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Reflections on Sacred Experience and Sacred Science

University of Bath

This article argues that a secular science is inadequate for our times and points to the pressing need to resacralize our experience of ourselves and our world. It suggests that a sacred human inquiry based on love, beauty, wisdom, and engagement is one of the highest virtues and possibilities of human consciousness.

Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 3, 273-283 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/105649269323009


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