Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis

Petra Buergelt; Douglas Paton

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_45

Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis

Petra Buergelt, Douglas Paton

Psychology

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The apocalyptic cultural transition that threatens our existence represent an opportunity for individual and collective transformation. To support us realising this opportunity, we created a passageway between disaster risk reduction, ancient and Indigenous cultures and transformative learning. Building upon our work and synergising the knowledges of Griffith (2014), Kingsley (2018) and Yunkaporta (2019), we propose that the crisis is spiritual in nature and the consequence of century long Western cultural domestication and colonisation that started with Plato promoting rationality and reductionism which disconnected us from our true, primordial nature, ancestors and ancient Laws and wisdom. We suggest that the antidote is remembering, cultivating and living according to our sacred nature and the ancestral Laws. Accomplishing this requires people in the Western culture expanding their current rational, reductionist physical worldview towards an extra-rational, holistic metaphysical worldview by engaging several interconnected extrarational transformative pathways, specifically individuation, nature and arts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave handbook of learning for transformation
Editors	Aliki Nicolaides, Saskia Eschenbacher, Petra T. Buergelt, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Marguerite Welch, Mitsunori Misawa
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	806-830
Number of pages	27
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030846947
ISBN (Print)	9783030846930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_45
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Buergelt, P., & Paton, D. (2022). Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis. In A. Nicolaides, S. Eschenbacher, P. T. Buergelt, Y. Gilpin-Jackson, M. Welch, & M. Misawa (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of learning for transformation (1 ed., pp. 806-830). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_45

Buergelt, Petra ; Paton, Douglas. / Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis. The Palgrave handbook of learning for transformation . editor / Aliki Nicolaides ; Saskia Eschenbacher ; Petra T. Buergelt ; Yabome Gilpin-Jackson ; Marguerite Welch ; Mitsunori Misawa. 1. ed. United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. pp. 806-830

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Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis. / Buergelt, Petra; Paton, Douglas.

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Buergelt P, Paton D. Restoring the transformative bridge: Remembering and regenerating our Western transformative ancient traditions to solve the riddle of our existential crisis. In Nicolaides A, Eschenbacher S, Buergelt PT, Gilpin-Jackson Y, Welch M, Misawa M, editors, The Palgrave handbook of learning for transformation . 1 ed. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. p. 806-830 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_45

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