I have been thinking about how I see the appearance of an increase in the use of the spiritual as a possible way in which the global community can recover and evolve beyond the virus crisis. As a someone who trained as a teacher, I also began to think about the basic approach education might take in bringing forth the spiritual as an embodied response to the uncertainty that will arrive once the...
Read MoreHilary Wainwright, A New Politics From The Left. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. xiv-146pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-2362-7, hardback, £35.00. ISBN 978-15095-2363-4 paperback, £24.99. Reviewed by Gary Hawke[i] Published in The Journal of Critical Realism Hilary Wainwright has written a wonderful and humanistic book in which she uses her extensive experience, obtained from a lifetime of dedication to...
Read MorePublished in PERIÓDICO POLIFONIA Abstract Bhaskar’s Philosophy of metaReality (PMR) referred to as his spiritual turn, first began with his book From East to West, and continued within the three main books of metaReality. This paper attempts to place PMR within the stream of Critical Realism (CR) and introduce to the reader two of the most importance elements of PMR, non-duality, and the theory...
Read More“We humans are a most delightful mélange of energy patterns or self’s. Some of these energies are familiar and comfortable, some are curious or unfamiliar, and some are downright distasteful” (Stone H and Stone S 1998:27) This paper will look at Integral Therapy’s approach to the creation of subpersonalities and how the theory might provide an important psychodynamic framework for the...
Read More“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” Pierre Diehard de Chardin “(love) is the totalising, unifying, healing force in the universe. And, just in virtue of there being a “universe” (one-verse), it is the most powerful force...
Read MoreIf you listen deeply, you can hear the pulse, it all begins with a pulse, a pulse that is you living in each moment. Notice how in each moment there is the silence of the gap, before the pulse of the next moment’s transcendental emergence; a building up of gaps and moments, each moment the singular and unique, each gap an opportunity for you to become, to emerge, and to be free. In this...
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