Revisiting ‘Discipline’ in Relation to Caring Science as Sacred Science: Revisiting Discipline of Nursing

The purpose of this manuscript is to invite a revisiting of the concept of the “discipline” of Nursing, with attention to the spiritual consciousness of “Nurse” within the sacred concept of self-caring and caring-healing consciousness. The notion of including the spiritual, evolving consciousness of “Nurse,” in harmony with evolution of Professional Nursing, is congruent with a mature disciplinary matrix of caring science as sacred science. This congruence between Nurse/Nursing contributes to the evolution of Nursing, Holistic Practices and Era III unitary transformative disciplinary thinking.

Christianity and Indigenisation in Africa

In a quest for greater coherence between parochial identities, culture and Christianity, there exists an African consciousness which seeks to indigenise and decolonise Christianity. Africans are profoundly religious people who view their faith as part of their way of life, as strengthening their cultures and providing a moral compass for daily living. In efforts to transform society, the Christian religion has played a significant role in the path to African development. Christianity in Africa dates to the very inception of the church. Africans consequently played a crucial role in establishing the doctrines and theology of the early church. While African Traditional religion (ATR) is paramount, it is the purpose of this article to suggest that the Christian faith has and continuous to play a significant role on the African continent in its development. While there are many indigenous African beliefs, these have been to a large extent supported by Christianity in a quest to systematize novel knowledge and promote peace and tolerance across the continent. Many Africans have sought facets of Christianity that are similar to their religious and personal practices and continue to do so. Thus, while there exist numerous similarities and also differences between Christianity and ATR, it is imperative to preserve old-style regional distinctiveness and Christianity as the unifying rudiments in nation building endeavours and in efforts to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Africans can and should come to comprehend the Triune Godhead as being consistent with their own spiritual consciousness and existential veracities. Indigenization of Christianity requires enculturation and essentially an understanding that it is indeed ecumenical and also embraces diversity and fundamentally requires viewing Holy Scriptures and the truths they propound as being applicable to any context and cultural milieu across the ages. Christians after all espouse a faith in the Ekklesia or body of Christ for all its people who are the Laos of God.

THE ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE EXPRESSION FORMS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE NOVELS

As an important part of literary form, novels have a wide audience. Novels play an important role in recording and reflecting the changes of history, society and people's spiritual consciousness. The novel has various forms of expression, and its narrative methods and techniques have been fully developed. Through the interpretation of the narrative expression of the novel, we can find that: with the development of the times, the change of social background, the change of people's spiritual ideology, the expression forms and methods of the novel also show diversity. Mining and refining the epitome of historical development from novels also reflects its importance as a literary carrier.

“The Awesomeness and the Vastness of Who You Really Are:” A Culturally Distinct Framework for Understanding the Link Between Spirituality and Health for Black Sexual Minority Men

Despite health inequities, many Black sexual minority men are resilient and often utilize spirituality as a culturally distinct self-protective and self-enhancing resource to maintain their health. However, little is known about how spirituality impacts health within a cultural framework that is specific to Black sexual minority men. We conducted 10 individual in-depth interviews, reaching code saturation, with Black sexual minority men across the USA. Our study was guided by grounded theory and a Black psychology theoretical framework. Seven themes were discovered and revealed that participants’ level of spiritual consciousness influenced their engagement in psychological and behavioral processes that were related to mental and physical health. These themes were: (a) suboptimal worldview, (b) emotional revelation, (c) emotional emancipation, (d) emotional regulation, (e) health motivations, (f) health behaviors, and (g) links between spiritual consciousness, mental health, and physical health. Implications of these findings for clinicians and researchers are discussed.

Rongomātau – ‘sensing the knowing’: An Indigenous Methodology Utilising Sensed Knowledge From the Researcher

The paper offers a methodology, stimulated by an Indigenous-Māori context, called rongomātau, or ‘sensing the knowing’. Rongomātau recognises the researcher as an absorbent being, with capabilities to feel into the energetic lives of others. More specifically, participant energies can be sensed and imprinted onto researchers. Sensing and identifying the felt world of another is done through recognising the researcher’s own embodied emotions. The intention of this paper is to provide a methodology for interpreting the ‘imprinted’ sensing onto the researcher and for its meaningful analysis. Traditional Western philosophies of knowledge creation have tended to regard bodily ways of knowing other than the five traditional (in Western terms) bodily senses as incapable of contributing to genuine knowledge. However, Indigenous communities have not marginalised their bodies from the generation of knowledge and have paradigms that reflect sensing and its integration into knowledge. The paper demonstrates how Indigenous concepts and language can be utilised to bring new perspectives to sensing in research. To do so, the author provides an insider account of her own imprinted sensed experiences in conducting a specific research project and how these contributed to her findings. The methodology involves the collection and analysis of data through a frame of three dimensions: connecting in (self-inner world), connecting out (external physical world) and connecting to the whole (higher/spiritual consciousness), to achieve holistic ways of theorising. The rongomātau methodology is applicable in non-Indigenous contexts and can help researchers integrate their senses into research. Methodologies that help researchers interpret and give meaning to their sensing experiences remain largely unavailable. This paper begins to address that gap.

A HOLISTIC CONCEPT OF NEUROINCOME AS A SOLUTION OF THE “TYRANY BOTTOM LINE “IN WORKPLACE

Purpose — This research aims to formulate a holistic concept of neuroincome. Design/methodology/approach — The data collected are from various commercial bank employees’ experience with variation grade and position, local and international bank in Indonesia. Based on a spiritualist paradigm, the data are analysed by intuition using Taubat, Zikir, Doa, and Tafakur (TZDT) method within the framework of Neuro-Psycho Spiritual (NPS) methodology. The NPS methodology is used as an integrated science to study humans holistically by including materialistic, psycho, and spiritual dimensions. While the intuition in TZDT frame is a tool utilized to analyze data that relies entirely on God's guidance in the form of intuition and sense. Findings — The result of the study is a holistic concept of neuroincome in the form of “extra” income and physical goods possible converted financially, earned by an individual as his/her working compensation stimulated by company’s tool/policy/system in workplace such as bonuses financially or bonus in the form of distribution of company shares, incentives, fringe benefits, performances allowances, job allowances, award, facilities and other related financial compensation. The positive stimuli happened if the nerves stimulate the release of hormone to perceive income in positive attitude such as empathy, helpful and sincerity. The negative stimuli happened if the nerves perceive the income excessively so it could make unethical actions or fraud. Then, qona’ah (sufficient sense) and modesty are found intuitively as a solution of “tyranny bottom line” in workplace. These attitudes stimulate a resurrection of the harmony of materialistic, psycho, and spiritual consciousness to live in a holistic way and bring closer to God in everyday working life. Practical Implications — The holistic concept of neuroincome is explained through Neuro-Psycho Spiritual (NPS) methodology. Originality/value — Authors are using various commercial bank employees’ experience with variation grade and position, local and international bank in Indonesia as their subject.

Light symbolism of female mythological images as a spiritual foundation of Japanese and Chinese cultures

This article analyzes female principle reflected in the images of goddesses of Japanese and Chinese mythology associated with the solar cult and light symbolism. An attempt is made to trace the role of female principle in the mythological phenomenon of Sky and its connection with Earth. The subject of this research is the Japanese and Chinese myths and legends, iconographic images of goddesses and their resemblance in foxes (Kitsune) in the religious painting of the XIII – early XX centuries. In the course of this work, the author applies comparative-historical and iconographic methods of research that lean on scientific materials dedicated to philosophy, culturology and art history. The relevance of the selected topic is substantiated by the fact that in globalizing world, the countries of the Far East are more capable of retaining ideological paradigms and preserving their national cultural identity due to traditionalism and spiritual consciousness. The novelty of this work consists in examination based on the iconographic material and mythological themes of solar manifestations of goddesses as demonstration of the energy of female principle and its reflection in the phenomenon of Sky – Earth connection. The conclusion is made that for assessing Japanese and Chinese art, it is essential to consider multicultural interaction of these countries founded on the the harmony of existence of human nature. The goddesses of Sun, Moon and Earth seek to communicate with the Sky, as in particular the autochthonous deity Inari through their intermediaries, the foxes. The sun and moon goddesses and Earth goddesses seek communication with the Sky, as the autochthonous deity Inari through their mediators – foxes. The female principle, resembled in femininity of divine foxes, is described as the endless struggle for immortality and opportunity to be in Heaven surrounded by the steam light and reason. The light saturation of female images contributes to their spirituality.

Eschatological Aspects of Orthodox Poetics. The Novel F. M. Dostoevsky «Demons»

Православная поэтика представляет собой совокупность средств выражения православного вероучения в образности литературного произведения. Ее основы лежат в «Слове о законе и благодати» (XI в.), но свое наивысшее развитие она получила в XIX в. в трудах православных писателей, среди которых особое место принадлежит Ф.М. Достоевскому. Найденные им художественные средства позволяют изображать процессы, протекающие в духовном мире человека и общества. В творчестве писателя вопрос о личном спасении человека неразрывно связан с вопросом об исторической судьбе России. Ярким примером является роман «Бесы» (1872), непосредственным поводом к написанию которого послужило преступление, совершенное революционной группой под руководством Нечаева. Его главной причиной Достоевский считает углубляющуюся апостасию русской интеллигенции, ставшую следствием гордыни, эгоизма и гедонизма. Писатель показывает, как желание насытить страсти разрушает в человеке образ Божий, после чего образующуюся духовную пустоту заполняет зло, и человек постепенно приобретает черты антихриста, о появлении которого предупреждает Священное Писание. Прежде всего это относится к образам Ставрогина и Петра Верховенского - в каждом из них есть свойства, атрибутируемые антихристу: гордыня, злоба, неспособность любить и др., но ни в одном из них они не воплотились во всей полноте. Тем самым Достоевский предупреждает, что если разрушение духовного сознания русского общества вовремя не остановить, то эти черты смогут воплотиться и в одном человеке. Orthodox poetics is a set of means to express the Orthodox creed in the imagery of a literary work. Its foundations lie in the «Word of Law and Grace» (the XIth century), but it received its highest development in the works of the Orthodox writers of the XIXth century, among whom a special place belongs to F. M. Dostoevsky. The artistic means he found allow him to describe the processes taking place in the spiritual world of man and society. In the writer’s works, the question of personal salvation is inextricably linked with the question of the historical fate of Russia. The novel «Demons» (1872) is a striking example: an immediate occasion for writing it was the crime committed by the revolutionary group headed by Nechaev. Dostoevsky considers the deepening apostasy of the Russian intelligentsia to be the main reason for it, being a consequence of pride, egoism and hedonism. The writer shows how the desire to satiate passions destroys the image of God in man. After that, the resulting spiritual emptiness is filled with evil, and man gradually acquires the features of the antichrist, whose appearance is predicted by the Holy Scriptures. First of all, this applies to the images of Stavrogin and Peter Verkhovensky - in each of them there are features attributed to the antichrist: pride, anger, inability to love, etc., but in none of them they are completely fulfilled. Thus Dostoevsky warns us that if the destruction of the Russian society spiritual consciousness is not timely stopped, these traits can be embodied in one person.

An Integral Ecology as the Ground for Good Business

Integral ecology is an increasingly important term in Catholic social teaching. This paper brings this term in relation to business drawing upon the integral relationship between human and natural ecology. Pope Francis and his two predecessors believe that the current ecological conversation can increase our sensitivity to our impact on the natural environment as well as help us to rediscover the moral and spiritual consciousness of human nature and development that has been weakened and disordered in the wider culture. An integral ecology can enlarge our notion of the good, especially the good in business. Without the cultural and environmental insights from an integral ecology that has the capacity to provide deep moral and spiritual roots, business will always be prone to see itself within its own autonomous and utilitarian sphere failing to connect to the natural and human realities in which it is embedded.

EMOTIONAL NATURE OF VANGO'S PORTRAYAL

When the confidences of any ambivalent artist in the society are disintegrated, then many elements are absorbed in its end and when the artist is hyper-sensitive, he experiences the feeling of compassion in every aspect of the society. Sorrow and anguish were the destiny of Vango in the face of emotions. That is why he continued to seek compassion from the world and scattered it through illustration, with an intensely cacophonous cumbersome depressed heart, he sought out the story from nature and life for its expression. The art journey from Borinas to Australia was an exploration of this truth. Wherever he experienced this truth, he expressed it as beautiful and Shiva. The nature of his entire painting rests on religious and spiritual consciousness. That is why whatever he created on the extremely humanistic plane, it was the height of his aesthetic sense. The sentiment of Vango was vast in comparison with the nature of the world, and for its expression, he also had an intact storehouse of poet sensation. The paintings were found to be perfect for the expression of deep feelings. समाज में जब किसी भी सम्वेदनषील कलाकार की सम्वेदनाएं बिखरतीं हैं तब उसके अन्तस में अनेक बिम्ब समाहित हो जातें हैं और जब कलाकार अतिसम्वेदनषील हो तो वो समाज के हर पक्ष में करूणा के भाव को ही अनुभव करता है। भावनाओं के चितेरे वानगो की नियति ही दुःख और पीड़ा थी। इसीलिए वे जीवनभर जगत से करुणा बटोरते रहे और चित्रण के माध्यम से उसे बिखेरते रहे, एक तीव्र छन्दानुभूति से बोझिल उदास मन से वे इसकी अभिव्यक्ति के लिए प्रकृति और जीवन से कथ्य तलाशते रहे। बोरिनाज़ से लेकर आल्र्स तक की कला यात्रा इसी सत्य की खोज थी। इसी सत्य को उन्होंने जहाँ भी अनुभव किया उसे सुन्दर और शिव रूप में अभिव्यक्त कर दिया। इनकी सम्पूर्ण चित्रकला का स्वरूप, धार्मिक और आध्यात्मिक चेतना पर टिका है। इसीलिए नितान्त मानवतावादी धरातल पर जो भी कुछ इन्होेने रचा, वह इनके सौन्दर्यबोध की चरम ऊंचाईयां थीं। वानगो का भाव जगत् प्रकृति के सामन विराट था और उसकी अभिव्यक्ति के लिए इनके पास कवि संवेदना का अक्षुण भण्डार भी था। गहन अनुभूतियों की अभिव्यक्ति के लिए चित्रकला इन्हें एक सिद्ध के रूप में मिली थीं।