A HIGH SCHOOL–DOCTORATE DEGREE IN CULTURAL EDUCATION
AS A MODERN PATH OF INITIATION, DEVOTED TO THE REDEMPTION
OF “EVIL,” THE HEALING OF HUMANITY, IN & FOR OUR TIMES.
OTHERWISE EXPRESSED: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A VERITABLE
MAN AND WOMAN, A MODERN DAY HUMAN BEING?
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“KNOW THYSELF”
“Many are called; few are chosen.”
And fewer still make the choice.
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Since the beginning of time, going back to the old and much misunder-stood/maligned Garden with its two trees — The Tree of Life & The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil — the foregoing words, “Know Thyself,” were inscribed over the portals of the Mystery Centers (centers of learning) of old.
In the ancient Logos Wisdom — which, through Aristotle’s genius, contracted into Logic itself — the pupil was not considered to be educated, initiated, unless they understood: i) the nature of what we speak of as “Evil”; how “Evil” has come into the world; and what not only serves “Evil’s” redemption, but, I would add, what “Evil” itself serves.
This course of study is, I suggest, a prerequisite for any and all degrees that concern themselves with not just the “real world,” but with the real real world, the world of Grace, Amazing Grace.
In our modern materialistic age, given to the dictates of reductionism, the opening dictum asks for elaboration:
————————————————— Know Thyself — in Body, Soul & Spirit.
Central texts for the course of study / degree offering are:
The life, labors, death and resurrection of Judas Iscariot, Christ’s “friend” (in Christ’s own words); the fulfillment of Aristotle’s “Categories” — which have been the basis of all true learning since his day — from 10 to 12 categories, plus 1; the life and labors of the Peace Maker, Father of the Iroquois Confederation and its Three Twin Principles, which — through the Albany Congress — 33 years later inspired our US Constitution; the threefold work of Lewis Adams, Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver; the masterpieces of Concord Authors, the Initiation Science of friend Rudolf Steiner, and my completion of old Ben (Franklin’s) un-finished masterwork, “The Art of Virtue,” which draws to its end.
Guest lecturers include Trustees of The Center for American Studies’, e.g. Queen Mother Bernice Atchison, Dr. Patch Adams, Retired Brigadier General Arnold Gordon-Bray, and International Dine/Navajo Educator, Patricia Ann Davis, Corin Smith and Elaine Kain. Thereto we look forward to reaching out to further lecturers, including Dr. Barbara Mossberg, former the US Government (USIA’s) American Studies Scholar & The Center for American Studies Village University Scholar; former Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, and Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of The World Economic Forum at Davos, tbc.
“Our disciplines today, without that primary faculty of intuition,
become but tuitions.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Sage of Concord
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Course Overview
• There will be no ongoing written examS.
• There will be no ongoing oral examS.
• Evaluations of the students’ progress will be provided, if requested; evaluations of my own progress are always welcome.
Degrees: Depending upon your diligence and level of schooling, degrees will be granted from high school through doctorate, following 1 written exam, in which you summarize what you’ve learned over the course of study in 1 word, 1 sentence, 1 paragraph and 1 page, AND 1 (one) 33 minute oral exam, in which you elaborate on your written exam.
Course of Study: Schedules/details to be determined once the student body is established:
- Required: Participation in weekly zoom meetings;
- As your possibilities allow, 4-day seminars 4 times a year (seasonally) in my home town, Concord, Massachusetts, USA;
- As your possibilities allow, participation in The Center for American Studies at Concord’s Annual Global-Village University Summer Convocation, following the July annual meetings in Concord of the Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott & Margaret Fuller Societies; date to be confirmed.
Fee: “Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world, unless he not only pays his debts, but also adds something to the common wealth.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Sage of Concord,” essay “Wealth.”
As your fortunes allow, the fee will be individually reviewed. In the spirit of Emerson’s foregoing words, those unable to contribute, financially, to my labors on behalf of “the common wealth,” will be expected to enter into a work-study collaboration — to be discussed individually.
Contact: Interested students should first reach via e-mail < stuartbweeks@gmail.com > with your concise response to the foregoing degree offering; specifically: i) why are you interested in the course of study/degree; ii) what is your own particular area of interest in the subject; iii) how has that interest arisen through your life and labors to date; iv) what do you want to do with your schooling/degree, i.e. how — may I assume? — are you committed to serving humankind?
AND, what, friends, do you make of Emerson’s essay “Compensation” and any or all of the following words of Concord’s authors: “Science must become conscience,” con-science. ~ Thoreau;
“What is expressed by each one of us, so far as we can explore our consciousness, when we say, ‘I, myself’?” ~ Bronson Alcott.
“One should be always on the trail of one’s own deepest nature. For it is the FEARLESS living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the divine.” ~ Margaret Fuller.
“The Heart, the Heart, there was the little, yet boundless sphere, wherein existed the original wrong, of which the crime and misery of this outward world were merely types. Purify that inner sphere; and the many shapes of evil that haunt the outward, and which now seem almost our only realities, will turn to shadowy phantoms, and vanish of their own accord.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Once I review your e-mail, I will contact you to set up a time for a phone interview.
Bio:
President John Adams wrote that the great grandfathers study war, so the grandfathers can study politics, so the fathers can study business, words to the effect, so the sons (and daughters) can __?
Stuart-Sinclair Weeks’ forbears have served in state or national office for the last nine generations, and counting. His great-grandfather, John Wingate Weeks, was a United States Senator, presidential candidate, Secretary of War in the Cabinets of Harding and Coolidge, and played a central role in one of the central dramas of the our age: the passage of the Federal Reserve Act. The author’s grandfather, Sinclair Weeks, was a political leader, U.S. senator, and America’s principle business spokesperson, as Secretary of Commerce under Eisenhower. The author’s father, Sinclair Weeks Jr., was a business leader, as CEO of Reed & Barton and a director of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Stuart-Sinclair has directed his creative energies into the cultural sector, as founder and director of The Center for American Studies at Concord, Massachusetts, USA: < www.concord-ium.us >. In this capacity, he has hosted programs for over 500 international leaders from 68 nations, introducing them to American culture through the historic window of Concord.
Other hats that Stuart-Sinclair wears are:
^ Author: https://www.hobblebush.com/product-page/the-lord-of-cat-bow ; completing a triple-trilogy plus, beginning with old Ben (Franklin’s) unfinished masterwork, The Art of Virtue.
^Columnist:http://concord.wickedlocal.com/article/20140920/NEWS/140929890/2011/ OPINION
^ Journalist: http://www.newview.org.uk/issues/archive/issue_32.htm
^ TV/Radio-Host: Of, By, & For the People: Among those interviewed was Joseph Weizenbaum, Prof. of Computer Sciences at MIT and author of the book, “Computer Power & Human Reason”
^ Alumnus: Up with People, Milton Academy, Dartmouth College, Emerson College in Sussex, England and advanced studies at the Christen-gemeinschaft in Stuttgart, Germany
^ Organizational Involvement: Rotary, 4-H, Clergy Laity Group, Society of the Cincinnati, Chamber of Commerce, The Hard Nut to Crack & 13th Step Fellowships.
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