Dr. Shiv Talwar

Shiv D. Talwar was born to deeply spiritual and open-hearted parents in 1937 in pre-partition India. He began his education in a desi school in India where he received an undergraduate degree in civil engineering in 1954. Shiv earned two graduate degrees in his profession, a Master’s from Lehigh University in the United States (1962) followed by a Ph. D. from the University of Waterloo in Canada (1973). Shiv has been living in Canada with his wife and two children since 1966. 
The pre-partition India was partitioned to create a Muslim-majority Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India in 1947. This event was accompanied by calamitous “us” against “them” tribalism of unimaginable scale. Shiv was genuinely troubled by it. “Something must be done to put an end to this type of hatred forever,” he then resolved. 
Shiv’s roots in open-minded spirituality at home, nurtured by school teachers in India, matured in Canada in the light of his accomplished spiritual mentor, Swami Vishwatma Bawra. 
From his mentor, Shiv received education in the unifying core spirituality of Ancient India which made him realize that the light of core spirituality underlying all religions automatically dispels the darkness of human fragmentation. He also realized that education is the way to spread light. 
Shiv retired early (1996) from teaching civil engineering to dedicate the rest of his life to the cause of education to cultivate unity in diversity. To that end, he organized the  Spiritual Heritage Education Network. in 2000. 
Shiv is uniquely equipped with a blend of modern scientific problem-solving education on one side and education in ancient spiritual wisdom on the other to face the challenge of searching for a way to reform prevailing global education to integrate humanity. Shiv’s second book, written as a global action proposed to re-envision and reform education, is a logical sequel to his award-winning book published in 2019, The Common Ground, Vol. 1: A Unified Basis of Existence, hailed as a masterpiece on the unity of science and spirituality.