Transdisciplinarity and Consciousness: Toward an Integrated Model

Abstract

Although there have been many advances in  physics,  the  implications  of  quantum theories have not been incorporated into the humanities.   As a result, much of academia has remained in a seventeenth or eighteenth century worldview,  with  some  scholars  still  seeking  to analyze spirituality in dualistic, reductionistic, and materialistic terms that in fact have been superceded. Such perspectives often result in mistaken thinking based in category errors.  In this article, we point the way beyond such dualism, and argue in favor of transdisciplinary approaches to the study of religion and in particular, spirituality. We posit a new model for understanding interiority prefiguring a unified, transdisciplinary approach that engages quantum physics and the humanities.