The study, named The Spiritual Life of College Students (http://spirituality.ucla.edu/), was conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html) (HERI), a research center of higher education in the United States. HERI is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/) (GSE&IS) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
In order to determine why African Americans were more likely to have depression reduced by religious belief, the team measured feelings of alienation, which they hypothesized may have an impact on depression. Because of discrimination and related experiences, African Americans reported higher levels of alienation than did whites, the team found.
We simply cannot expect to solve today's complex global challenges particularly radical planetary temperature increase from a local, national or global perspective alone. We must approach today's global challenges from a far wider perspective, one which encompasses the evolutionary universe in its entirety and the time-proven lessons that we can learn from its 13.7 billion years of progressive evolutionary success. It is as Albert Einstein said: 'You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.' The new universe-scaled progressive evolutionary perspective is exactly what we need to once again see our world anew and solve it's challenges. Lawrence Wollersheim
