ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on culture and spirituality in Africa, including the Middle East and turn to Europe and finally the Americas. Nature and community, from an integral dynamic perspective, constitutes individual and collective grounding, culture and spirituality heralds emergence, through self, organizational and societal renewal. Citing, initially, the work of Placide Tempels, the noted Catholic priest based in the Congo in the middle of the last century, wrote about 'Bantu philosophy', the supreme value for Tempels' African is life force vital force: ntu. The experience of Pachakuti for the peoples of the Americas in the long process of the Spanish conquest and reorganization of life and social fabric. The historical experience of African women was different, since they had relative structural power in all institutions of social organization. In terms of Integral Dynamics, the absence of self, organizational and societal 'individuation', in C. G. Jung's terms leads to poverty and decay, to general corruption and to specifically despotic regimes.
