What brings on transformation and what happens during and after the transformation process? These and several other questions are the focus for an enormous research program, with more than two million dollars in funding. Initially sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and administered by Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, the program has launched research endeavors at several universities and other organizations.
Research projects include looking at the brain during mystical experiences, the transformation experiences of cancer patients, how spiritual transformation affects involvement in crime, the role of the experience of awe in spiritual transformation, the language of transformation, how spiritual transformation interacts with the maturational process, its role in alcoholism rehabilitation, its connection to religious conversion, and its effects with a marriage, and our day to day working life, to name a few topics.
Now with our present depression, it appears that many will be facing making changes in every aspect of life. There will be urgent demands upon both employer and employee. Step one finds both at a crossroads, whether it is a business itself that must close down or the worker that must be laid off. When employment insurance has run its course, every phase of life faces change for survival itself. One of the most urgent is the job search which could lead to a different type of work and a different occupation. Preparing a new resume is a first step, detailing interests, subjects taken in school in which you excelled and further study in it. Church friendships as well as well as volunteering can result in offers that open up a new opportunity doing the work you love as well as helping others as a side benefit.
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