Just a DMH-practices update
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temporaryrealityFirst, non-DMH related, I haven't gotten much farther into The Well-Trained Mind, having sort of just jumped into finding my first reading materials for the actual study-project.
I just put a library hold on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (thanks to an ecosophia commenter's suggestion). I also found a text version of Hesiod's Theogony and turned it into an epub file so I can read it on my ereader instead of spending more time on my computer. It's an inelegantly formatted epub file as it stands, but I may decide to clean it up and reformat it for no good reason other than to practice my ebook formatting for when I can return to helpingdfr1973 with her W. W. Atkinson project or actually write something myself (Hello works in progress, yes, I see you looking at me!).
I suppose in the end, these are all loosely DMH-related in that they all tie in to the effort I'm making at "self-betterment."
Relative to the cosmogony topic, I'm continuing to slowly work my way through The Cosmic Doctrine. To be honest though, I'm not a great meditator. Today, for instance, I was instantly drowsy; and while it's true that I didn't get enough sleep last night, I still caved in and called the session off. I feel like I sort of hit the point in all my practices where I can do the basic motions but some of the "oomph" needs development. That usually indicates that I need to go back and read the instructions and figure out what I've forgotten or ignored.*
At least there's one thing showing good signs: I've been getting some very accurate readings from my "invented"** divination system. The results these last few weeks have been more accurate than Ogham ever wanted to be with me and so I'm starting to feel a little hopeful that something can be made with it.
As for the SOP, I've added two deities so far and so far neither of them has complained!
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* Though I do have to be careful to not exacerbate a tendency to always dawdle at the beginning-stages of things. This is a tightly-wrapped thread around a tangled issue that I'm working on (and that in no small way is part of the "why" behind my doing the DMH practices).
** Truly "invented" isn't the right word, I hope, because what I also hope is that it's a system tapping into something real and beyond me.
I just put a library hold on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (thanks to an ecosophia commenter's suggestion). I also found a text version of Hesiod's Theogony and turned it into an epub file so I can read it on my ereader instead of spending more time on my computer. It's an inelegantly formatted epub file as it stands, but I may decide to clean it up and reformat it for no good reason other than to practice my ebook formatting for when I can return to helping
dfr1973 with her W. W. Atkinson project or actually write something myself (Hello works in progress, yes, I see you looking at me!).I suppose in the end, these are all loosely DMH-related in that they all tie in to the effort I'm making at "self-betterment."
Relative to the cosmogony topic, I'm continuing to slowly work my way through The Cosmic Doctrine. To be honest though, I'm not a great meditator. Today, for instance, I was instantly drowsy; and while it's true that I didn't get enough sleep last night, I still caved in and called the session off. I feel like I sort of hit the point in all my practices where I can do the basic motions but some of the "oomph" needs development. That usually indicates that I need to go back and read the instructions and figure out what I've forgotten or ignored.*
At least there's one thing showing good signs: I've been getting some very accurate readings from my "invented"** divination system. The results these last few weeks have been more accurate than Ogham ever wanted to be with me and so I'm starting to feel a little hopeful that something can be made with it.
As for the SOP, I've added two deities so far and so far neither of them has complained!
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* Though I do have to be careful to not exacerbate a tendency to always dawdle at the beginning-stages of things. This is a tightly-wrapped thread around a tangled issue that I'm working on (and that in no small way is part of the "why" behind my doing the DMH practices).
** Truly "invented" isn't the right word, I hope, because what I also hope is that it's a system tapping into something real and beyond me.
math curriculum?
Date: 2020-09-13 09:44 pm (UTC)My husband is a highschool math teacher, and was pulling together some videos and materials for his class. Each one is now 3.25 hours long instead of 1 because of the "cohort" system they're using to reduce covid transmission. They reduced the number of courses kids could take at a time, so they would be exposed to fewer kids and teachers. Instead of a term doing 6 courses at once, they'll do 2 courses at a time in a few weeks, then rotate to the next set. We don't know yet how it will work, but it might actually be a much more effective way to do it, for two reasons:
1) he has to engage their interest all that time, which is impossible, so he will now teach part of the class outside, or simply take them for a walk and let them ask questions, or just walk. Whatever to get a break part way through.
2) he has to string together concepts again that they were forced to cut up. So he has connected the dots on a history of formal logic that leads into algebra and mathematical proof in the same 2 days of classes. I am a dunce, so I asked why he was teaching Aristotle and formal logic - what did deductive and inductive reasoning have to do with math? He looked at me with alarm and said "[Hearthspirit]... what are you saying??" Then I realised.. "Right...That's what Math IS." So now I'm immortalized in meme form with some guy getting his mind blown on the cover slide of that topic in his slides.
Re: math curriculum?
Date: 2020-09-13 11:58 pm (UTC)Way out in my nebulous brain-spaces there's a land where it all seems to connect - the logic, the sacred geometry (and sacred numbers), the math... I like that fantasy realm though I've not had much exposure to its topographical nuances.
I'll bet the kids are going to like things so much more when they can go on walks and talk about whatever.
The bigger blocks of subjects is quite similar to what our experience of school in Germany was. Bigger blocks and only once or twice a week (max. 3x) instead of every day being chopped into minuscule, repetitive bits. It seemed conducive to less busywork/homework because you actually had time to dive into a subject AT school.
Go meme you! :D