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Spirituality has been recognized as pivotal in health education and health promotion. Although spirituality is often discussed as a dimension of health, there is little evidence of integrating it into educational settings and health promotion programs. The difficulty in addressing the concept of spirituality is related to both its association with denominational religion and our cultural emphasis on the material realm. However, some scholars are now associating spirituality with the development of human consciousness beyond the ego level. It has been suggested that the scientific investigation of this development beyond the ego may be possible with empirical and phenomenological, as well as with traditional contemplative methods. Thus, investigation in the realms of consciousness beyond the ego can be addressed within theories of knowledge that are grounded in experience. An examination of the spirituality/consciousness relationship may be crucial for any profession that purports to address the health issues of the whole person. It may then be possible to more easily integrate spirituality into educational settings and health enhancement programs. If spirituality is part of human experience, then willingness to make forays into this dimension is fundamental to health.

"Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss new areas of research, such as near death studies and neuroscience research into spiritual experiences, and report on significant new theoretical advances. From Harald Walach's introductory essay, "Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality--Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions," to the concluding chapter by Robert K. C. Foreman entitled "An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model," this book represents a milestone in the progress towards an integrated understanding of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness. It is the first in a series of books that are dedicated to this topic."--Publisher's website

Representations of the individual, family and collective groups within New Romanian Cinema reveal the nation's social, political and psychological transformations, as well as its values and beliefs in times of intense transition. Focusing on Behind the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2012) and Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016), this article analyses the new cinema's dual position (apolitical yet engaged) and reflection on such aspects as religion, ideology and globalization; it emphasizes mechanisms of identity (trans)formation, the shaping of global citizenship and the shifts in public discourses, such as film, to continue to engage individuals and groups in social debate and events.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Editor and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: An Introduction and Invitation to New Pathways of Consciousness, Freedom and Solidarity -- References -- Part I Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Consciousness, Freedom and Solidarity -- 2 Pragmatism and Belief -- Introduction -- The Pioneers of Pragmatism -- Contemporary Pragmatism -- Some Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 3 Pragmatism, Consciousness and Spirituality: William James and Rudolf Steiner -- James's Pragmatic Approach to Religious and Psychic Experience -- Concluding Comparisons and Contrasts -- References -- 4 Pragmatic Non-Duality in William James, Swāmī Vivekānanda and Trika Shaivism -- References -- 5 Peterson vs. Žižek on the Evolution of Consciousness and Happiness: From Pragmatism to Sarkar's Tantra -- Peterson's Christian Pragmatism and the Devolution of Consciousness -- Tantra's Response to Žižek's Critique of Indian Spirituality -- Sarkar's Tantric Evolution of Consciousness: A Pragmatic Understanding of Happiness -- References -- 6 Spirituality, Pragmatism, Vedanta and Universal Consciousness: A Study of the Philosophy of R. Balasubramanian -- Advaita Vedanta and the Metaphysics of Spirituality -- Spirituality and Pragmatics -- Integral Spiritualism -- The Spiritual Man -- Spirituality and Universal Consciousness -- Empirical Pluralism and Transcendental Monism -- Conclusion -- 7 A Quantum Bridge Between Science and Spirituality: Toward a New Geometry of Consciousness -- Some Symbols of New Geometry -- Plus, Multiplication and Spiral (+, X, Spiral) -- Languages as Geometry of Consciousness -- Seven Tempers of Mind: Rainbow Model of Consciousness-from Awareness to Awakening -- Expressions of Consciousness in Human Society: From Fight to Fullness -- Π ϕ ψ Sky.

Part One: Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Consciousness, Freedom and Solidarity -- Pragmatism and Belief -- Pragmatism, Consciousness and Spirituality: William James and Rudolf Steiner -- Pragmatic Non-Duality in William James, Swāmī Vivekānanda and Trika Shaivism -- Peterson vs. Žižek on the Evolution of Consciousness and Happiness: from Pragmatism to Sarkar's Tantra -- Spirituality, Pragmatism, Vedanta and Universal Consciousness: A Study of the Philosophy of R. Balasubramanian -- A Quantum Bridge Between Science and Spirituality: Towards A New Geometry of Consciousness -- Freedom, Spiritual Praxis and Categorical Imperative -- Spiritual Pragmatism and an Economics of Solidarity -- Pragmatism and Socio-Political Movement Toward Solidarity -- Part Two: Pragmatism and Spirituality: Reconstructing Language, Self and the World -- "Pragmatic Metaphysics: Language as a Battlefield Between Truth and Darkness"An interpretive approach to the view on language, truth and world in the philosophy of Śaiva Siddhānta – in the light of Heidegger's "Being and Time" -- Monistic Elements in Lévi-Strauss's Structuralism: New Pathways of Consciousness, Pragmatism and Spirituality -- Language, Art and Mysticism As Reflection-Levels of an Alternative Semiotics and the Spiritual Perspective of a Value-Levels-Democracy -- Paul Valéry " Mystique sans Dieu": writing as a spiritual practice? -- Spirituality of Action: Reading O V Vijayan's Khasakkinte Ithihasam and Gurusagaram Through William James' Concept of Religion -- Is Homing Spiritual Praxis? -- Performative as the Language of Pragmatism: A Reading of Indian Spirituality -- Gardens of God: Spiritual Pragmatism and Transformation of Religion, Politics, Self and Society.

The integral consciousness -- The internal universe -- The evolution of consciousness -- The within of things -- The systemic nature of evolution -- Stages of consciousness and culture -- The spiral of development -- Tribal consciousness -- Warrior consciousness -- Traditional consciousness -- Modernist consciousness -- Postmodern consciousness -- The spiral as a whole -- What is the real evidence for the spiral? -- The integral stage of consciousness -- Life conditions for integral consciousness -- The values of integral consciousness -- Integral consciousness in the context of history -- Practicing the integral lifestylevalue metabolism -- Postintegral consciousness -- Integral politics -- The politics of the spiral -- Integral politics and global governance -- Is global governance an unrealistic fantasy? -- Is global governance too dangerouswhat are the safeguards? -- Global governance and integral consciousness cocreate each other -- Integral spirituality -- The development of spiritual traditions -- Public spirituality in the integral age -- Beauty, truth, and goodnessphilosophical spirituality -- The practice of beauty, truth, and goodness -- The revelation of evolution -- The founders of integral philosophy -- Ken Wilber in context -- The evolution of philosophy as a human endeavor -- Hegel, the first integral philosopher -- Bergson, the first post-darwinian integral philosopher -- Whitehead, spiritual philosopher for the ages -- Teilhard de Chardin, master of the internal universe -- Gebser, prophet of integral consciousness -- Developmental psychology and the mapping of the internal universe -- Habermas, architect of integral foundations -- Wilber, framer of integral philosophys twenty-first-century synthesis -- What I add to integral philosophy -- The integral reality frame -- Metaphysics and the evolution of reality frames -- The integral map of reality -- Integral philosophy and human spirituality -- Some critiques of the integral reality frame -- Structures of the human mind -- Lines of development recognized by psychologists -- Wilber's theory of the lines of development -- A critique of Wilber's theory of developmental lines -- An alternative theory of the structures of consciousness -- The self as a whole -- The directions of evolution -- Evolution and the idea of progress -- Unity, complexity, and consciousness -- Directions of evolution in the internal universe -- The dialectical quality of the master patterns of evolution -- Potential applications of a dialectical understanding of evolution

This contribution grapples with the question: Is there a relationship between Steve Biko's 'quest for a true humanity' or, differently put, his search for South Africa's 'human face' and Vuyani Vellem's quest for an African spirituality? Our proposition is that there is such a relationship. This discussion is framed overall by two other questions: What is the relevance of this 'quest' within the present South African context, what is its contribution to the global situation and, fundamentally, what is the contribution black liberation theology can make to these discourses? In the course of this exploration, we engage the concepts of Africanisation and Afrocentricity, colonisation, coloniality and decoloniality, and we ask whether a true Afro-pluralism is possible without a true African indigeneity. These concepts, we shall argue, are tools of struggle, not only in confronting colonisation and coloniality but also in battling imperialism, in the form I discuss here: the politics of vulgarity. I contend that an African spirituality, Biko's 'gift' from Africa to the world, is the most appropriate vessel for that very gift. CONTRIBUTION: This article serves as commemoration of the contribution the late Professor Vuyani Vellem made to the qualitative substantiation of black theology liberation in South Africa. It demonstrates the powerful way in which Afro-pluralism enhances the contranarrative of imperialism and colonialism. ; http://www.hts.org.za ; pm2021 ; Dogmatics and Christian Ethics

The concept of 'false consciousness' has been rejected by both Marxism & bourgeois thought for a considerable time. This concept should be understood as referring to something beyond simple error, ie, to schizophrenic inadequacy. The relation of utopian consciousness to false consciousness is not one of simple identity; two kinds of utopia must be distinguished, a surrealist utopia serving as an instrument of social change, & a subrealist utopia which is in fact totalitarian. The second type is essentially similar to dystopian thought, as exemplified by G. Orwell; it is rooted in describing an imaginary society based on reason. A fuller understanding of such social scientific concepts as utopia is needed for any progress in them. W. H. Stoddard

1. Introducing spirituality and religion -- 2. Affirming your own spirituality -- 3. Understanding the spirituality and religion of our clients -- 4. A closer look at specific religious and spiritual groups -- 5. Constructing a spiritually sensitive approach -- 6. The ethics of spiritually sensitive practice -- 7. Initial engagement of spiritual issues -- 8. Spiritual assessments -- 9. Spiritual interventions -- 10. Macro spiritual interventions -- 11. Infusing spirituality into existing social work approaches -- 12. Evaluating spiritually sensitive practice -- 13. Tools for your journey.

6. Post Quantum Cryptography Research at Mzuzu UniversityChapter 8: Implications of the New Science; 1. The Relatedness of Everything; 2. A Participatory World; 3. Environmental Issues; 4. The GAIA Hypothesis; 5. A New Mindset; 6. New Revelation; 7. Redemption of All of Creation; Chapter 9: Our Response; 1. Celebrate through Rhythm and Dance; 2. Mathematics Having the Final Word; Back cover.