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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- Happily teaching fully online courses at the University of Oklahoma since 2002, with course materials all at MythFolklore.net.
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Fireside Round-Up: Monday, November 16
A round-up of Fireside discussions and blogs for November 2 - November 16. The items listed below are in no particular order. Did I miss something??? Please add a comment to this blog post to let us know about something missing on the list! :-)
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The war I am no longer fighting
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I remember your praise for Kingsley from before. I must get him from the library (yes, they have it!) and do some solid reading.
As I was wandering through bookfinder, I came across this oddity - may be worth a look?
'Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind analyses techniques of searching for ultimate wisdom in ancient Greece. The Greeks perceived mental experiences of exceptional intensity as resulting from divine intervention. They believed that to share in the immortals' knowledge, one had to liberate the soul from the burden of the mortal body by attaining an altered state of consciousness, that is, by merging with a superhuman being or through possession by a deity. These states were often attained by inspired mediums, `impresarios of the gods' - prophets, poets, and sages - who descended into caves or underground chambers. Yulia Ustinova juxtaposes ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuropsychological research. This novel approach enables an examination of religious phenomena not only from the outside, but also from the inside: it penetrates the consciousness of people who were engaged in the vision quest, and demonstrates that the darkness of the caves provided conditions vital for their activities.'
A little esoteric for my local library, a little too expensive for my personal one!
Thanks for the clarification on the link-banner, trying-to-be-like-twitter thing. I'm still in the fog about what they mean by "post a link" and "update." Given that I'm not yet tuned into twitter or facebook, I'm missing some of the info on what any of this means. Just curious. :-)
Thanks!
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Can you tell me what the blue banner on my page that says, "what brings you here?" is all about? It also says, "post a link" and "update." Update what? Post what kind of a link?
I think it is some sort of Ning thing that I'm hoping you'll know about.
thanks! :-)
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