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What an interesting idea - I hope it develops
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The Metanexus conference 2008 announcement

The Metanexus Institute has just announced details of its 2008 conference which looksextremely interesting - for full details click on link below.
Metanexus Conference 2008
Subject, Self, and Soul:

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood

July 13 – 17, 2008

Their introduction starts as below - for full details book on link above.

MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM
(I have become [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ken Wilber The Eye of Spirit Chapter 1 (abridged)

Chapter 1 of The Eye of Spirit (abridged) is HERE The Eye of the Spirit - An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad [Abridged]
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Ken Wilber biographical notes
Ken Wilber site at Shambhala Publishers - includes other extracts HERE
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All postings to this site relate to the central SunWALK model in the PhD.
Summaries are HERE

Dorothy Heathcote - inspiration for teachers of drama in education

If you haven’t caught up with the work of Dorothy Heathcote here is a great place to start. I refer to Sandra Heston’s PhD about Dorothy. Sandra’s own intro reads thus;

Sandra Hesten
Dr Sandra Hesten’s [...]

Postmodernist art as re-mirroring and re-framing our world

Until modernism developed - as a reaction - art was thought of in the terms of Shakespeare’s Hamlet;
“To hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.”
Although Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers to the “purpose [...]

Wilber video: The Spirituality of Tomorrow

On YouTube there are a number of videos showing Ken Wilber in dialogue and answering questions

The posters of this video say;
The Catholic theologian Karl Rahner famously said “the Christian of tomorrow will be a mystic, or not a Christian at all.” Few people have impacted Christianity in this regard as has Fr. Thomas Keating. A [...]

Favourite Art Quotes

This is a start to a collection of favourite art quotations;
“All works of art though visible represent invisible things,” (by or about Bill Viola)
Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
~ Magdalena Abakanowicz
“The atmosphere of our early years - the [...]

What is philosophy - just a load of questions and some answers?

Have you ever wanted to know more about philosophy but felt overwhelmed by shelves and shelves of tomes, many in dry unfathomable prose, in your shop or library? Below is a map of philosophy that I have used with children in schools and also with adult groups. It is adapted from an article [...]

Spiritual quotes that might illumine the nature of photography

Spiritual quotes that might illumine the nature of photography - Part 1

I hope those of you who can get BBC tv are catching the series ‘The Genius of Photography‘ It is the best series on photography I have seen.
Previously I also praised Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment. Both the BBC programme and [...]

Getting our I, WE & IT voices Balanced - inspired by Ken Wilber

Getting our I, WE & IT Voices Balanced
 
Are your voices in a twist? We each have 3 God-given voices to sing different kinds of songs. Imagine if one voice dominates & consequently the other 2 ’shrivel’ to almost nothing. Where would we be?
 
Answer – where [...]

Panentheism, process theology and an anonymous 12thC philosopher

Alan Anderson some time ago wrote an interesting article about panentheism. He says that panentheism is not;
….. pantheism (all is God), but panentheism, a term devised by Karl C. F. Krause (1781-1832) to describe his thought. It is best known for its use by Charles Hartshorne and recently by Matthew Fox. Panentheism [...]

‘Definition of God’ - and it still leaves us with the job of living with each other through the unity of mystery

The nearest I have ever come across to a satisfactory definition of God is as follows;
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere.
Anonymous, ‘The Book of the Twenty-four Philosophers‘ (12thC)
Of course it isn’t really a definition - it’s more like a Zen Master’s ‘pointing’ - but what a pointing!
Of course [...]

Wilberian Studies; integral and holistic studies that draw on inspiration from Ken Wilber

 I therefore sought to outline a philosophy of universal integralism. Put differently, I sought a world philosophy—or an integral philosophy—that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world’s great wisdom traditions. Not on the level of details—that is finitely impossible; but on [...]

A Great Video - Tim Williams Novel

From Crackle: Tim Williams Novel
 
From the great Crackle site.

Willard Wigan - small is beautiful - but would the ArtWorld say it isn’t art?

Willard Wigan creates sculpture in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin.
Sugar (?) and…..
Liberty’s statue
Is this thinker’s thoughts small or large?
Elvis on his pin-head.
Visitors to Willard Wigan’s exhibitions view his work through a microsope!
The match.
The Titanic
The Wizard of Oz

The Six wives and Henry VIII+

Of course ’skill isn’t art’ the [...]

Elephants on blip.tv

Am looking at video systems for WordPress - other than YouTube. Blip.tv seems good
So here is something completely different - high quality video on www.blip.tv
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NB All postings to this site relate to the central model in the PhD.
Summaries are HERE