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spring readings

 

NEW STUDENTS IN SPRING: Please read, at least, Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text, "Ascesis," and "Education in Light of the Gospel." (See fall week-by-week page for the latter two.) Also read the first chapter and/or the third chapter of Loy, Lack and Transcendence.

We have removed Foucault, Discipline and Punish, from the spring list.

Students should attend the first class before deciding to buy optional books. The books continued from the winter quarter and the "new books for spring" are required. They are the bare bones bookish work of the program. Depending on how you structure your work, especially the independent study portion of the work, you may or may not include some (or all) of the optional books in your curriculum. If you read the optional books you may attend an occasional (and optional) Tuesday-evening seminar. Check the weekly schedule, as it is posted and revised, for more information on this option.

Books used winter quarter that will also be used in the spring. Note well: We will continue to read only selections and snippets from these books. Some may be continued into the fall quarter of the 2006-2007 of Awareness: 

*Boccio, Frank Jude, Mindfulness Yoga, Wisdom Publications, 2004, ISBN 0861713354
*Buzan, Tony, The Mind Map Book, 1996, Plume, ISBN 0452273226 (optional reading)
*Cayley, David, Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich, House of Anansi Press, 2005, ISBN 0887847145
*Farhi, Donna, Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit, Henry Holt, 2000, ISBN 0805059709
*Hoinacki, Lee, and Carl Mitcham, eds., The Challenges of Ivan Illich, State University of New York Press, 2002, ISBN 0791454223
*Irigaray, Luce, Sexes and Genealogies, 1993, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231070330
*Klein, Jean, The Ease of Being, The Acorn Press, 1984, ISBN 0893860158
*Loy, David, Lack and Transcendence, Prometheus Books, 2001, ISBN 1573927201

New books for spring: (All are required texts that students should own.)
Buber, Martin, Meetings, 2002, Routledge, ISBN: 0415282675
Buber, Martin, The Way of Man, a pamphlet freely available online at
http://www.pendlehill.org/pdf%20files/php106.pdf
Carson, Rachael, The Sense of Wonder, 1998, HarperCollins, ISBN: 006757520X
Dunn, Jean, trans., Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks of Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1994, Acorn Press, ISBN: 0893860417
Lynch, Jim, The Highest Tide, 2005, Bloomsbury, ISBN: 1582346291

Optional books for spring:
Armstrong, Karen, 2004, Buddha, Penguin, ISBN: 0143034367
Byrom, Thomas, trans., The Heart of Awareness, 2001, Shambhala, ISBN: 1570628971
Miller, Richard, Yoga Nidra:  The Meditative Heart of Yoga, 2005, Sounds True, CO, ISBN: 1591793793
Norris, Kathleen, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, 1999, Riverhead, ISBN: 1573227218

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