Both One and Many

“In Both One and Many, contributing editor Oliver Griebel has assembled a fascinating anthology of essays. These explorations focus on how spiritual and religious systems tend to concentrate on either a One, be it God or some other Ultimate, or on a plurality or multiplicity as the fundamental reality—and show why both One and Many are necessary to do justice to the full complexity of our universe.”


—John H. Buchanan, author of Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety





“This book offers many qualities in one: a reflective expression of the diversity and plurality of One-Many thinking so much needed for an integration of our evolving worlds. All contributions show the values of the One-Many-nexus, radiating as if refracted by a crystal, colorful en-lightening in various directions. May the nuanced and wise unfoldings of the branches in the tree of cosmic-cultural evolution that this book offers inspire further growth earthly and cosmically.”


—Wendelin Küpers, professor of leadership and organizational studies, Karlshochschule International University





“From secularists gone spiritual to traditionalists gone secular, this anthology is at the very crossroads where the future of religion is dreamed, intuited, and reasoned into being. It’s a dynamic process: where many voices are part of one larger whole, and where oneness is expressed by the many. Together, the authors outline a theological position the world has missed—and needs to discover.”


—Hanzi Freinacht, author of The Listening Society