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life receiving for self and other and thereby more likely to engage in
and experience a transpersonal caring-healing moment. As the nurse
cultivates these ontological literate abilities and sensitivities of caring,
there is an invitation to open to inner healing processes that expand to
infinite new possibilities.
Ontological–Caring Literacy directions serve only as examples of
the intersection between technological competencies and emotional-
intellectual literacy of human caring skills of Being-Caring. Such explo-
ration into the literacy of caring incorporates the ethical, philosophi-
cal, and theoretical foundations of professional caring-healing. This
view of Caring Literacy serves as core knowledge that leads directly
back to the original Carative Factors and the evolution toward Caritas
Consciousness and Caritas Processes. These evolved concepts are pre-
sented in Chapter 2.

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