Entering the Heart of Experience: First Person Accounts in Performance & Spirituality
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Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality
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"In this paper, Middleton andn Chamberlain introduce the inaugural publication of ""Perspectives onn Practice,"" which will be a new and ongoing section inn ""Performance and Spirituality"" that will publishn academically rigorous, first-person accounts of intersections betweenn performance and spirituality.nnIn this article, the authors take upn arguments for the development of a rigorous first-person methodology forn consciousness research and apply them to the study of performance andn spirituality. They outline the implications of adopting and including the firstn person perspective in performance research, and then explore its applicabilityn to the particular case of the enquiry into relationships between performance andn spirituality. They argue that the promotion of rigorous and contextualisedn first-person accounts can provide this field of study with significant data;n high-quality descriptions of what Varela and Shear called ""The Viewn from Within."" Such descriptions could provide detailed insights into,n for example, the nature of the performative phenomena which yield spiritualn experience. Further, we shall explore the extent to which the adoption of then first-person mode of enquiry can increase, as well as illuminate, the experiencen in question."
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