Field Study Proposal

This student will be studying 3 different forms of meditation using the Goethean Scientific Field Study for 1 month beginning in May and reycling her expierence through poetry, art and prose. The first will be the meditation of labor through interning with a glassblower in Seattle and will be the main focus. She will be studying what meditation comes through laborious activities through glassblowing. The second will be attending the Seattle Meditation Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays for beginners in Dhammakaya meditation taught by Thai Monks. The third will be the study of Trancendental Meditation through Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal’s Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s The Science of Being and Art of Living and many other online resources. She will also be doing yoga Mondays, Wednesdays on her own through previous classes at Edmonds Community College. She will combine this work into a Term paper.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• Week 8 Log May 25, 2013 May 18th 20 minutes: Morning Transcendental Meditation session 2 hours: Glassblowing Documentary 2 hours: Readings Rosenthal’s Transcendance 1 hours: Drafting poetry 1 1/2 hour: Drafting Holdrege: Abstract finished and more detailed outlined completed 1 hours: Reading Mahesh Yogi 1 ...
• Week 7 Log May 18, 2013 May 11th 20 minutes: Morning Transcendental Meditation session 2 hours: Reading Neuro 1 hours: Drafting Neuro Reverie 2 hours: Readings Rosenthal’s Transcendance 20 minutes: Evening Meditation session 40 minutes: Researching Glassblowing techniques 2 hours: Reading Mahesh Yogi (8 ...
• Week 6 Log May 10, 2013 May 6th 20 minutes: Morning Transcendental Meditation session, first session with chosen Mantra “IM” 1 1/2 hours: Reading Neuro 1 hours: Writing Neuro Reverie 3 hours: Readings Rosenthal’s Transcendance 30 minutes: Evening Meditation session (turned into 30, ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Week 8 Neuro Reverie May 20, 2013 Renee Ingersoll As Poetry Recycles Neurons 5/20/13 Neuro Reverie “…the twenty-first century brain is not an organ whose fate is fixed at the moment of conception and birth, but is a plastic and open ...
• Week 7 Neuro Reverie May 14, 2013 Renée Ingersoll As Poetry Recycles Neurons 5/14/13 Neuro Reverie   Neuro Reverie “..The criminal as, anatomically and physiologically, an organic anomaly.” (Rose and Abi-Rached, Neuro; 169) “During the last fifteen years there is no specific work in criminal ...
• Week 6 Psychoanalysis of Fire May 10, 2013 “Indeed, I do not think I lit a fire myself before I was eighteen years old. It was only when I lived alone that I became master of my own hearth. (Bachelard, The ...
• Week 6 Neuro Reverie May 7, 2013 Renée Ingersoll As Poetry Recycles Neurons Tuesday Reverie 5/7/13 Word Count: 182   Neuro Reverie “It appeared that this challenged the conventional, rationalist accounts of ascription—that we understand the intentions of others by creating theories about what ...

Poetry

• Week 9 Calculated poem The idea of primitive elements combining to create art, and of the importance of relationships between elements, also exists in visual art and dance.” (Levitin,This is your brain on music; ...
• Week 8 Calculated Poem “Love acts beyond the phase wills it into – Hate is obscure, errs, is pain, furor, torn – a Lust to adorn aversion, hope, love eying its object joined to ...
• Glassblowing Poetry Part 1 Like Hephaestus at his forge, I am molding molten lava To d e l i c a t e and beautiful form I dance atop my Volcano with trusty rod in hand From table ...
• Week 7 Calculated Poem Renee Ingersoll as poetry recycles neurons week 7 calculated poem 5-17-13 “The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand. ...
• Week 6 Calculated Poem “Imagine a series of Chinese boxes in which each box contains a series of chinese boxes.” (Fractal Geometry, 22) “You are everywhere partial and entire.” (Hymn, A.R. Ammons) I hold the universe in my curves A plethora of ...

Poetry Observed

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Term Paper Abstract

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