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Dear MSR colleagues,

On this auspicious summer solstice day, I am delighted to report that two of my papers were published in Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion earlier this year. These may be helpful for graduate students and others who are looking for more recent consciousness-based works on Leadership, Well-Being, and Artificial Intelligence. 

This paper constructs a model for enhancing workplace well-being (WB) from development of consciousness (DC), through purpose driven leadership (PL). A morally higher and ethical organizational purpose can help facilitate the accomplishment of higher purposes of the individuals, leading to greater engagement, fulfilment, and well-being in the organization. This paper reviews 20 theories of leadership based on the inner domain of leaders, 10 scales of WB, and five perspectives on PL, and relates them all to DC. It also describes V-theory of transcendence to support DC through multiple practices and help the leadership in developing their higher purpose. The paper finally presents some propositions for future research on the model, and implications for practice.

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems achieve consciousness? Can AI help human beings experience Oneness? If so, how? While many writers have been warning about the possible threats to humanity from an advanced Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that may even possibly achieve consciousness in the near future, this paper will examine a possible more positive future with a three-level framework for how AI may be able to support humanity in experiencing Oneness. Oneness refers to the state of being united and interconnected with everything else. We will examine how future advances in AI could eventually lead to the expansion of global consciousness. The authors shared their personal subjective experiences of Oneness, and fed them into an AI system, and asked it to identify common elements attributable to the experiences of Oneness. We will examine how AI could be helpful to human beings in experiencing Oneness, and its implications for management and education.

Please let me know any questions, comments or suggestions. Thanks.