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The Measurement of Spirituality in Children: An Evaluation of the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory–Revised (ESI–R) with a Sample of Peruvian School Children
Get PDFUsing a sample of 263 male Peruvian school children of ages ranging from 11 to 16 years, a Spanish translation of the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory- Revised (ESI-R; MacDonald, 2000a, 2000b) was evaluated in terms of its reliability and factorial validity. Examination of the internal consistency of the five ESI-R dimensions revealed somewhat mediocre reliability with Cronbach’s alphas ranging from .56 to .73 across all dimensions. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) also provided somewhat mixed support for the ESI-R; while all but one of the items produced significant loadings on their intended factors, fit indices indicated problems with model fit for both four and five factor models. In post-hoc exploratory principal axis factor analyses, a discernable three factor structure was found which emulated higher order factors found by MacDonald (2000b). Additional statistical analyses were completed to determine if a short-form of the ESI-R could be developed that would be suitable for research with youth. This resulted in the creation of a 12 item scale designed to tap two factors. This scale demonstrated adequate reliability and good factorial validity. The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of the findings and suggestions for future research
Keeping the Account Open: On Metaphysical Mistrust in Transpersonal Psychology (A Response to Hartelius, 2017)
Get PDFIn response to Hartelius (2017), I suggest that the evidence for perennialism or essentialism can be tested, and is publicly accessible, through engagement with the spiritual practices that have given rise to cross-cultural mystical experiences with common characteristics. This suggests that essentialism could be included in transpersonal psychology (and psychology in general). I suggest that there is no reason why transpersonal psychology should exclude metaphysical claims, as long as they are inferred or implied by research and evidence, explicitly stated and viewed as secondary. It is impossible to avoid metaphysics, and it is important for transpersonal psychologists (and all psychologists and scientists in general) to be explicit about their metaphysical assumptions
The Ethics and Responsibilities of Engaged Scholarship
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Disabled community educators and grassroots researches discuss the implications, benefits and limitations of collaborative research projects. They do so by calling on academic researchers and their ethical responsibility as well as the protections required in order to safeguard grassroots knowledge producers, meaning-making processes and action-oriented strategies from institutional abuse
The Relevance of Transformative Body Practices to Diversity and Social Change
No full textThe original motivations for creating the field of Somatics are easy to forget in the understandable pressures to meet the enormous needs of suffering people in our own neighborhoods and to earn a living doing so. But the originating intentions of the founders was to address the collective pathologies of our histories, recognizing the potentials for profound social change inherent in the widespread cultivation of the wisdom of the body, through intentional practices of breathing, touch, sensing, moving, tasting, and other methods of entering the vast interior worlds of our earthy being. In this presentation, there will be an elucidation of this history and an account of how this vision address issues of diversity
The Extreme Phronesis of Percy Cerutty: A Narrativized Life History of a Legendary Sports Coach
Get PDFThis paper presents and interprets a narrativized coaching life history of the Australian athletics coach Percy Cerutty (1895-1975). Through a relational process of self-improvement and practical wisdom sometimes called phronesis, Cerutty exemplifies an intimate interconnectedness with his own and others’ experiences, with the natural environment, and with the transformative capacities of such influences, as often highlighted in transpersonal literature. Three potential themes are offered from the resultant meaning-making: a feel for the game, phronesis, and the coach as a paradoxical figure. Those themes are also interwoven with a consideration of how Cerutty’s story and practices might link to aspects of the transpersonal approach, using the motifs of redemption, transformation, and transcendence, as well as to elements of coaching theory. The paper concludes by evaluating Cerutty’s influence and legacy, and their broader implications
The Art of Being: Living and Working in Today’s World as a Conscious Manifestation of the Divine
No full textOur world is experiencing the birth pangs of an evolving consciousness described and manifested by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The survival and well-being of the human species is dependent upon our ability to surrender to and adopt to this consciousness. Dr. Chaudhuri worked towards creating an environment that would facilitate the blooming of each and everyone’s Divine human potential
Borges and the Quantum Field: A Novelist and a Philosopher Confront the 21st Century
No full textTwo CIIS faculty discuss and connect Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Library of Babel” to their own work as thinkers and writers in the 21st Century. The talk is adapted from their new cross-departmental course MFA 8888: Philosophy and the Novel. Following the half-hour presentation, Cooke and Swimme invite conversation and share strategies for collaborations across programs that invigorate our teaching and especially our learning
Intimations of a Spiritual New Age: I. The Spiritual Emergence and Personal Tragedy of a Universalized Christian Mysticism in the Life and Work of Simone Weil
Get PDFThis is the first in a projected series on the envisionings during the crisis years of the 1930s of a future spiritual New Age consequent on the coming globalization of an individualist, capitalist, technologically driven world economy. In very different ways Jung, the philosophers Bergson and Heidegger, the historian Toynbee, and Wilhelm Reich, foresaw an emergent New Age consistent with a post-modern secular culture. Others such as Teilhard de Chardin, Krishnamurti, and Gurdjieff anticipated their own potential universalizing of more mystical aspects of the world religions. Simone Weil’s version of an essentialized mystical Christianity is part of the latter attempts, including her proposed synthesis with a mystical Platonism, along with her versions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. Eschewing traditional doctrines of Resurrection, after-life, and final judgement, Weil offered her own transpersonal understanding of a “negative theology” of the unknowability of God other than through states of Grace, based on the individual experience of “affliction” uniquely exemplified by Christ on the Cross, and the beauty of the natural order. Her personal struggles throughout her highly original mystical realization, still seen by many as an exemplary guidance toward a Christianity of the future, and its tragic “meta-pathological” inversion in the last years of her short life, attest to challenges entailed in non-traditional transpersonal developments that might anticipate a spirituality of the future