Celebrating Author J.K. McDowell
This year we are choosing to look back on all the authors that make up our circle. Each month we will focus on one Hiraeth author and look back on their works. In April we will be celebrating J.K. McDowell, author of Night, Mystery & Light.
read moreConsequences of our Current Educational System | An Excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards
We can talk about “greening” our schools and tell our youth to recycle all we want, but if we continue to instill in them the notion that the world is a machine, they will unthinkingly relate to it as a resource to be used and manipulated. They will not value it.
read moreCreatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards | Now Available!
Today we announce the release of our first offering of 2013: Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto by Theodore Richards, author of the award-winning book, Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism, and the Birth of a New Myth! Creatively Maladjusted is available in paperback wherever books are sold as well as Kindle. Also, in honor of this release, for the first time we are offering Cosmosophia in Kindle edition!
read moreHuman Salvation Lies in the Hands of the Creatively Maladjusted | An Excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards
Dr. King believed that “unmerited suffering is redemptive” because his worldview was based upon the notion of the “Beloved Community”, an interconnected web of relationships that defines us. Our redemption is found not in some abstract doctrine about the suffering of a man millennia ago, but of the insight that our own suffering allows us to have compassion for another’s.
read moreItinerant Professional Vandals | An Excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards
The work of education, of course, is not to make better schools, but to make a better world. Too often, I believe, educators forget this obvious and simple truth. Discussions about education seldom reflect the kind of world we might imagine is possible; rather, they focus on achievement and success within a given paradigm. Educators seem not to realize that the way we educate our children creates, reinforces, or shatters the paradigm. For example, when we assume that the purpose of education is to...
read moreThe Evolution of Wisdom | An Excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards
We evolved into humans not because all apes evolved into humans, but because of the actions of a few at the margins. This is how novelty emerges. There is a wisdom at the margins that those in power, because they are so immersed in the worldview that supports their power, cannot possess. “There will be some fundamental assumptions,” warned the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “which adherents of all the variant systems within each epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that...
read moreWinners of the Wild Earth Poetry Prize 2013
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Wild Earth Poetry Prize: Martin Willitts, Jr. for his collection, Searching For What Is Not There and Gwendolyn Morgan for her collection, Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea!
read moreOur 2013 Catalog | Now Available!
Our 2013 catalog is now available! Get previews of our forthcoming titles or place an order with us through the mail. If you are a business or just a book-lover, we can put you on our catalog mailing list for free.
read moreThe Educational System in Crisis | An Excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards
There seems to be near-universal agreement that there is a crisis in education today. In the United States, this tends to take the form of our failure to “compete” with the rest of the world. During the last presidential election this was a common theme; and it will be again in the next one. This dualistic vision of education as a battle in the global marketplace generally assumes that there is nothing wrong with the goals of modern education, but that we simply are not doing it well enough.
read moreA Look at Creatively Maladjusted by Theodore Richards
On March 9th, we will release Theodore Richards’ latest work, Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto. Here is a brief look at this powerful book.
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