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WHAT IS OUR CLAN ANIMAL?

  THE OTHER CLASS IS THE BLIND MOLE

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              How's the dirt? How's the worm?   

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What is our ethical inspirational song?

The other class:

 

 


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BORN FREE

definitely our rebirth theme song:

Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star

Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

(Stay free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

 

 


INSPIRATIONS

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but  sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

 

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

 

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Dass Guided Imagery

ALL GUIDED IMAGERY



ETHICS GOALS

[2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.”

our primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre

honi soit mottohoni soit motto[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

OTHER GOALS

honi soit motto[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.


 

LOOKING AHEAD:

OVERVIEW: 1-17 Introduction 1-19 Emotive Ethics  1-24 Animals, Children, Feelings  1-26 Compassion and the Sympathetic Imagination  1-31 Power Animals and Native American Literature  2-2 Recovering the Animal  2-7 Transformation, Rebirth, Shapeshifting  2-9 P1A DUE  2-14 The Longhorn Texas Totem Animal  2-16 Compassion East and West  2-21, 2-23 Earthlings Compassion Test  2-28 P1b  Due 3-2 Hemingway, Toxic Aggression, and Animals 3-7 Dominion and Aggression, Genesis and Lord of the Flies  3-9 Swift and Carnism  3-21 Carnism and Sustainability  3-23, 3-28, 3-30 Carroll, Alice books 4-4 P2a due 4-6 Racism Alice Walker 4-11, 4-13, 4-18 Fowler, Beside Ourselves  4-20 Research Universities and Animals  Carroll, Adams 4-25 Boulle, Kafka  4-27 Paradise Regained Isaiah, Virgil  5-2 Paradise Regained Hicks, Davis 5-4 P2b due

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1-19 Emotive Ethics, the Ethics flag the New Curriculum,: quiz on emotional intelligence and the sympathetic imagination, pp. 116-130 and p. 240. Prepare questions on the other assigned pages.

https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/35017/Pages%20from%2035017.pdf

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

10-11                Meditation and Guided Imagery

12-14               Feedback and Emotional Intelligence

24-28               Course Goals 

41-45               Revenge of the Right Brain

49-50               The New Curriculum

68                    U. T. CORE PURPOSE (Ethics) and Core Values: Freedom, Discovery, etc.

103-110           Ethical Challenges selections

111-115           Honor Code of U.T.

 see  also  Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

 

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116                  Know Thyself

117-120           Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain

121-123           Emotional Intelligence

124-126           Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

127-128           "The Man Without Feelings"

129-130           "The Roots of Empathy"

131-133           Empathy vs Video Games

134                  David Lee Powell, Plan II student?

135                  Molesters and Sociopaths

136                  "I Am a Rock";

136                  "Comfortably Numb"

137-140           "Turn It Off".

141                   Definition of "Sentimentality" (603B15)

 

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EMOTIONAL LITERACY

 

142-149           Emotion Words checklist

150                  Children's Feeling Words

151                  Vocabulary of Emotions

152                  Intensity of Feelings Chart

153-154           Writing Emotions

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155-161           The Word Love in English and Greek

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162                  The words "Loving-Kindness" and Metta

163                  Metta and the other brahmaviharas

164-166           Harris on the brahmaviharas

167                  Judeo-Christian love and caritas; love vs. fear

168                  Native American love vs. fear story

169                  The term biophilia

 

271                           Definition of Sympathetic Imagination

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BLOGS BEGIN     Blog instructions here.

blogs for the week due by 11:59 PM the previous Sunday.

1-24 Animals, Children, Feelings

 

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1-26 Compassion and the Sympathetic Imagination



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ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT COURSE SYLLABUS?

ANY  QUESTIONS ABOUT FIRST HUNDRED PAGES OF ANTHOLOGY?

https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/35017/Pages%20from%2035017.pdf

NUMBERS REFER TO top right OF PAGES ONLY

1-8                             Table of Contents

9                                 Experiential Learning

10-11                        Meditation and Guided Imagery

12-14                      Feedback and Emotional Intelligence

15                              Service Learning

16                              Discovery Learning

17                              Discovery Learning at U.T.

18-19                       Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst

20                              My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

21-22                       Song Lyrics: “Born Free”; “Get Together”; “Peaceable Kingdom”

23                              Ram Dass / Einstein  guided imagery

24-28                       Course Goals  

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29                              Racial Harassment Policy; 

30-31                       Sexual Harassment Policy; 

32                              If I Am Heterosexual

33                              Ally Work

34-35                       LBGT Vocabulary

36-37                       Drug + Alcohol Policy; 

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38-39                       The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

40                              Employer survey: writing, collaboration, ethics, reality

41-45                       Revenge of the Right Brain

46-8                          Flunking out of College 

49-50                       The New Curriculum

51                              Moyers Rebirth at U.T.

52                              Concentration vs. “multitasking”

53                              Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking

54                              Negative vs. Positive Attitude

[CF. Goleman on optimism in “Emotional Intelligence”

55-59                       Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.

60-61                       U.T. Counseling Center

62                               Stress Test

63                              Tips for Reducing Stress

64                              U.T. Stress Relief Site

65                              Everything  I  Wish  Someone  Had  Told  Me  About College Before I Started: Why Are You Here?

66                              Texas Constitution: “for the promotion of literature”

67                              U. T. Seal

68                              U. T. CORE PURPOSE (Ethics) and Core Values: Freedom, Discovery, etc.

69                              Diversity

70-72                       Perfectionism

73-74                       Covey, Time Management form and example

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75                              Tower Motto: Ye Shall Know the Truth

76                              Blake, “London”

77-78                       Scallop Shell Symbolism

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79                              Five Characteristics of a Good  Student: Postive Attitude...

 80-81                      Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.

82-3                          Motivation; cf. Perfectionism

84                              Goal Setting

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COMMUNICATION

85-86                       Covey on listening +reading, writing, speaking

87                              Class Discussion

88                              Listening

89                              Have You Tried Listening?

90-91                       Leading Class Discussion

TIME MANAGEMENT + RESOURCES

92-93                       “Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage Stress”

94-95                       Covey, Personal Planning System, from The Eighth

Habit

96-97                       Overcoming Procrastination;

98-99                       Design Your Own Procrastination Plan

100-1                       Learning Skills Center

102                           Undergraduate Writing Center

READING ASSIGNMENTS.

University of Texas Ethics

103-110                 Ethical Challenges selections

111-115                 Honor Code of U.T.

 see  also  Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

 

 


honi soit motto

Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, once wrote, "to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

More than that, it is cooperation with violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys her own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful."

One interpretation: The fear of failure and the need to get things done create this downward spiral of the spirit. To break this "circle of violence" we must step back, reflect, meditate. While at rest we may be able to see things anew, which will increase our "fruitfulness at work" and at home.

honi soit motto

"Stress Recess" Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called "Stress Recess" at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!

 honi soit motto

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