---------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.
OTHER GOALS
[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:2-7 Transformation, Rebirth, Shapeshifting volunteer sharing........
2-9 P1A DUE Transformation, Rebirth, Shapeshifting experiential version in class: must have animal by 2-8
QUESTIONS ABOUT P1, finding your animal, or ANY ASPECTS OF THE COURSE?
LOOKING AHEAD:
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
==============================================================================================================================
[a] one from a scientific account of your animal (may be from the internet) or from the course anthology section assigned 1-31 [b] and one from a library book not available in any way on the internet. You may choose one of the books on reserve listed below. (Needless to say, the quote from the reserve book can not be from pages reproduced in our course anthology. )
Begin with the animal. You can use any selection process you like but the emphasis should be on the animal choosing you rather than vice versa. Then you can then draw on your memories and/or the scientific observations of others (worth extra points) to establish the traits of the animal that are most relevant to you.Here are three contemporary guided meditations that may help you find a power animal in the Native American tradition: Steven Farmer Shamanic
2. Be the animal To get a sense of the animal, in addition to your memories and your research, use your sympathetic imagination, trying to imagine what it is like to be the animal. At least 400 words must be devoted to helping us see, feel, hear, etc. as the animal does.This of course is good practice for Project Two where you must write even more from the point of view of the animal.
3. Learn from the animal (For example, what could you learn from the animal's ability to "be here now.") Focus on the animal's traits and what you can learn from them: those that you would like to have more of yourself and those that you would like to see less of in yourself. It would be especially useful if you include traits that you need or don't need to be a better leader.HOW COULD S/HE BE A LEADER FOR YOU? HOW COULD S/HE HELP YOU DEVELOP YOUR OWN LEADERSHIP TRAITS?
HOW WILL IT BE GRADED? HERE is a sample summary of an evaluation of a student's final P1 by the instructor* The essay itself is marked up by the professor using the nine categories and adding and subtracting points according to the rubrics and according to the general "college-level writing" criteria here: Detailed criteria for your print version here (to be turned into the instructor). see also http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/requirements.html
Examples: an early draft: https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/603A15/FoxP1.htm
Examples from E350 Animal Humanities :Black Panther Black-Tail Deer [images missing[ Butterfly Deer Mouse Doe Dog Dragonfly Elephant Hoot Owl Lion Manta Ray [images missing] Panda Screech Owl Sea Turtle Soft shell Turtle Squirrel
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:; GUIDED IMAGERY, Denise Linn ? BEST AND WORST, QUIZ on ABRAMS, Blog DISCUSSION or guided imagery
==============================================================================================================================
today
332-355 Foster, Being a Beast
356- 397 Abrams, Becoming Animal
398-420 Hindu deities and animals
==============================================================================================================================
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE:
THIS IS YOUR JOURNEY UNDERGROUND.
Alice invites you to the fourth stage of the hero's journey, an exercise in the katabatic imagination, to a world view of yourself as the story of your descent into your personal unconscious, the collective consciousness of your society, and the great collective unconscious , back to the origins of our species, back to the time when the human-nonhuman boundary was easily crossed, a journey repeated thousands of times each year now as people go down into a caves such as Lascaux to marvel at the depictions of animals on the cave walls, reconnecting you with the animals and all the living beings from whom you descend. I invite you to the totem animal vision quest and/or to retrace the path of Gilgamesh, Orpheus, Theseus, Jason, Heracles, Demeter, Odysseus, Aeneas, Jonah, Lazarus, Dante, Alice and many others down into the underground to discover your self , to regain something or someone you lost, to undergo a series of tests and degradations which will collapse or dissolve your old self, return you to a more primitive state so that you can be reborn, returning from the underground with new power and the knowledge of a final state of 'wholeness' or integration that connects you to all, enabling you to reach your full potential.
At the entrance to Lascaux
in the cave
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
--------------------------
----------------------
----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“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!