2011 Summer Course at The Nature Institute Polarities in Nature and the Nature of Polarity
| Place: | The Nature Institute 20 May Hill Road Ghent, New York 12075 Telephone: 518-672-0116 |
| Start date: | Sunday 19, June 2011 |
| End date: | Saturday 25, June 2011 |
| Times: | 8.30 - 17.30. Last day ends 12.30pm |
| Price: | Tuition: $560 Tuition includes all materials, as well as morning and afternoon snacks. |
Everywhere in the world we can encounter polarities: light and darkness, sympathy and antipathy, inside and outside, life and death, spirit and matter. In considering the poles of any polarity as opposites, it is all too easy for the intellectual mind to let them solidify into dichotomies. As a result we fall into dualisms that confound our experience of the world: subject vs. object, individual vs. community, us vs. them, and so on. When, however, we attend to polarities more carefully, we find that the two members of a polarity are in a creative tension with one another and, in fact, do not exist without each other. The dynamic relation and movement between polarities is an essential feature of all life; without this tension the world would be static.
In this course we will study a variety of phenomena that reveal polarities and through experiential exercises work to deepen and enliven our awareness of polarities as creative and generative forces in the world.
Morning seminars:
Projective Geometry: Learning to think in polarities and how the infinite relates to the finite (Henrike Holdrege)
Polarity in the human being, in animals and in plant: Phenomenological explorations (Craig Holdrege)
Afternoon activities:
Observation exercises
Clay modeling: Experiencing polarities in the creation of form (Nathaniel Williams)
Each day will end with a review and open forum
Daily schedule:
Morning seminars from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Lunch break from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Afternoon activities from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The course begins on Sunday, June 19, at 7:00 p.m. and ends on Saturday, June 25, at 12:30 p.m.
Please register by June 1. To print out a registration form, click here.
Tuition: $560 (less $30 if you register by May 1)
Tuition includes all materials, as well as morning and afternoon snacks.
