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  • Florence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-10-20
    • Tuscany and has a population
  • International School of Beijing on 2009-10-20
    • worldwide as a leader among international sch
    • worldwide as a leader among international sch
  • Pressure-cooker kindergarten - The Boston Globe on 2009-09-19
  • Stages of Spiritual Growth - M. Scott Peck, M.D. on 2009-09-12

    • anything that is beyond
      the empirical data and observation of analysis. All intuitive knowledge, all experience outside of scientific measurement
      and factual construction is rejected, as the Greek frame of mind of intellectual analysis is favored and the Hindu
      frame of mind, that of the essence of inexpressible "being," and "existence," is rejected as
      fallacious. A perfect example is that of Alfred Jules Ayer in his 1936 book entitled,       Language, Truth & Logic. Here Ayer concludes:



      "We conclude, therefore, that the argument from religious experience
      is altogether fallacious. The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological
      point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge, any m ore than
      our having moral experiences implies that there is such a thing as moral knowledge. The theist, like the moralist,
      may believe that his experiences are cognitive experiences, but, unless he can formulate his "knowledge"
      in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself. It follows that these
      philosophers who fill their books with assertions that they intuitively "know" this or that moral or
      religious "truth" are merely providing material for the psycho-analyst. For no act of intuition can be
      said to reveal a truth about any matter of fact unless it issues in verifiable propositions. And all such propositions
      are to be incorporated in the system of empirical propositions which constitutes science."       (1)

    • In my experience the most dramatic example of this possibility occurred
      in a relatively small community-building group I led several years ago. To this two-day group of twenty-five there
      came ten fundamentalist,       Stage II Christians, five Stage III atheists with their own guru - a brilliant, highly rational trial lawyer - and
      ten       Stage IV
      mystical Christians. There were moments I despaired that we would never make it into community. The fundamentalists
      were furious that I, their supposed leader, smoked and drank and vigorously attempted to heal me of my hypocrisy
      and addiction. The mystics equally vigorously challenged the fundamentalists sexism intolerance and other forms
      of rigidity. Both of course were utterly dedicated to converting the atheists. The atheists in turn, sneered at
      the arrogance of us Christians in even daring to think that we had gotten hold of some kind of truth. Nonetheless,
      after approximately twelve hours of the most intense struggle together to empty ourselves of our intolerances,
      we became able to let one another be, each in his or her own stage. And we became a community. But we could not
      have done so without the cognitive awareness of the different stages of spiritual development and the realization
      that we were not all "in the same place," and that that was literally all right.
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  • La mythologie comparée on 2009-08-14
  • Icebreakers, Warmups, Energerizers, & Deinhibitizers: Activities for getting groups going on 2009-08-13
  • textbook scam - textbook Discussion Forum on 2009-08-10
  • MousePainter on 2009-07-06
  • Emotional intelligence measures - Psychology Wiki on 2009-06-18
    • the higher the EQ
    • the more competent the person is with self understanding and general social situations.
  • Theory of mind - Psychology Wiki on 2009-06-18
    • "Theory of mind" is the ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc.—to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one's own.
    • Premack
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