All knowledge is recollection.- Socrates

If you know how to ask the question, you're ready to find the answer. If you don't know the question, come and find out.- RCS

Our multimedia studio seminar environment is dedicated to the principle that in order for us to widen our perceptions, broaden our outlook, and question our assumptions, we need to experience the transcendence of theatre, of encounter, of dreaming, of reading, of talking, of finding out in a unique setting in a unique way.

The Spring Sessions led to the development of multimedia videos, with topics listed below. A DVD with 6 of these videos is available for purchase. Contact us by email for pricing.

New seminars are in preparation for the Fall of 2005.

• Postmodern brains: Knowing and finding out in the information society • knowledge as recollection • classical knowledge and cognitive relativism • the quantum interruption • today's ephemeral narrative • stop seeing the figure / start seeing the ground • neurolinguistic programming
  
  
• Déja Vu: Real images, false images, detached images and self-images. • Plato on false images • psychoanalysts on self images • detached images • experience as cliché • advertising and image overload
  
  
• Who Am I?: Waking up from your media-induced, consumer sleep. • Plato's myth of the cave • Gurdjieff on waking sleep • Sartre, Heiddeger on existential authentic life • Baudrillard: living in hyperreality; modern marketers on Identity.
  
  
• Hell Is For Heroes: Personal hell, religious hell, and other hells • pagan hells • Orpheus and Eurydice • Judeo-Christian hells • psychological hells • how you can tell if you are in Hell
  
  
• Art For Art's Sake: Talking about film and dancing to architecture. • artistic movements • the "sake" of art • architectural horizons • modern poetry
  
  
• Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life: Orphic, Delphic, Elusinian, and other mysteries. • early initiations • alchemy • as above so below • why the need for secrecy? • is there mystery left?
  
  
• Bolo'bolo: Private property, public space, and self-interest. • why private property • why public space • feeding our psyches • the bolo'bolo manifesto
  
  
• MythDemeanour: Nostalgic dreams, active archetypes and the disappointing real. • myths and rational meanings • is there a collective unconscious? • some myths considered • dream manufacturing industries • pursuing personal dreams
  
  
• Growing up Absurd: The myth of maturation • the era of kidultesence • the decay of the elders • the search for new roots • why growing up is hard to do
  
  
• A Kiss Is Just A Kiss: Several strange ideas about love. • classical theories of love • the androgyne • hieros gamos • love and personal identity
  

Len has a degree in science, and postgraduate studies in philosophy and psychiatry. He was a stage and screen actor, an advertising executive, and director of a multimedia communications company. He has taught adults in a university setting, and natives in a wilderness setting. He is the author of several commercial publications, and has recently written The Badtime Stories for children and Involuntary Nirvana for adults. To learn more, click here.

Stephen has a university background in literature, and a professional degree in psychotherapy. His business consulting work consisted in helping clients perceive and maximize their special talents in a group enterprise. His psychotherapy focuses on self identity and self development. He is active in studying cultural, philosophic and psychological issues of modern life. To learn more click here.

Youngjeon will be your administrative contact for fees, registration and any issues or requests that may come up during the sessions.

She has lived in the art world and the commerce world in Korea, New York and Toronto.

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