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HOW TO EDUCATE YOUR "SELF" (2 of 5)
The Philosophy Behind the Program
Ultimately, it is the educated heart that knows about one's real needs and one's task in the world and can select the outer knowledge and factual information that will supply these needs and facilitate this task.
Educate Yourself for Tomorrow is concerned with the expansion of your mind to include your heart. It is not an attempt at conditioning distinct, specific, observable behaviors. In our view, to educate is more a process of nurturing the growth of a living tree of knowledge than of a piece-by piece construction of a house of knowledge. There is a fluidic element to this learning like the alchemy water symbols in time past. Water flows around things, nurtures, and promotes growth, and water symbols represent these elements of consciousness. The word educate derives from the Latin educere meaning to draw forth or lead out. There is no education where there is no intellectual metamorphosis or transformation; education does not exist devoid of provocation and stimulation of the mind to what Emerson called "understanding."
Everything you learn, to some degree, transcends what you do or say. You recognize, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, that some aspect of the world takes on a new dimension; that a new order is intimated or chaos unveils itself. To continue with our water symbol image, the water is an ancient alchemy symbol of the unconscious, the depths of which we may begin to explore through self-consciousness. True knowledge is never simply information; it is never found in books or computers. It is found always in an active knower who uses such knowledge to make the world or some small part of it, more comprehensible. Knowledge is a dynamic personal extension of the conscious Human Being; it is fluid and pulsing with intellectual vitality from the very heart of the person.
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Read more about the alchemy circle and alchemy circles as symbolic of wholeness.
Suggested Courses
HUM 106: SHAKESPEARE, DRAMA AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE
HUM 107: SCIENCE AND THE SPIRITUAL QUEST
HUM 110: LOVE AS A PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
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