Kontakt 2008, 10(Supl 1):93-98

Psychospiritual transformation of personality in the second half of lifeProblematika generace 50 plus

Silvester Sawicki*, Ľubomír Holkovič
ÚIPHV MtF STU, katedra humanitnych vied, Trnava, Slovenská republika

The psychospiritual transformation of the personality is an extraordinary phenomenon rather frequently occurring in humans in the second half of their lives. This is a period, where life priorities and values are naturally changed. Within the scope of this process, our ego is prepared to give up old formulae of the consensual reality and to adopt new spiritual and formerly extended perception. This can bring new possibilities of knowledge of our own personality and deeper knowledge of relationships with people and surroundings. The research indicates that people, due to psychospiritual transformation, live rather more in spiritual manner, they alter their value orientation and life style in favour of spiritual and more meaningful directions and they exert a higher tolerance, empathy, pro-social feelings, creativity, inner equilibrium and satisfaction. Their ability of direct spiritual - mystic experience increases. This fact is described by an important intuition, coming of meaningful, clever answers to complicated questions.

Keywords: Psychospirituality; transformation; personality; priorities; change; extraordinary phenomena

Received: November 5, 2007; Accepted: January 23, 2008; Published: February 18, 2008  Show citation

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