This study attempts to use quantum physics to understand spirituality in Sámi traditional healing. Sámi are Indigenous people from Arctic Europe. Research methods include a theoretical model and an in-depth interview study with five healers from North Sweden (three have a Sámi background/blood). The theoretical model is based on two physics concepts: quantum entanglement and complex spacetime....
This essay offers an interpretive prosopographical mapping of how classical biographical and historical sources portray Sufi-identified figures active between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. Rather than treating these sources as a demographic census, the study examines how spiritual authority was remembered and represented across biographical dictionaries, regional histories, and modern...
This autoethnographic inquiry examines the epistemological tension between empirical research's demand for explicit clarity and contemplative traditions’ engagement with implicit mystery. Prompted by an editorial feedback critiquing ‘highfalutin’ language in a conference proposal, the study investigates how different forms of discourse organize knowledge in domains involving spirituality and...
This edited volume is a distinctive contribution to the literature on research methods and on spirituality and contemplative studies. There are 33 chapters divided into seven parts – foundations, a...
Modern education has prioritised the intellectual dimension, while giving insufficient attention to children’s emotional and spiritual development. This article offers an interdisciplinary understanding of how public education can nurture spirituality and the human capacities for compassion and love, also called the ‘qualities of the heart’. The paper explores the interpersonal neurobiology...
This paper explores varieties of spiritual experiences and transpersonal phenomena that empirically occur in spiritual love relations, which respondents define as soulmates. Soulmate mythologies exist in many traditions and are popular in contemporary spiritual communities and New Age literature. So far, few empirical studies exist of soulmates. Analyzing a convenience sample of 140 responses...
ABSTRACT Humanity finds itself in a collective liminal space between worldviews, on a trajectory from a dominant scientific materialism towards a participative worldview informed by a spiritual and archetypal consciousness. This paper suggests that Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), the cognitive ability to find higher meaning, value, and purpose in life through transcending rational intelligence may...
Over the last two decades, an important contribution from the field of transpersonal psychology to research is the development of transformative research methods by Rosemarie Anderson and the late William Braud. These methods invite researchers studying spiritual topics to bring their full humanity and personal creativity to the fore in the conduct of research, and to enact research as a...