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Sequence 4some of them at work and they do things that I haven't found a way to talk about yet, which tie them to Sylvia Ashton… |
Sequence 5the same elements that you see in Montessori and Sylvia Ashton Warner. For example, in all of these approaches is a deep… |
Sequence 6little children, these little four-year-olds and five-year-olds, seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds. They sound like adults when… |
Sequence 7which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 9age brings in terms of wisdom and experience, to ignore that reser- voir, and also then with that reservoir, to allow people… |
Sequence 10through animal watching. You teach the child through watching old people and other people. You teach the child through… |
Sequence 11that-and I emphasize the i-n-g, do-ing that-not can do that-it's always doing that. The brain is in a constant search for… |
Sequence 12visitor you'd be swept off your feet when you see what's happening with children. It interests me as to what they… |
Sequence 13The use of questions is common to all of these approaches. It boggles my mind: when I went to the places where teachers were… |
Sequence 14'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 15. . . in all of these approaches is a deep re-spect for the living reality of the children that we work with-that we use… |
Sequence 16fixed in your mind. What is your place in the cosmos? What is the child's place in the cosmos? What is our purpose on the… |
Sequence 17Fried an, B. (1962). The feminine mystique. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Mann, A. (1996, August). [Untitled workshop]. In… |
Sequence 1PART II THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION Since it has been seen to be necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision… |
Sequence 2NAMTA and the AAAS present THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION ' (FOR MONTESSORIANS) FEATllBING THOMAS BERRY, BRIAN SWIMME, AND… |
Sequence 3THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION CONFERENCE: TAKING THE JOURNEY BACK HOME by Kathleen Allen and Gerard Leonard Kathleen Allen and… |
Sequence 4As we listened to the current scientific knowledge and theologi- cal understanding of cosmic evolution, biological evolution,… |
Sequence 5human being's place- right in the middle of the scale of size between the smallest and largest structures in our Uni… |
Sequence 6Niles Eldredge brought our attention to the importance of the great extinctions in the process of biological evolution. Many… |
Sequence 7THE RESURGENCE OF COSMIC STORYTELLERS by Brian T. Swimme Brian Swimme' s insight into the Story of the Universe… |
Sequence 8encounter in our mechanistic, patriarchal, materialistic, consumer-oriented culture. A cosmic creation story answers the… |
Sequence 9inventions of the scientific period, and culminated-not openly, but there was never any doubt-in the United States of America… |
Sequence 10someone will tell the story of how story forced its way into the most anti-story domain of modern science-mathematical… |
Sequence 11equations was their implication that the universe was expanding. Such a notion made no sense in Einstein's static… |
Sequence 12It is important to understand the connection between this weak- ening of our belief in a "physical law" and… |
Sequence 13tion of the cosmic story, they may be entirely captured by the militaries of the planet. But I don't think so, and for a… |
Sequence 14This is a good place to make my final comment on the meaning of the cosmic creation story. For though I refer in general to… |
Sequence 15lose fat, and yet there is nothing available to assist those destined to sing about the great epic of being? I suggest that… |
Sequence 16from them-not just the continents and the mountains, but the trees and the oceans and your bodies. The rocks are your… |
Sequence 17achievement, sharing her riches with the universe and enabling our birth. "Her destiny is your destiny. In the… |
Sequence 18ago in the fiery explosion of the beginning of time. The great joy of the human being is to enter this allurement that… |
Sequence 1THE EVOLUTIONARY STORY: THE HUMAN ROLE by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry looks to the child as the profound bearer of the story… |
Sequence 2When we inquire just why scientists devote such intense effort, such enduring dedication to research projects concerned with… |
Sequence 3universe. They constantly evoked their self-consciousness within their universe-consciousness. The one had no meaning without… |
Sequence 4to all those beings that live within the earth. In this manner the covenant of Earth was affirmed. Humans asserted their… |
Sequence 5This beginning account of the' Epic of ttie Evolutionary Universe ne~d only be con- tinued and further developed in… |
Sequence 6scholarly world of scientific equations, of atomic and subatomic particles; to the technological world of mechanistic… |
Sequence 7from the Great Community of the Universe. This Primordial Com- munity existed through the presence of the indwelling Spirit… |
Sequence 8universe is an imposing reality, and an answer to all questions. We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things… |
Sequence 9coursed through her in new streams" (1948/1991, p. 59). How appropriate a way of indicating the moment when the Earth… |
Sequence 10of a single great community of existence. The evolutionary universe would be the primary referent in every field of academic… |
Sequence 11So with medicine. The first recognition would be that there cannot be well humans on a sick planet. The way to human well-… |
Sequence 12vidual. Above all, the sense of transhuman forces at work throughout the universe is communicated. But if in the past the… |
Sequence 13Theologically, the responsibility of the human is to perceive the evolutionary universe as the primary revelatory experience… |
Sequence 1THE SPIRITUAL TASK OF RELIGION IN CULTURE by Philip Hefner The challenge of culture renders human decision-making critical… |
Sequence 2The second kind of in- formation on which we are dependent is cultural in- formation. Genes alone do not a human being make… |
Sequence 3that, within the past two years, completely redesigned the system of roads by which we drove to this museum today. In one… |
Sequence 4using new materials and designs. Furthermore, we seem to have to explain and justify our house-building, hence the rather… |
Sequence 5environment. We are culturally incompetent at this point, and also at many others. This incompetence in our culture is… |
Sequence 6God's intention to create the kind of world that God really wanted. The testimony of contemporary scientific research… |
Sequence 7What, then, is the central human issue of culture, viewed scien- tifically, within the Epic of Evolution? It is the issue of… |
Sequence 8point to possibilities to which our biological inheritance is not yet sensitive." Spirituality is not some… |
Sequence 9lture as a The characteristics that we associate with re- ligion all have to do with the effort of nature to un- derstand… |
Sequence 10All persons face this religious challenge, and it is a challenge that is central to the survival of all persons and all… |
Sequence 11the traditional religionists, are engaged in the religions dimension of human culture, namely the formation of the world views… |
Sequence 12Evolution. We seek to organize our consciousness through our weaving, in ways that can serve our information function within… |
Sequence 1THE ORIGINS OF RELIGION: COSMOLOGY AND CULTIVATION by Mary Evelyn Tucker Dr. Tucker combines lyricism and scholarship as she… |
Sequence 2who edited Sacred Books of the East, held that the earliest' understand- ing of the divine was in the personifications of… |
Sequence 3Nonetheless, a significant sector of the modern West has inher- ited and further developed Enlightenment attitudes which… |
Sequence 4patterns of religion from personal religious experience to its commu- nal institutionalization. This was one of the… |
Sequence 5wanders thickly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the )jving to a… |
Sequence 6As Eisley suggests, there is affirmation and continuity in the face of death and struggle, even in the animal kingdom. Life… |
Sequence 7He continues to reflect on the meaning of his experience in the Platte River, where he has returned in the winter season and… |
Sequence 8body the cosmos in their own person as well as in the structures they create in bioregions such as subsistence activities and… |
Sequence 9both the orientation and the openness that religious cosmologies provide for self-cultivation. Self-cultivation is a term used… |
Sequence 10In short, we are seeking to re-attune our cultural coding and religious symbol systems to be in touch with the genetic coding… |
Sequence 11movements of the universe-that nature was both teacher and guide. Even as historical traditions arose in certain contexts,… |
Sequence 12They suggest that early river civilizations which were undertaking agriculture were concerned not just with dominion, as has… |
Sequence 13(B.W. Anderson, 1986, p. 541). All of this is set against the back- ground of Yahweh as cosmic King and Creator, as enthroned… |
Sequence 14The Psalms which reflect lamentation and thanksgiving might be seen as part of the cultivation side of the dyad. As injustice… |
Sequence 15Thus, these hymns are a fascinating collection of a people moving from pastoral pursuits to farming. In relation to our… |
Sequence 16Another origin hymn reflects the picture of the universe as emerging from neither being nor non-being. The power of this hymn… |
Sequence 17A second major type of cosmological hymns is those celebrating the power of natural phenomena. In these Vedic hymns there are… |
Sequence 18To placate the powers of nature, to maintain order, and finally to obtain material benefits-all of these are reasons for the… |
Sequence 19place for the Japanese emperor in Tokyo.) Moreover, throughout Asia there are elaborate systems of geomancy (feng shui) which… |
Sequence 20Since in this way man comes to resemble heaven and earth, he is not in conflict with them. His wisdom embraces all things,… |
Sequence 21developmental time, we are seeking our place in this vast sweep of evolution. In terms of space, we are seeking appropriate… |
Sequence 1Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 204 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 23, No. 1 • Winter 1998 |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 3Just so that you know why my name is so long, let me explain it and parse it to make it easier to remember. It is made up of… |
Sequence 4chance of surviving in the future. The philosopher George Santayana (1905) has said that the point of studying the past is to… |
Sequence 5evolution is the environment. That is, there are common persistent features in the environment which will decide whether the… |
Sequence 6However, at this point we are in an interesting situation-as many of the speakers pointed out in the past three days-we are in… |
Sequence 7agency of genes, which contain the program for the development of structures and functions within the biological organism.… |
Sequence 8extrasomatically, that is, outside the body. So what does it mean? Well, you can think of memes as being any kind of… |
Sequence 9Finally, if the meme really works out, if the new idea, the new practice, the new habit is something that has enough adherence… |
Sequence 10Now is there any kind of guidance among the various scenarios of the future that we may or may not endorse through our… |
Sequence 11Iii e both integrated erentlat . , children are both 0 " de- • the om- reci- ien~ aln1 we all use. If you… |
Sequence 12spend the next hour talking about complexity in the development of the human being and complexity at the psychological level.… |
Sequence 13unless we know how to control the development of these ideas, they will just proliferate, even if they destroy us in the… |
Sequence 14transmitted and becomes more and more complex. We get mortars and pestles and then stone grinding mills and all of that-just… |
Sequence 15are abandoning their forms of music because learning how to play a pipe or a mandolin is much harder than turning on a… |
Sequence 16A: In a sense, I suppose the will is, as we talk more about this, the will is what controls attention, that is, the psychic… |
Sequence 17Q: How do we make what we have to offer as teachers or as parents valued? As Montessori teachers or as Montessorians, how do… |
Sequence 18economy, is one that privileges differentiation. But it's very bad at integration. Many other cultures, including the… |
Sequence 19Q: Since we've been at a conference that has discussed ultimacy, that is, the destiny of the universe and the destiny of… |
Sequence 20some of our psychic energy to do so. We have to pay attention. Attention to me is equal to psychic energy. In other words, we… |
Sequence 21over a lifetime, and if you are awake 16 hours a day, and you live 70 years, you can process about 180 billion bits of… |
Sequence 22For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the… |