Media and The Mind
The question is; can we use image and information technologies without them infecting us and changing how we perceive, how we feel, what we think about, value and behave? The answer is no, so precede with caution. What most fail ...
Not More Imagination but Imagination of a Certain Kind
Sometime, perhaps 50,000 years ago or more, a relatively thin layer of neurons, emerging out of and covering the ancient sensory-motor and limbic-emotional brain centers, exploded – and along with it memory of the distant past and more revolutionary projections ...
What is the meaning of education?
If today is a typical day on planet Earth, we will lose 116 square miles of rainforest, or about an acre a second. We will lose another 72 square miles to encroaching deserts, as a result of human mismanagement and ...
Qualities, Capacities, Content and Curriculum
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein Ask yourself: “If my child was one of the last living members of the human race, and he or she would carry the DNA memory that would give birth ...
The Belonging Hoax
Of course we need to belong. Life is relationship. The words abandonment, bonding and attachment rest on the primacy of belonging. The relatively new field of epigenetics, the way the environment shapes gene expression, molding the very essence of life ...
Where do we go from here?
What follows is a synthesis of forty-years with J. Krishnamurti, David Bohm, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Samdhong Rinpoche and other mentors. The passion, clarity and hope that inspired these teachers etched deeply and took root. I see what I see standing ...