Dr. Miller is Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia
University, Teachers College and is Founder of the Spirituality Mind
Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality
and psychology. She is also a best selling author with a new book out
called The Awakened Brain which
tells us that ѕріrіtuаl awareness саn protect against
dерrеѕsіоn, support health, аnd rеvеаl thе dеер
іntеrсоnnесtіоn bеtwееn all lіfе. In an interview with Rich Roll, Dr. Miller says there is a lot of confusion between religion and spirituality, which are two completely different things. And for no reason science has been limited to interpretations of things that are material, only that which we can touch, which we can point to. Spirituality is our innate capacity for transcendent awareness. The following summary of the interview is paraphrased and abbreviated. We have a society that is non-conversant about spirituality. Our
culture has foreclosed spiritual growth because we are so anxious
about religion. We are depressed when we dismiss half of our ways of
human knowing knowing. It's the part that is buoyant and loving and
guiding—a relinquishment of intuition. Learning to trust that
intuitive, inner-knowing as legitimate, right and true—authenticity,
synchronicity. Science is a method, form of observance, a lens of observation. The culture renewed an interest in spirituality before science got onboard because of being arbitrarily limited to secular material. Showing the neural correlates to the brain proves that spirituality is real. And apparently every living being is genetically tapped into this field of consciousness. Dr. Miller has helped pioneer the science of spirituality. Previously there had been no published pier review articles on science and spirituality. Her courage in the face of criticism, and her persistence has established a viable response to a culture that has shut down awakened awareness. She provides a way to strengthen our inner core and be able to get trough painful times. Trauma and suffering are catalysts for growth. Rich Roll comments that neuroscience proves that cultivating spirituality (what Dr. Miller calls The Awakened Brain) leads to greater optimism, greater resilience, and insulates us from things like addiction, trauma, and depression. In her college classes Dr. Miller teaches multiple levels of analysts, starting with epidemiology model of risk and resilience to show that spirituality is foundational to human flourishing, wholeness, and recovery, and that spiritual awareness contributes to psychological wellness. And the deep knowing of the heart is a way to be in connection with all life and “use despair as an invitation to an awakening.” Dr. Rupert Sheldrake reports that England 85% of people are neither religious or atheist. So the
science says we are all innately spiritual brings born with a
spiritual core, with or without religion. |
