by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2020 | News |
At the beginning of the 20th century a radical shift in thinking began. There started to emerge a ‘paradigm shift’ in science from the old ‘mechanistic’ way of thinking about the world to an ecological worldview. The mechanistic worldview held that the world and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 16, 2020 | News |
Goethe, through his naturphilosophie, strove to bring together two different ways of knowing – empirical observation and spiritual intuition. According to Goethe, the scientist could not access the deeper truths of nature through detachment, abstractions, or ‘stepping...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 15, 2020 | News |
In Poetry and Story therapy, Geri Giebel Chavis, writes that poetry has always played a special role in the history of healing. Medicine men and shamans in ancient civilization chanted poems as part of their healing rituals. In ancient Greece, Apollo represents poetry...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
What do we need to bring more of into the world in order to solve the problems of the day? As educators, parents, workers what are the essential qualities that we need to cultivate in ourselves and draw forth from those with whom we interact? Human life has always...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In The patterning instinct, Jeremy Lent takes an approach to history called ‘cognitive history’. This approach holds that instead of history being determined exclusively by material causes like geography, economy, technology etc. the ‘will to meaning’ plays a...