Week 9 - Amanda Wong
The future of spirit realm studies
As we study the spirit realm in this course it is important to think about spirituality within academia and it's future. This course is one of the first to explicitly prove students a space to learn more about the spirit realm. I think it is scary for people who do not know to accept it. In western society, the ideals of spirituality have been illegitimized by being a belief system for hippies or indigenous people.
Ritskes brings up important discourse about spirituality and colonialism, which is important consideration for the future of spirituality. While spirituality can be seen as an opposite of religion there are still similarities in the way that it can be used if one is not truly aligned with the practices of individuality and connection that spirituality processes.
While taking this course it has been eye opening to me to how interwoven spirituality is in the course that I take for my major. The fundamentals of sustainable agriculture are based in holistic approaches to work with the environment. The status quo for conventional agriculture is to mine the land, similar to how much of Western society functions. So in taking this class I have became very optimistic of the a future in spirit realm studies. There is so much more out there in the world than science and mathematics. However, it will take a while to work it's way into academia. The ways that it is studied will need to be explored further. It takes some brave people to begin this area of study and curious minds to want to learn more about this topic.
References
Ritskes E. (2011). Connected: Indigenous spirituality as resistance in the classroom. In WaneN. N.ManyimoE. L.E. Ritskes J. (Eds.), Spirituality, education & society: an integrated approach (pp. 15–36). Rotterdam: SensePublishers. 10.1007/978-94-6091-603-8_2
image: http://www.pewforum.org/2008/02/14/ucla-study-students-become-more-spiritual-in-college/college-spirituality-large/
As we study the spirit realm in this course it is important to think about spirituality within academia and it's future. This course is one of the first to explicitly prove students a space to learn more about the spirit realm. I think it is scary for people who do not know to accept it. In western society, the ideals of spirituality have been illegitimized by being a belief system for hippies or indigenous people.
Ritskes brings up important discourse about spirituality and colonialism, which is important consideration for the future of spirituality. While spirituality can be seen as an opposite of religion there are still similarities in the way that it can be used if one is not truly aligned with the practices of individuality and connection that spirituality processes.
While taking this course it has been eye opening to me to how interwoven spirituality is in the course that I take for my major. The fundamentals of sustainable agriculture are based in holistic approaches to work with the environment. The status quo for conventional agriculture is to mine the land, similar to how much of Western society functions. So in taking this class I have became very optimistic of the a future in spirit realm studies. There is so much more out there in the world than science and mathematics. However, it will take a while to work it's way into academia. The ways that it is studied will need to be explored further. It takes some brave people to begin this area of study and curious minds to want to learn more about this topic.
References
Ritskes E. (2011). Connected: Indigenous spirituality as resistance in the classroom. In WaneN. N.ManyimoE. L.E. Ritskes J. (Eds.), Spirituality, education & society: an integrated approach (pp. 15–36). Rotterdam: SensePublishers. 10.1007/978-94-6091-603-8_2
image: http://www.pewforum.org/2008/02/14/ucla-study-students-become-more-spiritual-in-college/college-spirituality-large/
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