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¶ … spirituality deserves a central place in liberal education discusses human consciousness from the spiritual perspective. The author notes the two are inseparable. He writes, "In other words, the spiritual domain has to do with human consciousness -- what we experience privately in our subjective awareness (Astin, 2004). He also notes the human consciousness is unique in that we have the ability to take note of our feelings and thoughts as they occur in our consciousness, and feels that because we can become more "self-aware" or "conscious," the teaching of human consciousness and spirituality should begin early in education (Astin, 2004). He maintains that self-aware individuals operate at a different level of consciousness, and because of this, more spiritual self-awareness could lead to a greater understanding of the differences and difficulties facing the world today. The author goes on to say, "The reality of human consciousness, of course, is not simply that we can think and reason; on the contrary, the essence of being a sentient human is that we can feel, that we can experience joy and contentment, frustration and excitement, curiosity and love" (Astin, 2004). Thus, human consciousness applies to all the emotions we can feel.
The author's ideas on human consciousness, especially creating a curriculum around human consciousness and awareness is interesting. He ties consciousness into intuition, which seems like a stretch of logic in many ways, and he ties consciousness to creativity, as well. Many of these ideas do not seem to have caught on in the educational community, which, for the most part, has not developed curriculums on spiritualism and human consciousness. This may be because the author's ideas are a bit liberal, even for liberal educational institutions, and he uses little scientific data to back up his theories. He uses the experiences of others, but little else, and this seems to be too little information to base a curriculum on. Tying human consciousness to spirituality in interesting, but more study needs to be conducted for the idea to truly become more accepted.
References
Astin, a.W. (2004). Why spirituality deserves a central place in liberal education. Liberal Education, 90(2), 34+.
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