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This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework
for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All.
Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of
equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current
approaches, and the likely challenges facing future policymakers.
The first section explores the creation of the framework, including
the major elements of the policy, the political context of its
development, and how it compares with international models
developed during the same period. The performance of the six
student equity groups identified within the framework is also
examined. The second section of the book considers future trends
and challenges. The Australian university sector has undergone
seismic change in the past twenty-five years and faces further
changes of equal magnitude. The twenty-fifth anniversary of A Fair
Chance for All comes as Australian higher education is poised for
another wave of transformation, with rising expansion, competition,
and stratification. While the emerging landscape is new, the
questions have changed little since A Fair Chance for All was first
conceived: How should we define student equity, and what policies
are likely to promote it?
Four spiritual guides, four classic texts timeless wisdom for
our complicated
world introduced by one of today's great teachers of
spirituality.
Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Ramakrishna: four of the world's most
interesting and challenging spiritual masters. The core of their
most important teachings along with annotations from expert
scholars and introductions from Andrew Harvey, one of the great
spiritual thinkers of our time now are all in one beautiful
volume.
"A Walk with Four Spiritual Guides" contains selections from
four classic texts: Bhagavad Gita (Krishna) Dhammapada (Buddha) The
Gospel of Thomas (Jesus) Selections from the Gospel of Sri
Ramakrishna (Ramakrishna)
The selections focus on the inspiring themes of devotion and
selfless action; serenity and the mind; mysticism and the
individual's search for answers; and the direct path to the Divine.
Andrew Harvey's warm and personal introduction to each guide offers
his own experiences of learning from their wisdom.
Coverage has been extended to include recent topics. The book again
presents a unified treatment of economic theory, with the method of
maximum likelihood playing a key role in both estimation and
testing. Exercises are included and the book is suitable as a
general text for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate
students.
Four spiritual guides, four classic texts—timeless wisdom for our
complicated world introduced by one of today's great teachers of
spirituality. Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Ramakrishna: four of the
world's most interesting and challenging spiritual masters. The
core of their most important teachings—along with annotations
from expert scholars and introductions from Andrew Harvey, one of
the great spiritual thinkers of our time—now are all in one
beautiful volume. A Walk with Four Spiritual Guides contains
selections from four classic texts: Bhagavad Gita (Krishna)
Dhammapada (Buddha) The Gospel of Thomas (Jesus) Selections from
the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Ramakrishna) The selections focus on
the inspiring themes of devotion and selfless action; serenity and
the mind; mysticism and the individual's search for answers; and
the direct path to the Divine. Andrew Harvey's warm and personal
introduction to each guide offers his own experiences of learning
from their wisdom.
An inspiring manual for navigating humanity's collective dark night
and enacting personal and planetary transformation * Explores how
Sacred Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired
action--offers an antidote to the crises facing our world * Reveals
how to uncover and sustain joy and how to use it as fuel for
continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times * Includes practical
maps of the dark night process and of the four-part path to
transfiguration drawn from the secret depths of the mystical
traditions Presenting a manual for navigating humanity's collective
dark night, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential
antidotes, drawn from mystical traditions and Sacred Activism, to
help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the
daunting challenges to our world. Offering a deep discussion of our
global dark night in terms of the Kali Yuga, the authors examine
the dangers of a growing constellation of intractable
crises--authoritarianism both in America and abroad, climate
change, economic inequality, social upheaval, and spiritual
malaise. They then explore the antidotes to these crises: Sacred
Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired
action--and a profound understanding of our evolutionary ordeal and
its potentialities. Examining the power of joy to help enact
personal and planetary transformation, they explain how joy, or
ananda, is a force all mystical traditions recognize as the essence
of the Divine. They reveal how to uncover and sustain joy in
ourselves and how to use joy as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism
in dangerous times. Drawing on the visionary teachings of mystics
such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, the authors
show how the global dark night is part of an evolutionary mutation
process and how its very intensity makes it the potential seedbed
of a new embodied, divine humanity. They offer practical maps of
the crises, of the shadows that this global dark night is casting,
and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from mystical
traditions. Sharing a vision of a new and focused global moment of
love in action, the authors reveal that apocalypse is not
inevitable--if enough people awaken to the extraordinary
possibilities of Sacred Activism.
Ancient words of the Buddha ("awakened one") that can become a
companion for your own spiritual journey. The Dhammapada ("Path of
the Buddha's Teachings") is a daily inspiration for millions of
Buddhists all over the world and for people of all spiritual
traditions who have been impressed by its beauty and power. These
words—believed to have been spoken by the Buddha himself over
2,500 years ago—contain most of Buddhism's central teachings.
Originally composed in the ancient language of Pali, this timeless
text concisely and inspirationally portrays the route a person
travels as he or she advances toward enlightenment. With poetic
sequence and rhythm, the Dhammapada describes the fundamental role
of mental conditioning in making us who we are. It paints
contrasting portraits of three levels of our human existence—the
fool, the wise one and the enlightened one—and addresses specific
aspects of experience, conduct and belief that characterize our
transformation from one of these modes of being to another. Now you
can experience the Dhammapada with understanding even if you have
no previous knowledge of Buddhism. This SkyLight Illuminations
edition offers insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that explains
references and philosophical terms, shares the inspiring
interpretations of famous spiritual teachers, and gives you deeper
insight into the text.
An ancient classic that can become a companion for your own
spiritual journey. Millions of people turn daily to India's most
beloved holy book, the Bhagavad Gita ("Song of the Lord"), to
instruct their spiritual practice. A Hindu classic, it has
universal appeal for people of all faith traditions who turn to its
inspirational support in the struggles of life, its consolation in
times of grief and its deeply moving promise of God's love and
guidance. Composed in Sanskrit verse thousands of years ago, this
timeless text tells the story of a distraught warrior on the verge
of battle and the compassionate counsel he receives from
Krishna—God in human form. In just seven hundred lines, the Gita
presents concise teachings on such topics as the immortality of the
soul, meditation and yoga, worship and sacrifice, the ideal of
selfless action and the oneness of all life in the Divine. Now you
can read and understand the Gita with no previous knowledge of
Hinduism required. This SkyLight Illuminations edition offers
insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that explains references and
philosophical terms, shares the inspiring interpretations of famous
spiritual teachers and addresses questions such as the inner
meaning of India's caste system and why this sublime discourse on
inner peace is set against the background of a violent civil war.
This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework
for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All.
Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of
equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current
approaches, and the likely challenges facing future policymakers.
The first section explores the creation of the framework, including
the major elements of the policy, the political context of its
development, and how it compares with international models
developed during the same period. The performance of the six
student equity groups identified within the framework is also
examined. The second section of the book considers future trends
and challenges. The Australian university sector has undergone
seismic change in the past twenty-five years and faces further
changes of equal magnitude. The twenty-fifth anniversary of A Fair
Chance for All comes as Australian higher education is poised for
another wave of transformation, with rising expansion, competition,
and stratification. While the emerging landscape is new, the
questions have changed little since A Fair Chance for All was first
conceived: How should we define student equity, and what policies
are likely to promote it?
From a highly popular and respected scholar, poet and lecturer and one of the nation’s most celebrated authorities on mysticism comes the paperback edition of a brilliant introduction to the essential texts and themes of the great mystic visionaries.Whether it’s based on the Buddhist vision of the Bodhisattva or the Christian concept of service, the mystic’s journey is one take on behalf of all humanity – and that journey is the same in all traditions. This wide range of selections brings readers the essential themes and personalities of the mystic experience. Beautifully introduced with practical analysis and vital historical information, The Essential Mystics offers extras from many traditions, including Buddhist, Sikh, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Hopi, Aborigine and Kogi.
This 2004 volume offers a broad overview of developments in the
theory and applications of state space modeling. With fourteen
chapters from twenty-three contributors, it offers a unique
synthesis of state space methods and unobserved component models
that are important in a wide range of subjects, including
economics, finance, environmental science, medicine and
engineering. The book is divided into four sections: introductory
papers, testing, Bayesian inference and the bootstrap, and
applications. It will give those unfamiliar with state space models
a flavour of the work being carried out as well as providing
experts with valuable state of the art summaries of different
topics. Offering a useful reference for all, this accessible volume
makes a significant contribution to the literature of this
discipline.
How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through
unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can
dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and
foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do
animals seem to know an earthquake is coming long before the
world's best seismologists?
In "Animal Wisdom, " veterinarian and animal advocate Linda Bender
offers a wealth of amazing stories and research-based evidence
indicating animals have deeply perceptive--even
extrasensory--abilities. She shows us that animals are extremely
perceptive, intuitive, and psychic and provides step-by-step
practices for honing your natural ability to communicate with them,
so that you too can learn to understand their urgent messages about
peace, happiness, and the future of the planet. "Animal Wisdom "is
for animal lovers and anyone who seeks a deeper, more spiritual
connection to these beautiful creatures.
From the table of contents:
Foreword by Linda Tucker
PART I: The Fabric of Creation
Chapter 1: The Ecology of Paradise
Chapter 2: How Can We Know What Animals Are Thinking and Feeling?
PART II: What Animals Want Us to Know
Chapter 3: You Are Loved
Chapter 4: You Are Already Living in Paradise
Chapter 5: You Don't Have to Figure Everything Out
Chapter 6: Dying Isn't Bad
PART III: The Connection of All Creatures
Chapter 7: How to Connect Telepathically with Animals: A Practical
Guide
Chapter 8: The Animals Speak for Themselves
Chapter 9: Heeding the Cries of the Nonhuman World
Afterword by Andrew Harvey
When 86-year-old pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein met Ethan
Hawke, international film star, at a dinner party, the two quickly
discovered they shared a common malady: stage fright. Based on his
familiarity with nervousness prior to concerts, Seymour was able to
provide Ethan with invaluable insight and advice. That was the
beginning of a deep friendship. Renowned spiritual scholar and
activist Andrew Harvey was a fellow dinner guest that auspicious
night and contributed to the decision to create a documentary about
Seymour exploring his unique combination of accomplished musician,
teacher, and seasoned elder. The film, Seymour: An Introduction,
directed by Ethan Hawke, has received enthusiastic critical
acclaim. Seymour and Andrew's friendship has continued to thrive
with a shared curiosity and appreciation for the intersection of
life and art. The trusting conversations captured in this book meld
memory with philosophy, and observations with reflections,
dissolving the line between teacher and pupil. With equal parts
candor and generosity, Seymour and Andrew offer a master class in
playing life with our fullest, most gracious selves.
In "Heart Yoga, "renowned spiritual writer and Sacred Activist
Andrew Harvey and longtime yoga teacher Karuna Erickson present a
vision of hatha yoga practice that links ancient spiritual
traditions to contemporary life. Including excerpts of poetic
sacred writing from mystical sages through the ages, the book
reminds readers that the purpose of yoga is not to improve one's
physical health or even to achieve peace of mind (although these
results may be achieved along the way), but to reach a state of
unity with the divine, the goal of mystics from all traditions.
With detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty yoga poses and
their alchemical effects on the body and consciousness, "Heart Yoga
"presents yoga as a simple meditative practice that enables the
practitioner to dwell in the heart and experience the bliss of
union with the sacred power underlying all of life. The book
explains how to prepare for Heart Yoga and describes the "Five
Great Joys" that are part of the path. Included are the authors'
own compelling stories of their individual journeys along the path
of yoga: stories of suffering, transcendence, and joy that both
inspire and enlighten.
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy, a realist
with 40 years' experience at the sharp end of politics and
conflict, presents a bold but realistic vision for the future in
"Pioneering the Possible." Human beings worldwide are anxious,
afraid for their children's futures, dissatisfied by their lives,
but unsure what to do. Our global ecosystems and supply chains are
under threat and our leaders appear to have failed us. "Pioneering
the Possible" addresses these anxieties head-on by envisioning a
future that could work for everyone, rich and poor, demonstrating
with real-life examples how that future is already emerging.
"Pioneering the Possible" tackles the deeply embedded 20th-century
values that get in the way of addressing global problems, and shows
how these destructive values can be--and are being--reversed.
We know the world is in crisis: we are spoiling our planet at such
a rate that soon it may be unable to sustain human life. This
crisis is in fact a vast opportunity, because a secure and
satisfying future for all of humanity is perfectly possible if we
make the right choices. But building such a future will require the
leap in consciousness that Einstein indicated when he said, "No
problem can be solved from the consciousness that created it."
"Pioneering the Possible" investigates what this new consciousness
is and takes us to meet the leaders who have learned to apply it.
With profiles of individuals who exemplify transformative
leadership such as Dr. Desmond Tutu and Aung San Suu Kyi, Dr.
Elworthy demonstrates how anyone can develop the magnificent inner
power to build their own personal contribution to the future and
become a 21st-century pioneer of what's possible. The book then
contrasts the value systems that underpin our current decisions
with the kind of values that would enable us to make better
choices--those that could get us out of the mess we're in. To
envision the kind of future that is possibl--a lift-off into "life
as it could be"--Elworthy calls on some experienced specialists to
look through their telescopes into the future, then brings in the
pragmatists who know what to do in their fields, because they've
done it, tested it, and made it work. "Pioneering the Possible"
ultimately helps you find your unique way to be useful; as Dr.
Elworthy says, "to discover your mission and put it into
action--instead of worrying on the sidelines--is to find peace of
mind and a heart full of love."
This volume presents a collection of readings which give the reader
an idea of the nature and scope of unobserved components (UC)
models and the methods used to deal with them. The book is intended
to give a self-contained presentation of the methods and
applicative issues. Harvey has made major contributions to this
field and provides substantial introductions throughout the book to
form a unified view of the literature. About the Series Advanced
Texts in Econometrics is a distinguished and rapidly expanding
series in which leading econometricians assess recent developments
in such areas as stochastic probability, panel and time series data
analysis, modeling, and cointegration. In both hardback and
affordable paperback, each volume explains the nature and
applicability of a topic in greater depth than possible in
introductory textbooks or single journal articles. Each definitive
work is formatted to be as accessible and convenient for those who
are not familiar with the detailed primary literature.
An anthology of the most lyrical, passionate, illuminating writings of the Hindu mystical tradition.
For this inspiring anthology, Andrew Harvey, the popular spiritual scholar and writer, has selected excerpts from ancient and contemporary sources, including extracts from the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other classical Hindu texts; the words of such venerable spiritual teachers as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi; and the devotional poetry of Mirabai, Ramprasad, and many others.
"Galvanizing, beautifully written . . . a powerful expression of faith in the transforming power of Christ's love." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Son of Man is Andrew Harvey's most basic statement on Christ, and it has already become a treasured work to readers interested in Christian mysticism. For the first time in any of his books, Harvey provides spiritual exercises--centuries-old rites previously available only to a few--that allow the reader direct experience with the mystical Christ. Son of Man also includes an easily accessible section of classic readings and meditations on the nature of Christ, making it the comprehensive experience in the Christ of the new millennium.
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