Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives January 1998 [These four quotes are from Tim O’Brien’s wonderful book on Vietnam, The Things They Carried. I used the book in a 12th grade classed called Search for Meaning in which we explored storytelling as a process of searching for meaning in experience. Students loved the […]

If you have a link to suggest, please let us know. Hero’s Journey Comparative Religion, Symbolism and Metaphor Current Events and Politics Educational Resources History/Archeology Millennium Mythology, Legend and Folklore Philosophy  Politics and Current Events Psychology Science Joseph Campbell Foundation Lord Raglan’s Scale : Lord Raglan, in The Hero, classified parallel life-patterns of the traditional […]

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The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life is a comprehensive program which incorporates literature, film, art and speech under a unified theme with a logical progressive structure. The curriculum contains ten units and 14 lesson plans, and includes all of the text, stories, copy masters, and forms you need for up to a […]

Copyright © 2006 by Reg Harris. All rights reserved. My master’s degree work in psychology focused on the psychological processes behind the hero’s journey pattern. More specifically, I researched the nature and process of transformation. One of the most interesting areas of exploration for me was Gestalt therapy. Gestalt, more than any other psychological theory, […]

When you gaze at an object, you bring blessing to it. For through contemplation, you know that it is absolutely nothing without the divinity that permeates it. By means of this awareness, you draw greater vitality to that object from the divine source of life, since you bind that thing to absolute nothingness, the origin […]

Comment Mar 2, 1998): …we are indoctrinating our children into the crisis at earlier and earlier ages, and it should be little wonder to us that we see our young people turning to alcohol and drugs for escape or relief.  Comment (Mar 16, 1998): If learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s […]

Return to Home Page “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” James Baldwin

The fishing net is used to catch fish; let us have the fish and forget the net. The snare is used to catch rabits; let us have the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are used to convey ideas; let us have the ideas and forget the words    Chuang Tzu Works of Chuang Tzu […]

Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) Sufi mystic and poet from The Enlightened Mind by Stephen Mitchell (page 102), HarperPerennial * * * * * The creativity of living systems — at least that which has its roots  in their quantum coherence — arises from their ability to create  the kind of order that gives rise to relational […]

Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives April 1999 [These quotes are from Tim O’Brien’s The Things they Carried. They are taken from a section of the book where O’Brien tells the story of how he was drafted and then drove north, toward Canada, to sort things out and decide what to do. At […]

Education Support Services   Thought of the Week Archives  November 1998  How to write a Chinese Poem       A well-known Japanese poet was asked how to compose a Chinese poem.      “The Usual Chinese poem is four lines,” he explained. The first line contains the initial phase; the second line, the continuation of that phase; the […]

Return to Home Page “I’m ready for anything.” Luke Skywalker Star Wars (just before he enters the cantina, where is nearly killed) (Note: This material is copyrighted. Please see our copyright notice.) (“Threshold Guardians” is an excerpt from The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life, Teacher’s Guide, by Reg Harris and Susan Thompson, […]

Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives March 1998 “…the two worlds of the traditional and the industrial are diametrically opposed. The indigenous world, in trying to emulate Nature, espouses a walk with life, a slow, quiet day-to-day kind of existence. The modern world, on the other hand, steams through life like a locomotive, […]