There exist divisive forces that use human differences like religion, race, sex, etc. to manipulate, control and exploit. These forces can to be countered effectively only by raising deep human consciousness through education in our connectedness and our underlying oneness.
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I haven't read Christopher Hitchens' recent book, God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, yet its title compels me to present an opinion for discussion.
Religion has two faces: one unites and the other divides. Religion unifies people into communities and simultaneously divides by building tight boundaries around them.
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Tradition has intimately linked moral values to religion. People talk of Christian values, of Islamic values, and so on. Ontario is a pluralistic society. So which moral values do we decide to teach in our schools and colleges?
Religious prophets, sages and seers spent lifetimes researching humans' relations with each other and with nature. One of their key insights is the existence of an Unseen Reality that causes everybody and everything to exist.
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This post is my story of how I came to discover the principle that the light of core spirituality instantly removes the darkness of ignorance born out of misunderstandings of what religion truly teaches.
The story of this discovery begins with the reason why I am interested in the universally inclusive and unifying spiritual education can be traced by reaching back to 1947 when India was partitioned into two countries on religious grounds.
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APJ Abdul Kalam, the president of India, in the opening chapter of his book entitled Ignited Minds (Abdul Kalam, APJ, “Ignited Minds”, Penguin Books, Delhi, 2002) clearly points out the need of integrating spirituality with education. In so doing, he sees hope for pluralistic democratic societies such as India for harmony, peace, progress and prosperity.
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ~~Maya Angelou
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Some would consider it an anathema to put spirituality and science in the same sentence. But to me, they both have one thing in common, their search for the truth. The truth is defined as something that does not change with time, place or the environment.
But our perception of the truth is a process which is dependent upon the vagaries of time, place and the environment.
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This article is inspired by an op-ed entitled Why We Built the Ivory Tower by Stanley Fish published in the New York Times on May 21, 2004. In this article, Stanley Fish advises his academic colleagues not to surrender their academic agendas to any non-academic constituency advocating a particular point of view. It is hard to disagree with this view, but Stanley Fish’s view on moral and civic education is another matter.