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How's the water?
How's the dirt? How's the worm?
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CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC - -HOW CAN I HELP? -- TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:
9-29 P1; 9-27 Shapeshifting 9-22 Group Totem Animal +
9-20 Hawk as Power Animal + 9-15 Power
Animals;
9-13 Universities,
U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II;
+ 9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism, Lord of the
Flies;
+ 9-6
PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic
Imagination,
CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC - -HOW CAN I HELP? -- TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:
9-29 P1; 9-27 Shapeshifting 9-22 Group Totem Animal +
9-20 Hawk as Power Animal + 9-15 Power Animals;
9-13 Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II;
+ 9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism, Lord of the Flies;
+ 9-6 PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic Imagination,
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LOOKING AHEAD:
P1 critiques due 10-7
If posted by 10-8 -5; by 10-9 -10; by 10-11 -15; by 11-12 -20; by 11-13 -25; if after -50
P1b final copy due 10-20
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10-6Dass 2 Quiz in class. Best and Worst" for first
half of alphabet BLUE WHALE'S BIRTHDAY LEADER? DOVE
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EXTRA CREDIT:Thursday, October 6, 4pm Workshop on Race, Health, and the Environment
Glickman Conference Center (CLA 1.302D) 10 pts. for attendance with selfie taken there;
up to 20 more pts. for blog posted in Extra Credit Discussion Board ((two images and at least two quotes.).
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P1 critiques due 10-7 by midnight
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10-11Dass 3 Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet LEADER: WOLF
P2 required service learning excursion to Taylor animal shelter 11-6
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INTEGRATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN AND THE RIGHT, YOUR ANIMAL AND YOUR "HUMAN" SIDE........
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INTEGRATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN AND THE RIGHT, YOUR ANIMAL AND YOUR "HUMAN" SIDE........
SOME OF THE GOALS OF PROJECT ONE
To develop the sympathetic
imagination, the basis of all ethics
[see below].
To
unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating
both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
SOME OF THE GOALS OF PROJECT ONE
To develop the sympathetic
imagination, the basis of all ethics
[see below].
To
unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating
both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
To explore some of the animal archetypes of the
collective unconscious
[2A2a] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.
[2A2b] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination,which is essential to morality and ethics.
Trying to imagine what it was like to be someone else is a form of experiential learning, the kind that can stick with you later. All of this depends on your willingness to be an actor, to willingly suspend your disbelief long enough to play the part. That willingness also enables you to FREE yourself from the world views that you may have inherited without conscious thought or decision on your part.* Trying out the worldviews of other cultures is the humanities equivalent of a scientific experiment. When you adopt, however briefly, another Weltanshauung, and see and feel as a member of that culture would, you test out whether any part of that philosophy of life is one you want to adopt and/or, by contrast, what part of the worldivew you inherited you may consciously want to embrace as an adult.
*William Blake called them
your "mind-forged manacles"
MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY:
"A Zen-inspired blend of meditation, breathing exercises and focus techniques are in vogue in corporate America—championed by blue-chip employers like Google Inc. and General Mills Inc. as a simple but potent mind-sharpening tool." Gershman, Jacob. "
"Lawyers Go Zen, With Few Objections." WSJ. June 18, 2015.
Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A
Lovingkindness is a form of meditation designed to cultivate feelings of warmth and kindness to all people, including oneself, the researchers said. Practicing the technique may activate a soothing-caring regulation system that is probably deficient in chronic self-critics, they suggest [that] this practice may...... help in breaking down perfectionist tendencies. I know that at least for me, if I choose to allow myself forgiveness, encouragement, and grace, then I will be happier and more peaceful. The harshest of "self-critics" can use this meditation to learn how to better handle their self-judging nature. When we are less demanding of ourselves, we can in turn, be less demanding of others.
Lukits, Ann. "After Meditation, Self-Critical People Ease Up." WSJ. August 13, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A.
COSMIC ENERGY GUIDED IMAGERY
10-4 DASS1 MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS OR -10;"Best
and Worst" for 2ND half of alphabet; "how to deal with suffering"
LEADER: ELK: COMPASSION IN ACTION
REQUIRED READINGS:
FIRST THIRD OF DASS BOOK, to page 90
816 Breughel, Fall of Icarus BELGIUM
817-818
Auden, "Musee des
Beaux Arts" BRITAIN
818
Williams, "Landscape ...." AMERICA
*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"
MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY:
"A Zen-inspired blend of meditation, breathing exercises and focus techniques are in vogue in corporate America—championed by blue-chip employers like Google Inc. and General Mills Inc. as a simple but potent mind-sharpening tool." Gershman, Jacob. "
"Lawyers Go Zen, With Few Objections." WSJ. June 18, 2015.
Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A
Lovingkindness is a form of meditation designed to cultivate feelings of warmth and kindness to all people, including oneself, the researchers said. Practicing the technique may activate a soothing-caring regulation system that is probably deficient in chronic self-critics, they suggest [that] this practice may...... help in breaking down perfectionist tendencies. I know that at least for me, if I choose to allow myself forgiveness, encouragement, and grace, then I will be happier and more peaceful. The harshest of "self-critics" can use this meditation to learn how to better handle their self-judging nature. When we are less demanding of ourselves, we can in turn, be less demanding of others.
Lukits, Ann. "After Meditation, Self-Critical People Ease Up." WSJ. August 13, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A.
COSMIC ENERGY GUIDED IMAGERY
10-4 DASS1 MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS OR -10;"Best and Worst" for 2ND half of alphabet; "how to deal with suffering"
LEADER: ELK: COMPASSION IN ACTION
REQUIRED READINGS:
FIRST THIRD OF DASS BOOK, to page 90
816 Breughel, Fall of Icarus BELGIUM
817-818 Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" BRITAIN
818 Williams, "Landscape ...." AMERICA
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