From Fragmentation to Wholeness: Spirituality, Awareness and the Future Beyond the SDGs

Gupta, Devesh and Singh, Naresh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-5971 (2026) From Fragmentation to Wholeness: Spirituality, Awareness and the Future Beyond the SDGs. Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds. ISBN 9781806866793 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80686-677-9

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Abstract

As the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals approaches, From Fragmentation to Wholeness offers a profound re-examination of global transformation. While nations have pledged sustainability through targets and reforms, the world continues to face climate breakdown, widening inequality, ecological collapse, and deepening social fragmentation. This timely work argues that these crises are not merely institutional or technical, but arise from a deeper fragmentation within consciousness itself. When thought divides life into sectors, when identity fuels conflict, and when fear and desire shape ambition, institutions inevitably inherit these divisions.

Beginning from the insight that the outer world mirrors the inner movement of the self, the authors explore how patterns of thought shape climate policy, economic design, governance, education, and technology. Through three interwoven movements—the global crisis as inward division writ large; the mirror of the self in fear, memory, and psychological time; and action arising from awareness beyond identity—the book invites readers to consider transformation as an integrated process of inner and outer change. For policymakers, sustainability scholars, UN professionals, systems thinkers, educators, and students, this is not a philosophical abstraction but a practical inquiry into intelligence without identity, and institutions as living spaces, rather than instruments of control. It opens a doorway to a future where wholeness, rather than fragmentation, becomes the foundation of global action.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: Sustainable Development | Sustainability Studies | Environmental Ethics | Development Studies | Spirituality and Sustainability | Global Governance | Environmental Philosophy
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
Depositing User: Mr. Syed Anas Ali
Date Deposited: 03 Aug 2026 06:11
Last Modified: 03 Aug 2026 06:11
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80686-677-9
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Part I: Diagnosis: The Outer World Mirrors Inner Division
Chapter 1: Polycrisis as a Reflection of Inner Fragmentation
Chapter 2: Human Condition: Psychological Roots of Institutional Breakdown
Chapter 3: Beyond Goals and Frameworks: Seeing the Root of Global Crisis
Part II: Inward Inquiry: Understanding the Source of Fragmentation
Chapter 4: The Self as the Source and Effect of Fragmentation, Conflict and Violence
Chapter 5: The Trap of Knowledge and Belief
Chapter 6: Relationship, Memory and Image
Chapter 7: Psychological Time and Inertia
Interlude: Crossing the Threshold
Turning Point: The Ending of ‘Me’ and the Emergence of Choiceless Action
Chapter 9: Choiceless Action and Intelligence
Chapter 10: Conscious Governance and Leadership
Chapter 11: Policy, Education, Systems; Acting From Coherence
Chapter 12: Living Institutions: Mirrors, Spaces and Emergence
Chapter 13: Grand Conclusions and Summary: Awareness Is the Change
Final Message: The Mirror of the Whole
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/12124

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