Abstract
Grace is a disturber of the peace. It can invade our lives in the most alarming ways. To begin to understand a phenomenology of grace is to begin to work with embodied practices that actively invite grace in. Such practices are called ‘grace-hacks’ in this chapter. The goal is to outline how grace invades our lives, how grace also changes our lives and how we can utilise grace-hacks in the quest for more meaningful, richer lives that reach out to this world of forms. Grace is relational and deeply embodied and brings to phenomenology a new dimension that peels back conditioned being and habit revealing what a remarkable, magical deeply connected world we inhabit.
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- 1.
See https://medium.com/@MarcusBussey/deep-play-i-was-danced-tonight-to-moonlight-e7b3a6ab957a (accessed March 19, 2019).
- 2.
See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-08/indian-man-suing-his-parents-for-giving-birth-to-him/10795690 (retrieved March 13, 2019).
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Bussey, M. (2020). The Heirs of Tiresias: Grace, the Uncanny and Transformative Action. In: Bussey, M., Mozzini-Alister, C. (eds) Phenomenologies of Grace. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40623-3_2
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