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Ontopoiesis and Spiritual Emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life and Transpersonal Psychology

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Phenomenology of Life from the Animal Soul to the Human Mind

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Louchakova, O. (2007). Ontopoiesis and Spiritual Emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life and Transpersonal Psychology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology of Life from the Animal Soul to the Human Mind. Analecta Husserliana, vol 94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5182-1_4

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