This scholarly commentary examines the tension between dialogic learning and outcome-oriented assessment in higher education. Engaging a study on Bohmian dialogue, it suggests that while measurable improvements in well-being may not always appear, students often report shifts in awareness, listening, and perception. Such transformations invite reconsideration of whether standardized instruments can adequately recognize forms of learning grounded in inquiry rather than increme

This paper examines why truth cannot be borrowed through authority, citation, or method. Emerging from sustained discontent with academic and institutional approaches to consciousness, it argues that reliance on knowledge sustains fragmentation. Understanding arises only through direct perception, not through accumulated expertise, structured hierarchy, or inherited legitimacy.

Education is increasingly framed as a response to a polycrisis marked by ecological instability, technological acceleration, and social fragmentation. This paper questions the assumption that such disorder reflects a lack of skill or capacity, arguing instead that skills operate through memory and recognition, while intelligence arises from perception in the present. When action proceeds from fragmented perception, increased capacity reorganises disorder rather than resolving

This paper examines why initiatives like the Inner Development Goals and contemporary complexity and systems thinking fail to bring genuine transformation when they remain rooted in fragmented perception. It argues that complexity is not merely a systemic problem but an outward expression of inner fragmentation. When awareness is replaced by frameworks, strategies, or models, reform reproduces the same disorder it seeks to resolve.

This paper challenges the belief that truth or God is already there, merely hidden behind our fragmented thought. We begin only from what is actually present: the movement of thought, fear, desire, memory and identification. Any idea of a pure, untouched truth behind this field is a projection of thought that prevents us from seeing fragmentation as it is, here and now. When this whole movement is seen without escape or hope of a higher state, illusion ends and a different qu

The crisis of humanity is not biological or technological but perceptual and psychological. Transhumanism treats the measurable residue of suffering as its cause. It tries to edit chemistry and circuitry while ignoring the movement of thought that creates fear, comparison and division. Enhancement is the self trying to upgrade itself. Transformation is not becoming more. It is the ending of the self, and in that ending there is intelligence.

Fractal models may offer elegant patterns, but true transformation is not replication—it is the ending of the self that seeks to design change. As long as action arises from fragmentation, even values like compassion become structures of thought. Transformation is not scale, but stillness—not coherence, but clarity. It begins not by spreading patterns, but by ending the movement of becoming itself.

An inquiry into the difference between thought and perception, this piece explores how we live in ideas and images about reality rather than in contact with it. It reveals how knowledge, even when well-intentioned, becomes the very barrier to seeing.

After looking at the entire structure of the content of human consciousness which has been put together by thought, which is a movement...

By Devesh Gupta For Citation Gupta, D. (2025). Harmony of being: Bridging science, spirituality, and public policy for a unified world . Emerge Publications. https://doi.org/10.65169/devesh-gupta-harmony-of-being-bridging-science-spirituality-and-public-policy-for-a-unified-world To even begin writing, it is important to understand who the writer is, who the reader is and what the nature of thought is. Is the writer or reader separate from thought, or does thought create the

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