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Metaphysics of Watson Unitary Caring Science

A Cosmology of Love

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Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL-AAN

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Delivers a transcendent worldview uniting science,  metaphysics and a cosmology of Love, in the service of healing humanity

This innovative publication addresses metaphysics as a core consideration and foundation for the evolution of nursing in the context of Watson's Unitary Care Science. If affirms and invites a maturing of the nursing profession and its developing consciousness of human-universe as the substance of Unitary Caring Science, along with its basis in the evolving cosmology of love. Within this conceptual framework the book examines metaphysics and the non-physical, invisible, spirit realm of human experiences, health, and healing, creating a new space to explore the relationship between science and spirit phenomena generally eschewed in Western thought.

Addressing such topics as the meaning of metaphysics and why now is an ideal moment to pursue a unity of nursing and metaphysics, the book describes the personal, metaphysical and mystical experiences of the author and other contributors as a catalyst for readers to awaken and examine their own such experiences. Using an evolved Unitary Caring Science worldview of what is considered real and true within this paradigm and beyond Western science, the text honors the self in relation to diverse, unique experiences of patients from all backgrounds and belief systems. It explores personal experiences that cannot be explained using the dominant worldview and seeks to integrate science and metaphysics as a core branch of philosophy. A metaphysical understanding of nursing’s unitary relational worldview of oneness as foundation for mature discipline and practice provides nurses with a philosophical, theoretical, and scientific foundation for the  evolution of humankind. The text also explores the cosmology of Love as the foundational energy of life and the basis of a new call to the nursing profession to awaken their ancient and future role as metaphysicians of caring, health, and healing. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.

Key Features:

  • Provides metaphysical evidence and a deep philosophical understanding of the role of metaphysics and the cosmology of Love within Watson's Unitary Caring Science
  • Disseminates these teachings through the writings of prominent nurse scholars, philosophers, theologians, scientists, and historians
  • Includes personal moments, messages, and quotes to create evocative imaginative meanings and inspiration to metaphysical phenomena
  • Demonstrates how the concept of soul and spirit can be metaphysically reconciled as a real and true phenomena of concern within nursing
  • Explores Unitary Caring Science in depth in relation to mature nursing phenomena and a worldview encompassing healing and health
Contents

Preface

Prologue

SECTION I

Chapter 1. Metaphysics as Starting Point

Chapter 2. Embodiment of Metaphysics. What and Why?

Chapter 3. Non-Local Consciousness

Chapter 4. Epistemology of Metaphysics

Chapter 5. Ontology of Metaphysics. No Boundaries

Chapter 6. Noetic Metaphysics Transpersonal Consciousness

Chapter 7. Quantum Unitary Transpersonal Caring and Metaphysics

SECTION II

Chapter 8. Metaphysics and the Ethics of Face

Chapter 9. Metaphysics and Ethics of Belonging

Chapter 10. Metaphysics, Poetics, and Nature

SECTION III

Chapter 11. Metaphysics--Indigenous Nature

Chapter 12. An Old/New Story of Human Nature--Universe

Chapter 13. Metaphysics Beauty—The Elixir of Life

SECTION IV

Chapter 14. Nursing Cosmology of Love

Chapter 15. Alchemy of Metaphysics

SECTION V

Chapter 16. Metaphysics of Health/Illness

Chapter 17. Nurse as Metaphysician

Chapter 18. Metaphysical to Metaverse?

SECTION VI

Chapter 19. Metaphysics of Voice

Chapter 20. Language. Universals of Human Caring

Chapter 21. Metaphysics of Language. Nursing Songline

Chapter 22. Metaphysical Critiquing of Language from Competencies to Ontological (Caritas) Literacy

SECTION VII

Chapter 23. Metaphysical Leadership Literacy Unitary Caring

Chapter 24. Metaphysics of Ontological Design

Chapter 25. International Ontological Nursing Design

SECTION VIII

Chapter 26. Integrative Summary Unitary Caring Science Cosmology. Watson Unitary Caring Science

Chapter 27. Sacred Activism

Index

Authors

Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a past president of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden, and five honorary doctoral degrees, including Honorary International Doctor of Science awards from Goteborg University, Sweden, and Luton University, London. Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide new models of caring and healing practices in diverse settings worldwide. At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of distinguished professor of nursing, the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work.

Product Details
  • Release Date: April 11, 2024
  • Paperback / softback
  • 298 Pages
  • Trim Size: 6in x 9in
  • Number of Illustrations: 10
  • ISBN: 9780826162816
  • eBook ISBN: 9780826162823
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