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Direct and mediated experiences of wilderness spirituality: implications for wilderness managers and advocates
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Ashley, P and Kaye, R and Tin, T, Direct and mediated experiences of wilderness spirituality: implications for wilderness managers and advocates, Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values: Tenth World Wilderness Congress Symposium, 4-10 October 2013, Salamanca, Spain, pp. 109-115. (2015) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
As a result of its elevated level of consciousness, the
human species has been engaged in the quest for an ultimate
meaning of life and what lies beyond life and death for millennia.
Many of these spiritual or religious perspectives have been closely
linked to each society’s relationship with wild nature. This paper
explores the topic of wilderness spirituality from the perspectives
of: 1) direct experience, i.e., spiritual experiences and emotions that
arise while one is in wilderness, utilizing some of the results from
a Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area spiritual values
study, and 2) mediated experience, i.e., experiences of spiritual
emotions and inspiration that arise while one is outside wilderness
but is reflecting, reading or looking at art about wilderness. Direct
and mediated experiences of wilderness spirituality can be used as
complementary approaches to energise the connections people have
with nature and their individual forms of spirituality. Specifically,
wilderness areas can be managed in order to enhance opportunities
for direct experience. Direct and mediated experiences of wilderness
spirituality can be used to promote the values of wilderness
and to replenish the souls of wilderness managers and advocates.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | spiritual values, wilderness, wilderness management, mediated experiences |
| Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
| Research Group: | Human Geography |
| Research Field: | Social and Cultural Geography |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Other Environment |
| Objective Field: | Environment not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Ashley, P (Dr Peter Ashley) |
| ID Code: | 101950 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Deposited By: | Geography and Environmental Studies |
| Deposited On: | 2015-07-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-04-05 |
| Downloads: | 231 View Download Statistics |
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