The Learning Civilization, 2006
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These courses were designed and presented by educator Roger Weir. Each series is a learning art form delivered through one or more presentations, and designed to be listened to in sequence. Presentations are 1-1.5 hours: an initial session of 30-45 minutes, an intermission for discussion or contemplation, and a second 30-45 minute session.
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Nature 1: Thoreau, Fu Hsi, and Nu Gua

Recorded: January 7, 2006

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Nature 2: Tao Te and Concord

Recorded: January 14, 2006

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Nature 3: Confucian Jen and Transcendentalism

Recorded: January 21, 2006

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Nature 4: Dynasty Order and Radical Freedom

Recorded: January 28, 2006

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Nature 5: Mary Leakey and Jane Goodall

Recorded: February 4, 2006

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Nature 6: Hominids and Chimpanzees

Recorded: February 11, 2006

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Nature 7: Humans in the Millions of Years

Recorded: February 18, 2006

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Nature 8: Mysterious Participation in Deep Cycles

Recorded: February 25, 2006

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Nature 9: Mysterious Evolution By Double Helix

Recorded: March 4, 2006

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Nature 10: Macroevolution and DNA Complementarity

Recorded: March 11, 2006

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Nature 11: Diversity, Disparity, Contingency, and Codons

Recorded: March 18, 2006

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Nature 12: Astounding DBA Billions of Years

Recorded: March 25, 2006

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Interval 1: Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching

Recorded: April 1, 2006

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Ritual 1: Confucian Jen and Egyptian Book of the Dead

Recorded: April 8, 2006

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Ritual 2: Li in the Analects, Maat in the Netherworld

Recorded: April 15, 2006

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Ritual 3: The Deep Grain in Reified Existence

Recorded: April 22, 2006

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Ritual 4: Psychostasia and Jen: Human-Heartedness

Recorded: April 29, 2006

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Ritual 5: Patterns of Culture and From Ritual to Romance

Recorded: May 6, 2006

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Ritual 6: Wise Women Working

Recorded: May 13, 2006

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Ritual 7: Cultural Anthropology and Ritual Forms

Recorded: May 20, 2006

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Ritual 9: Basho and Bacchae

Recorded: June 3, 2006

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Ritual 10: Ritual Journeys and Staging Objectivities

Recorded: June 10, 2006

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Ritual 11: The Narrow Road to the Deep Denouement

Recorded: June 17, 2006

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Ritual 12: Zen and Epiphany

Recorded: June 24, 2006

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Interval 2: Satipatthana Sutra (Mindfulness), Greater, and Lesser

Recorded: July 1, 2006

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Myth 1: Enheduanna and Jane Ellen Harrison

Recorded: July 8, 2006

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Myth 2: Fertile Crescent to Greek Cross

Recorded: July 15, 2006

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Myth 3: Narrative Rides High

Recorded: July 22, 2006

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Myth 4: Ritual Traction Mythologies

Recorded: July 29, 2006

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Myth 6: Gladys A. Reichard and J.R.R. Tolkien

Recorded: August 12, 2006

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Myth 7: Red Point Sandpaintings and Gawain Star

Recorded: August 19, 2006

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Myth 8: Green Knights and Chant Nights

Recorded: August 26, 2006

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Myth 9: Plato's Phaedrus and Susanne K. Langer

Recorded: September 2, 2006

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Myth 10: New Keys Philosophy in Our New Aion

Recorded: September 9, 2006

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Myth 11: Plato's Seventh Letter Cautions

Recorded: September 16, 2006

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Myth 12: Langer's Wittgenstein and Pythagorean Silence

Recorded: September 23, 2006

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Interval 3: Li Po and Tu Fu: T'ang Master Poets

Recorded: September 30, 2006

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Symbol 1: Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner

Recorded: October 7, 2006

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Symbol 2: To The Lighthouse and As I Lay Dying

Recorded: October 14, 2006

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Symbol 3: Stream of Consciousness

Recorded: October 21, 2006

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Symbol 4: Consciousness Streaming

Recorded: October 28, 2006

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Symbol 6: Meaning of Meaning and Verbal Art, Sign, Time

Recorded: November 11, 2006

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Symbol 7: Verbals and Meaning

Recorded: November 18, 2006

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Symbol 8: The Idea of Symbolic Structure

Recorded: November 25, 2006

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Symbol 9: Yeats and Blake

Recorded: December 2, 2006

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Symbol 10: A Vision and Book of Job Illustrations

Recorded: December 9, 2006

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Symbol 11: Symbols As Integrals

Recorded: December 16, 2006

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Symbol 12: Epiphanies, Theophanies, and Realization

Recorded: December 23, 2006

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Interval 4: Patanjali: The Yoga Sutra

Recorded: December 30, 2006

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Vision 1: Poimandres and Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)

Recorded: January 6, 2007

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Vision 2: Hermetic Traditions and Taoist Lineages

Recorded: January 13, 2007

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Vision 3: Alexandria and Chang'an

Recorded: January 20, 2007

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Vision 4: Differential Consciousness Field Theory

Recorded: January 27, 2007

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Vision 6: Mary Magdalene and William Shakespeare

Recorded: February 10, 2007

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Vision 7: Conscious Field of Remembering

Recorded: February 17, 2007

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Vision 8: Magic Words and The Word Magisterial

Recorded: February 24, 2007

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Vision 9: Shelley and Schiller: Romantic Revolution

Recorded: March 3, 2007

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Vision 10: Prometheus Bound and The Aesthetic Education of Man

Recorded: March 10, 2007

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Vision 11: Surviving Oblivion, Visioning Possibilities

Recorded: March 17, 2007

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Vision 12: All Possible Worlds

Recorded: March 24, 2007

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Interval 5: Hui Neng: Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Recorded: March 31, 2007

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Art 1: Landscape and Architecture

Recorded: April 7, 2007

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Art 2: Hiroshige and Frank Lloyd Wright

Recorded: April 14, 2007

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Art 3: Aesthetic Spirit Persons

Recorded: April 21, 2007

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Art 4: Organic Matrices, Radiant Jewels

Recorded: April 28, 2007

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Art 5: Ch'i Pai-Shih and Georgia O'Keeffe

Recorded: May 5, 2007

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Art 6: Visionary Tao, Prismatic Te

Recorded: May 12, 2007

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Art 7: Painting Presenting Personal Spirit

Recorded: May 19, 2007

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Art 8: Beyond All Horizons

Recorded: May 26, 2007

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Art 9: Max Ernst and Henry Moore

Recorded: June 2, 2007

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Art 10: Surreal Artists, Real Art

Recorded: June 9, 2007

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Art 11: Kaleidoscopic Nexus and Cosmic Nudes

Recorded: June 16, 2007

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Art 12: Paleolithic to Futuristic

Recorded: June 23, 2007

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Interval 6: Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Recorded: June 30, 2007

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History 1: Phoenix Cycle 1: Abraham to Akhenaten; Phoenix Cycle 2: Akhenaten to Homer

Recorded: July 7, 2007

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History 2: Phoenix Cycle 3: Homer to Pythagoras

Recorded: July 14, 2007

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History 3: Phoenix Cycle 4a: Pythagoras to Jesus (Aion: Abraham to Jesus)

Recorded: July 21, 2007

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History 4: Phoenix Cycle 4b: Thucydides to Tacitus

Recorded: July 28, 2007

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History 5: Aion Overtone: Sargon to Alexander the Great

Recorded: August 4, 2007

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History 6: Aion Overtone: Alexander the Great to Benjamin Franklin

Recorded: August 11, 2007

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History 7: Far East Aion: Hsia Dynasty to Siman Quian

Recorded: August 18, 2007

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History 8: Mahayana Aion: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Thomas, Asvagosha, Nagarjuna Unto Now

Recorded: August 25, 2007

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History 9: World History: Renaissance to Benjamin Franklin

Recorded: September 1, 2007

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History 10: Enlightenment and Renaissance

Recorded: September 8, 2007

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History 11: Recalibration of Civilization to Science

Recorded: September 15, 2007

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History 12: Our New Aion

Recorded: September 22, 2007

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Interval 7: Bhagavad Gita

Recorded: September 29, 2007

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Science 1: Einstein and Bohr

Recorded: October 6, 2007

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Science 2: Einstein's Art and Bohr's Vision

Recorded: October 13, 2007

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Science 3: Never "Sci-Fi", Ever "Sci-Vi" (Science Vision)

Recorded: October 20, 2007

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Science 4: Complementarity and Relativity

Recorded: October 27, 2007

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Science 5: Women's Harmonic Science

Recorded: November 3, 2007

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Science 6: Jumping Genes and Dark Matter: Barbara McClintock and Vera Cooper Rubin

Recorded: November 10, 2007

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Science 7: Transposons and Dark Energy

Recorded: November 17, 2007

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Science 8: From Corn Mother to Cosmic Feminine

Recorded: November 24, 2007

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Science 9: Feynman, Penrose, and Hawking

Recorded: December 1, 2007

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Science 10: Path Integrals Opened Infinite

Recorded: December 8, 2007

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Science 11: Trickster, Magician, and Hero

Recorded: December 15, 2007

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Science 12: Ratios of the Real

Recorded: December 22, 2007

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Interval 8: Prajnaparamita Sutra: Ratnaguna Samcaya Gatha

Recorded: December 29, 2007

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