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

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The apocalyptic cultural transition threatening our existence represents a transformative opportunity. To facilitate realizing this opportunity, we synergized the knowledges of three transdisciplinary transformative scholar-practitioners. The ensuing composite story suggests the source of the crisis is spiritual and the consequence of millennia long domestication and colonization in the Western culture that started with Plato advancing rationality and reductionism which disconnected us from our true, primordial nature; the invisible, feminine spiritual world; our ancestors and ancient Laws/wisdom. To move forward, we need to go back and remember, cultivate and live according to our sacred nature and Laws. Accomplishing this requires a paradigm shift from the rational, reductionist physical toward an extra-rational, holistic spiritual philosophical worldview by embedding several interconnected extra-rational transformative pathways into everyday life.

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	809-830
Number of pages	22
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030846947
ISBN (Print)	9783030846930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_45
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 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. 809-830). 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. 809-830

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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. 809-830 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7_45

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