The founding of Spiritual Heritage Education Inc. (SHEN) is intimately related to the grave human and environmental problems humanity faces today. Modern science and technology have reduced the world to a global village where people travel far and wide to live in pluralistic communities and communicate across the globe with the speed of light, but the human mind is still a prisoner of the past when we lived in isolated and often conflicting communities. The human mind is way out of sync with the reality on the ground.
Living together may be necessary to broaden the horizon, but it is not enough to join our hearts and minds to relate as human beings. Strong feelings of "us" against "them" prevent us from living in harmony as equal members of the human race enjoying our commonwealth. On the contrary, our feelings fragment humanity into conflicting interest groups based upon identities limited by faith, religion, culture, language, nationality, region, race, gender, gender orientation, the colour of the skin, and so on. The strong are hogging most of the resources and the weak are starving because of our lack of the capacity to share. There are feelings of injustice and inhumanity all around us. There are problems galore because of our fragmentation.
SHEN was founded to help humanity, through insightful education, rise above our limited identities in favour of a global human identity. It is hoped that this will better prepare humanity to face the grave human and environmental crises that it currently faces.
