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From Fragmentation to Wholeness

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From Fragmentation to Wholeness challenges conventional, mechanistic approaches to sustainability and argues that fragmented human consciousness and linear policy models are insufficient to address...
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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.

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Price: $120.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date: 01 September 2026
ISBN: 9781806866786
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

RELIGION / Spirituality, Society and Social Sciences, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Public administration / Public policy, Regional, state and other local government

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 Region

Devesh Gupta is the Founder of Emerge, India.

Naresh Singh is a Professor at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, India.

Introduction
Part I. Diagnosis – The Outer World Mirrors Inner Division
Chapter 1. Polycrisis as a Reflection of Inner Fragmentation
Chapter 2. Human Condition - Psychological Roots of Institutional Breakdown
Chapter 3. Beyond Goals and Frameworks: Seeing the Root of Global Crisis
Part II. Inward Inquiry — Understanding the Source of Fragmentation
Chapter 4. The Self as the Source and Effect of Fragmentation, Conflict, and Violence
Chapter 5. The Trap of Knowledge and Belief
Chapter 6. Relationship, Memory, and Image
Chapter 7. Psychological Time and Inertia
Interlude - Crossing the Threshold
Chapter 8. Love Without Image
Turning Point: The Ending of ‘Me’ and the Emergence of Choiceless Action
Part III. Holistic Response
Chapter 9. Choiceless Action and Intelligence
Chapter 10. Conscious Governance and Leadership
Chapter 11. Policy, Education, Systems; Acting from Coherence
Chapter 12. Living Institutions: Mirrors, Spaces, and Emergence
Chapter 13. Grand Conclusions and Summary: Awareness Is the Change
Final Message: The Mirror of the Whole