Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Border Crossings in Self, Societies and Spiritual Awakening -- Beyond One and Many: Deconstructing the Notion of Identity -- Siva Tantra Rediscovered: Transforming the Etic Routes and Emic Roots of Indian Spirituality -- Semiotic Roots and Buddhist Routes in Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy: A Peircean study of Abhidharma Buddhist Theories of Consciousness and Perception -- Ecological Interconnectedness: Entwined Selves, Transcendent and Immanent -- From Root to Return Routes: A Brief Tantric Description of the Passage from Being to Beings -- Roots, Routes and Creative Transformations: New Perspectives on Transitions in Human Society -- Thoreau - Tolstoy - Gandhi: The Origin of Satyagraha -- "The Gospel According to Babylon": The Rastafarian Challenge to Euro-centric Theological Discourse in the Caribbean -- Part Two Roots, Routes and a New Awakening: Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures -- Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Towards a New Art of Border Crossing -- Multicentric World and Nationalism -- Roots, Routes and A New Awakening: Walking and Meditating with Raimon Panikkar -- Overcoming Evil as Creation of Others as Enemies:Roots, Routes and a New Awakening of Plural Identities -- Muddled Roots and Diverse Routes of Reality: Understanding Hindu Rāṣṭra and Gandhi Rāṣṭra through the myth of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita -- Roots, Routes and a New Awakening: Rupantara, A Transforamtive Iniative in Co-Learning and Training of Tribal Teachers of Odisha, India -- Roots and Routes and The Origins of Urban Theory: A Journey to "Stadtluft Macht Frei" -- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Life -- Mysticism in the Tree of Anthroposcene: The Feminine Tree of Life and the Virtual Sphere -- Roots, Routes, and Crossing Borders: Embracing Cosmopolitanism in a Transcultural World.