Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities

tThanks for sharing.the africans had  believed in the idea of, the evil forest, Gods ds forests anforest  and the  Kings forest. igbo dudu, igbo olorun and igbo oba butwhen the europeans  came visiting with their scientific minds they reasoned that God could not have been inthe forest and that there was no evil in the forest and the king could nt have owned the forest so they wet in and ravaged the forest, call it environmental degradation but its the afrivans spiritual belieffs that makes him live in harmony with nature. tis theme has been explored bt Wangai mataai,nobel laureate from Kenya in her book,The challenge of Africa.

On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 11:18 PM Olasupo Laosebikan <olaose20@csu.edu> wrote:

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From: The Galileo Commission <info@galileocommission.org>
Date: Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:01 AM
Subject: A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities
To: olasupo laosebikan <olaose20@csu.edu>

But we... who are we? Plotinus, Enneads VI, 4 Dear Galileo Commission Subscriber,   We are writing to solicit your support for our Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities, which follows on from the 2014 Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science and the 2018 Galileo Commission Report, Beyond a Materialist Worldview: Towards an Expanded Science. The new document – already signed by over 100 scholars, including Dr Iain McGilchrist, Dr Anne Baring, Prof Keith Ward FBA and Prof Jeffrey Kripal - is a corresponding call to expand the Humanities to recover the depth dimension of human spiritual identity. We argue that there is good evidence to refute the claim that we are merely 'hackable animals' (Yuval Noah Harari) or at best complex biological machines in need of an upgraded operating system as proposed by Transhumanism.   We contend that this impoverished view of the human has contributed to a spiritual vacuum and widespread mental dis-ease that has undermined our sense of purpose and meaning and led us to neglect the vital inner aspect of human existence. Our capacity for attention has been fragmented, and we have lost touch with our centre, root and ground.   We argue that a recovery of a deeper spiritual understanding of the human being as proposed by the likes of William James and Sir Alister Hardy FRS is vital to the future of our culture and that the emerging post-materialist understanding of consciousness points the way. READ AND SIGN THE DOCUMENT HERE   With every good wish,   David Lorimer, Marjorie Woollacott, Co-Chairs of the Galileo Commission   Dr Athena Potari, author of the Call

 

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