Spiritual Way Research Articles

ABU NASR FORABI AND ERICH FROMM'S COMPARATIVISTIC VIEWS ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR

The historical experience of the East and the West, the traditions of intense philosophical debates, the traditions of philosophical debates, values are extremely important. Using Erich Fromm and Farobi's scientific activities, rich, cultural and spiritual heritage, it is important to use them to build a civil society in our country, to improve spiritual life, and first of all, to educate the young generation into a well-rounded generation. studying the cultural heritage and high spiritual values of our people deeply and comprehensively, inculcating them in the mind of every person living in our Republic, especially educating the young generation to be spiritually mature and selfless people is one of the most urgent problems today. To improve the spiritual and professional potential of the leading personnel by studying and applying the works of Erich Fromm and Farobiy, to educate them in the spirit of patriotism, hard work and patriotism. In particular, the spiritual heritage of scholars is of incomparable importance in protecting young people from vices alien to the way of life and spirituality of our people.

The benefits of hearing voices groups: more findings from a US national study

ABSTRACT Background Hearing voices peer-support groups (HVGs) are spreading widely as an alternative or supplement to standard psychiatric treatments for the distress that can accompany unshared perceptions or extreme states. Yet although people in dozens of countries clearly find HVGs useful, their precise mechanisms of action and distinctive benefits are not fully understood. Analyzing the effectiveness of these groups is increasingly important as mental health resources stretch to the breaking point in many parts of the world. Methods Using an inductive phenomenological method, our collaborative team of voice-hearers and researchers analyzed the experiences of 119 HVG members in the US, who provided detailed voice hearing histories and accounts of group participation. Results Results indicated that HVGs offer four distinct types of benefits, affording members an opportunity to: (1) examine the voice hearing experience in itself; (2) discern the meanings of voices and explore them within a biographical context; (3) receive validation for cultural or spiritual ways of understanding voices; and (4) develop a sense of shared experience and camaraderie with other voice-hearers. Discussion These participant-defined benefits are quite different from standard outcome measures, suggesting new avenues for research to understand the diverse appeal of HVGs

What does it mean to sing with the Earth?

ABSTRACT A small group (n = 11) of singers from the same community of musical practice in the UK participated in focus group workshops to reflect on their experiences of group singing in nature. The study found that group singing in nature was considered to be a (non-religious) spiritual practice that enhances participants’ experience of both communitas and their connection to the natural world. Participants made an important distinction between singing with the earth – communing with the natural world in a more spiritual way – and singing for the earth, more political activity in response to local and global environmental issues. From a Posthuman perspective, diffraction – as both the physical and metaphorical process of exploring ‘differences that matter’ – is identified as an important concept for understanding how different routes to wellbeing can be mutually constitutive and intra-active. De-centring human experience by amplifying the co-constitutive role of other agencies like the natural world highlights the ontological and epistemological complexity of such experience.

Dance Culture in Search of the Ways of Personality Spirituality

Dance Culture in Search of the Ways of Personality Spirituality

Application of Taoist Principles and Feng Shui in Urban Spaces (Landscaping and Garden Design)

The Taoist school emphasizes concepts such as "Yin and Yang" and "Tehya." Taoism has had a profound influence on architecture, painting, landscaping, home decoration, and lifestyle, extending beyond the borders of China to impact the entire modern world. The application of Far Eastern worldviews based on Taoist thought and its arrangement techniques, such as Feng Shui and its unique interior decoration in homes, urban spaces, garden design, and landscaping, deeply enhances and elevates the quality of life. Relying on ancient knowledge and experience, it can be stated that Tao is a spiritual way of life that enables humans to channel the positive energies of nature into themselves. The present study poses the question of how Taoist philosophical concepts influence urban space design. Taoism, one of the oldest philosophical schools in China, has significantly impacted the art of that region, with its ultimate goal being the harmony and consonance of humans with the natural order in life. Given that the practical art of Feng Shui is a derivative of this philosophy, the aim of this research is to identify and apply the fundamental elements of this mystical philosophy in urban planning and landscaping, and to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the philosophy and art of interior and exterior design. In this study, which presents its findings in an analytical-descriptive manner, we first analyze and examine Feng Shui's influence on the mystical and ontological foundations of Taoism and the manifestation of this approach in design and landscaping principles. It is then demonstrated that the application of these elements in urban spaces can bring not only visual beauty but also peace, balance, and harmony to the modern urban dweller.

Terra-Therapy or, Growing Deep Peace

Abstract: Gardening not only provides material abundance in the flourishing of plants, it also provides spiritual and nonviolent practices that generate peace. Cultivating a garden teaches the concentration of prayer and other meditative practices, and gardening can ground a person in transience (the inevitability of suffering and death). The embodied encounter with dirt that is gardening suggests a spiritual way beyond purity projects that deny the inherent messiness of experience. Gardening also offers a spiritual kinship that extends beyond the human world, in relationships that allow the remembering of ancestors and teaching respect for the planet.

Bridging Binaries: Navigating Bicultural Space in Film Design

This article examines how a researcher (a filmmaker whose lineage is both Indigenous and European) navigates ‘betweenness’ that is sometimes disruptive to cultural conventions. As a gay man who identifies as bicultural, I orient myself with, within and across worlds. From this position my approaches are largely shaped by the Māori values of manaakitanga (caring for the needs of people), kaitiakitanga (protecting and caring for all creation) and whanaungatanga (creating and sustaining relationships). These are supplemented by values emanating from my position as a gay activist and the resulting concerns with social justice and facing down the erasure, marginalization or exoticization of LGBTQ+ identities. Although I am of mixed race ancestry, I see my bicultural positioning as a way of accessing a form of epistemological pluralism that embraces intellectual, physical, social and spiritual ways of knowing. Thus, when creating the feature film Punch (Ings, 2022), it was necessary to find a place to stand, in practice, as a bicultural story designer. This involved actualizing productive care inside how the film production was experienced, working in communion with the land as a living being, and navigating tensions of transgression by establishing facilities for cultural guidance and insight within the project. 
 

Gerakan Samin: Konflik Hutan, Ratu Adil dan Perlawanan Kultural Petani Blora

The Samin movement is a consequence of the accumulation of people's misery due to the oppressive policies of the Dutch colonial government and is motivated by the uniformity of the mindset of the masses regarding the belief in the emergence of the figure of Ratu Adil within Samin Suro(se)ntiko. The purpose of this writing is to find out, identify the journey and development of the Samin Movement in Blora and interpret the character of Samin Suro(se)ntiko and his teachings. The Samin movement was not only a rejection of the colonial government's policies, but also influenced the culture, way of life and spirituality of its followers. Spirituality in the understanding of the Samin lies in the teachings of the ‘Agama Adam’ which is not an abstract doctrine but a gaman (weapon/life guide) and not a special ritual to the ‘Pengeran’ (God) but the behavior of everyday life. ‘Agama Adam’is actually the life guide (ageman) of the Samin people which is reflected clearly and concretely in their own lives. ‘Agama Adam’ is the basis for swagraha or non-violent resistance from the Samins. Without this source, it will be difficult to understand how the Samin as innocent poor farmers (wong cilik) have great courage in positioning themselves to oppose state power and reject it.

Gaia and Religious Pluralism in Bruno Latour’s ‘New-Materialism’

In his works on ecological philosophy, Bruno Latour develops an interesting perspective on religion and pluralism. He proposes a new worldview, in which religion is reinterpreted in view of a Gaian philosophy. He extends ‘pluralism’ beyond the anthropocentrism that dominates modern humanism. In his book Facing Gaia Latour includes nonhuman beings in a larger community and works towards a larger concept of eco-humanism. In this paper, I try to reconstruct his position by showing that the philosophical foundation for his interpretation of religion could be called ‘terrarism’ and is to be classified as a form of new materialism. This new interpretation of materialism has postmodernist origins (inspired by Gilles Deleuze), but it is not identical to it, because Latour distances himself from ‘postmodernism’. He wants to positively contribute to a new ontology. My point is that Latour’s ‘terrarist’ grounding of religious pluralism obstructs any foundation of transcendence and, finally, congests a really pluralistic ecumene because he still adheres to the postmodernist idea that we should renounce to a unitary principle of being. His ideas on eco-humanism and pluralistic ecumene could gain momentum if we opened ourselves to a more holistic and spiritual way of thinking, retaking Lovelock’s conception of Gaia. However, Latour’s new-materialistic interpretation of ‘animism’ can be seen as a positive contribution to a new perspective of the world that definitively sets ‘materialism’ aside.

Osmanlı Devleti’nin Son Dönemi ve Bektaşi Tekkelerinin Toparlanma Sürecinde Klasik Metnin İhyası: Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı (1869-1949) ve Nefesleri

Bu çalışma, Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı’nın nefeslerini konu edinmiştir. Osmanlı Devleti’nin son dönemi ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin ilk döneminde şiirleri ve özellikle nefesleriyle etkili olan Rıza Tevfik düşünsel krizi karşısında manevi dayanak olarak Bektaşi edebiyatına yaslanmıştır. Çocukluk, gençlik yılları ve felsefe okumalarıyla fikri buhranlarından çıkış yolu olarak Bektaşi edebiyatı klasik metinlerini bulmuştur. Bektaşi çevrelerin elinde bulunan cönk ve menakıbnamelerde aktarılan hususlarla manevi bir çıkış yolu ve güvenli bir alan kurmuştur. Yenileşme döneminde şiirleri arasında nefeslere yer vermiştir. Yazdığı nefesler, kısa sürede Bektaşi çevre ve tekkelerinde ilgiyle takip edilip okunmaya başlamıştır. Nefeslerin neredeyse tamamı bestelenmiş ve Bektaşi meydanlarında okunmuştur. Batı karşısında felsefe, siyaset, kültürel ve edebiyat gibi birçok alanda yeni talep ve değişimle elde ettikleri tecrübenin merkezileştiği çevrenin faaliyetleri arasında ayrıcalıklı yere sahip olan dil ve edebiyat çalışmalarıdır. Dil ve edebiyat içerisinde şiir ve şiir içerisinde de Bektaşi edebiyatından nefeslere yer verilmiştir. Rıza Tevfik, yenileşme döneminin en etkili şahıslarından birisi olarak şiirleri arasında nefesler başlığı altında birçok şiir kaleme almıştır. Serab-ı Ömrüm adıyla yayınladığı şiirlerinin başlıklarından biri de nefestir. Rıza Tevfik, Bektaşi çevrelere büyük destek ve katkı sunarak Bektaşi edebiyatının gelişmesini, yayılıp yaygınlaşmasını ve farklı çevrelerde okunmasını sağlamıştır. Rıza Tevfik, yazdığı nefeslerle edebiyat çevrelerinde fark edilmiş ve nefesin tür olarak edebiyat içerisinde değerlendirilmesini yeniden gündeme getirmiştir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Nefesler, Devriyeler, Bektaşi.

Youth poetry and national values

National values are a system of principles that have been formed over the centuries and passed down from generation to generation in the way of life and spirituality of every people. The values of each people, selected and tested during the period of historical development, accumulated as the most valuable heritage - the native language and historical memory, spiritual and human qualities, moral norms, customs and traditional foundations form the basis of the national idea of this people. National values occupy a special place in the life of the people and are an important source of education for the new generation. spiritual values that have been formed over the centuries through the life experience of the people, as society develops, are replenished with new symbols and mature in accordance with modern requirements. In today’s globalized world, each nation can preserve its national character only when it integrates into the world community, reviving its great spiritual treasures – language, mentality, history, traditions, literature and art. After all, the noble spiritual values that underlie national education are a golden ray that continues traditions and modern trends and guarantees the preservation of goodness and moral stability, like a golden bridge between today and the future. It creates rules and principles that strengthen the human qualities of each nation, nourish the soul, arise from the wisdom of the people and are constantly renewed. The Kazakh worldview, mentality, customs, traditions and teachings have been formed and strengthened for centuries. One of the effective tools for glorifying, promoting and instilling national values in the minds of the younger generation, based on the foundations of centuries-old national education, is fiction, including poetry. The article reveals the role of national values in the poems of young Mangistau poets Gulayim Dautbayeva and Nurgul Maulina. Analyzing the works of these poets, the author examines their cognitive and educational value, their role in the formation of national identity and serving national interests. In literary, philosophical, psychological terms, the essence of national concepts and ideas in poetic texts is analyzed, an assessment is made of the conceptual orientation of the work of young poets.

Creating and Implementing an Indigenous Evaluation Framework Process With Minnesota Tribes

This article is an exemplar of incorporating traditional Indigenous approaches into evaluation practice and addresses the Eastern Door—Be a Good Relative. Throughout the creation of a process for implementing an Indigenous evaluation framework, the American Indian Public Health Resource Center team came to the work rested and ready in ways that reflected traditional, cultural, and spiritual ways of knowing. Throughout the authors’ process, they respectfully listened and sought to understand first and foremost their Tribal partners and let them guide the authors’ decision-making process for taking the best pathway forward together. The authors are honoured to share their story.

INVESTIGATING HISTORICAL TRAUMA PREVALENCE AND TRANSMISSION PATHWAYS AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS: CENTERING COMMUNITY WELLNESS PRACTICES

Existing historical trauma studies have advanced important theoretical frameworks for understanding biopsychosocial effects observed among children of Holocaust survivors and contemporary Indigenous Peoples. This study used an existing application of historical trauma conceptualized as historical perceived loss and associated symptoms of that perceived loss such as grief, anger, sadness and depression to determine prevalence and correlates of historical loss among 129 African Americans aged 18 to over 65 from Illinois and Florida in the United States. The respondents also completed a survey to identify potential historical trauma transmission pathways. The results indicated respondents reported they thought about historical losses such as land, language, and spiritual ways at least yearly or at special times and sometimes or more had feelings or associated symptoms of historical loss such as sadness or depression or being uncomfortable around White people. Bivariate and multivariate correlational analyses showed significantly statistical differences between age and historical loss and associated symptoms where younger respondents had more frequent thoughts about historical loss and experienced more associated emotions, which was unexpected. A correlation was also found between occasionally hearing family stories of enslavement and discrimination and thoughts of historical loss

تصوف اور قرآن: ایک مطالعہ

Mysticism is a spiritual way of living which assesses a person inertly and help to promote his special qualities. Islam guides a man to make him spiritually pure and strong person in order to establish peace and justice. Every verse of Quran has inner meaning by her existence. The Islamic mysticism is reflected by Quran and Ideal personalities.

Tragedy or transformation? Online survey of nurse spirituality during the COVID pandemic.

To describe positive and negative spiritual responses to providing COVID-related nursing care among nurses working in hospitals. The COVID pandemic has intensified and publicised the threats to nurse well-being. Absent from the recommendations for promoting nurse well-being is recognition of how nurses' spirituality and/or religiosity is affected by the strain of COVID caring or how it may be affecting their well-being. Cross-sectional, descriptive observational, mixed methods study. Data were collected from 523 registered nurses employed in three Southern California hospitals during March-May, 2022 when these hospitals' COVID case counts were <15%. Using Online survey methods, data were obtained using the Religious/Spiritual Struggles Scale-Short Form, Moral Injury Symptom Scale-Healthcare Professionals, Post-traumatic Growth Inventory and demographic and work-related items. STROBE guidelines for cross-sectional observational studies were observed. The mean for religious/spiritual struggles was 1.98 (range of 1-5, comparable to a little bit). Although roughly half of the sample reported the struggles were not experienced/did not apply, 23%-36.5% reported experiencing these struggles at least somewhat. The most frequent struggle was to find ultimate meaning. The mean observed for moral injury was 6.5 (range of 1-10); applying established criteria indicated it was troubling for at least 50%. The mean for post-traumatic growth was 4 (on a scale of 0-6); using established criteria, 41% experienced PTG. Quantitative findings were illustrated by the qualitative responses that occasionally expressed spiritual tragedy and transformation concurrently. The professional work of nursing impacts nurses in invisible, spiritual ways that can be tragic and/or transformative. Interventions to address nurses' mental health challenges must include attention to these invisible struggles. Nurses' mental health challenges must be met in part by addressing how they can surmount spiritual tragedy-and allow spiritual transformation.

Subjects of the right to self-determination in contemporary international law

The issue of subjects of the right to self-determination is one of the most controversial issues in the theory of international law. The author, researching etymology, as well as cases of application of concepts “people” and “nation”, pays attention to their interchangeability and sometimes identification. The author proposes to view people (in a narrow sense) as a spatial, related to a particular socio-economic, linguistic, cultural and spiritual way of life, of individuals. Broadly speaking, a people is characterized as a social community that acquires a political identity and thereby becomes a nation, under certain circumstances, a State. The article proposed criteria for the self-determination of peoples and nations in accordance with the current international order and architecture. The research focuses on institutions such as uti possidetis juris and remedial secession. The author’s analysis of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo is of some interest. In considering the problem of indigenous and small-numbered peoples and national minorities, the author proceeds from the possibility that they may exercise their right to self-determination in the form of territorial autonomy or self-organization (self-government), depending on their number, characteristics of resettlement and other circumstances. Both models (territorial and extraterritorial) are designed to give indigenous peoples their identity, based, inter alia, on established traditions and customs, Development in accordance with the fundamental laws of the State and the norms of international law, while preserving the stability and territorial integrity of the State. On the basis of the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee, various aspects of the legal personality of individuals in the exercise of the right to self-determination have been examined.

Alaska Native successful ageing in Northwest Alaska: how family impacts how one ages in a good way

ABSTRACT Since time immemorial Alaska Natives (AN) lived and aged well, yet today they experience high rates of illness and lower access to care because of colonisation. Aand this research explores successful ageing from an AN perspective or what it means to achieve “Eldership” in the rural Northwest Alaska. A community-based participatory research approach was used to engage participants at every stage of the research process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 AN men and 25 women and the interviews were professionally transcribed. Kleinman’s explanatory model served as the foundation of the questionnaire to gain a sense of the beliefs about ageing and guide the thematic analysis to establish an AN understanding of successful ageing. The foundation of the Norton Sound southern sub-region Model of Successful Ageing is the reciprocal relationship between Elders and family which enables Elders to access meaningful activities, including Native ways of life, physical health, spirituality, and emotional well-being. Community-based interventions should foster opportunities for Elders to share their Native way of life alongside family and community members, which will enable them to remain physically active, maintain healthy emotional well-being, continue engaging in spiritual practices, and contribute to the health and well-being of families.

Relationship of Nurses’ Workload with Islamic Spiritual Nursing Care Competence in Hemodialysis Unit

Nurses as care providers are obliged to meet the needs of patients in a bio psychosocial and spiritual way. The high activity of nurses in serving patients affects their work results, so it is important to pay attention on the workload of nurses in providing nursing services and the competence of Islamic spiritual nursing care. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the workload of nurses and the competence of Islamic spiritual nursing care in hemodialysis unit. This research was a correlational quantitative research by using a cross-sectional research design. The respondents were 24 hemodialysis nurses who were selected by using total sampling technique. The data was collected by online questionnaire. The data analysis used a non-parametric Spearman rank test. This study obtained p-value 0.001 and correlation coefficient 0.628 which indicated a significant relationship between the workload of nurses and the competence of Islamic spiritual nursing care in hemodialysis unit. The researchers recommended that nurses can provide a particular Islamic spiritual nursing care in hemodialysis units since spirituality is highly important for patients with chronic diseases and nurses as care providers are obliged to meet patient needs both psychosocially and spiritually.

Reading Deuteronomic Vision in Literature

The novelistic genre acquires its full nobility through its dynamic capacity to overcome any canonical forms, incorporating intertexts that belong to other discursive fields. It is a genre with no real borders –its heterogeneous and rhizomic identity corroborates its rebellious and conquering feature. Decrying conformism and traditional mimetic sectarianism, that genre renews its borders by appropriating innovative narrative techniques, consisting of interweaving literary, mythical, cultural, and biblical values. By imbricating those intergeneric or interdiscursive figures, Paule Marshall’s fiction illustrates itself as a crucible of extratextual and complex resources. Through their combination, a poetics of heterogeneity emerges, thus generating a semantic shift, which ranges from spiritual trend to cultural one. The “Annual Excursion,” which is thematized in Praisesong for the Widow, offers a substantial and spiritual way out for a cultural reconnection and wholeness –black characters who are involved in that journey to the homeland, construct their cultural identity, connect themselves with their ancestors’ past, and restore their tarnished image. They also promise faithfulness to the “Old Parents.” In return, the latter undertakes to provide the “Out-Islanders” with spiritual and cultural protection to them. That metaphorical, spiritual covenant, which is anchored in the book of Deuteronomy, is far from being pointless or accidental, for it embodies both spiritual and cultural stakes, which the current study aims to scrutinize through the lens of the semiotics of culture. For that purpose, two points will be considered, namely “metaphorizing black ancestors’ requirements” and “the cultural scope of the spiritual covenant.

Forging Identity: Spiritual Labor as an Organizational Practice

This paper takes McGuire's (2010) concept of spiritual labor in a new theoretical direction that departs from her tripartite framework of regulation, commodification, and codification. We begin with a review of the sparse literature on spiritual labor. Next, we describe a new theoretical framework of spiritual labor beginning with a nonessentialist definition of spirituality and then elaborating processes of discourse, organizational identification strategies, and individual identity work. We show how both organizational identification strategies and individual identity work, when infused by discourses of spirituality, mutually construct spiritual labor. Our theoretical framework is illustrated with an example. Lastly, we suggest a reflexive ethnographic method for studying spiritual labor as an organizational practice. Our reformulation of spiritual labor offers organizational scholars a way of understanding spirituality as one of many emergent properties of the organizing process. In particular, critical scholars may find the lens of spiritual labor useful for understanding how organizations enlist spirituality to induce a sense of shared purpose among organizational members.