A Box of Darkness: Transforming the experience of existential loss

Chris Goto-Jones

A Box of Darkness: Transforming the experience of existential loss

Authors

Chris Goto-Jones Author

Keywords:

Trauma, existential crisis, meaning vacuum, Buddhism, apocalypse, lifeworld, transformation

Abstract

In the form of an episodic narrative case study, this article explores the transformation of an existential crisis into a form of awakening to a new lifeworld. Circling around a mysterious ‘box of darkness’, we navigate between modern poetry, early Buddhist texts and contemporary philosophy.