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This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.
Insight. --- Introspection. --- Life change events. --- Vision quests. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Voyages and travels. --- behavioral studies. --- comparative studies. --- engaging. --- human behavior. --- human condition. --- human experiences. --- human tendencies. --- intense period of life. --- life changes. --- life journeys. --- life lessons. --- nonfiction. --- odyssey. --- personal growth. --- personal transformation. --- physical journeys. --- psychological journeys. --- quest for meaning. --- regeneration. --- religion and spirituality. --- scientists. --- self help. --- social relationships. --- spiritual journeys. --- spiritual.
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free will --- the illusion of choice --- mind control --- cult --- Zion --- Mormonism --- society --- self-esteem --- guilt --- shame --- depression --- eating disorders --- suicide --- codependency --- passive-agressive culture --- material loss --- the Covenant --- human tendencies --- cognitive consonance --- cognitive dissonance --- Mormon life --- cognitive awareness --- prophecy --- biases --- compliance practices --- reciprocation --- commitment and consistency --- obedience to authority --- Milgram --- thought reform methods --- faith --- love bombing --- deception --- logic --- suppression of dissent --- manipulation --- magical thinking --- sin --- spiritual surveillance --- prayer --- milieu control --- doctrine --- media --- totalist reframing --- thought-terminating clichés --- social pressure --- creating dependency --- black and white thinking --- elitism --- us-versus-them thinking --- indirect directives --- identification and example --- induced phobias --- trance induction --- dissociative states --- time control --- blame reversal --- the shame of sex --- confession --- euphoria induction --- loss of individuality --- proselytizing --- LDS sources --- LDS controversies --- LDS exit stories --- support and communities for former Mormons --- public commitment --- destabilization --- Church Members Committee --- double-bind
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