Language
and Consciousness
This course is ongoing. Chapters will
be added as they evolve in my thinking. The ideas incorporated
in this course originate from a course I taught for more than
25 years in the psychology and philosophy of education. I believed
then, and I still do, that education should be more than teaching
particular content to prepare people to get a good job and make
lots of money. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a very narrow
viewpoint. We could do much more and as a result be much more.
There is nothing really original in this
course. I have learned from many teachers, many books, many seminars,
many students, and many moments in solitude and meditation.
The content of the course consists of
short chapters, occasionally some may be not quite so short as
I would like. The idea is to reflect on what you have read and
get something from what you have read that may be meaningful
to you, that helps you to better know, not others, but yourself.
The answer that the ancients found as the meaning of life was
to know yourself. It was the secret of the Greek academies and
the Pythagorean mystery schools. It still remains the secret
of true learning.
The Chapters
thus far completed are:
- The Introduction: Models versus
- Types of Psychological Modeling
- The SAVI Behavioral Model of Interpersonal
Communication
- Language and Consciousness: Some Practical
Considerations
- The Ways We Talk
- The Seeing and Hearing Mind
