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A Personal Perspective on Tibor Horvath and Spiritual Studies

Gain insights into Tibor Horvath's spiritual studies and the URAM Project, which aims to develop human identity, promote unity, and extend awareness of our purpose. The SHEN Project also seeks to unite spiritual traditions and foster purposeful living.

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A Personal Perspective on Tibor Horvath and Spiritual Studies

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  1. A Personal Perspective on Tibor Horvath and Spiritual Studies Shiv Talwar Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.

  2. Discovering Tibor’s Vision • My Introduction to URAM • Initial understanding of URAM Project • Meeting Professor Horvath • My admiration of Professor Horvath • Current understanding of URAM Project

  3. THE URAM Project: Aims • Develop human identity • Promote unity among all people • Achieve our deepest potential • Deepen the inter-religious dialog • Facilitate new insights • Extend our awareness of the Ground and Purpose of our being • Sponsor inter/intra-disciplinary understanding

  4. THE URAM Project: Objects • Research: • Publish a URAM scholarly journal, and • Publish a URAM encyclopedia • Education: • Formal and informal education in URAM, • Systematic reflection on scientific research, • Public libraries and conference halls for URAM studies, • Help in search for meaning in the world, and • Help scholars and professors in research and education

  5. THE URAM Project: Organization • The Association of Concern for Ultimate Reality and Meaning (ACURAM) for ownership and legal responsibilities, and • The International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning (ISSHIURAM) for academic and scholarly role.

  6. The SHEN Project: Mission Promote, develop and deliver formal and informal education in the totally unifying core spirituality of humanity comprising of the peak spiritual experiences of prophets, sages and seers

  7. The SHEN Project: Aims • Mobilize the force of spiritual traditions and secular disciplines to affirm that the universe an indivisible whole thoroughly pervaded and connected by its ground of being • Dull the edge of the current divisiveness and promote purposeful living in unity and cohesion in the light of the above principle

  8. The SHEN Project: Objectives • Formal and informal spiritual education, • Related research, • Library of spiritual literature, • Public-essay competitions, • Curricula and educational material for all levels from primary schools to university, • Bursaries and scholarships in spiritual studies, • Chairs at universities in spiritual studies, and • Fund raising for covering above costs

  9. The SHEN Project: Criteria • Didactic: appeal to totality of being human • Universality: must be inclusive of all • Unitive: yet celebrative of diversity • Content: Cognitive + Conative to enable personal insights • Neither affirming nor diminishing of any body, religion, race, or gender • No contradictions

  10. Principle: Light Dispels Darkness • Tibor knew this principle • My discovery of the principle • Nature of Religion

  11. Nature of Spiritual Light “For goodness and wisdom and whatever may be attributed to God are all admixtures to God’s naked essence: for all admixtures cause alienation from essence.” Meister Eckhart “He is not declared incomparable in any manner that will remove Him from similarity, nor is He declared similar in any manner that will remove Him from incomparability. So do not declare Him nondelimited and thus delimited by being distinguished from delimitation! For if He is distinguished then He is delimited by His nondelimitation. And if He is delimited by His nondelimtation, then He is not He.” Ibn Arabi

  12. The Material Universe Matter exists as particles of successively larger sizes starting from the elementary quarks held together by energy immanent in each atom.

  13. The Universe Any being in the universe exists at the same time at the levels of successively grosser principles starting from the infinitely subtle ultimate reality right down to the gross physical body.

  14. Approaches to Infinity The figure shows the how y varies with x in y=1/(1-x) with x plotted in the horizontal direction and y along in the vertical.

  15. The Principle Works • The Imam and the Pastor • Reversing Radicalism • Sustainable Development • United Nations Recommendations • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • UNESCO • The Earth Charter

  16. Concluding Remarks • The lofty aims and objects of the URAM projects pay tribute to the spiritual insight, far sighted vision, understanding, love, and humanity of Professor Horvath • The SHEN Project is indeed a part of the vision of Professor Horvath • Spiritual light dispels darkness of division • URAM reconciles all paradoxes

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