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346EDUCATION AS MYTHIC IMAGESpring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture 69 91-113. 2002.Mythopoetry, the imagistic voice of the muses which manifests in myth and natural poetry, has been invoked as an impression of ideal curriculum with which to cherish intimate, vital experience (and to oppose its exile from educational life). In this statement, I intend to see through the pleasant surface of the label, mythopoetry, to see what image may lie just out of sight, beyond the "inspired writing" that mythopoetry implies. Beyond words themselves, meaning is found in sound and in expressi…Read more
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337Projecting the Trees but Ignoring the Forest: A Brief Critique of Alfredo Pereira Jr.’s Target EssayTrans/Form/Ação 41 (s1): 269-292. 2018.Pereira’s “The Projective Theory of Consciousness” is an experimental statement, drawing on many diverse sources, exploring how consciousness might be produced by a projective mechanism that results both in private selves and an experienced world. Unfortunately, pulling together so many unrelated sources and methods means none gets full attention. Furthermore, it seems to me that the uncomfortable breadth of this paper unnecessarily complicates his project; in fact it may hide what it seeks to …Read more
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329Experiential Metaphysics and Merleau-Ponty’s Intra-OntologyConstructivist Foundations 16 (2): 153-155. 2021.[This is a commentary article on Michel Bitbol's TA: "The Tangled Dialectic of Body and Consciousness: A Metaphysical Counterpart of Radical Neurophenomenology".] A summary of the major metaphysical positions reveals them to be variable enough that they do not deny experience to the researcher. Further, Merleau-Ponty’s intra-ontology and related terms are fleshed out.
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286Breaking Out of One’s Head (& Awakening to the World)In Alex S. Kohav (ed.), Mysticism and Meaning: : Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Three Pines Press. pp. 29-57. 2019.Herein, I review the shattering moment in my life when I awoke from the dream of self to find being as part of the living world and not in my head, discovering my perspectival center to be literally everywhere. Since awakening to the world takes one beyond thought and language thus also beyond the symbolic construction of time, it is strange to place this event and its aftermath as happening long ago in my life. It is forever present. This fact puts into question the reality of my daily journey …Read more
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124Breaking Out of One's HeadIn Alex S. Kohav (ed.), Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Three Pines Press. pp. 29-57. 2019.Herein, I review the shattering moment in my life when I awoke from the dream of self to find being as part of the living world and not in my head, discovering my perspectival center to be literally everywhere. Since awakening to the world takes one beyond thought and language thus also beyond the symbolic construction of time, it is strange to place this event and its aftermath as happening long ago in my life. It is forever present. This fact puts into question the reality of my daily journey …Read more
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104Autobiography and the Quest for NothingJournal of Curriculum Theorizing 12 (1): 30-37. 1997.We emerge into everythingness. The senses mingle incestuously. Nothing is distinct or differentiated. Everything is no-thing. How is it we come to be as distinct entities? Let me personalize: In what manner did I become an "I"? Is the motive force behind this much-maligned, much-altered, much-abused body my soul? my genes? me?
Louisiana State University
PhD, 1993
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