Title: Seminars in Integrative Studies
Author: Ron Puhek
[$5, postpaid. A huge discount off of retail to get you to see what it’s all about!] “Seminars in Integrative Studies” is written to serve a distinct and special kind of learning. Integrative studies focus on searching for a principle of unity or integrity to hold together our knowledge and our life.
These studies concern themselves with consciousness and conscience. Consciousness and conscience are different from mere knowledge and value judgments. Consciousness and conscience are comprehensive and integrating instead of single, narrow and analytical. Consciousness integrates your understanding and conscience integrates your sense of the good.
We concentrate here not on offering a preliminary and superficial “exposure” to the concept and practice of integrated knowledge. Instead, we address those with a serious commitment to integrative research and to those working together as a permanent community dedicated to integrative studies.
The idea of “seminars” in integrative studies refers not to classes in any ordinary sense of external enrollment but to personal intention, interest, and involvement. Seminars are regular gatherings of those devoted to pursuing integration in knowledge and life. These seminars have formal and informal rules. They require an inner commitment and a desire to grow to knowledge of life through investigating the nature of life using the only concrete and direct perspective we have: our own existence.
