Posted in esotericism, spirituality on Jan 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Swamini Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane passed January 14. She was one of the deeply beautiful human beings.
“In these kinds of times we live in now, with war, floods and fires, it is not unusual because they have been occurring throughout the ages. However, they are occurring now very evidently for us where we see and […]
Posted in adult learning, communications, consciousness, experiential learning, relationships, social psychology, spirituality, transformative learning on Oct 15th, 2006 3 Comments »
I’m very curious about the process through which people really get to know each other. And, just as fascinated by the processes through which people fool themselves into believing they are getting to really know one other. There is overlap between the former and the latter kinds of processes. Some people are very good at […]
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, spirituality, sufism on Jun 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
I added the emphasis in the following clipping. …food for reflection. I’ll follow up with a teaching cartoon shortly.
Excerpt. The Wisdom of Sufic Humor, Idries Shah; originally published in Human Nature; April 1978
Sufis see many traditional prayers and processes, today more familiar than ever to most Westerners, as relics of specific, scripted, and measured formulas […]
Posted in cognitive psychology, consciousness, outsider research, psychology, science, spirituality on Nov 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
Dana Gaynor’s The Journal of Psychospiritual Transformation has some fairly ‘hard’ minded articles about its subject matter. For example, on the contents page of vol.1 you’ll find an article by Charles Tart, “An Emergent Interactionist Understanding of Human Consciousness”. It exemplifies this qualification. On Tart’s site is the best itemization of credible parapsychology resources.
Andrew Cohen’s […]
Posted in adult learning, creativity, deep play, experiential learning, new paradigms, outsider research, spirituality, transformative learning on Mar 19th, 2005 No Comments »
In my trolling for items of interest, I happened upon a terrific resource, the web site of Yannis Karaliotas. He’s an explorer and scholar with very similar affinities to my own. His paper, “The Element of Play in Learning” is among the many keepers at his site. The subtitle to the paper is “The Role […]
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