Spirituality has entered organisational discourse through the back door and is now sitting in the drawing room awaiting a proper welcome.
We are living at a time when both the benefits and limitations of the modern worldview are readily apparent to us. We see the miracles science has wrought and we also see what damage it has enabled us to create. Great strides in information and communication technologies, transportation, and health care have come packaged with great environmental destruction and the near loss of indigenous lifestyles around the world. The modern focus on objectivity and the separation of science and spirituality, taken to fullness, leave people separate from one another, separate from nature, and separate from the divine. As a people we can no longer ignore poetry and trust analysis, ignore nature and trust the sterility of the laboratory, to ignore the multiple voices we hear in the night and trust only the rules, laws, or policies written by some unknown people to guide their lives, not ours. Modern science in its flowering has given seed to the postmodern, and with it comes a quest for spiritual relationships, meaning, and integration. Read More
Source: Spirituality as an Organizing Principle: Published by Unity Magazine, March/April 2006: 18-23. Diana Whitney.