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Education




   Ernest Baker says the biggest problem with traditional education and culture is that it fetishes. That is, the narrowing down and confinement of thoughts, feelings and sensations. It’s the cosmetic or anxiety-riddled solution that promotes elitism, scapegoating and atrophy.



   On the other hand, the embrace of meaningful questions in rich and complex reflection , who we are, what deeply matters to us and where we’re headed …are the making of a liberating curriculum.



   We have the need to adore, to kneel, to bow, to join hands, to keep silence in the presence of the Holy One. The simple, quiet gestures, the humbling of the body, listening to the ancient words, withdrawing from everything that constitutes our busy world and our many cares. All are a condition of knowing our God and allowing him to enter our lives and claim us for our own.



   Awe brings zest, angst and passion to the inquiring process, it brings the capacity to be moved. With this capacity experimentation becomes an excursion and verification a touchstone.
 



   Time and emotional availability would be integral aspects of a doctor’s approach with clients as would an inquiring spirit tempered by concreteness and practicality.



   Depth therapy is holistic and realistic, it acknowledges our daunting thresholds, impotencies and fragilities along with our breathtaking possibilities. Its depth therapy’s refusal to shortchange life-experience- its integrity- that is so needed today. Depth therapy teaches its participants to square-off with themselves, to get down and dirty and to contend with their conflicting lives. There is too little contending today. Too many are gliding through or stumbling past or simply missing their lives. As a result there is a derangement; denial and displacement have become the norms whereas passion and struggle have become deviations. Society is set to bypass human pathos and angst. Are the tranquillized results what we prefer?



   The solace of amazement is what the free aspire to. Others experience solace in salvation. The free find it in astonishment, mystery and unfolding. While others find salvation in the literal, local or ready-at-hand, the free find hope in the implicit, the vast and farthest reaching.



    Liberal arts represent a certain type of human experience, denied only by those who see no difference between the quality of a racehorse and the skill of his rider.
 
 
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