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Course Description
The World Peace Diet – Healing Our World: A Deeper Look at Food
The focus is on cultivating a deep and living understanding of the roots of our culture’s dilemmas, and how we can not only attain health, inner peace, and spiritual clarity for ourselves, but also contribute to the positive transformation of our communities.
First Half of Semester
We build the foundation of understanding of the roots of our culture’s multiple crises.
• Realizing our unique individual potential to contribute to the healing of our world and thus to tap undiscovered reserves of creativity, joy, freedom, and meaning.
• Illuminating both the history and future of our species through the lens of our relationship with
animals, and how the quality of these relationships is reflected in our relationships with each other.
Second Half of Semester
These are the over-arching goals:
• Deep questioning of the cultural assumptions about our basic physiology
• Discovering the foundations of optimal nutrition of body and mind
• Understanding the mechanisms of animal food production
• Connecting with the power of Sophia—the sacred feminine—to transform our behavior and consciousness
• Investigating the vibratory nature of reality and its significance
• Exploring the roles of science and religion to both enslave and liberate people, animals, and culture
• Examining the consequences of industrializing food and farms
• Exploring the role of transnational corporations and financial institutions in promoting animal foods
• Understanding rationalizations that enslave and diminish animals and each other
• Opening the inner gateways of intuition to live authentically and with integrity and purpose
Contemporary Issues in Philosophy: Exploring Issues of Freedom and Control
The last two hundred hears have formed an epoch that has been centrally concerned with individual freedom and societal issues involving this freedom. According to Webster, freedom is a state in which something is “not restricted by anything but its own nature” In exploring the critical issues of freedom, then, we must also explore the issues involved in restriction or control and how these two relate to our “own nature.”
First Half of Semester
For the first half, we build the foundation of understanding of the interplay between the individual and society as reflected in Fromm’s book, Escape from Freedom, and how we as individuals can best respond to the challenges of our time. Going more deeply, are there spiritual or meditational practices that can equip us to open to a deeper understanding of freedom?
Second Half of Semester
During the second half of the course, we will be working to clarify understanding of the dynamic relation between freedom and control, and how this dynamism has propelled both individuals and cultures. By investigating freedom both as an inner, psychological quality and as an outer cultural manifestation, we will aim to deepen insights into ourselves and into the situation humanity faces today. We are encouraged to develop both analytic and intuitive faculties, combining historical analysis with personal interpretation and expression.
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