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Founder: SHIV TALWAR

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2.	virendra gupta
3.	Brij Talwar
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Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc. (SHEN) is Canadian NGO with global goals. It aims to build bridges across the hearts and minds of people; create an overarching human identity; engender understanding, respect and love for all humanity and diversity of others; and to build one human family living in harmony within the larger world community.

Traditional approach towards such goals is uniformity. SHEN proposes education in the spiritual heritage of humanity to celebrate diversity in the light of our underlying unity. The core spirituality of all religions is totally unifying and the encompassing doctrine divisive to varying degrees. A lack of discernment between core spirituality and the surrounding doctrine results in strong, exclusive and divisive religious identities leading to intolerance, hatred, and identity savagery. Community is good, but communitarianism is noxious; it must be checked by a more compelling imperative.

Religion unifies people into communities and simultaneously divides by building tight boundaries around them.

Central to core spirituality is one reality underlying the universe. This reality is infinite and spiritual. Spirit, unlike material, is all inclusive. It unequivocally declares the essential oneness of all created beings. This face of religion is nectar of love, life and justice.

Core spirituality results from peak experience and insight of prophets, seers and sages. Messengers may be many, but the message is essentially one. It is perennial and universal. It is well within the jurisdiction of today’s social and natural sciences. It is equally meaningful to people of faith and of no faith.

Religion goes on to confine the indescribable infinite reality in finite forms, in words or otherwise, and identifies it with its respective form. The form becomes the God. Suddenly, somebody's God becomes less Godlike, somebody's prophet less prophetic or un-prophetic, and somebody's community less righteous and deserving. Social, political and economic considerations further cloud the issue. In its drive to distinguish communities and demarcate territories, religion implicitly and explicitly encourages divisive thinking.

Shen proposes education in unifying core spirituality as an antidote to religious divisiveness. It plans to develop and promote this education, engage in related research and resource building. It also aims to institute university chairs, bursaries, scholarships and essay competitions in the spiritual heritage of humanity.

SHEN proposes to pursue its goals and objectives using a worldwide network of interested people. Initial curriculum will suit students at the post secondary level in order to develop a pool of teachers for the lower grades. It will be offered in the distance education mode on the internet. SHEN hopes that educational systems worldwide will take notice of its work and follow suit. SHEN will share its work with others on request.

SHEN is governed by a volunteer board of directors. For tax purposes in Canada, SHEN is a registered charity. Its educational goals are comprehensive and far reaching and t runs solely on individual donations.

This particular application to GiveMeaning is for student assistants to help the volunteer faculty in delivering five instructional modules in a distance education mode on the internet. The students will work under close faculty supervision and their functions are listed in the accompanying budget.

SHEN considers understanding of our core spirituality as foundational for building pluralistic societies and a pluralistic global village that the world has become. It considers education in core spirituality as crucial in addressing the crises of our times.

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