Science and Spirituality

Understanding the meaning of human development and creating conditions for the improvement and identification of human identity in its entirety (biological, psychological, social, and spiritual), this work, based on qualitative research within a phenomenological approach to interdisciplinary knowledge, is structured around several disciplines, mainly modern physics, transpersonal psychology, and philosophy. The analysis of interviews with physics professors from the Physics Department at UFMT led me to understand that the relationship between science and spirituality is a possible path to building citizenship. Although it is difficult to evaluate and fully describe what they think about the relationship between science and spirituality and, based on what they think, understand the importance of this relationship, knowledge about spirituality seems to 'hint' at the possibility of a different pedagogical practice in the teaching-learning relationship, where interiority leads to a profound exercise of humility and otherness. Spirituality is the activity through which we work on or develop our spirit, our soul. From this, religiosity consequently arises.