My current rant is on the dangers of modern day discounting, bracketing, etc. any value and knowledge of history. It seems that in our technological need for speed and fearful concern as to what is around the bend, we may lose sight of where we've been along with the wisdom that resides there. Is history "so yesterday" or is there any reason to hold onto the study of history as a study of the human condition given certain contexts throughout time? And if history is important to the future, how do we best pass this perspective on to those who come after us?
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With or without 'Red Bull', such a possibility is not to be undertaken without first girding loins, one feels!
And, like dreams, 'history' has much to offer, I agree, in the 'now'. Layers swimming through us, 'his' and 'her' and 'our' - stories are mostly unknown to our outer perception and yet, in that place of 'pause, centre, shift', we, treading 'water' within that soup might reach through a larger body and experience the wider realities.
A study of history as present dream, in all its archetypal, metaphorical, physical and feeling wonder may bless the eye of intuition with something to say 'wow' about!
Above is a link to 'Jamie Oliver's Dream School' with David Starkey presiding over a class of less than motivated youths, guiding them almost bodily through the 'eye of the needle' of coming into relationship with what 'history' has to do with now and future. Masterful and rarely seen moment to moment flexing of Starky's teaching muscles en pointe to a really tough crowd. He defintely 'takes off the brackets', though twanging somewhat the Olde School suspenders...just for fun. Enjoy!
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Ed Koffenberger > penelope jane fieldsMay 24, 2011 at 9:21pm
Wonderful viewing. Thanks. I wonder what it would be like to teach 5 such classes all year long? Free therapy included? Maybe a case of Red Bull? :)
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With or without 'Red Bull', such a possibility is not to be undertaken without first girding loins, one feels!
And, like dreams, 'history' has much to offer, I agree, in the 'now'. Layers swimming through us, 'his' and 'her' and 'our' - stories are mostly unknown to our outer perception and yet, in that place of 'pause, centre, shift', we, treading 'water' within that soup might reach through a larger body and experience the wider realities.
A study of history as present dream, in all its archetypal, metaphorical, physical and feeling wonder may bless the eye of intuition with something to say 'wow' about!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1AH_lKDQF8
Above is a link to 'Jamie Oliver's Dream School' with David Starkey presiding over a class of less than motivated youths, guiding them almost bodily through the 'eye of the needle' of coming into relationship with what 'history' has to do with now and future. Masterful and rarely seen moment to moment flexing of Starky's teaching muscles en pointe to a really tough crowd. He defintely 'takes off the brackets', though twanging somewhat the Olde School suspenders...just for fun. Enjoy!
P.