”For contemporary teenagers, too, developing soulcraft competence is more vital to their personal development than math, science, or business know-how. Most teenagers sense this and most would prefer this knowledge. Most of their teachers, however, don’t have a clue about pathways to soul. Few of us learned these things as teens or in college.” Bill Plotkin in Soulcraft, p. 116.
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Individualizing Psychospiritual Growth: Matching Enneagram Types with Spiritual Practices
Our last day of class in “Service, Society, and the Sacred.” “Everywhere people ask: ‘What can I actually do?’ The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting: We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house … Continue reading
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“Serving Others Includes Serving Myself:” Final SSS Reflection by Ana Gallagher
The top picture is of Ana (left) and India (right) in grade 9 participating in a flag day to raise money for charity in “Humanities I in Action,” while the bottom picture comes three years later as the two girls … Continue reading
All You Need is Love: The Body’s Natural Aptitude for Wisdom
Conscious walking and grounding practices in “Service, Society, and the Sacred.” “Helping the human family move toward the next step of human evolution in love is the most urgent and challenging task of contemporary spirituality….God wants creation to become fully … Continue reading
Enchanted Chanting: Experiencing Peace and Purity in the High School Classroom
Introduction Is it possible to give my stressed out students an undeniable experience of inner peace in a group setting? This thought motivated my recent experiment to bring chanting into an elective religion course that I teach at HKIS called … Continue reading
The Essentials of a Curriculum for Self-Understanding: The Body-Mind-Heart Framework in SSS
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Aristotle “Whenever your heart space, your mind space, and your body space are all present and accounted for at the same time, you can experience pure presence, a moment of deep inner … Continue reading
“Recovering My Focus Towards Self-Love:” Final SSS Essay by Hollis Brown
Dear Students, When you become an upperclassman at HKIS, the word “college” looms large over everything else. The question at this stage of your life, to paraphrase Jesus’ famous line, is, “How to gain college admission without losing your soul?” … Continue reading
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Be Healthier Today: Recovering the Intelligence of the Body
“How do we begin to seek the wisdom of the body? You do it one step at a time – eating experience by eating experience. Every mealtime is another chance to feed yourself in a natural way, to take care of … Continue reading
Homage to An Inner Voice: Remembering Pelle Andersson
Introduction It was one of the last Friday afternoons of the school year in June and I was relieved to put another one in the books, marking the countdown to summer holidays – and that’s when the email arrived. The … Continue reading
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Finding and Letting Go of the Self through the Enneagram and Spiritual Practices
This entry describes a two-fold project in which students (1) seek to identity their Enneagram personality type, and then (2) design a spiritual practice to let go and purify this preferred way of being in the world. In this way, … Continue reading
Learning to “Lead a Life of More Profound Wakefulness:” Reflections on a Body-Mind-Heart Framework in a Senior Religion Class
:Amar Bhardwaj’s Humanities I in Action Elixir Project focused on glass recycling, a project he carried on throughout his four years at HKIS. In this entry, Amar reflects on how he awakened to global environmental concerns in his grade 9 … Continue reading
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Social Conscience and Inner Awakening 