Post by noasinger on Sept 23, 2006 8:31:22 GMT -5
In trying to interpret and respond to the unfolding plot of lonelygirl15, it may instructive to look at the frame of reference the writers might be jumping from.
www.tworocks.org
Two Rocks Institute is the website of Mesh Flinder's mother and father. Both are prominent academians out of Berkeley and seem like amazing people.
Dr. Carol Flinders is an expert on medieval literature and natural foods, and has written and lectured extensively on feminism, and mysticism, especially within but not limited to the Christian religion. She writes a lot about women's ways of resolving their twin desires for independence and community, and how women can use their spiritual strengths to become active.
About Mesh's father, taken from the website for Santa Clara University:
Mr. Flinders further said:
www.tworocks.org
Two Rocks Institute is the website of Mesh Flinder's mother and father. Both are prominent academians out of Berkeley and seem like amazing people.
Dr. Carol Flinders is an expert on medieval literature and natural foods, and has written and lectured extensively on feminism, and mysticism, especially within but not limited to the Christian religion. She writes a lot about women's ways of resolving their twin desires for independence and community, and how women can use their spiritual strengths to become active.
About Mesh's father, taken from the website for Santa Clara University:
Tim Flinders graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied English and Sanskrit literature. An educator and writer, he has worked with gifted children for two decades, and has written on gifted education, Gandhian nonviolence, and health and spirituality. His writings on nonviolence appear in Gandhi the Man and Nonviolent Soldier of Islam. During the Nineties, Mr. Flinders was director of the RISE Institute, which provided a spiritually based treatment program to thousands of people coping with HIV/AIDS and other life threatening illnesses. He is coauthor of The RISE Response: Illness, Wellness and Spirituality.
Mr. Flinders further said:
I’m developing a course manual for the Spiritual Modelling course we recently piloted with Santa Clara undergraduates to help them cope with the stresses of undergraduate life. It will allow the course to be disseminated to other campuses that have expressed interest. Carol and I are also working together on a book that explores the idea of vocation (Sanskrit: svadharma) as a vehicle to provide spiritual meaning and purpose across the life stages of western seekers. Our entry point is the Hindu/Vedantan model of the four ashramas (student, householder, retiree, renunciate) which we are adapting to a nonsectarian schema that better addresses western needs and sensibilities.