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- December 5, 2021 at 2:02 am EST in reply to: What was my best experience from the previous course? What do I expect from this course? #218960TraceyParticipant
The first course made me feel excited about learning more. It feels like a whole new world can enfold before me.
November 8, 2021 at 3:25 am EST in reply to: Preparation Question: To what perception of reality do we want the study of Kabbalah to lead us? #186306TraceyParticipantTo know the world beyond our five senses, and become like the Creator.
November 8, 2021 at 2:26 am EST in reply to: Preparation Question: What do you expect from the lesson? What do you desire to achieve from it? #186299TraceyParticipantI want to know God’s purpose for us and our Universe.
October 31, 2021 at 11:12 pm EDT in reply to: What do you imagine humanity’s emergent form to be like? #184918TraceyParticipantFor me, this is still a very good question and I am continuing to search for answers. We may need to transcend our egos, but for most people this is difficult. Without love of ourselves, how to we learn to love and value others? Perhaps egoism is simply an important step along the journey. I often marvel at how ants, bees, and slime molds seem to be doing a much better job of connection than we are. Society today strikes me as being the opposite of emergence and coming together – every day, things seem to be falling apart more and more.
October 31, 2021 at 10:25 pm EDT in reply to: Introduce yourself to your fellow students. Write a few words about yourself and about what you expect from the course #184909TraceyParticipantI’m Tracey from Vancouver. I’ve taken some short courses before this one, and I am happy to be here, learning some more, with all of you.
October 28, 2021 at 6:24 pm EDT in reply to: Can you share a moment in life where you felt you acted like the “prison guard” in the Stanford Prison Experiment? #184538TraceyParticipantI, too, am a teacher. In my undergraduate classes, I always feel as though I am trying to strike a balance – if I am too soft, then students do not complete their assigned tasks or do as well; if I am too tough, I start to feel like a guard in the SPE. One can never go too far in one direction or the other, else we risk getting out of balance. One thing we learn from the SPE is that we need oversight from many different persons with different points of view. It was only when ‘outsiders’ came and had a look at what was going on at Stanford, that Phil Zimbardo realized that he had gone too far and that he needed to stop the experiment. These are two good lessons we can learn form the SPE: always be seeking balance, and always seek out and value different – even opposing – points of view.
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