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I am an Anthropologist, a student of human nature and the human condition. My work and life is dedicated to the observations – including the study of self – of ways of the world: especially philosophy, history, the sociology of knowledge, and comparative thought. The human has, in my view, been narrowly described, most of our thinking being directed or circumscribed by the forms of dualism which continue to direct much of thought and ideas. The human-as- unique due primarily to language or to mind, is neither accurate nor enduring in this global moment. As an anthropologist, I am interested as well, in all the peoples of the world whose studies and cultures have led us to universal human rights; especially in this time of globalization. I also study the rise of “strong religious” ideas. Why? Why now? How to ensure a peaceful future in which we might help people to create and maintain meaningful lives? A cultural critic, I study the current “crisis in meaning.” A teacher, I hope to help “inspire” the future through teaching as a dialogue. Mushin J. Schilling, born 1953, grew up as ‘German national’ in the dutch capital Amsterdam. He wrote Das Wunder der Zärtlichkeit (The Miracle of Tenderness), Das Elixier für alle Fälle (The Elixier for All & Everything) and Phantasiereisen (Phantasy Journeys). He has been facilitating seminars since 1987 in Germany, Holland and Japan, and since 2000 also in the Czech Republic where he founded the Integral Living & Learning Community SERENITY near Prague in 2003.In his seminars he uses the methods of energy-work, family and systems constellations, the ‘Circle of the Heart’ and the ‘Heart & Mind Clearing Process’ he developed, and since two years he also conducts special seminars in communication and the ‘Language of Change’. Moreover he is a frequent speaker on the topic of pragmatic mysticism, postmodern spirituality and leads the 3-year long Living Field Transformation Training. Lere Oyebisi Shakunle is a journalist, mathematician and writer. His first novel, Return to Heartland (First Century, UK) came out in April 2004. He is the founder of Transfigural Mathematics, which he launched during his student days at the University of Göttingen, then in the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1985. Lere is the Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of the Journal of Transfigural Mathematics (www.transmath.de)- an international journal of mathematics, sciences, literature and arts - and Director/Founder of The Matran School, an International School for Cross-Disciplinary Creativity. Before coming to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1978 to do mathematics and physics, Lere worked as a journalist in Nigeria with Nigerian Broadcasting Service (Radio Nigeria) co-producing Lagos State Calling, Nigerian Television Service (News Department; reporter) Daily Times (sub-editor/reporter), Student Magazine, magazine for upper-secondary school students and undergraduates in Nigeria and West Africa sub-region (Editor-in-Chief/Co-Publisher) and African Spark (Editor). He is a member of amongst others, The New York Academy of Sciences, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, Chartered Institute of Journalists, UK/Ireland, NIDO, Germany. Lere lives in Berlin with his wife and children. William E. Smith Ph.D., is a Director of Organizing for Development an International Institute (ODII) and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Organizational Sciences at George Washington University. Karen Thompson is currently a Cultural Coordinator in West Cumbria, working with 15 schools in the Excellence Cluster, working on a range of cultural and arts projects which are of enormous benefit to the young people involved. They range from international projects involving weaving, painting, music, dance and food, to locally based creative writing projects, 'Streetdance' and theatre and drama work. She is an advocate of childrens artwork, stages exhibitions of young people's work and is currently working with a number of organisations, including the University of Cumbria, to forge international links with artists and craftspeople in India and Africa in order to benefit young people in those countries and the UK, through multi-cultural projects which are sustainable and benefit the wider community - culturally, economically, spiritually and artistically. Karen's background is in Art and Design; her firts degree is in 3 dimensional design; she is also researching Sacred Geometry and its relevance to how it connects us all. She ran her own creative practice for four years and is nearing completion of an MA in Community Arts. Caroline Gay Way is an Interactive Artist, writer and Teacher with a deep interest in the science of tomorrow! She has an intense interest in liminality which enabled the close collaboration with Alan Rayner from the mid nineties which culminated in the co created Language of Water conference and the Evolutionary Waterways article in Frontiers of Science. She was also a writer performer at this years Brighton Fringe and is a Bard of Bath. For me the natural world has always been a source of great pleasure. I was born in Zimbabwe, and have lived in a number of countries throughout my life. As a toddler I was always to be found outdoors on hands and knees, dirt-ridden, exploring the fascinations and mysteries of the living world. This deep connection with Nature has never left me. About ten years ago my family and I moved to England, where I went to school, and later to Bath University to study Biology. It was during this time that my personal relationship with Nature, and the mindset and methods I was being taught in the lecture room and laboratory to study it, proved incompatible. What I felt and experienced as a ‘whole’ person, did not appear appropriate to the degree I was studying. However, at this time I was lucky enough to meet Alan Rayner, whose inclusional way-of-seeing set free the inquisitive, open, loving toddler in me once more. My undergrad dissertation looked at the vision and language of the Romantic Poets, comparing it to our modern scientific language, and how the latter might benefit from a less prescriptive, definition driven linguistic approach. I have recently completed a Masters, where my dissertation used discourse analysis to analyse Richard Dawkins’s ‘The Selfish Gene’. Here I found Dawkins’s need to define discrete objects (such as the gene) central to his strangely destructive and warring theory of evolution and social interaction. Thus, one of my main interests is language, and how it works to affect the way we live and experience the world and each other, and how an inclusional perspective might open up the possibility for a more loving, less definitive way of life. Teresa is an artist who has lived in Cornwall for many years. A special quality of light reflects off the sea there, and its rapidly changing moods feed her eyes, as the light of meditation nourishes her inner vision. Her near-death experience, during the birth of her daughter, is always at the back of her mind: the powerful impressions of this are at the root of her work and she attempts to capture these inner visions and suffuse each painting with light. The random and intuitive is a vital part of her work, set within a tightly disciplined process of layering. She likens her method to that of ancient icon-painters, who meditated during the drying of each layer of paint, thus weaving their prayers almost literally into the icon. The veils of translucent colour are like planes in a multi-dimensional universe, or the hazy strata of memory, through which moments of transcendent consciousness gleam. Teresa has an MA in English Literature, University of Leeds (1973), a BA Hons in Fine Art, Falmouth College of Arts (2002) and a PGCE in Primary teaching, University of London, 1974. Back to Register Back to Home Page |
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