'Bridging the Worlds" (photo by Karin Lisa Atkinson)
Built in 1673, The Kintaikyo Bridge, is 5-arch wooden bridge located in Iwakuni JapanThe Americas continue to move through typical post-colonial situations. Encouraging immigrants, who have arrived in the United States since 1776, who are not descendent from Americas' indigenous peoples is always important. To bridge the differences in global cultural backgrounds it is very useful for people to recognize the shared humanity worldwide, but also the differences between planet Earth's continental histories.
Harvard states that; "Through collaborative scholarship, public engagement, and educational programming, the initiative explores how the revolutionary insights of figures such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller can serve as resources for contemporary renewal while critically examining the tradition’s limitations."
Click here for Harvard's Speaker Series, Reading Group, and Essays Collection.
Click here for "Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation" (4T series). A new series featuring translations of important visionary and mystical texts—some of them are little known, and some better known but deserving of fresh attention. All the texts in this series are pre-modern, and hail from as far west as Morocco and as far east as China, and in between along the Silk Road, including parts of Africa and South Asia."
Click here for 4T series inaugural first publication available Free as a digital download here "The Pearlsong"
About: "The Pearlsong" an ancient poem which tells the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the prince falls asleep and forgets his identity and mission, but a letter from his parents awakens him, gives him a spell to put the serpent to sleep so he can retrieve the pearl, and then guides him home. The poem was originally composed in Syriac, translated into Greek, and later paraphrased in Greek again in a homily. These three texts are all published here, with a parallel English translation on facing pages, accompanied by an introduction, commentary, and Syriac and Greek glossaries." More by the author: Entangled Languages: The Pearlsong and the 4T Series
4T Essays Series launches with:
Prof. Charles M. Stang investigates Thoreau’s belief that we have lost the art of truly seeing, and that recovering—or rather, developing for the first time—our full sensory potential represents both an educational and spiritual imperative.
Russell Powell explores
Transcendentalism’s relevance to the attention economy and the imperative of Emersonian self-reliance amid the contemporary crisis of distraction and fractured focus.
Hiroshima, a child's point of view
