Roots, Routes and a New Awakening: Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures [Hardcover]

This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical and spiritual traditions of the world such as Siva Tantra, Buddhist phenomenology and Peircean Semiotics and discusses the works of Ibn-Arabi, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Raimon Panikkar,among others.The book is transdiscipinary building on creative thinking from philosophy, anthropology, political studies and literature. It is a unique contribution for forging a new relationship between roots and routes in our contemporary fragile and complex world.

Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Border Crossings in Self, Societies and Spiritual Awakening.- Beyond One and Many: Deconstructing the Notion of Identity.- Siva Tantra Rediscovered: Transforming the Etic Routes and Emic Roots of Indian Spirituality.- Semiotic Roots and Buddhist Routes in Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy: A Peircean study of Abhidharma Buddhist Theories of Consciousness and Perception.- Ecological Interconnectedness: Entwined Selves, Transcendent and Immanent.- From Root to Return Routes: A Brief Tantric Description of the Passage from Being to Beings.- Roots, Routes and Creative Transformations: New Perspectives on Transitions in Human Society.- Thoreau  Tolstoy  Gandhi: The Origin of Satyagraha.- The Gospel According to Babylon: The Rastafarian Challenge to Euro-centric Theological Discourse in the Caribbean.- Part Two Roots,  Routes anda New Awakening: Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures.- Cross-Fertilizing Rootsl£_