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Wisdom Sharing and Altered Consciousness

A Transformative Learning Project

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Spirituality, Education & Society

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Edmund O’Sullivan (1999, p. 14) interprets the above statement as both a curse and a blessing and believes that we humans are currently in a time of great change as a species. The current state of the world is troubling. War, starvation, drought, oppression, genocide, the extinction of unique species, and the eradication of the natural environment are all terrible realities. We are in need of transformation and education has the potential to provide discourses through which transformation can be explored and nourished. Spirituality is one such discourse.

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  1. Jennifer Richmond-Bravo
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  1. University of Toronto, canada

    Njoki N. Wane

  2. University of Toronto, canada

    Energy L. Manyimo

  3. University of Toronto, canada

    Eric J. Ritskes

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Richmond-Bravo, J. (2011). Wisdom Sharing and Altered Consciousness. In: Wane, N.N., Manyimo, E.L., Ritskes, E.J. (eds) Spirituality, Education & Society. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-603-8_16

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