Joan Halifax
anthropologist + author
Columbia, Miami Med. Naropa, and Cali Inst. for Integral Studies.
"education" lead out of ignorance into "knowing"
Dutch Scholar Arnorld Van Gennep: exploring rites of passage:
complement is "initiation". plunging in.
1. "separation-- going into the unknown
2. "the threshold experience- chaotic, ground shaking and transformative."liminal" - myth and story +unfold; love and death become amplified.
learns to be present and witness.
3. "incorporation"- healing time. wholeness.
Three Tenets (Zen)
1. not knowing. beginners mind
2. bearing witness to joy and sorrow (suffering)
of oneself and the world
3. healing oneself and others. connecting back into the world with aspiration of intention of liberating people from suffering.
key learning practice: taking the plunge
universal: significant transitions in all people's lives.
adulthood into old age- respectable elder
puberty
boys to men : through war.
nations : realms of power : through war.
Universal needs of transformation:
need to die and be reborn
encounter life's mysteries
indulge in imagination
heart of learning
Some people rebel, act out, or go "crazy" to fall off the edge into another perspective. To grow from introspection and deepen to rebound to action
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