January 1998
05 -- * Alan Watts: Resisting change
12 -- Carol Pearson: Training students to
be cogs
19 -- Rumi: "There is no other world."
26 -- Danah Zohar & Sam Keen:
Living systems and myths
February 1998
02 -- Jesus: Bringing forth what's inside
you
09 -- Neil Postman: Teaching religion
16 -- James Ogilvy: Education and "perpetual
preparation"
23 -- * Claudio Naranjo: To express oneself
is to realize oneself
March 1998
02 -- * Malidoma Patrice Some: Speed as
a measure of spiritual crisis
09 -- Anatole French: Teaching as awakening
curiosity
16 -- * Thomas Szasz: Learning and suffering
23 -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Individual
freedom and the community
30 -- Tao-Sheng: When ideas are absorbed,
forget the symbols
April 1998
06 -- Alan Watts: The Fantasy of the Future
13 -- B. F. Skinner: Education
20 -- Connie Zweig & Steve Wolf: Addictions
ac Camouflage
27 -- Mary Pipher: A Girl-Poisoning Culture
May 1998
04 -- Friedeman Wieland: Hero's Journey
as complete-lived experience
11 -- Sam Keen & Ann Valley-Fox: Free
to explore possibilities
18 -- Mark Van Doren: Art of Teaching
25 -- Michael de Montaigne: Asses laden
with books
June 1998
01 -- * Robert Hopcke: Human archetypes,
figures and situations*
08 -- James Ogilvy: Goals as defense mechanisms
15 -- * Danah Zohar: The world view
22 -- * Roger Smith: If people understand
why, they will work for it.
29 -- Paul Reps: The Muddy Road (a Zen
parable)
July 1998
06 -- Alan Watts: Rythm and flow in life
13 -- James Hope: The Soul
20 -- Gregg Levoy: Consult your death
27 -- Sigmund Freud: Myth -- foundation
of life
August 1998
03 -- Carl Jung: The mandala as inner
image
10 -- Alan Watts: The relationship between
object and ground
17 -- Allan Combs & Mark Holland:
Quantum physics and oneness
24 -- Peter Gold:
The Mandala
31 -- Joseph Campbell: Teaching
and the reality of life
September 1998
07 -- Fritjof Capra: The mind and the
mystical experience
14 -- James Hillman: Gods of the unconscious
21 -- Dov Baer of Mezritch: On seeing
the divinity within
28 -- Claudio Naranjo: Unfinishedness,
completing the incomplete Gestalt
October 1998
05 -- J. Krishnamurti: Education and the
process of self
12 -- Stanley Diamond: On the nature
of polar symbols
19 -- Victor Mansfield: The self
as meaning and self-expression
19 -- Paul Reps: How to
write a Chinese poem
November 1998
02 -- E. C. McKenzie: The worth of an
educational system
09 -- Victor Frankl: On the meaning
of life
16 -- Manfred Lurker: On the meaning
of symbols
23 -- Vartan Gregorian and Neil Postman:
On the meaning of life
30 -- Paul Rubillot: On learning
how, not why, we do things
December 1998
06 -- * Rollo May: Engagement and absorption
must precede creativity
13 -- * Claudio Naranjo: Using techniques
to avoid reality
20 -- * From The Sacred: On science,
control and the disruption of balance
27 -- Gregg Levoy: Why we reject
our Calls in life
January 1999
04 -- Tim O'Brien: On finding meaning
through telling stories
11 -- Andrew Harvey: On the mystical experience
18 -- * Thoughts on the Shadow:
With a comment on the shadow and the Journey
25 -- Ralph Metzner: On the importance
and function of myth and metaphor
February 1999
01 -- Pema Chodron: When things fall apart
-- beginning of an adventure
08 -- Lorna Catford & Michael Ray:
Hero's Journey is spiritual transformation
15 -- Marian Diamond & Janet Hopson:
Video games, behavior and thinking
22 -- Jacob Needleman: Do you live
your life or does your life live you?
March 1999
01 -- Christine Baldwin: Writing bridges
the inner and outer worlds
08 -- Thomas Moore: Participating in rather
than controlling life
15 -- Wes "Scoop" Nisker: Western detatchment
and crazy wisdom
22 -- Ralph Metzner: Metaphors of transformation
and consciousness
29 -- J. Krishnamurti: Education and the
integrated process of life
April 1999
05 -- Tim O'Brien: A mentor from The
Things they Carried
12 -- Peter Gold: Balancing the
male and female energies
19 -- Maladoma Patrice Some: Ritual
and the machine culture
26 -- Ralph Metzner: Images of the
entrapped human consciousness; the labyrinth
May 1999
03 -- Chuang Tzu: An ancient Chinese philosopher
on the use of symbols
10 -- Lorna Catford, Ph. D. and Michael
Ray, Ph.D.: Frustration and creativity
17 -- Joseph Campbell: On myth and
meaning
24 -- Stephen Mitchell: On Jesus,
awareness, presence and the Journey
31 -- Combs and Holland: Complimentary
(polar) nature of human situations
June 1999
07 -- Swami Paramananda: On concentration
and goals
14 -- J. Krishnamurti: On the difference
between education and training
21 -- Laura Day: On our culture's
overreliance on "linear" thought
28 -- * Robert Bly: Literature,
the shadow and the "dark side"
July 1999
05 -- Alan Watts: The necessity of the
background to see the object (yin/yang)
12 -- David Reynolds: The positive
sides of neurotic attitudes.
19 -- David Reynolds: Suffering
as a constructive guide to action
26 -- Eugene Herrigel:
Spirituality and transcending skill to achieve art
August 1999
02 -- Robert Bly: On the Shadow and Dr.
Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
09 -- Shunryu Suzuki: Karmic action
(with comment related to Hero's Journey)
16 -- from The Sacred: On
clowns and our own self importance
23 -- Hans Biedermann: On the power of
symbols to influence and manipulate
30 -- from Magic Trees of the Mind:
On one difference between Japanese and American teaching styles
September 1999
06 -- Alan Watts: On the nature of the
sublime experience and its expression in symbols
13 -- Neil Postman: On the impact
of technology on learning, schools and society
20 -- Rollo May: On greed,
ethics, technology and depression
27 -- * Albert
Einstein: On the illusion created by consciousness
October 1999
04 -- * Neil Postman: On a world
without spiritual or intellectual order
11 -- from The Sacred: On greed
and exploitation
18 -- * Carl Jung: On the psychological
process of individuation (with comment on the Journey)
25 -- Pema Chodron:
When things fall apart: learning to let go
November 1999
01 -- Robert Segal: Jung on the difference
between signs, allegories and symbols
08 -- Deng Ming-Dao: On movement and creativity
15 -- Herbert Kohl:
"I Won't Learn from You" & Creative maladjustment
22 -- Paul Rebillot: On the rite of passage
and our modern "spiritual void"
29 -- Malidoma Patrice Some: On ritual
and the enslavement overt power
December 1999
06 -- Tom E. Driver: Ritual as spiritual
"technolgy," technology of the spirit
13 -- from The Mythic
Path: On the nature and function of a personal mythology
20 -- Robert Segal: Jung on the relationship
between myths and archetypes.
27 -- Ralph Metzner: Archetypes and layers
of personality
January 2000
03 -- Transpersonal Psychology: The Perenial
Philosophy and the evloution of human consciousnes
10 -- Lorna Catford and
Michael Ray: On lving in the present moment
17 -- Leslie Marmon
Silko: from Ceremony on the intricacy
of language and meaning
24 -- Lewis Hyde:
Trickster can disguise his tracks
31 -- Alan Watts: Organic nature
of mythical language
February 2000
07 -- James Hillman:
Plato's myth of Er and the daimon as our guiding principle
14 -- Toby J. Tetenbaum: Chaos,
bounded equilibrium in organizations + comment
21 -- Robert Segal: The relationship
of myth and ritual
28 -- Alan Watts: The transformation
of understanding
March 2000
06 -- Frederick Frank: "De-thingifying,"
disolving the object/subject relationship
13 -- Laura Berk: Behavior of children
raised by prmissive parenting
20 -- Robert Segal: On Heroes seeing
"through things into things."
27 -- * Ginsburg and Opper: Piaget's
concept of equilibruim (with comment on the Journey)
April 2000
03 -- James Ogilvy: On the obsolescence
of goals
10 -- from Navajo and Tibetan Sacred Wisdom:
On real values and the modern world
17 -- Leslie Marmon Silko: cure would
be found only in something great and inclusive of everything
23 -- Chang Chung-yuan: On the primordial
source, the beginning and end of all things.
30 -- Jean Piaget: On perception and intelligence.
May 2000
01 -- Rollo May: On myths and making sense
in life.
08 -- Feinstein and Krippner: On myth
as the coded DNA of the human psyche.
15 -- Carl Jung: On the importance of
meaning in life
22 -- Thomas Moore: The inverse
relationship between information and wisdom
29 -- Michael Josephson: On ethics and
decision making
June 2000
05 -- Vartan Gregorian: On the two fundamental
challenges of teaching.
12 -- Allan Combs and Mark Holand: Sacrificing
control to experience the divine flow of life
19 -- Robert H. Hopcke: Being open to
the meaning in what you did not want to happen
26 -- David Rosen: The persona is a mask
that is used to relate to and interact with the outer world
July 2000
03 -- Ken Wilber: On healing the persona-shadow
split
10 -- Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughn:
Spiritual release and the developmental crisis --the Call
17 -- Gregg Levoy: Seeing pain and illness
as a call to finding an authentic life
24 -- Pema Chodron: Restraining from implusive
action to discover our true nature
31 -- Jiddu Krishnamurti: Education is
the discernment of the essential; fear prevents intelligence
August 2000
07 -- Alexander Eliot: On the numinous
nature of myth
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September 2000
04 -- Erich Fromm: The "art of living"
in a technological, machine-oriented world
11 -- Gregg Levoy: On recognizing the
"true" calls in our lives
18 -- * Tom Williams: On cognitive restructuring
in treating PTSD (with comment on Journey)
25 -- Linda Barnes: On surrendering our
attachments to free our creativity and vision
October 2000
02 -- * Lewis Hyde: Trickster as
the boundary crosser and embodyment of ambiguity and ambivalence
09 -- * James Ogilvy: The perception change
from a material economy to an information economy
16 -- * Marsha Sinetar: On repecting the
self and individual needs for growth and learning
23 -- Alan Briskin: The power of
the shadow to add vitality and depth to our lives.
30 -- Charlotte Joko Beck: Stoking the
fire of attention and participation in the present
November 2000
06 -- Marsha Sinetar: No part of our personality
reveals our basic temperament more than our dark side
13 -- * Michael White: The narrative model
for experience, with comment on the Journey
20 -- Tarthang Tulku: Education provides
information but fails to teach us how to use it.
27 -- Alan Briskin: The ambiguity
of good and evil is a key to explore our heart and motivations
December 2000
04 -- Swami Chetanananda: On the necessity
of letting go, of the leap of faith, of death and rebirth.
11 -- Michael Foucault:
On the subjugating power of constant observation
18 -- Jerome Bruner: The object of interpretation
is understanding, not explanation.
25 -- David McCarthy: Gestalt learning
theory; creating the need to learn
January 2001
01 -- Ellen Langer: Focusing on outcome
rather than process develops one's self image.
08 -- * Marsha Sinetar:
On the individuality of develompent, with a comment on schools
15 -- * Ellen Langer: Emphasizing outcome
over process in education reduces mindfulness.
22 -- Rollow May: The healing power
of myth
29 -- David Reynolds: Learning to think
of every "now" as important
February 2001
05 -- Ellen Langer:
We learn about ourselves by examining our choices
12 -- Jerome Bruner: Education must
help those living in a culture find an identity within that culture
19 -- David McCarthy: The illusion
of objectivity, with comment on high-stakes testing and power
26 -- Rollo May: The existential
nature of human experience; there is no reality except as we experience
it.
March 2001
05 -- Mark Epstein: The self as illusion
12 -- Jean-Paul Sartre: Relationship of
"self" and "not-self;" comment on Journey as becoming-being
19 -- James Hillman: The universality
of archetypes as structurers of fantasy and myth.
26 -- Thomas Yoemans: Self-awareness and
understanding as the foundation for education
April 2001
02 -- Alan Watts: The language of myth
is integrative and organic; factual language dissects
09 -- Jerome Bruner: How one conceives
of education is a function of how one conceives of the culture
16 -- Claudio Naranjo: The relationship
between structure and creativity
23 -- Alan Briskin: The impact of standardization
and mechanization on the soul.
30 -- Fritjof Capra: The Eastern mystical
traditions focus on changing the person inside (with comment).
May 2001
07 -- George Kelly: We need not be victims
of our pasts.
14 -- Judith Herman: The importance of
being connected to others for trauma recovery.
21 -- * Jermoe Bruner: How our
"folk psychology" influences the way we see the world.
28 -- Alice Miller: We must know our own
truths before we can love.
June 2001
05 -- Ann E. Berthoff: An organic conception
of language; the relationship between word and idea.
12 -- Craig Eilert Abrahamson: one cannot
know oneself without telling stories.
19 -- Jerome Bruner: The nature of narrative
truth, understanding and analysis.
26 -- David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner:
The journey toward balancing internal and external worlds.
July 2001
02 -- Tarthang Tulku: On the fragile nature
of our inner journeys.
09 -- Alan Briskin: On adversity as an
opportunity to take charge of our lives.
16 -- ChristinaBaldwin: On the need to
protect our "creative tension" for writing.
23 -- Charolette Joko Beck: Work as Zen
practice; doing what needs to be done.
30 -- Ann Berthoff: On the corelative
nature of thought and language.
August 2001
06 -- Mark Epstein: Even painful experiences
can be interesting.
13 -- George Isaac Brown: On the
paradoxical nature of the assembly-line classroom.
20 -- Anne Berthoff: On the importance
of chaos in composition.
27 -- Ken Wilber: On the nature of lines
a boundaries (with a reflection)
September 2001
03 --
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17 --
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October 2001
01 -- Herbert Kohl: Two thoughts on creative
or protective maladjustment in students.
08 --
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22 -- Parker Palmer: Transition from mentored
to mentor and the role of the teacher
29 --
November 2001
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January 2002
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February 2002
04 -- Jerome Bruner:
On literature's power to open possibilities in our lives
11 -- Carl Jung: On the nature and
function of archetypes
18 -- George Isaac Brown: On how
reliance on manipulation and roles stiffles our growth
25 -- Donald Polkinghorne: On narrative
and the construction of personal identity
March 2002
04 -- Stephen Batchelor: On "having" and
anxiety
11 -- Erich Fromm: On the replacement
of "being" with "having"
18 --
25 --
April 2002
01 -- Jerome Bruner: Literature as a tool
to make life less fixed and more open to change
08 --
15 -- Jerome Bruner: The creation of the
narrative self
22 -- Ann E. Berthoff: Education as an
organic process
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