A Science of the Spirit
Spiritualizing Our Pedagogy: An Educational Initiative
This educational initiative is being developed to explore how spiritual insight can inform the way knowledge is shared and experienced in the world. In older ages, education included not only the transmission of information, but also the cultivation of inner perception, imagination, and moral awareness. Today, there is a growing interest in rediscovering how the spiritual dimension of knowledge can be thoughtfully integrated into learning, dialogue, and community life.
The aim is to create in-person gatherings where ideas from the spiritual sciences can be explored together in a living social setting. Through lectures, conversation, artistic elements, and shared reflection, the intention is to bring deeper principles of human development, science, and culture into a space where they can be experienced rather than simply discussed. We are currently exploring possible venues, formats for gatherings, and the overall structure.
If you have interest in collaborating, offering ideas, or helping shape the direction of this effort, please feel free to reach out.
– Shane York Smith
The Great Schism Within Human Consciousness
An essay that by no means encapsulates all that there is in the evolution of man – in regard to his inner movements, his history of ideas – for there is not enough space in one lifetime, or even many, to touch upon the ways that the consciousness of peoples has rested in a duality of spirit and matter, and the consequences of this condition for how man comes to articulate himself and the world in the realms of philosophy, religion, art, and science. This is but one man’s thoughts, using other men’s thoughts, to better understand what it is to be a human being of spirit, yet one who must still trudge his way through the terrestrial toward a higher and happier destiny.
The Spiritual Aspect of Gerontology
This piece came about after years of writing what was thought to be a coherent departure into how the evolution of consciousness projects itself into the ways we measure and divide the content that surrounds us. It was more a lesson in what creativity is – a lesson in the actual inner experience of how the gods may work at a much grander scale, of course. If one has had a creative creation that has been torn down – something so precious, something one has worked so hard for then one understands the weight of this. I removed hundreds of pages because, after years of continued effort to strengthen my ability to learn new ideas, it became apparent that my ability to express what was taken in did not share the same growth. The creative spirit descends in rhythmic fashion, and one often has to wait longer than expected before what was taken in can be thoroughly assimilated as nourishment. So, in short, this was an attempt to share a personal spiritual experience of the educational variety, wanting to relive, in retrospect, the major turning points – often in 7 – year spans – that have made me think, feel, and act as I do today.