1st Edition
Spiritual Consciousness as Evolutionary Learning Exploring Myth, Metaphor, Magic for Sustainability
Introduction
MAUREEN ELLIS
1 From myth to math: chaos and consciousness
RALPH ABRAHAM
2 Varieties of musical experience: cognitive neuroscience of myth, ritual, and healing
PETER BROWN
3 Metaphor, metonymy, meronymy: conscience as moral imagination
MAUREEN ELLIS
4 Persuasion through the water metaphor in Dao De Jing
GUO‑MING CHEN AND RICHARD HOLT
5 Shinto and the sacred: an analysis of its God‑images through the holotropic paradigm, Jungian archetypes, and the Imago Dei of contemporary psychotherapy
JUDSON DAVIS
6 Sacred knowledge of healing, biocultural relations, and modern science in the Mayan Lowlands
ANNE K. KURJENOJA AND JANINA C. CARRERA
7 Zarathushtra and the magi: Mazdean beliefs, myths, and metaphors
RICCARDO CAMPA AND JAMSHEED K. CHOKSY
8 Bharatanatyam: the contemporary relevance of an ancient Hindu classical dance form
KISHOR DERE
9 Good (Puṇya) and sinful (Pāpa) actions and their karmic consequences (karma phala) in Jain Karma doctrine
SUBHASH JAIN
10 Buddhism and essential Onenesses
THOMAS TAI‑SEALE
11 From gloss to figure, between mythic and divine violence: a comparative reading in Benjamin Netanyahu’s and Abu Ubaydah’s political exegesis of Isaiah 60:18, 1 Samuel 15:3, and Quran 9:11–4
JOSHUA A. SABIH
12 From mystical illiteracy in the west to creation spirituality where science and mysticism meet
MATTHEW FOX
13 Is God the Lord of the armies or the Most High? Revisiting Judeo‑Christian metaphors to give peace a chance
RICCARDO CAMPA
14 Mīrī pīrī: the connection of spiritual and political consciousness
JASKIRAN KAUR BHOGAL
15 Work as worship, prayer as practice
DEBORAH CLARK VANCE
16 Testifying about universal access: liberal Quakers and the pure principle
RHIANNON GRANT
17 Gift or exchange? The mother or the market?
GENEVIEVE VAUGHAN
18 Evolutionary learning in an age of mediated illusion: virtual realities and mediated ‘dream’ images for cultural healing
STEPHEN BROCK SCHAFER
19 Humanism as a worldview and way of being
DAVID WARDEN
20 The Word-in-Conversation as evolutionary learning: how ecoacoustics, sound symbolism, qualia as advanced modelling systems, and Peircean semiosis can help us re‑science the Christian Bible, recover its inherent indigeneity, and find a conciliatory path forward
W. JOHN COLETTA
21 Conclusion
MAUREEN ELLIS
Biography
Maureen Ellis is a senior research associate at Development Education Research Centre, Institute of Education, University College London, UK; author of The Critical Global Educator (Routledge, 2016); and editor of Critical Global Semiotics (Routledge, 2020).
