(1) Beyond Humanism Paul Freedman In Kathleen Kesson’s extraordinary new volume, Becoming One With the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education (2024), the author takes us on a beatific journey of discovery. The text spans great distances progressing step by step from the philosophical and pedagogical foundations of holistic consciousness theory to the contemporary practice…
Category: Neohumanist Education
Power and Medicine During Transitional Eras: Microvita As the Bridge
Dr. Sohail Inayatullah Abstract: Beginning with a genealogical gloss of the decline of Ayurvedic system in South Asian history, this essay moves to an alternative vision of the futures of health. It argues for a wholistic health model that includes global health cooperatives and integrates spirit with science. It uses Sarkar’s theory of microvita as…
Neohumanist Education for Peace
Keynote address at the international NHE Conference, Caracas, Venezuela, April 2014, by Dr. Shambhushivananda Looking back, about 8000 million years ago (mya), this Earth was only a blazing ball of fire; 4000 mya, it consisted of molten lava and volcanoes; 340 mya life existed only in water; 223 mya land appeared as Gondwanaland; 70 mya…
A Trans-Disciplinary Approach
By Marcus Bussey Neohumanism honors the multiplicity that is the sum of human consciousness. This has important implications for the way classrooms can be structured and curricula constructed. Traditional education has involved an attempt to strip learning down to its discrete parts and demystify knowledge. Neohumanism seeks to put the mystery back into learning by…