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Amphibious soul : finding the wild in a tame world
\"In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth--from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta--Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our love for all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between. Foster explores his struggles to remain present to life when a disconnection from nature and the demands of his professional life begin to deaden his senses. And his own reliance on nature's rejuvenating spiritual power is put to the test when catastrophe strikes close to home. Foster's lyrical, riveting Amphibious Soul draws on his decades of daily ocean dives, wisdom from Indigenous teachers, and leading-edge science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reality Shifting and the Case for Spiritual Science
Since the onset of the pandemic, many of the routines and institutions that once structured our reality have been destabilized or destroyed. In the in-between space of what has been and what will be, we must learn to orient ourselves from the inside out and shape the contours of our reality with a novel intentionality. Such is the goal of the reality shifters, an experimental collective working at the junction between science and spirituality to manipulate the forces of reality and explore worlds beyond our own. Discussing methods, motivations, and the larger tradition of spiritual science, this article considers the emancipatory potential of shifting in its embrace of diverse forms of knowledge and experimentation—not its scientific legitimacy. Within a broader cultural shift toward fluidity and multiplicity, reality shifting can thus serve as a provocation to reexamine the nature of our world, our reality, and our place within it—even if we choose not to explore the multiverse ourselves.
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Mantras Help the General Psychological Well-Being of College Students: A Pilot Study
The mind receives deep effect of harmonizing from incantatory spiritual verse known as \"mantra.\" This ancient Indian spiritual science of sound vibrations had been used to help the mind, body and life. Students in top-ranking colleges often feel pressurized and complain of depression. Mantras could help ease their stress. This work attempts to study the impact of mantra on the psychological well-being of college students. Volunteers selected and listened to the mantra of their choice in the test period. Psychological tests were conducted before and after the test period. Data collected were analyzed by psychologists. The findings reveal a clear improvement in the general cheerfulness and clarity of mind of the subjects.
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THE FRUITS OF PLURALISM: A VISION FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS IN RELIGION/SCIENCE
This article offers a vision for work at the intersection of science and religion over the coming seven years. Because predictions are inherently risky and are more often than not false, the text first offers an assessment of the current state of the science‐religion discussion and a quick survey of the last 50 years of work in this field. The implications of the six features of this vision for the future of the field are then presented in some detail. Rather than bemoaning the current diversity of approaches and conclusions as a negative result, I endorse it as a healthy sign—if acknowledged honestly and managed well.
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The Paradise Notebooks
In The Paradise
Notebooks , Richard J. Nevle and Steven
Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain
range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and
fascinating fact.
Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle and
Nightingale contemplate the natural phenomena found in the Sierra
Nevada. From granite to aspen, to fire, to a rare, endemic species
of butterfly, these essay pairs explore the natural history and
mystical wonder of each element with a balanced and captivating
touch. As they weave in vignettes from their ninety-mile
backpacking trip across the range, Nevle and Nightingale powerfully
reconceive the Sierra Nevada as both earthly matter and
transcendental offering, letting us into a reality in which nature
holds just as much spiritual importance as it does physical.
In a time of rapid environmental degradation, The Paradise
Notebooks offers a way forward-a whole-minded, learned, loving
attention to place that rekindles our joyful relationship with the
living world.
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On Typologies for Relating Science and Religion
Geoffrey Cantor and Chris Kenny have criticized attempts to classify various ways of relating science and religion. They hold that all typologies are too simple and too static to illuminate the complex and changing historical interactions of science and religion. I argue that typologies serve a useful pedagogical function even though every particular interaction must be seen in its historical context. I acknowledge the problems in making distinctions between categories of classification and examine some alternative typologies that have been proposed. I leave as an open question whether my fourfold typology is applicable to differing religious traditions. Finally I consider some parallels between typologies for science‐religion interactions and typologies for relationships between religions. Can our discussions be both interdisciplinary and interreligious without the danger of imposing the conceptual framework of one discipline or religious tradition on another discipline or tradition?
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Natural Science and Theology
This chapter contains sections titled:
The Integral Coherence of Theology and Science
Theology and Science as Incommensurate Domains
Theological Accommodations to Science
Types of Mediation and Complementarity between Theology and Science
The Theological Critique of Scientific Naturalism and Positivism
Concluding Comments
Bibliography
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Effectiveness of spiritual care training to enhance spiritual health and spiritual care competency among oncology nurses
Background
Although spiritual care is a basic element of holistic nursing, nurses’ spiritual care knowledge and abilities are often unable to satisfy patients’ spiritual care needs. Therefore, nurses are in urgent need of relevant training to enhance their abilities to provide patients with spiritual care.
Design
A nonrandomized controlled trial.
Objective
To establish a spiritual care training protocol and verify its effectiveness.
Methods
This study recruited 92 nurses at a cancer treatment hospital in a single province via voluntary sign-up. The nurses were divided into two groups—the study group (45 people) and the control (wait-listed) group (47 people)—using a coin-toss method. The study group received one spiritual care group training session every six months based on their routine nursing education; this training chiefly consisted of lectures by experts, group interventions, clinical practice, and case sharing. The control group participated in monthly nursing education sessions organized by the hospital for 12 continuous months.
Results
After 12 months of intervention, the nurses in the study group had significantly higher overall spiritual health and spiritual care competency scores as well as significantly higher scores on all individual dimensions compared with those in the control group (
P
< 0.01).
Conclusions
A spiritual care training protocol for nurses based on the concept of mutual growth with patients enhances nurses’ spiritual well-being and spiritual care competencies.
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Principles of Neurotheology
First Published in 2017.Neurotheology has garnered substantial attention in the academic and lay communities in recent years.Several books have been written addressing the relationship between the brain and religious experience and numerous scholarly articles have been published on the topic, some in the popular press.
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Instruments Measuring Spirituality in Clinical Research: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Numerous instruments have been developed to assess spirituality and measure its association with health outcomes. This study’s aims were to identify instruments used in clinical research that measure spirituality; to propose a classification of these instruments; and to identify those instruments that could provide information on the need for spiritual intervention.
METHODS
A systematic literature search in MEDLINE, CINHAL, PsycINFO, ATLA, and EMBASE databases, using the terms “spirituality\" and “adult$,\" and limited to journal articles was performed to identify clinical studies that used a spiritual assessment instrument. For each instrument identified, measured constructs, intended goals, and data on psychometric properties were retrieved. A conceptual and a functional classification of instruments were developed.
RESULTS
Thirty-five instruments were retrieved and classified into measures of general spirituality (N = 22), spiritual well-being (N = 5), spiritual coping (N = 4), and spiritual needs (N = 4) according to the conceptual classification. Instruments most frequently used in clinical research were the
FACIT-Sp
and the
Spiritual Well-Being Scale
. Data on psychometric properties were mostly limited to content validity and inter-item reliability. According to the functional classification, 16 instruments were identified that included at least one item measuring a current spiritual state, but only three of those appeared suitable to address the need for spiritual intervention.
CONCLUSIONS
Instruments identified in this systematic review assess multiple dimensions of spirituality, and the proposed classifications should help clinical researchers interested in investigating the complex relationship between spirituality and health. Findings underscore the scarcity of instruments specifically designed to measure a patient’s current spiritual state. Moreover, the relatively limited data available on psychometric properties of these instruments highlight the need for additional research to determine whether they are suitable in identifying the need for spiritual interventions.
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