Transpersonal implications of singing: An intuitive inquiry. SAGE research methods cases. (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

Intuitive inquiry is a hermeneutical research method that joins intuition to intellectual precision. It consists of five iterative cycles of inquiry. It seeks to bring the researcher's inner being into the research process by placing the research squarely in the context of the researcher's personal growth. I used it to explore a deeply personal process of individuation that I had been through, the process of transpersonal (in layman's terms psycho-spiritual) experience and growth that occurs during classical singing training. In this case study, I show how I applied intuitive inquiry to a study that explored my own experience of the transpersonal implications of singing (the research topic) in parallel to, and in order to, more deeply understand the experience of other singers (my participants). I focus on demonstrating the evolution of the inner and intuitive side of the inquiry and how it shed light on the more mainstream and empirical narrative evidence collected.

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