Dear Lucy,

I thoroughly endorse your suggestion (see below). In fact, on more than one occasion, I have suggested that we use the Friends of Wisdom emailing list to tell each other about what we are doing – and trying to do – to help save humanity and the planet. It seemed to me important that we should talk about our failures as well as our successes – and do so in as entertaining and useful a way as possible. And without being too repetitive.

This is something we could do immediately. If a more appropriate vehicle for accounts of what we are doing emerges, then we could make use of it when it does emerge.

Jiscmail keeps a record of our emails at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind1901&L=FRIENDSOFWISDOM and https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=FRIENDSOFWISDOM-D .

What do people think about the suggestion that – to begin with at least – we use Friends of Wisdom emailing – perhaps the “D” list – to give accounts of what we are attempting to do help transform academia, and the world, so that we begin to make progress towards a wiser world?

Best wishes,

Nick

From: Group concerned that academia should seek and promote wisdom <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Lucy Weir
Sent: 23 January 2019 12:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Crisis

Hi Leland,

Yes, I read your posts. I recall you setting up the site. I suppose it's less about what I need, and more about what we need to do to create a collaboration here.

Let's keep working on it and when I can, I'll have another look.

It seems to me that lots of us have worked very hard to promote something similar to the agenda Nick's been promoting, in the sense of looking for ways to reenvision academic pursuits or perhaps more broadly, in my case (and perhaps in Ronnie's) to highlight the need for us to see ourselves as part of a wider context, the ecological (and even more broadly, the physical systems) context within which we have evolved and which creates and sustains us (and will destroy us). Let's agree to acknowledge and respect all our efforts, which are similar enough to merit a common platform, even if we are bound to have different specific foci and perhaps even different loci for values. Jonathan Haidt's book, Righteous Minds, is excellent as a toolkit for understanding our intuitive key values, and finding ways to step back and look for areas of collaboration, regardless of whether our initial push is egalitarianism, fairness, loyalty, or any of the other particular remits on which we base our particular view of what makes something good, or right.

Thanks, all. It would be wonderful if we could get something going from this.

Best thoughts,

Lucy

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 12:35, Leland Beaumont <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Lucy,

Several years ago, at the request of Nick, Ian Glendinning created the “Global Circle” site.

See: http://www.globalcircle.org/blog/

It began with lots of excitement, and then withered out.

You will notice I authored the last several posts, the most recent was November 30, 2015.

I responded to this thread a few days ago with a structured inventory of the various causes of suboptimal life experiences.

See: causes of suboptimal life experiences

No one acknowledged that post on this list.

I have worked over the past 8 years to create the “Applied Wisdom” curriculum on Wikiversity.

See: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wisdom/Curriculum

This includes the “Living Wisely” course, in on-going development.

See: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Living_Wisely

These are all freely available and open for comment and continuous improvement.

With Tom Lombardo we recently created the Wisdom and the Future Research Center.

See: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wisdom_Research

Perhaps these can fill the need you expressed.

Thanks,

Lee Beaumont

From: Group concerned that academia should seek and promote wisdom <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Lucy Weir
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:06 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Crisis

OK. Can someone point to or set up a site, and we can all put what we're doing into it? Michael Stone, a yogi, said, (not a direct quote) go to protests, be active, not because it makes any difference to policy - though it may - but because it creates communities, and communities can collaborate, and create allegiances, and that, in turn, can allow stronger action to forward your common agendas, particularly when these are aligned with ecological and social justice.

I'm in.

Best,

Lucy

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 09:51, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I do like Zurab’s suggestion. This would give us all the opportunity to share accounts of the influences that we believe that we are having in enhancing the flow of values and understandings that carry hope for the flourishing of humanity. You can access the kind of accounts that seem to be doing this in the latest, freely available issue of the Educational Journal of Living Theories at https://ejolts.net/current

On 23 Jan 2019, at 09:44, Janelidze, Z, Prof [[log in to unmask]] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi All,

I have tried a few times in the past to suggest that talking about the problem will not solve the problem (although talking is important in the initial stage of analyzing and reflecting on the problem). We must start acting. How about creating a website where we post what each of us are doing to the benefit of the world? This will naturally lead to collaborations allowing to grow the impact of our actions.

With best regards,

Zurab

Love Jack.

…………………………………………...

When Martin Dobson, a colleague, died in 2002 the last thing he said to me
was 'Give my Love to the Department'. In the 20 years I'd worked with
Martin it was his loving warmth of humanity that I recall with great life
affirming pleasure and I'm hoping that in Love Jack we can share this
value of common humanity.

Latest publication:

Whitehead, J. (2018) Living Theory research as a way of life. Bath, Brown Dog Books. Access from https://amzn.to/2suwR59

See https://ejolts.net/current for the December 2018 11(2) for the latest issue the Educational Journal of Living Theories

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