A new spirit is awakening in human beings, a new society is beginning to take shape, a new spiritual horizon is opening (original) (raw)
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Rafael Domingo and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Fraile, Amazon, Madrid, Miami, 2022
In Spiritualizing Humanity, the authors aim to help readers to achieve inner peace and regain it quickly should they lose it. They contrast two very different ways of understanding reality and living one’s life: one centered on the ego, and the other on the soul. The first is a source of individual and collective conflict. The second is more spiritual in nature and a source and wellspring of peace and harmony for both the individual and society. The authors argue that if our society is to achieve the lasting peace it yearns for, we as human beings must spiritualize ourselves individually and collectively. Spiritualizing one’s self is to view ourselves from the summit of the soul and operate from this vantage point always. It involves first perfecting and then transcending the ego. It is only from the soul that life attains its fullness and that we come to understand why all that happens to us is for our own personal development and benefit. Then, and only then, does peace become enduring and unshakeable. Spirituality affects all areas of human life, how we live in a family, how we treat others, how we resolve conflicts, even how we run a multinational corporation – and much more. Quantum physics, artificial intelligence, and anthropology, to name a few of the scientific disciplines, are showing us how multidimensional human beings and the universe are, and how they need to be interconnected. It is up to spirituality to give full meaning and unity to the human condition, integrating and transcending the world of matter. If humanity freely decides to choose the path of spirituality, love and peace, we can expect to attain a more united and better functioning global community; a healthier planet that is cleaner and more tenderly cultivated as the garden of God’s creation, and a freer and more peaceful human society than before, comprised of individuals living in union with God and each other.
A New Spiritual Horizon for Humankind
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The US, Japan and the European Union nations are gradually losing their dominant positions in the world. At the same time, powerful countries like Brazil, India and China do not try to impose their political and cultural values in less developed countries, but rather they intend to base their relations on a mutually beneficial cooperation. Thus, the new system of international relations taking shape due to the growth of Asian, Latin American and African nations is erasing the fragile dependency and colonial servility inherited from the history of the last few centuries by means of the power of common agreements and convergence of interests. There is hope that this will turn the current global crisis into a true opportunity for global change. The global crisis we are going through requires a deep change in the model of growth. Asia, Africa and Latin America could not follow the path trod by the US and the EU, with its promotion of false freedom at the cost of social fractures, consumption for all, indebtedness for the majority but accumulation by only a few. A radically different vision must be defined. In other words, the global change crisis must generate an entire new social paradigm in which the idea of development does not only mean economic growth as it is the case nowadays from the standpoint of central powers, but it also includes the integral growth of all human beings grounded on the essential understanding that “progress for a few ends up being progress for nobody”. In our opinion, a new spirituality that would be able to kindly include the most progressive of the extremely diverse cultures and traditions worldwide, without limiting, but highlighting the identity of each nation; an spirituality that, at the same time, includes the technological language and the experiences of a human being flying across the cosmic space, may be the most adequate incubator of the new human civilization. Unrestricted access to the experience of the Profound, the contact with the fountain of the Sacred from the interiority of everyone without intermediation; the possibility of sharing this fundamental experience among people belonging to different cultures and confessions, may be meaningful elements for the spirituality of a new human nation worldwide.
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Conceptual Analysis of Spiritual Life in the Modern Age
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International Journal of Exclusive Management Research, 2018
This paper was presented at the 8th International Conference on "Sustainable and Human Development Through Spirituality, Peace Economics and Peace Science" on 6th April, 2018 at Hotel Le Meridian at Bangalore, India. Spirituality is a possible solution to today’s world of hatred and violence. Spirituality is commonly associated with god and religion. The problem is that major part of hatred emanates from religion. Firstly, Spirituality is highly misunderstood and needs to be correctly and scientifically defined. Secondly, the problem is not of spirituality being inaccessible to majority. What’s missing is know-how to tap our spirituality or spiritual power, which is already present in and accessible to every human-being. Prem’s paper explores solutions to these two problems. It defines spirituality with scientific flavor - as a science of human-mind. Advances in material-science (Physical science) brought in the industrial and information revolution. Advances in mind-science (still in infancy) will usher in a new revolution – the Spiritual Revolution. Whereas earlier revolutions enhanced our muscle-power and brain-power, Spiritual revolution will help us tap our untapped mind-power. Prem not only provides a new vision-cum-dream of spiritually-evolved human beings and a violence-free peaceful world, he suggests new possible areas of research in mind-science to actually realize the vision. Prem’s paper provides alternate framework for humanity to seek an elevation in their emotional well-being with a new definition of spirituality which is more scientific, less religious. Keywords Spirituality, Spiritual Revolution, Emotional Well-Being, World Peace, Religious Divide, Bridging Religious Divide