Week 10- Marisa Gee
My major is Human Development and I think that spirit realm
studies would benefit my discipline greatly. Some of my required courses
include classes focused on the physiologic mechanisms that allow for human life
and the body at a biologic level, psychology classes that get into the workings
of the mind and a lifespan series focused on growth and development from
prenatal up to death. But of course there are no required classes that address
the health or dysfunction of the spirit.
The spirit realm, whether one believes in it or not, is
expertly tied into the human experience and thus leaving it out is almost
negligent. I think the benefit would be like what we’ve been saying all along
in ASA 189B, that adding spirit realm studies would create a more complete
picture. It would bring, somewhat literally, another dimension into the
curriculum that is already established. Additionally, if higher education is to
teach what was once unknown it is a logical extension that we should begin
studying and teaching the spirit realm which is largely unknown. On a larger
context outside of just my discipline, the spirit realm and paying attention
and re- connection to the spirits around us likely holds the solutions to a lot
of our world issues including climate change. It is social condition, the
school being an institution for this, that keeps spirit realm suppressed.
I think a challenge of implementing the spirit realm into
Human Development studies would be the fact that the spirit realm as it is now
is relatively hard to study on a generalized level. This is likely due to the
lack of attention that research gives to spirit realm, so this would be a first
step in achieving this. I think once research begins to be more widespread
about spirit realm, whether that is studying about spiritual healing, near
death experiences or just belief systems in general then we can begin to
formally introduce it into academia where it has a better chance of gaining
recognition and acceptance. How to study the spirit realm however, is a whole
other challenge.
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