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The Learning Edge: AConversation with Chris Mercogliano and Steven Harrison

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This recording is a frank and fascinating conversation between Chris Mercogliano and Steven Harrison, two inspiring visionaries in the alternative education field. Chris was a teacher at the Albany Free School for 35 years and has been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." In this dialog, he shares his experiences teaching at The Albany Free School and discusses some of the topics explored in his newest book, In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness .  Steven Harrison is one of the founders of The Living School in Boulder , Colorado and author several books including The Happy Child: Changing the Heart of Education.

The dialog is followed by an interview with Chris Mercogliano by Connie Shaw.

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• Dialogue with Steven Harrison at the Living School

• An Edited Excerpt of the "Risk of Creativity"

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There are a variety of recordings of education talks at The Living School: Click here

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Swiss Radio Program on Steven Harrison in German and English: http://www.hoermal.ch/hoermal/website/auf_ohr/sendungen/2007/2007_04/2007_04_08.html (click at <hören> ) Interview and commentary by Regula Siegfried in Berne, Switzerland along with material that was recorded from the Berne talk, readings from books, an interview with Francesco Muzio of the Berne dialogue group.

Nichts tun. Einssein. Allein diese beiden Titel zweier Bücher von Steven Harrison lassen aufhorchen. Von Grund auf versucht der amerikanische Extrem-Mystiker unsere festgefahrenen Denkstrukturen zu hinterfragen – und ist dabei so beharrlich dekonstruktiv, dass es manchen dabei buchstäblich die Sprache verschlägt. Regula Siegfried hat sich aufgemacht, Steven Harrison und seiner merkwürdigen Post-Spiritualität auf die Spur zu kommen. http://www.hoermal.ch/hoermal/website/auf_ohr/sendungen/2007/2007_04/2007_04_08.html

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A Conversation with Steven Harrison: Paradox, Illusion and the Post-Spiritual Inquiry

"Its hard to say what you believe in if your life is a series of questions. You could say you believe in the inquiry."
—Steven Harrison

In 2007, over the course of several days, Steven Harrison and Martin Frischknecht engaged in a lively conversation exploring a wide variety of subjects, including:

• the chaos of the unknown
• the paradox of the actual and conceptual
• the movement of creative energy
• the toxicity of the spiritual marketplace
• the dynamics of dialog groups

Many far-reaching questions were raised and explored, including:

• Can we step out of the security of what is already known to us to discover something that is more vital and alive?
• How do we move beyond self-created boundaries?
• Can we really address the problems in our lives by separating from our lives in retreats and workshops?
• Why are we all hiding from each other? What is it that would happen if we actually showed up as we were? Can we reveal our true intentions and who we really are to others?
• Why is the idea that "I create the world" so popular? Is it true?
• Is our spiritual insight also a burden?
• How can we open to what is next?

This recording is an excellent introduction to Steven Harrison, but will also be of great interest to anyone already familiar with his books and dialog groups.

Martin Frischknecht is editor-in-chief and publisher of SPUREN, a German language spiritual magazine in Switzerland, and a translator and publisher of books under the Edition Spuren imprint.  He was a long time spiritual seeker until he encountered Harrison's groundbreaking book Doing Nothing.  Edition Spuren publishes all of Steven Harrison's books in German.


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The Risk of Creativity: A Dialog in Amsterdam with Steven Harrison

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In this weekend-long dialog, recorded live in Amsterdam, Steven Harrison presents a clear choice: We can live in our ideas about life, or we can live in the powerful energy of life itself. Harrison encourages us to take the risk of creativity and investigates how we can expand our capacity to live in life's dynamic energy, where we have the possibility to create anything.

He raises and explores surprising questions, such as: Is spirituality alive and relevant? Is there any power in "now"? What generates our existence? Harrison's perspective is unlike any you have heard. The Risk of Creativity is a radical invitation to claim the true power in your life, found in the expression of your own deepest feelings. You will come away with a new understanding of how to be fully alive.

Self-Deception and the Fires of Transformation Dialogues With Steven Harrison

(4 audio CD set 4 hrs. 56 min.) To order, visit Sentient Publications . (Note that the sound quality, unlike the content on this recording is not always good)

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Self-Deception and the Fires of Transformation is the distillation of a six-week series of dialogues with Steven Harrison. Harrison guides the participants through a journey of intense self-inquiry with his radical honesty and potent eloquence. Listening to these dialogues, you cannot help but be drawn into your own passion for deep understanding of the questions that illuminate your life.

Topics include:

• The Spiritual Search and the Postspiritual Reality
• The Collapse of Thought
• Self-Concept and the Denial of Death
• Sublime Confusion: What Can We Truly Know?
• Surrender, Faith, and the Life of the Heart
• The Role of Pain in Transformation
• Personal and Impersonal Relationships
• The Risk of Creativity and Full Expression
• Love and Fear
• The Only One True Action

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Are We Aware Yet?

70 minutes

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If you were unable to make it to the Inner Directions 2003 Gathering, "Opening the Heart," in La Jolla, California, you can still hear Steven Harrison's talk and dialogue with participants. Listening to the tape of the event, you can take part in this inquiry into actuality. You will have the opportunity to consider a number of vital questions, including these:

• Can we make contact with the actual?
• What do we find we truly want when we make the deepest contact with ourselves?
• Can we let go even of consciousness?

This is a tape filled with humor, profound inquiry, and honest self-examination that will give you much to ponder.

"How is it that we can even make consciousness into another idea? So what I am going to ask you to do today is to consider—just consider—giving it all up. Can you give up not just the sense of self and all the qualities of ego that we have cataloged so clearly in all our years of spirituality, but give up consciousness, the Holy Grail? This is to give up spirituality with all its qualities, to give up all your experiences." -—from Are We Aware Yet?

Beyond Consciousness: Ordinary Spirituality

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Tape 1: "Giving Up On Improvement" What does it mean to abandon any hope of improvement and surrender to the actuality of our life? If we create a new spiritual ideal that suggests being “in the moment” will give us peace, what do we do with our conflict and unhappiness? In exhausting all concepts of spirituality we are left with a dynamic movement that is beyond consciousness and yet embedded in our ordinary life. (90 min.)

Tape 2: "What Is Your Heart's Desire?" This dialogue investigates the limitations of experiences of all kinds as the basis for understanding. In asking the question, “What do I really want?” the individual sees both the drive for “good” experiences and the rejection of “bad” experiences. This opens the possibility of discovering a deep desire that has nothing to do with any particular state of mind. (90 min.)

The Moment of Discovery: Dialogues with Steven Harrison

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Includes the following:

"What Do I Do With My Life?" Recorded during the Thursday Evening Talks in Boulder in 1998, the tape contains explorations of living without a perspective and presents a dynamic and wide ranging discussion of what to do about our lives and what to do with our lives; if you had only one question to ask God, what would it be; bringing papayas to the oracle, free will or can life be contained by predetemination and many other topics.

"Discovering the Dynamic Question" In this recording from a morning dialogue in Boulder, Colorado in May, 2000 the discussion ranges over many topics from the profound recognition of the unknown we come to in understanding the limitations of thought to the relationship of consciousness, thought and intelligence.

"The End of Effort, Discovering Transformative Energy" In this challenging dialogue with Steven Harrison in which the discussion begins with the "nothing that we've all been hearing about." Soon it is discovered that there is something very interesting about nothing. Are we using nothingness as a state to relieve our stress? Do we spend our lives sorting likes and dislikes? Is there an animating energy when we live without a reference? What is the human potential and how do we live it in our day-to-day lives? Will we live it? The nature of virtual spirituality, self-deception, the insignificance of our stories and other topics are investigated in this 90 minute tape recorded during a morning dialogue in Boulder.