Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
September 1, 2026
Ronald E. Purser
Based on a spooky first encounter with ChatGPT, I argue that AI is not an alien intelligence, but a machine-like mirror that reflects back our own limited ways of knowing. I draw upon Paul Kingsnorth’s metaphor of “the Machine” and Shannon Vallor’s “AI Mirror,” as well as the ancient Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy and Tarthang Tulku’s Time, Space, and Knowledge vision. Through the lens of these...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
2026
Klemens Höppner, Eleni Tzouramani, Petra Molthan‐Hill
Humanity faces existential challenges that require transformative responses in organisational leadership. Leaders’ minds are crucial to this transformation. The study uses insights from Eastern Inner Science, specifically the Unity in Duality view, as a resource to rethink leadership. It explores how leaders could use different minds and states of consciousness as pivotal inner levers to...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
2026
Jeffrey Overall
In this study, I investigate how psychedelic experiences influence career trajectories, using a qualitative interpretivist framework grounded in 28 in-depth interviews. Although prior research has emphasized the psychological and therapeutic benefits of psychedelics, little is known about their impact on work life. Through grounded theory analysis, four integrative categories emerged: (1)...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
July 1, 2025
Jamie A. Gruman, Akierah D. Binns
Near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to the experiences people have when they are close to death as a result of medical emergencies or accidents (Kelly et al., 2007). Such experiences often have life-changing effects referred to as aftereffects. However, there is virtually no research on NDE aftereffects in the context of work. In the present study, we interviewed 14 working adults to explore...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
2025
George Williams
Here I develop a theoretical framework for understanding the notions of shared and collective consciousness. For this purpose, I focus on an interpretation of quantum mechanics that invokes an ontologically deeper ground and link this with reasoning from the philosophy of mind associated with Bertrand Russell, who provided reasons for holding that the intrinsic nature of matter is...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
2024
Tianyuan Yu
In this article, I introduce a “Zen-informed spiritual research paradigm” rooted in an Eastern Buddhist worldview that fundamentally transcends Western mainstream functionalism. I first propose a definition of “spiritual research” and discuss its philosophical and methodological implications. I then elaborate on the features of a Zen-informed spiritual research paradigm concerning ontology,...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
April 5, 2018
Kevin Thomas Jackson
10 citations
A broad trend in business management is emerging in favor of the deployment of contemplative practices such as mindfulness meditation and yoga in the workplace. In his book Mindful Work: How Medita...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
December 20, 2017
Mette Lund Kristensen
49 citations
The paper emerges from the trend toward a commodification of mindfulness practices, known as McMindfulness. Drawing on a critique of late-modern temporality, the paper examines the use of mindfulness practices as a remedy for the consequences of societal acceleration. However, the paper suggests that mindfulness practices risk reinforcing the problems they were expected to solve. Against the...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
February 25, 2017
Pawinee Petchsawang, Gary N. McLean
197 citations
Workplace spirituality has received increasing attention during the past few decades, especially their effect on work outcome. The purposes of the research were to: (1) extend the findings of Petchsawang and Duchon (2012) in examining the relationships among mindfulness meditation, workplace spirituality, and work engagement in an eastern – specifically Thai – context; and (2) compare workplace...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
September 1, 2009
Eva Norlyk Herriott, Jane Schmidt‐Wilk, Dennis P. Heaton
A qualitative study explored features of personal development in a group of entrepreneurs who were long‐term practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation and TM‐Sidhi program. Subjects reported that their meditation practice enabled them to cultivate inner experiences, which they described as being anchored to an unshakeable, transcendental inner spiritual core. These entrepreneurs reported...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
2008
Aaron C.T. Smith
This article uses research in brain science to examine spiritual experiences and speculate on their occurrence in the workplace. Neuroscientific data suggest that spiritual experiences are likely to be correlated with specific brain activities, particularly unusual activity within the limbic system. At work these experiences may occur during episodes of powerful concentration on a singular...