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  title info:
    title: Secular Spirituality
    sub title: The Next Step Towards Enlightenment
  name:
    name part: Walach, Harald.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 216 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book discusses spirituality as an emerging scientific topic from a historical perspective, with extensive discussion of the mind-body problem and of scientific concepts of consciousness. While the book focuses on the Western tradition of ‘Enlightenment’, it also implicitly addresses the double meaning of the term, with the Eastern tradition describing it as ‘a state of true knowledge, which is an important goal on an individual’s spiritual path’ and the Western tradition seeing it as ‘the collective process of getting rid of narrow-minded dogmas and concepts’. The book is based on a simple yet challenging premise: Science has not gone far enough in the scientific process of going from a collective mind tied up in dogmatic teachings to a truly free mind that, seemingly, freed itself from bondage and restrictions. The book shows that science, and with it our whole Western culture, has to incorporate spirituality if it is to realize this goal of enlightenment. If that is done, and it can only be done by many individuals actually practicing spirituality, this will also lead to the individual type of enlightenment.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Clarifications and Presuppositions -- Chapter 2: The Historical Framework: Enlightenment, Science, and the Difficulties with the Notion of God -- Chapter 3: Spirituality, Taboo, and the Opportunity for Science -- Chapter 4: Secular, Non-Dogmatic Spirituality -- Chapter 5: Distortions, Dangers, Further Considerations -- Chapter 6: Getting on with Enlightenment: The Necessity of a Secular Non-dogmatic Spirituality.
  note: by Harald Walach.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion and culture
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Culture
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: BL51
  classification: 210
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 4
  identifier: 9783319093451
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09345-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 140918
    record change date: 20151204183242.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-09345-1