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Comparing Passive and Active Learning American Education, Community and Culture Active Learning: “Coffee & Conversation” Active Learning: “Music for Morning Meditation” The Three Horizons: Family Resemblances Within Them The Three Horizons: Possible Relations Between Them Metaphors We Live By: Horizon, Frame, Lens “What I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do I understand.” We live in the American culture of “utilitarian values” and “rugged individualism.” Vance Packard has called us “A Nation of Strangers.” Even our educational settings are often constructed in a such a way as is aesthetically sterile and individually autonomous. Everyone is “bowling alone.” We need to re-imagine education to foster the values of friendship, conversation, collaboration and community within highly creative and engaged learning environments. T H N “FAMILY RESEMBLANCES” WITHIN EACH HORIZON Grand Fathers & Grand Mothers. Fathers & Mothers. Parents & Children. Brothers & Sisters. Nieces & Nephews. Blended Families & Adopted. Remember: “Families squabble!” T ? H ? N Some Relational Options Separate-But-Equal (Dualism). Integral (Neutral Monism) T is Prime Reality (Idealism). N is Prime Reality (Materialism) We Don’t Know (Agnosticism). H Is What Matters (Pragmatism) So do we live in “one world” or “many worlds?” A “literalist” who doesn’t hear these as metaphors will insist that “logically” only one of them can be true, and will thus argue against those who take the alternate view. By contrast, one who hears these two ideas as metaphorical rather than literal ways of speaking will see that both of them can be true within their own linguistic and cultural contexts. They welcome paradox! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Credulous Affirming Ambivalent Doubtful Skeptical Contemplative (cool): meditative, silent, still, tranquil, reflective, mindful, illumined, awakened, observant, sensitive, perceptive, reverent, sacramental, sacred Romantic (Warm): tender, intimate, wistful, exotic, elegiac, longing, yearning, melancholic, rhapsodic, idealistic Ecstatic (Hot): joyful, transported, transfixed, amazed, rapturous, euphoric, elated, enchanted, exhilarated, blissful, delirious, exulting, felicitous, intoxicated, jubilant Celebrating ecstasy in its many varieties: intense bliss, soul-lifting rapture, communion with nature, spiritual illumination, egotranscendence, mind-stilling peace, wild eroticism, perceptual estrangement, overpowering joy, self-renewal, moving aesthetic responses, peak experiences, oceanic movements, sacred encounters, and consciousness expansion, as well as lifeaffirming emotions such as awe, wonder, gratitude, and most important of all – love. Drugs Alcohol Food Sex Money Power Politics Religion Clothes/ Cars Gambling Sports/ Games Radio/TV Phone/ Texting Internet Work Relationships Some people seem to be born with an intense need for such primal experiences as contemplation, romance and ecstasy, that is, of solitude, communion and union. Other people may appreciate these primal experiences if and when they come, but give less attention and priority to them. Still others, like Freud, are deeply skeptical and suspicious of such primal experiences, associating them with infantile regression, wishful thinking, irrational escapism and psychological neurosis. There are those who walk and talk like a “mystic,” but they reject the name. For them it has negative connotations. There are not only transcendental mystics who perceive a “higher dimension” of reality beyond the finite human and natural physical worlds. There are also “humanistic mystics” and “natural mystics.” There are even some mystics who combine all three horizons, and even the fourth horizon of technology. One can be a mystic, transcendentalist, contemplative and ecstatic, and still be a multi-disciplinary “polymath” who is fluent in higher education and the liberal arts. Some people are able to combine the transcendental, naturalistic and humanistic horizons of insight, knowledge and experience while respecting their different assumptions, methods and approaches to the polyvalent nature of reality. We get trapped by our literalizing, decontexualized and reifying use of abstract language. Abstract words like “transcendental,” “humanistic” and “naturalistic” are historically situated and culturally constructed. Each has “multi-valiant” uses and meanings. Abstract conceptual words typically have a variety of both denotative and connotative meanings. From the time they were children, some persons possess an acute sense of the Infinite & the Eternal, of the Ineffable & Sublime Mystery of Reality. BEI NG Nou n X PROC ESS Verb They are not ultimately concerned with representational words but with presentational presence, with “inner knowing” (gnosis) & primal experience. “The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being — the thing is immemorial and universal.” The Tao (that Cannot Be Named). Quantum Leaper. Particle Rancher. Wave Rider. The Universally Local Network. The Single Tree and the Wind that Moves It. The Singular Multiplicity. The Great Hologrammer. The Lord of Fractals. The Cosmic DNA. Information Central. The Big Blossoming (Big Bang?). The Alpha and Omega helix. The Eternal Temporal Mobius Strip. The In-Dwelling Aphrodisiac. The Universal Object Subject of Our Affections. The Care-ful One and Many. The End (Telos) of Every Love Story. The Sympathetic Participant in All suffering and Delight. The Knower, the Known, and the Knowing. The Verb That Activates All Other Verbs. In-dwelling Spirit. The Womb of Becoming. The Eternal Not Yet. The EverEvolving One and Many. The Beginning Without Ends. The Source and Sorcerer. The Black Hole Where Love Embraces Death. The All-Inclusive None and Void. The Subject that Encompasses All Predicates. The Cosmic Web Master. Weaver of the Warp. Central Casting’s Cosmic Host, Wonder/Awe. Gratitude. Anxiety/Dread. Joy. Grief/Mourning. Reverence. Empowerment. Potentiality, Purpose, Vocation. Empathy/Compassion. Sacred Outrage. Hope. Trust. Humility. (Sam Keen) Love. The Thou. Joy. Suffering. Evil. Pardon. Crucial Moments. Nature. Silence. Propitious Places (R. Panikkar) Profane power is: Sacred energy is: Mechanistic Coercive Forceful Speedy (Chronological) Diminished by being shared Divisive Competitive Purposeful Alluring Erotic Patient (Kairotic) Increased by being shared Uniting Cooperative Transcendent: “Above & Beyond” Physical, Emotive, Rational Realms Immanent: “In and Through” the Physical, Emotive, Rational Realms Ineffable Mystery: “Via Negativa” – “Inner Stillness & Living the Questions” Revelation & Illumination: “Via Positiva” – “Outer Witness & Inner Light” Metaphysical Ideals: Beauty, Goodness, Truth; Light, Life, Love; Justice, Mercy, Peace; Being, Consciousness, Bliss, Yin, Yang, Tao... Primal Peoples’ Phenomenological Cosmogony: Above -Infinite-Invisible-Eternal-Heaven Human Being: “Between-ness” Below-Finite-Visible-Temporal-Earth Eastern Wisdom Traditions 1. Being, Consciousness, Bliss 2. Non-attachment, Mindfulness, Compassion 3. Yin, Yang, Tao Western Wisdom Traditions 1. Justice, Mercy, Humility 2. Faith, Hope, Love; Light, Life, Love 3. Submission, Passion, Ecstasy Shankara: Union with the One Transpersonal Absolute Ramanuja: Communion with the Divine Lover and Creative Source The goal of life is to merge and become one with Being, like sugar dissolving in water. The goal of life is not be become sugar that dissolves but taste sugar in intimate communion YIN in the Integral Tao Feminine Night Moon YANG in the Integral Tao Masculine Day Sun Passive Principle Intuition Cold Active Principle Logic Hot Soft Hard YIN PHASE Tribal Societies Epoch I YANG PHASE Coercive Civilizations Epoch II INTEGRAL FUTURE Planetary Holism Epoch III Magic Folk, Aesthetic, Commercial Arts Labor, Exercise, Sports, Dance Life as Art Work Integral Movement Incipient Phase Caste/Class Phase The Great Integrity Birth of Humanity Technological Rebirth of Revolution Humanity NF: Intuitive–Feeling: Oceanic Idealist: “Harmony” The Way of the Mystic Secular Poet SP: Sensing-Perceiving: Volcanic Artisan: “Devotion” The Way of the Shaman The Secular Artist NT: Intuitive-Thinking Ethereal Rational: “Unity” The Way of the Sage Secular Philosopher SJ: Sensing-Judgment Territorial Guardian: “Works” The Way of the Prophet The Secular Reformer Modern Secular “Immanent-Transcendence” These surrogate “Gods” may function as “Immortality Projects” Nature, History, Humanity, Reason, Romance, Community, Sensuality, Sexuality, Imagination, Creativity, Will, Courage, Education, Science, Technology, Music, Poetry, Art, Freedom, Democracy, Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism, Conservatism, Money, Status, Power, Fame, etc. Secular Modernism seeks a Grand Narrative not through Religion and Mysticism but through Science and Philosophy. Post-Modern Secular “Immanence without Transcendence” Post-modern constructivism seeks to live without any Grand Narrative or Theory of Everything, only an endless varieties of versions of “reality” and “truth” that have local culturally constructed meanings but no universal claim to truth or significance. Such abstract concepts and reifications as “Reality” and “Truth” are simply words we made up and then “conflated” with real objects of experience. “Reality” and “Truth” are “useful fictions.” Eros: Desire Agape: Sacrifice Affirmation: Fullness Self-Expression Egoistic: What I Want Creativity: Look What I Made! Desire: Enjoy the Good Life Hedonic Pleasure: Savor Life Seeking Life: Potentiality Transference: Attachment Renunciation: Emptiness Self-Surrender Altruistic: What Others Need Compassion: How Are You? Duty: Serve a Greater Purpose Heroic Suffering: Save Others Accepting Death: Limitation Transfiguration: Letting Go Q. What does the Transcendental Horizon mean you? Q. Why does it matter, or not matter, in today’s world? Q. How do people recognize and cultivate the transcendental horizon?