volition that has been oppressed and then freed. Keenly targeted by Hillenbrand, volition (literally her subjects’ will or self-determination) is tracked and their inspiration embroidered from its beginning in the form of valiant defiance to surrender to a True Other, and finally into triumphant acts of mastery.]]> http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=325 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=254 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=254#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:50:27 +0000 David Mars http://transformancejournal.com/?p=254 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=254 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=231 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=231#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:00:56 +0000 Candyce Ossefort-Russell http://transformancejournal.com/?p=231 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=231 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=241 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=241#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:30:29 +0000 Karen Pando Mars http://transformancejournal.com/?p=241 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=241 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=247 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=247#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:00:50 +0000 Elizabeth Lehmann http://transformancejournal.com/?p=247 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=247 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=219 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=219#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:07:57 +0000 Kai Macdonald http://transformancejournal.com/?p=219 http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=219 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=145 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=145#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:53:42 +0000 Kari Gleiser http://transformancejournal.com/?p=145 read more…]]> http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=145 0 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=80 http://transformancejournal.com/?p=80#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:17:03 +0000 Diana Fosha http://transformancejournal.com/?p=80 read more…]]> http://transformancejournal.com/?feed=rss2&p=80 0