From Fragmentation to Wholeness

Spirituality, Awareness and the Future Beyond the SDGs

Naresh Singh author Devesh Gupta author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Publishing:1st Sep '26

£90.00

This title is due to be published on 1st September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

From Fragmentation to Wholeness cover

As the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals approaches, From Fragmentation to Wholeness offers a profound re-examination of global transformation. While nations have pledged sustainability through targets and reforms, the world continues to face climate breakdown, widening inequality, ecological collapse, and deepening social fragmentation. This timely work argues that these crises are not merely institutional or technical, but arise from a deeper fragmentation within consciousness itself. When thought divides life into sectors, when identity fuels conflict, and when fear and desire shape ambition, institutions inevitably inherit these divisions.

Beginning from the insight that the outer world mirrors the inner movement of the self, the authors explore how patterns of thought shape climate policy, economic design, governance, education, and technology. Through three interwoven movements—the global crisis as inward division writ large; the mirror of the self in fear, memory, and psychological time; and action arising from awareness beyond identity—the book invites readers to consider transformation as an integrated process of inner and outer change. For policymakers, sustainability scholars, UN professionals, systems thinkers, educators, and students, this is not a philosophical abstraction but a practical inquiry into intelligence without identity, and institutions as living spaces, rather than instruments of control. It opens a doorway to a future where wholeness, rather than fragmentation, becomes the foundation of global action.

This is not a self-help book, but a profound journey linking inner perception with external reality. The authors remind us that holding a mirror to oneself is essential, for individuals, societies, and nations.

-- Roy Wadia, Regional Communications Chief World Health Organisation, Western Pacific Re

ISBN: 9781806866786

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm

Weight: unknown

328 pages