Spirituality Studies 1 EDITORIAL Editorial In our times of boosted productivity, socially glorified and technologically enhanced to an extreme, the physical, mental, and spiritual balance of a human being is needed more than ever before in history. If the rapid development of AI technology can be likened to a new industrial revolution, the imperative to maintain a balance of body, mind, and spirit reminds us of the complexity of human needs. Complementary elements of human experience call for their recognition, acceptance, and cultivation in their wholeness, whether they are psychologically described as productivity, ecstasis, and enstasis or otherwise. In this way, physical, mental, and spiritual balance is related to wholeness and consequently to the integrity of human being—that integrity which involves all aspects of human existence, not only its productive, performing, or creative ones. Nevertheless, human existence as existence is intrinsically incomplete, as the very etymology of the Latin word existentia, from which the English word existence derives, suggests: ex (“out of, from”) and sta (“to stand”)—one “stands outside of oneself.” The phenomenal situation of “standing outside of oneself” is referred to in existential philosophy as “alienation” or “forgetfulness of being”: of the two dimensions of human being, only the “human” dimension is recognized, while the dimension of “being” is forgotten. On the threshold of a new era in human history, marked by revolutionary technologies, the call for spirituality resounds with renewed urgency as an expression of the need for wholeness—for the integration of both fundamental dimensions of human being. Spirituality Studies, together with the authors of the Fall 2026 edition, offers scholarly insights from research on spirituality amid turbulent research and social developments. Cordially, Martin Dojčár
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