We are grateful to Dr. Lisa Miller for joining us on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 for a special evening.
In conversation with Rabbi Josh Feigelson, Dr. Miller shared her insights and research on the new science of spirituality.
Lisa Miller, PhD, is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, and the author of The Spiritual Child. To learn more and order The Awakened Brain, visit https://www.lisamillerphd.com.
What a fantastic pleasure to hear Dr. Miller talk. It was a deeply meaningful, hopeful, and enlightening experience for me.
Thank you.
Let’s teach STEAM instead of STEM. The value of the arts and humanities includes spirituality, and there is so much overlap with science that it requires a large discussion. Suffice to say that ranking quality of an artistic production, like finding a data point, is an after-the-fact analysis of a creative act; the point of choice, the decision point, is an event – it’s the generation of a hypothesis that comes from the imagination, more a performance than a study. Spirituality is like that; applying a scientific lens to the ineffable is not the best approach to use; the result is a popularity contest of sorts – more people prefer the lenience of the House of Hillel rather than the strictness of the House of Shammai. Sharing of the transcendent through the arts (the poetry of Heschel) is a better way to allude to and inspire to the ultimate reality than an analysis of findings. IMO, of course.