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All is one : = Toward a spiritual whole life education based on an inner life curriculum.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	All is one :/
Reminder of title:	Toward a spiritual whole life education based on an inner life curriculum.
Author:	van Kessel, Irene.
Description:	1 online resource (254 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International74-11A.
Subject:	Spirituality. -
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ISBN:	9780494975107

All is one : = Toward a spiritual whole life education based on an inner life curriculum.
van Kessel, Irene.

All is one :Toward a spiritual whole life education based on an inner life curriculum. - 1 online resource (254 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2012.

Includes bibliographical references

The intent of this thesis is to understand how we as educators and learners in our Western system of education can bridge and heal the fundamental principles of a constructed divide embedded in our consciousness that continues to be reproduced in our Western academy. The primary goal is to make visible this divide that is based on the intellectualization of Western education in the absence of spiritual aspirations, thus revealing the potential of spiritual transformation within the academy and our everyday lives. In my literature-based thesis research I explored, analyzed and discussed two bodies of literature: the historical intellectualization of Western education on the one hand, and, on the other, Eastern Philosophy with the emphasis on Higher Self Yoga, African Philosophy and North American Aboriginal Spirituality. I investigated these bodies of literature employing a research paradigm that has its foundation in a spiritual ontology and epistemology. I analyzed my findings using such methodologies as appreciative inquiry, content analysis and textual analysis, including anti-colonial and indigenous knowledges theoretical frameworks. I found that the synthesis and integration of the inner life wisdom revealed in the three philosophies is an integral component fundamental toward a whole life vision of education, an educative vision that has the potential to serve as a catalyst to open the gates for life-enhancing change in the academy and our everyday lives. Change implies becoming aware of our true origin, who we truly are, and what our intrinsic purpose is. Change implies becoming aware of humanity's accelerated transition toward a higher level of spiritual planetary consciousness, a spiritual evolution as an inner quest of unity with nature, the larger human community, the universe, and the divine Source itself. Change implies whole life educational processes, inclusive of the unfoldment of inner life wisdom, the authority of the human spirit, and the sense of divinity, as useful bridging work in healing the divide in our aware consciousness and our educational institutions. Whole life change needs to be the responsibility of academic education, as well our self-responsibility of realizing ourselves as citizen of the world living within one-world consciousness. All is one.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780494975107Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Spirituality.
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