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 |
| Chapter Information: | Chapter URL Chapter Number Table of Contents 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 Chapter 8: Love Without Image Turning Point: The Ending of ‘Me’ and the Emergence of Choiceless Action Part III: Holistic Response 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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