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Emerging technologies are entering every aspect of human life, including the spiritual realm. At the same time, spirituality has entered mainstream environments, including business, education, health and healing, and tech design. This provides an opportunity for technology and wisdom traditions to evolve together due to the widening audiences and worldviews. In this open access volume, an assembly of experts explores the intersection of spirituality and technology as they are emerging in a variety of contexts in our world. Through a mixture of philosophy, advocacy, presentation of research findings, and sharing of practices, this book illustrates technology s influence on spirituality and vice versa and its applications to management, strategy, and leadership. At the same time, contributing authors identify the surfacing pitfalls, shadow material, and areas that must be attended to during this time of evolving landscapes. Additionally, two of the chapters highlight virtual practices that focus on racial healing, which are of crucial import at this time in our collective history, and another two explore healing, justice, and liberation through the uses of technology. Written in a think-piece style, this book is accessible to those within and outside of academia.
This is an open access book.
List of contents
Chapter1: Introduction The Evolution of Spirituality and Consciousness.- Part I owards Consciousness and Flourishing Well Being.- Chapter2: Digital Connection Human Connection and the Scaling of Well Being.- Chapter3: Global Consciousness and the Power of Virtual Spaces.- Chapter4: Embodying the Foundations for Tech that Support Healing Justice and Liberation.- Chapter5: Building Social and Spiritual Infrastructures for Collective Wisdom.- Part II The Changing Role of Technology in Spirituality and Spiritual Spaces.- Chapter6: Networking and Digital Religion as a New Approach to 21st Century Spirituality.- Chapter7: Digital Renewal.- Chapter8: Has the Future Already Been Colonized.- Chapter9: Reframing Groups.- Chapter10: Whole Self Development for Educators through the Forum Process.- Chapter11: The Conversation Circle.- Chapter12: Virtual Racial Healing in a Dual Pandemic.- Chapter13: Afterword The Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future.
About the author
Stacey K. Guenther, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Organization Development and Knowledge Management at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, USA) and Leadership Coach and Consultant at Awakened Impact (Asheville, NC, USA), a coaching and consulting agency that focuses on well-being and positive organizational scholarship. Her research interests focus on how groups can come together and form deep connections through a phenomenon called coherence. She has a special interest in mindfulness and is a mindfulness and meditation teacher.
Xiaoan Li, Ph.D., is a Senior Program Officer at the Fetzer Institute (Kalamazoo, MI, USA), where he leads initiatives to foster sacred-centered worldview transformations in education and the environment. A dedicated advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, he serves on various national and international boards, advancing dialogue, deep relationships, healing, and transformation efforts.
Michelle A. Scheidt, DMin, is a Senior Program Officer at the Fetzer Institute (Kalamazoo, MI, USA). She works to catalyze spiritually grounded transformation and build the nascent field of spiritual innovation. Her research interests include the spiritual infrastructure of the future, LGBTQI spirituality, and the spiritual lives of people who identify as spiritual-but-not-religious.
Summary
Emerging technologies are entering every aspect of human life, including the spiritual realm. At the same time, spirituality has entered mainstream environments, including business, education, health and healing, and tech design. This provides an opportunity for technology and wisdom traditions to evolve together due to the widening audiences and worldviews. In this open access volume, an assembly of experts explores the intersection of spirituality and technology as they are emerging in a variety of contexts in our world. Through a mixture of philosophy, advocacy, presentation of research findings, and sharing of practices, this book illustrates technology’s influence on spirituality and vice versa and its applications to management, strategy, and leadership. At the same time, contributing authors identify the surfacing pitfalls, shadow material, and areas that must be attended to during this time of evolving landscapes. Additionally, two of the chapters highlight virtual practices that focus on racial healing, which are of crucial import at this time in our collective history, and another two explore healing, justice, and liberation through the uses of technology. Written in a think-piece style, this book is accessible to those within and outside of academia.
This is an open access book.
