Somatic Engagements: An Introduction
The opening chapter of the book poses the following question: Is there within education the systematic possibility of phenomenologically raising ourselves, not to the experience of this or that, but to the true potentiality of experiencing itself—bringing
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Reincarnating Experience in Education
Kaustuv Roy
Reincarnating Experience in Education A Pedagogy of the Twice-Born
Kaustuv Roy Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala, Punjab, India
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τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τῆς ὑμῶν καρδίας πεφωτισμένους… [I ask that] the eyes of your heart may be enlightened —Ephesians 1:18
Preface
We are in troubled times indeed. As I work on the closing chapters of this book, all over the world there has appeared a microscopic, crown-like, spike protein that is apparently able to lock on to our own cell-surface matter, enter cells thereby, and wreak havoc. Whole countries are under lockdown, and people are forced to sit at home or face the wrath of their governments. Work places, businesses, schools, and congregations are shut; travel is impossible; and for many, even getting their daily needs has become a challenge. Apocalyptic images abound. Emergency workers in biological warfare suits, military trucks carrying away hundreds of the dead, hospitals breaking down under the strain of critical patients, vast migrations of daily wage earners thrown out of their rented shacks and walking hundreds of miles to their villages, and other horrors have added to the media frenzy. One hears phrases coined during the Spanish flu epidemic of the previous century, or possibly earlier, back in use, such as social distancing, quarantine, and lockdown. Conspiracy theories are doing
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