Book chapter
Towards Spiritual Pragmatics: Reflections from the Graveyards of Culture
Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Border Crossings, Transformations and Planetary Realizations, pp.123-144
Palgrave Macmillan
2021
Abstract
The future, fully emerging into Cosmic awareness, calls us simultaneously to reclaim our local and intimate environment. The world has become so wide open that we are lost within it. This leads to terror and violence as people panic and retreats into earlier fundamentalisms. Better a cage of dogma, the prophets say, than the wide open skies! To find our way back to the earth and ourselves requires we take both the Cosmos and the Local and express them as a practical spiritual practice of self-other-actualisation. This may sound strange but in world where the new is strange and both exciting and terrifying we will find practical spirituality expressed in the creative actions of people redefining their humanity through small acts of inclusion and pragmatic love.
Details
- Title
- Towards Spiritual Pragmatics: Reflections from the Graveyards of Culture
- Authors
- Marcus Bussey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Contributors
- Ananta Kumar Giri (Editor) - Madras Institute of Development Studies
- Publication details
- Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Border Crossings, Transformations and Planetary Realizations, pp.123-144
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-7102-2_6; 10.1007/978-981-15-7102-2
- ISBN
- 9789811571022
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Centre; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99494808902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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