In this second book Gary Renard picks up with his two teachers, Pursah and Arten, post the success of the first book, The Disappearance of the Universe.
In many ways it’s more of the same, only “further down the rabbit hole”. Which is good news indeed.
Thinking about Schools—Past and Future
Education must help us to think globally as well as nationally.
by Ron Miller
What we now know as “public education” faces severe challenges because the industrial-age culture that produced it is gradually giving way to a new culture that will understand the processes of teaching and learning very differently. It may appear to some that public schools will simply be replaced by private ones, run by entrepreneurs and corporations, but I do not believe we can picture the emerging educational system using images from the last 200 years. The entire concept of schools as knowledge factories running on tests, grades, and standardized curricula (whether they are public, private, or charter schools) is fundamentally incompatible with the more organic, “green” culture that is coming forth.
Schools as we know them reflect several core themes of American culture—guiding assumptions of the dominant worldview.
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Interview with Gary Renard
by Cate Montana
TGI: I’m just going to jump in and ask the question I’ve wanted to ask ever since reading Disappearance of the Universe. In thinking about God and Creation, it never made sense that something that is whole, seamless, and infinite, could ever even conceive of a creation that was fragmented and limited. When I read Disappearance it was like, “Finally, somebody said it.” Yet the explanation from Arten and Pursah about how the multi-verse of all creation resulted from an infinitesimally small, timeless bobble in the seamless fabric of the IS somehow didn’t quite convince me either.
Gary : Yeah, you know it’s kind of like the equivalent of you’re sleepy and you’re driving your car late at night. And you start to doze off for just a second and then you wake yourself up like real quick. And so it's just maybe a second - an inconsequential blip on the screen, and everything keeps going. You keep driving along and you get to your destination and everything is fine. That’s kind of like the equivalent to what the Course (A Course in Miracles) calls the tiny “mad” idea. Nowhere does it ever say that Christ actually separated from God. In fact it says just the opposite. It says the full awareness of the atonement is that the separation never occurred.
Unstructured outdoor play: Nature’s best medicine
by Cate Montana
Ask any Baby Boomer how they spent their childhood, and, unless they were raised in the inner city, most have fond recollections of endless hours of outdoor play. Riotous games of tag, meandering walks through the woods, polly-wog eggs scooped out of mucky pond edges, and just lying on the grass finding odd shapes in the clouds were pastimes we experienced in abundance. Rare was the child of the 50s or 60s who got home much before dark. Weekdays and weekends, we had to be dragged inside from our play, muddy and cold and utterly content.
Urban growth in the 70s cut out a lot of the woodsie play areas for kids. Increased traffic made many free-roaming bike routes unsafe, and escalating crime concerns further narrowed the playing field. And then there was television. Who wanted to be outside when The Waltons was on?
