New Approach: Entangled in abstractions New Emphasis on real-world types of spirituality: Grieving Spirituality, Spirituality of Compassion, Spiritual Music in H Potter music vs Miller, Thoresen "materialist maxim"= spirituality is "intangible" = fallacy as "Death" then, is a figment of imagination.
Creators: name: Peck Jr, Charles
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Compassion
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Existential psychology
subject: Frankl, Viktor E. 1905-1997
subject: Spirituality
subject: New Age music
subject: Culture
subject: Logotherapy
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Jungian psychology

description: It is only a narrow passage of truth that passes between the Scylla of the blue mist of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism! - Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958) Quantum physics pioneer and Nobel Prize winner
New categorization: Creative Spirituality with Practical Use (William James) - Counterpoint to academic materialism's maxim "All spirituality is unreal" - believe it or not, it's "new"
1. Compassionate Spirituality: "Compassion for others and social support have survival value and health benefits... (The Oxford Handbook on Compassion: p. 171) "Our findings argue that spirituality, above and beyond religiosity, is uniquely associated with greater compassion and greater altruism toward strangers." (The Social Significance of Spirituality Laura R. Saslow et al), "Religiosity and spirituality were positively associated with compassionate love toward both close others (friends, family) and humanity (strangers)." (Compassionate Love..., S. Sprecher
2. Musical Spirituality Shulkin and Raglan "Our evolution is closely tied to music and the body as an instrument (e.g., clapping). Music, among other things, helps facilitate cooperative and coordinated social behaviors." "Music is a fundamental part of our evolution, and functional because it facilitates "human contact" and our "social self." To a first approximation, across cultures, "musical" behaviors involve not only patterned sounds but also overt actions; "musicality" is a property of communities rather than individuals; and music is mutable in its specific meanings or significances (p. 1) (Ian Cross)
3. Spiritual Healing in Grief Healing Easterling, et al. observe: "In contrast, experience has shown pastoral caregivers that people seem to cope better with grief if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences in times of crisis. J. Parker's study "supports the claim that spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive grief outcomes."
4. Prosocial Norms/Spirituality Kapwa-loob Relational Spirituality and Kapwa: K Lagdameo-Santillan "Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others (i.e. Reynaldo Ileto, Jeremiah Reyes, Mercado, etc.) + Ubuntu (African Tutu – Anglican) Anam Cara – soul mate (Celtic – soul mate, O'Donohue – Irish theologian)
5. Childhood Spirituality Donna Thomas: "anomalous experiences can catalyze self-healing for children and young people."
6. Artistic Spirituality: Robert K. Johnston: 20 percent of Americans turn to "media, arts, and culture" as their primary means of spiritual experience and expression..."
7. Poetic Spirituality and Prophecy: Creativity and Transcendence: "The prophet is a poet. His experience is known to poets. What poets know as poetic inspiration; Prophets call it divine revelation" – Heschel
8. Dreamweaving/T'boli-T'nalak – Dreams as a source of divine inspiration and divine grace – T'boli artist, "Be Lang Dulay, a national artist, popularized T'nalak weaving with her over 100 different T'nalak designs."
9. Arctic hunter-gatherer beliefs in animal spirits as "human relationships with the natural world…" in the context of William James' Principle of Practical Use
10. Dr. Ingela Visuri: Spirituality and "The Case of High-Functioning Autism"
11. Divine Inspiration as Spirituality – The immortal scientist Isaac Newton was very spiritual and also wrote about religious beliefs. He found deep motivation in his perception of the divine order inherent in the universe. Michael Faraday was another scientist who found similar inspiration and motivation in his perception of divine order.
12. Right and Wrong as a Form of Spirituality – Religious beliefs as Durkheim noted in the early 20th century. – a topic of social sciences – and anthropology in particular, was never adequately addressed.