The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings

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Contents Introduction: Who We Are vii I: Karma and Craftsmanship: Feeling and Form 3 II: Thoughts on Writing and Handcraft 14 III: Occupational Therapy 27IV: The Crossing Point: Nine Easter Letters on the Art of Education 41 v : New Resources 66 VI : Pilot Course Seven : New Resources for Learning 78 VII: Current Trends in Education : A Teacher's Values 101 VIII:Insight 1969 119 IX: Some Thoughts About Art and Wholeness in Learning 135 X: Wholeness in Learning: or Non-Toxic Education 153 XI: Connections 171 XII: Wrestling with the Daimonic 187 XIII: Mental Handicap and Human Learning 207 XIV: Work and Source 219 Conclusion: The New 244 IIII: 2IIII: 2 4 7 2 Illustrations Plates Fountain; Rainbow facing page 172 Star Man; Spiral Continuum facing page 173 Photographs by True Kelly Untitled Frontispiece "St. Michael — Shiva." Pinched stoneware plaque, unglazed, fired in woodburning kiln (top). "Emerging Form." Pinched stoneware 7-part piece, unglazed , fired in wood-burning kiln (bottom). 235 Author in her studio with "Six Grandfathers of the Flaming Rainbow Tepee," from Black Elk's vision. Thrown stoneware, hand-modeled, reduction fired in gas kiln. 236 "Grandfather from the West," front view, back view, inside view (top). "Four Virgins of the Elk Dance," thrown stoneware, hand-modeled, reduction fired in gas kiln (bottom). 237 Dance Pots, thrown stoneware, hand-modeled, reduction fired in gas kiln: "Thunder Dance" (top left); "Leda" (top right); "Square Dance" (bottom left); "Wholiness" (bottom right). 238 Dance Pot, "Acrobat in the Labyrinth." 239 Pot Drawings: "Flower, Calyx/Body/Root," thrown stoneware, hand-modeled, reduction fired in gas kiln; dark body, saturated iron glaze inside (top). "Black and White Line Drawing," thrown stoneware, hand-modeled, reduction fired in gas kiln; Eustes white glaze, and saturated iron (bottom). 240 ...