Exciting New Project

I am excited about a new project Brenden and I are starting. The eventual goal is to write an essay loosely on the relationship being spiritual being, pedagogical empowerment, and community development. To do this we are reading both Baha'i and non-Baha'i books together on these themes. So far we have decided to read Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time", Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", various readings from Shoghi Effendi, various readings on the Baha'i institute process, and plenty of the writings of Baha'u'llah along the way.


Hopefully the process by which we write the essay will evolve as we learn and develop new ideas. We want the final essay to be both rational and poetic, objective and subjective, deductive and inductive, etc. The idea is that the structure of the essay will reflect the subject matter we are writing about, that being intentional evolution on both personal and collective scales.

The process of reading, writing, and reflecting will be documented Here.

improvisational collaborative writing

I have not posted much this summer due to time constraints as well as a side project Brenden, Jalal, and myself are working on. This side project has been exciting - The goal is to explore philosophical themes through character and alternate world development by developing a story in which its characters holding very different worldviews and temperaments can challenge and interact with one another on multiple levels. The exiting part comes from the fact that we are improvising off each other, taking the story and characters in new and (hopefully) logically consistent directions that none of us can predict. In a sense "role playing" in written form with the purpose of challenging various paradigms. This experiment thus far can be found in the link "introspective collaborative" in reverse chronological order, but I have listed the links below in chronological order if you are interested in reading what we have come up with so far.


Warrior Lucium
Lam of the Forming
Lucium T'Auren
Family Ties pt. 1
Family Ties pt. 2
Family Ties pt. 3
Fear
Untitled
The Chianvakst Nation