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Invitation to the Inner World of Educators

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As a child of 11, just after going to bed one night, I had a revelatory experience. I was suddenly aware that everything in this unimaginably vast universe was interconnected.. I didn’t rationally figure this out, nor had I read about it. I felt with absolute certainty that this was the only sensible understanding of the world. This understanding emerged whole in my young consciousness. I explained all this to my six and a half year old brother, Stephen, who was lying in the bed beside me, and as I later discovered was asleep during my animated explanation.

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  • Cohen A. Gateway to the Dao-field: Essays for the awakening educator. Amherst, NY: Cambria; 2009.

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Cohen, A. (2012). Invitation to the Inner World of Educators. In: Cohen, A., Porath, M., Clarke, A., Bai, H., Leggo, C., Meyer, K. (eds) Speaking of Teaching…. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-787-5_1

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