Spiritual Phenomena Research Articles

Cultural Revival in Spiritual Phenomenon: Assessment of Unitary Issues in the Traditional Dances of Bura, Glavda, Kibaku, Kilba, Marghi and Mbula

The Church of the Brethren General Mission Board gave permission for H. Stover Kulp and Dr. Albert D.Helser to come to Africa as missionaries. The two men arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, on December29, 1922. In the early days of 1923, they received permission to settle in Garkida and began mission work (cobnews@brethren.org). They operated mainly among the tribes that speak the Mandara line of languages. These include: Bura, Glavda, Kibaku, Kilba, Marghi and Mbulanations with a single message of reconciling the people to God. To reconcile people to God would require that such nations, tribes and cultures must necessarily also become one, patterned into one baptism, one faith and then one Lord. This unity is the virtue which the missionaries desired most to build a family of believers in the region, to create a forum of understanding and forge a brotherhood in line with the ‘brethren’ thinking. This paper examines the cultural dances of the five tribes that are mostly captured within the CBM mission work in the North East Sub-region of Nigeria, it tries to identify from the performance techniques of the dances whether or not there are factors of unity, and how these factors could have been valuable in uniting the people of the region. The conclusion points to the fact that the observed cultural dances of the peoples listed, and which were neglected by the earlier missionaries in the region would have contributed to their reconciling effort among the peoples and between God and Man. The central argument of this essay stems from the work of Acquah Francis (2011), that although a large percentage of indigenous peoples under study are converts to Christianity, it is the indigenous beliefs and values which mainly serve as the mediation for their religious and cultural expressions. “This indigenous influence has enhanced harmonious relationships” among these tribes prior to the arrival of the missionaries, but was treated with disdain.

Provincial Discourse of Russian Culture

The article presents the original research of the problems of Russian province as a socio-cultural and psychological phenomenon, artistic-figurative complex and philosophical metaphor. The Russian province was marked both by the author of this article and by a number of colleagues from other Russian regions as a specific spiritual phenomenon, devoid of direct geographical or socio-political coordinates and saturated with mentally determined features. The chronotope of the Russian province is revealed as a problem of interdisciplinary study. It is proved that the Russian province is not just an environment, landscape, image, place of action, it is the embodiment of the morphology of the Russian socio-geographical and cultural-historical space. The chronotope of Russian province is the embodiment of conflicting feelings and perceptions, according to which the uniqueness and belittlement, brightness and effacement paradoxically combined in one, widely spread and at the same time close space. It is necessary and urgent to reveal how the corpus of the components of the scientific metaphor “Russian province” revealed by the author of this article and colleagues-researchers at the Yaroslavl scientific school is manifested in the texts of culture, both artistic and scientific. In this corpus we have included and at the time justified it as the universally significant concepts of space, time, personality, text, symbol, and as specifically significant, first of all, chrono-tope, boredom and some others. The material component of the province -the city - is verified in synergetic, semiotic, hermeneutic aspects. The mental component is actualized through the motives of a bored person, a creative person and a marginal person. Relying on the opinions of philosophers (N. Berdyaev, V. Rozanov, V. Solovyov) and representatives of the artistic sphere (N. Nekrasov, A. Chekhov, I. Turgenev), the author concludes that the Russian province has acquired the quality of a complex artistic image and philosophical metaphor. This is a consequence of the fact that the Russian province is not homogeneous, it is multi-component, has different levels and different vectors of existence. By analogy with the well-known paradoxal phrase of V. Solovyov (“Russian European”), to the noun “province” inherently joins the adjective “Russian.” Thus, the Russian province in its conservatism and dynamism is an inexhaustible source of cultural meanings and a demanding object of interest.

Clinical psychologists' use of transformative models of psychosis

Some theories (e.g. Jackson's Paradigm Shifting Hypothesis) and many personal accounts suggest that some psychotic crises, whilst distressing, can also be transformative, leading to growth and valued outcomes. However, little is known about the extent to which this idea informs mainstream mental health care. Clinical psychologists are influential advocates of psychosocial approaches more broadly: This study explored their use of transformative models. Twelve U.K. clinical psychologists were interviewed: Transcripts informed a grounded theory. No participants saw psychosis as a purely biological problem where the content of experiences is irrelevant. Two held a "biopsychosocial" model, viewing psychosis as an illness with psychosocial elements. Most either held a continuum view (i.e., schizotypy), in which psychosis proneness was also associated with positive attributes such as creativity or sensitivity, or a "fully psychological" view, seeing experiences as meaningful and/or as adaptive responses to events. Many believed that psychosis can be transformative in a broad sense, that is, lead to "post-traumatic growth." Some went further, believing that it can be a purposeful (e.g., an attempt, albeit painful and sometimes unsuccessful, to solve problems) or even a spiritual phenomenon. Participants' perspectives influenced their therapeutic approach: Those who saw experiences as purposeful were more likely to facilitate direct engagement with them and to support clients to explore potentially transformative aspects. However, this represented an extension of conventional approaches rather than being qualitatively different. More research is needed to clarify how widespread this approach is, to explore its utility, and to establish for whom and when it may be appropriate.

Comparison of Different Measures of Religiousness and Spirituality: Implications for Neurotheological Research

The neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena requires the development of methodologies that can target both the biological as well as the subjective dimensions of such phenomena. The purpose of the current study was to compare various subjective questionnaires evaluating neuropsychological dimensions of religiosity. Many scales and questionnaires have been developed over the years, but they have rarely been compared to each other. As part of an online survey of peoples’ spiritual experiences, we had individuals complete several questionnaires including the Quest Scale, the Religiousness Measure, the INSPIRIT, the Death Anxiety Measure, and the Intrinsic Motivation Scale. Some of these scales also have subcomponents which can be evaluated separately. We compared these scales to each other, and also to a variety of demographic variables such as age, gender, religion, and socioeconomic status. Importantly, these scales have neurological correlates that can be the targets of future studies in the field of neurotheology. The evaluation of such qualitative data has important implications for methodological challenges in future neurotheological research.

Spiritual Song in Ukrainian Folklore Milieu

The paper outlines the original phenomenon of a spiritual song in the Ukrainian oral tradition, determines characteristic features of these texts and their functions. Besides, the author focuses on some special research issues concerning the folklore religious repertoire, first of all, the specificity of the relationship between spiritual and secular epic songs.
 The spiritual song in the Ukrainian oral tradition is a large group of poetical and musical works, united primarily by the religious Christian themes and endowed with the ability to acquire special spiritual meaning in the life of a believer, exercise an important function of satisfying his/her spiritual religious needs. Another defining feature of these songs is a lack of clear attachment to a certain rite, time, occasion. An episodic attachment of individual texts to the rite only reveals their multifunctionality, since, as a rule, the same work may be used in various rituals, appear in the repertoire of professional singers, and perform some other functions simultaneously. Essential for the differentiation of the spiritual song phenomenon in the folklore milieu is the fact of distinguishing this group of works and perceiving it as integrity by the bearers of tradition themselves until now. They use special folk concepts for its designation (‘God’s songs’, ‘psalms’). At the same time, this large stratum of folk repertoire is divided into two sub-groups, namely folklorized songs of book origin and those of folk origin. Thus, the phenomenon of a spiritual song in the Ukrainian oral tradition is characterized by a rich variety of texts in terms of character, time of emergence, nature, form, style, and genre features.
 The practice of perception, recording, and comprehension of spiritual songs has developed certain concepts and approaches. The present paper offers an attempt to systematize the previous experience and distinguish the problems that were raised in the works by various researchers and remained topical, often lacking a proper resolution. Attention to the system of the research approaches gives a guideline to the author and forms a sense of the continuing tradition.

African spiritual phenomena and the probable influence on African families

African spirituality is a holistic concept that stemmed from the historical, cultural and religious heritage of Africa, and includes among others, folktales, beliefs, rituals and culture. African spiritualities must be understood as originated from Africa’s soil, but also developed through contact with people from other countries and continents. The African independent or indigenous churches play an important role in the establishing of African Christian spiritualities. This article distinguishes and gives attention to the influence of African traditional spiritual phenomena as well as a ‘globalised Africa spiritual’ phenomenon on African families. When the influence on African families are discussed, it is done from a Christian point of view, and for this reason the article concludes with the role of the missional church and parents in the spiritual formation of their children.

ВІД СТРУКТУРНОЇ ЛІНГВІСТИКИ ДО СЕМІОЛОГІЧНОЇ ФІЛОСОФІЇ: ІСТОРИКО-ФІЛОСОФСЬКИЙ АНАЛІЗ

The article shows the evolution of views on the interpretation of language, as a universal method, which in some way influences philosophical discourse. It has been outlined that semiotic approach to the study of language was formed already in the depths of linguistics (F.D. Sosyur, R. Jacobson, etc.), which laid the groundwork for overcoming the methodological subjectivism of prior science and philosophy. It is emphasized that the linguistic structure is not just an explanatory construct; it, having isolated a set of certain metaphysical opposition, seeks to overcome them and go beyond the limits of empirical research. With its help it is possible to consider mental and spiritual phenomena as such that are not deduced causally from the physiological processes, but rather internally programmed, that means that they create certain structures (E. Husserl), which causes the emergence of a variety of spectacular theories in the block of humanities, who sought scientific rigor and renovation of their own methodological reflection, appealing to the systematic and objective approach to linguistics, thus laying the foundations of semio logical philosophy. Characterized by the peculiarities of semiotic philosophy, namely: the origin of dyadic and triadic models of structuralists and post-structuralists with their representativeness of time-space opposition; the impossibility of chronological distinction between structuralism and post-structuralism and their combination in a single way of philosophizing; offering a conceptual apparatus for finding a new form of rationality (the so-called formal rationality), which implies a multitude of actualizations in verbal psychoanalysis (J. Lakan), literary criticism (R. Bart), structural epistemology M. Fuko, anti-metaphysical demarches J.Derid and J.F.Liotara and attempts to simulacrizationof reality by J. Bodriyar.

Modernization of the Russian Education Under the Geopolitical Realities of Modernity: The Problem of Formation of the Russian Identity

The obvious contradiction between a modern geopolitical course of the country to multi-polarity, to the Eurasian vector of development and the strategy of modernization of Russian education according the Western (European) model derivative of the idea of uni-polarity, embedding the Russian education in a valuable semantic paradigm of the Western civilization is being implemented till present. The contradiction related to the strategic geopolitical vector of development of modern Russia and the strategy of its state institutes, education, in particular, leads to the fact that in the Russian society the complex unresolved humanitarian problems will turn into a serious crisis in future. One of such challenges in Russia aggravated due to the global opposition between Russia and the USA is the problem of national unity of Russian society, the formation of Russian national identity. Variants of the pedagogical solution of the given problem actualizing the idea of multi-polarity and the paradigm of the Russian Eurasian civilization corresponding to it, in particular, the Cossacks phenomenon are considered in the article. In this aspect, the Cossack culture appears as a spiritual and ideological phenomenon of Russian civilization, as the national value, actualizing the idea of the personifying the idea of Russianness in the Eurasian vector of development of Russia, creating the traditional basis for Russian identity formation among the younger generations at present and in future.

Empirical Study on Spirituality, Employee’s Engagement and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from China

ABSTRACT This research has contributed to the impact and association between workplace spirituality, employee’s engagement, and job satisfaction. The researcher contacted Chinese university faculty to collect data by means of self-administered survey approach using the 5-point Likert scale. Analyzing the collected data, different tests have been used like correlation, regression, Independent sample T-test. Reliability analysis shows that the scale of all constructs is reliable having Cronbach alpha >0.70. Correlation results show that when spirituality increases, engagement and job satisfaction also increase. Regression results indicate that workplace has a significant influence on employee engagement and their satisfaction with the job. Moreover, findings of independent sample t-test reveal that male and female are significantly different only with respect to the department and partially recognized with respect to the designation. This research looked into the phenomenon of spirituality at the job as an important aspect and pays aspect (cause and effect) to enhance the employee’s engagement and satisfaction at the workplace.

Taking spiritual experiences seriously in the religious education classroom: a transrational approach

ABSTRACTSpiritual experiences are common across religious and non-religious faiths, but schoolchildren are often afraid to share these because they fear ridicule from peers who are convinced religion is irrational. The need to speak about spirituality in religious education is increasingly recognised. Signposts suggests that intercultural understanding implies recognising religious students’ perception of reality and helping others understand it. Religious education in Norway now includes exploration of existential questions as a core element, and in England, making sense of religious, spiritual and mystical experiences has been suggested as a big idea. In this paper, we discuss how the dualistic paradigm of modern science makes it difficult to take spirituality seriously as lived experience and empirical phenomenon. Instead we suggest a transrational approach to explore our multidimensional reality in an intercultural dialogue where insiders and outsiders learn from each other. We also explore examples of transrational research on spiritual phenomena.

Implikasi Erupsi Gunung Agung Terhadap Kegiatan Pariwisata Di Kawasan Pura Besakih


 
 
 Besakih Temple is the bigest temple in Bali located on the slopes of Mount Agung exactly in Besakih village, Rendang district, Karangasem regency. In addition to being a center of religious ceremonies at Besakih Temple there are also tourism activities. Mount Agung is the highest mountain in Bali and has several times the last eruption occurred in 2017. The researchs try to find the condition of tourism before and after the eruption of Mount Agung in the area of Besakih Temple.
 The research method used is qulalitative research with comparative data analysis techniques to analyze the condition of tourism before the eruption of Mount Agung and the implications of eruption Mount Agung for tourism activities in the area of Besakih Temple. The data sources, from primary data and secondary data. The concept used are concept of eruption, concept of cultural attraction, concept of the Besakih Temple as spiritual phenomenon, concept of operational, concept of the informal sector in tourism.
 The result of the research shows that the influence of Mount Agung eruption on tourism activity in area of Besakih Temple is viewed based on the level of tourist visit, the condition of tourist attraction, the comfort of the area, the cleanliness of the area, the operational and income of the local tour guide, the motorcycle drivers, artshop, kiosks, activity of informal tourism sector in the area of Besakih Temple. The area of Besakih Temple managers should synergize with the government and community to conduct recovery of tourism activities in the area of Besakih Temple.
 Keywords: Implication, Eruption, Tourism Activity, Pura Besakih
 
 

О цивилизационных типах цинизма: Ближний и Дальний Восток

<p>В статье рассматриваются типы цинизма, возникшие в восточных цивилизациях, ядром которых были мировые религии — буддизм и ислам.</p><p> Мистическое направление буддизма (традиции дзен) в ХХ в. обретает черты «глобальной культурно-символической туманности» (А. Агаджанян) — глобального необуддизма. Она свободна от поклонения Богу, конкретных традиций и одновременно навязывает миру определенную духовную моду. Хотя она кажется альтернативной западным традициям, но проявляет себя как «прирученная альтернатива». Облик глобального необуддизма можно описать так: транснациональная сетевая структура с центрами вокруг харизматических учителей; медитация как ключевая практика; новое буддийское миссионерство (благотворительность, общественное участие, реклама в массмедиа); создание реформаторских установок на «очищение ядра» или «научный» буддизм. На примере буддизма видно, как западная культура тестирует, фильтрует, обрабатывает духовные феномены различных культур, вырывая их из национальной почвы и встраивая в глобальный масскульт.</p><p>Ядром ближневосточного, арабского мира, является ислам, имеющий мистическое направление — суфизм. В конце ХХ в. суфизм превращается в народный праздник, некое действо, промежуточное между мистерией и цирком, не предполагающее отныне духовных практик. В то же время традиционный ислам создает религиозно-политические организации и группировки, которые обозначаются как «радикализм», «экстремизм», «терроризм» с добавлением определения «исламский». Так отлаженная система глобального государственного террора, созданного Западом, запустила ответный механизм — терроризм групп и одиночек, который пытается противостоять глобализму в его же цинической системе координат. Цинизм усиливается тем, что постепенно «воины Аллаха» превращаются в глобальных наемников, которые начинают служить силе, против которой изначально создавались, — Западу.</p><p>Делается вывод, что духовное движение — это всегда движение против энтропийного овеществления и объективирования миропонимания. Когда антиэнтропийный процесс прекращается, в мире происходит распыление и ослабление духовности. И мировые религии, и крупные цивилизации прошли свой энтропийный путь, создав собственные типы цинизма. Всеобщий цинизм — тревожный сигнал глобального «разбожествления» мира.</p>

Turning East Toward the Light: A clinical observation of spiritual phenomena during treatment of the chemical dependency population

This article reports the observations of one clinician working with the chemical dependency (CD) population in the outpatient format. Spiritual phenomena and positive changes resulting thereof in the recovery process of select patients made a great impression upon this writer. These spiritual changes were not treatment-induced or patient determined. Rather the spiritual phenomena observed were select and sudden, individual, personal and included remorse with the hope of restitution on the part of the subject. This observation included further study citing research, discussion, and conclusions. Spiritual practices are linked to better remission outcomes, but must also include voluntary participation on the part of the CD client. Further study and improved awareness of the importance of the Spiritual in the treatment of the CD population is needed.

Institutional Aesthetics: Embodied Ways of Encountering, Evaluating, and Enacting Institutions

The cognitive turn in institutional theory has led to the systematic neglect of people’s sensory capacities. In this paper we offer a cross-level theory of the role in institutional processes of sensory and evaluative forms of knowledge. Called here the aesthetic mode, this way of knowing combines humans’ innate sensory capacity to engage the world with their learned capacity to evaluate what they encounter. We argue that people evaluate the world’s natural, social, and spiritual phenomena through the lenses of a personal aesthetic, each person’s distinct internalization of the institutional aesthetic codes of the communities in which they are in embedded. A personal aesthetic informs and animates people’s internal conversations as they evaluate the social arrangements they encounter and deliberate over how they should participate in the institutional processes of maintaining, disrupting, or creating social arrangements. Attending to people’s aesthetic ways of knowing positions us to better understand when, why, and how people deliberate about institutional values and arrangements and choose to engage in purposive institutional work. It also offers a way of conceptualizing and examining the reflexivity said to be at the heart of embedded agency. We discuss the implications for understanding of institutional work, institutional biography, and of how people experience institutional disruption and re-creation.

The Spirituality of Contemporary Danes – between Paganism and Secularisation

The topic of the article is the issue of the place of religion in contemporary Danish society. Not only Scandinavia, but all of Europe is subject to secularisation processes. As a result of this process, the role of the Christian religion remains limited or eliminated. However this crisis of religion, does not affect the deeprooted desire for transcendence and individual search for it. In the case of Denmark, it appears in a return to neo-paganism – a reconstructionist religion that attempts to return to the religion of the “nature” of ancient and early medieval Germans. An example of this religion is the Ásatrú movement, dynamically developing in Denmark. On the other hand, the need for transcendence is realised by the phenomenon of spirituality, which is the need for self-transcending. Both of these directions are an expression of freedom, finding meaning, but also a conscious search for identity in a dynamically changing Europe.

History and Myth: Mahāmudrā Lineage Accounts in the 12th-Century Xixia Buddhist Literature

Mahāmudrā—an Indo-Tibetan phenomenon of Buddhist spirituality—constitutes in its systematic presentation a path that maps out the mystical quest for direct experience of ultimate reality. Despite the post-15th century bKa’-brgyud attempts at a codified Mahāmudrā genealogy, the early Tibetan sources speak little with regards to how the different Indian Mahāmudrā threads made their way over the Himalayas. To fill this gap, the article investigates, via philological and historical approaches, the lineage accounts in the 12th-century Xixia Mahāmudrā materials against the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist landscape. Three transmission lines are detected. Among them, two lines are attested by later Tibetan historiographical accounts about Mahāmudrā, and thus belong to an Indo-Tibetan continuum of the constructed Buddhist yogic past based upon historical realities—at least as understood by Tibetans of the time. The third one is more of a collage patching together different claims to spiritual legacy and religious authority—be they historically based or introspectively projected. Not only does the Mahāmudrā topography, jointly fueled by these three transmissions, reveal the Xixia recognition and imagination of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist legacies, it also captures the complexities of the multi-faceted picture of Mahāmudrā on its way over the Himalayas during the 11th/12th century.

Kad ugdymas nebūtų vienakojis: dvasingumas kaip svarbi dedamoji

[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba]
 Straipsnyje atskleidžiama dvasingumo svarba akademiniame diskurse, kuriame raginama siekti mokslo ir dvasingumo sintezės atsisakant klaidingo epistemologinio žemėlapio ir ugdant išskirtines intelektines savybes, bendrai vadinamas dvasiniu intelektu (SQ). Pristatomos dvasingumo sampratos ugdymo moksle – čia dvasingumas dažnai implikuoja autentiškumą, transcendavimą ir susietumą arba kritinį požiūrį kaip atsvarą tradiciniam religingumui bei transracionalias patirtis. Aptariami dvasingumo ugdymo aukštojo mokslo institucijose būdai.

УНІВЕРСАЛЬНІ УМОВИ ДЕКОНФЛІКТИЗАЦІЇ СОЦІАЛЬНОГО ПРОСТОРУ: ПОТЕНЦІАЛ ЕТИЧНОГО АБСОЛЮТИЗМУ

The article’s analysis focuses on the ontological aspects of social existence harmonious. Ethical principles of good are the main de-confliction mechanisms, factors that are reproduced and responsible for solving the problem of social and individual order. Universal ethical values - freedom, love, responsibility, creativity is a preexisting knowledge that produces, translates and reproduces the coherence practices of co-existence at both individual and social levels. It is revealed that the functionality of the latter is reproduced in the space of productive communication experience, which acquires personality in the social interaction context. The "threat" to ethical knowledge, which is the ontological basis of the social being organization, is the problem of ethics relativity. This problem arises and spreads as a result of the ethical knowledge objectification, its transformation into a thing. In other words, it is the transformation of universal values, the goals of ethics as spiritual phenomena, into the means of achieving individual desire, personal well-being, the tools of satisfying my selfish desires, that transforms a person into a conformal consumer. From ancient hedonism to modern versions of transhumanism, ethical relativism theories continue to actively raise questions about the relevance of the ethical absolutism principles. It is noted that the dissonance that arises in connection with the actualization of the ethics relativism question indicates an aggravation of the formalization problem of spiritual knowledge. Consequently, ethical conformity is required to conform to the ontology of social being. This correspondence is based on the absoluteness of ethics as a condition for the functioning of harmonious social relations - on the one hand, and human development - on the other. Thus, the analysis of the consolidation mechanisms of human being, its integrity, harmony, should focus on the actualization of the ethical absolutism issue, which is particularly acute in today's conflict world. It is this perspective that explores the problems of integrating social and individual order and provides tools and solutions.

Kwestia rasizmu w myśli ideologów Organizacji Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów (1929–1945)

The goal of the article is to show what role did the racist elements play in the ideology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and whether they were present in that ideology at all. In the scientific discourse it remains controversial, whether OUN was in fact a fascist organization. Those discussions very often ignore the question of racism and its role in both Italian fascism and Ukrainian nationalism. It is also rarely analyzed what was the nature of those racist elements. In the article the historical-legal method has been used, as well as the comparative method. The problem has not been analyzed in the chronological manner, in order to secure the clarity of the article Applied structure of the paper allows showing the analyzed problem from the most general questions to more detailed ones. Works of the ideologists connected with OUN, such as Dmytro Dontsov, Volodymyr Martynec’, Dmytro Orlyk, Yuliyan Vassyjan and Yuriy Lypa have been analyzed, Author decided to underline most important parts of their thought presented in their books and pamphlets and compare their views on each issue. It allowed to indicate that racism is often a topic presented in the works of the ideologists of OUN, although there is no one version of that thought. Every author presents his own view on that topic and other approach. However, they seem to become gradually more interested in the problem of the race in late 30’s and 40’s. However Ukrainian racism is not a biological racism. It treats the race as the spiritual phenomenon with a biological substrate.

“Смеркання Заходу” Освальда Шпенґлера: провіденційна модель науки

The article is dedicated to the 100 Anniversary from the first publication of the monumental work by Oswald Spengler “The Decline of the West”. The main attention is focused upon the problems of the role, place, functions and methods of science in the situation of changeability and instability of the contemporary academic space; trajectory of the possible development of the human knowledge in the West world; delimitation of the science and humanitarian studies spheres and their interrelations; opposing of the cultural and civilization scientific models. The study reveals that the scholar suggests the necessity of drawing of the idea of the internal as the overcoming of the crisis in the science which would help to oppose spiritual world picture to the mechanic worldview and consequently open the way to the penetration into deep internal essence of the things. So the article deals with the comprehended by German scholar such concepts as knowledge, understanding, creativity; scientific experience as self-perception; the past and the future as an expression of separate human soul or culture; idea of irrational and creative components of investigation. Oswald Spengler in his unsurpassed work “The Decline of the West” had predicted risks of our epoch and had developed the unique scheme of the study of the past as the foundation for the future construction. Proposed approach confirmed the possibility of the existence of the providential model of science, which would take into consideration in scientific knowledge not only spiritual phenomena but intuitive penetration, insight, enlightens as well; to project the ways of the possible dynamics of the historical, cultural and scientific development. The providential model of science is analyzed as the method of avoidance of the probable risks in the conditions of civilization crisis, as well as the possible approach of preserving of the West culture.