Angelus Silesius & Frederick Franck

I have included Angelus Silesius & Frederick Franck as two of my ‘Major Educators’ because of a particular, remarkable book called The Book of Angelus Silesius, The 17thC European Zen poet whose verses form a bridge beteen the mysticism of the East and West.
The book was published by Wildwood House in 1976. In his book [...]

Yeats -’things fall apart’

Yeats wrote “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, but that doesn’t mean there is no centre; it means its being re-evaluated. Here is that phrase in context:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, [...]

Novel - The Promise of Happiness

The novel The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartright is one of the very best pieces of modern fiction I have read.  It takes place on both sides of the ‘Pond’ and I suspect that many of those interested in the holistic also find it an amazing piece of work.

My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey

This wonderful ‘manifesto’ is still an inspiration a century after it was written - teachers and student teachers could all evaluate it and then write their own version!
My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey
First published in The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3 (January 16, 1897), pages 77-80.
ARTICLE I–What Education Is
I believe that all education proceeds [...]

The list of top 40 WordPress blogs

For those interested the list of ´top 40 WordPress blogs´ is HERE

BLOGFLUX list

Came across BLOGFLUX and its lists of top sites.  Will try and report back.  If you want to read what they say about themselves here it is;
Blog Top Sites is a top sites directory that aims to show you the best blogs available. We have over a dozen categories to suit your tastes.
Ranking of pages [...]

The Quote Garden - is this the best single site of quotations?

The Quote Garden - is this the best single site of quotations?
I rate it highly but if you know better let us know!
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Personal Development free videos

For those for you that are interested in Personal Development Steven Aitchinson has put together some free videos
HERE
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Edvolution - a great site

Readers of this site will find much to enjoy at EDVOLUTION: They say this about themselves,
Our Mission
The mission of Edvolution is to share learning that helps communities and individuals make decisions about their goals and best practices for education reform.

The Team
Chris Whitside is a writer and [...]

Coaching, Counselling and Mentoring

The chief characteristics of coaching are that 1) it is a process to help someone get from where they are, to where they want to be - without 2) telling them what they should do.
However this doesn´t provide a clear definition making coaching distinct from counselling, mentoring etc
Many forms of counselling would want counsellors to [...]

China’s leaders rediscover Confucianism

Daniel A. Bell reported for the International Herald Tribune that China is encouraging Confucianism since Marxism no longer serves as Chinese society’s guiding ideology.
 
 
Bell reports that in China, the moral vacuum is being filled by Christian sects, Falun Gong and extreme forms of nationalism. But the government considers that such alternatives threaten the hard-won peace [...]

Omid Djalili, The BBC ‘White’ season and the British Disease of Cynicism

A very fine review of the Iranian-British comedian Omid Djalili is to be found HERE
The BBC deserves much praise for the depth and variety of its programming in its current ‘White’ season see HERE

Both Djalili and the BBC season are making massive contributions to understanding, and making bridges across, the racial and religious divides in [...]

Buddhist Chanting - online (reposted)

I was delighted to find that a Buddhist monastery in California - Abhayagiri - is reaching out globally by making some chanting and talks available on the web HERE.
You can also listen to the Bhagavad Gita chanted in English HERE.
 
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The Journal of Contemporary Art

The Journal of Contemporary Art - HERE -
This has to be a major source for any one interested in contemporary art - a dazzling range of interviews with artists.
Just to whet your appetite:
Interview with Roni Horn HERE
Interview with Cindy Sherman HERE
Interview with Anthony Gormley HERE
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Roni Horn fine art photographer

Recently I had the pleasure of seeing an exhibition of work by Roni Horn at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Malaga.
I was thrilled - she goes straight in to my top ten fine art photograpers (yes I know I catch up late, she has been around for some time etc.)
Why? Its simply that [...]

Ervin László human values and consciousness

Ervin László founded the Club of Budapest to, in his words,
“center attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course—from a race toward degradation, polarization, and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today’s transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics, and [...]

Wisdom stories for enlightenment

Central to the model at the heart of this site is story as a primary way of organizing mind, education and social relationships - and of re-presenting reality and of enabling cultural transmission.
Also central to the model is the essential importance of having the spiritual intrinsic in systems as opposed to it being ‘a bolt-on [...]

Zen, knowing ignorance & Janis

Perhaps we should reflect more about the nature of ignorance in order to understand more about the true nature of knowing.
 
Sharon Janis in her excellent Spirituality For Dummies suggests that;
 
 
There are two kinds of ignorance: positive ignorance and negative ignorance:
* Positive ignorance is when you don’t know and you know you don’t know. This awareness [...]