Dimensions of Health: Educating for A Quantum Perspective

The book's primary focus explores the issues underlying the crises in health. Strong evidence emerges for the interrelatedness of crises across the globe, and points to the specific changes in education which are required before any significant shift can be expected in the various crises we face, whether in personal and community health, or more broadly in the failure of natural systems. The authors venture an extensive research, including statistics in health sciences, quantum mechanics, philosophy of health in western and eastern cultures, neuroscience, theories of human development, and an understanding of what Maslow termed 'the farther reaches' of human development. Drawing on philosophical perspectives, theories and research from these seemingly disparate disciplines the authors substantiate a new paradigm in education, psyche and culture, and specifically in health education.

Dr Carmel O Ashton has worked in Australia in the areas of education, health, and psychology. She holds a Bachelor of Education from Canberra University, and a Master of Psychology from the University of Newcastle. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Dr. Ashton has studied eastern philosophies and trained in their practices for more than three decades. As an independent scholar Dr Ashton has a strong lifelong commitment to the evolution of consciousness as it unfolds within the context of education. She is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society, and Community Group Leader for IONS (The Institute of Noetic Sciences), and a member of ACMHE (Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education). Educated at the Universities of Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford where he received his D. Phil, Dr Ronald S. Laura is currently Professor in Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. With forty published books and some three hundred journal articles to his credit, his philosophical views on health education are widely known and respected. His pioneering work in the development of empathetic epistemologies of education, have challenged current thinking of the deeper value and purpose of education. Dr Laura is also well known for creation of the revolutionary Matrix program of exercise, which has contributed to the fitness and good health of millions of people around the globe. He is an accomplished musician, a prize-winning gardener, a gourmet chef, and is deeply committed to the preservation of Nature.