Bøger af George Campbell Hage

Substance of the BookbyGeorge HageThis book presents a professional autobiography of the author as a professional counselor serving multicultural clients, ages 12-25 years. The therapeutic approach is that of the counselor as artist-mentor and the client personality as artist-canvas. Fundamentally, the client personality as artist and canvas is guided into seeing self as creating and being created. Unfolding in this creative process is the remaking and making of the composition of personality, which is likened to a composition and portrait of balance, equilibrium and wholeness. Analogies applied are derived from the principles of design, music, poetry and written composition. The balance and equilibrium attained in composition are reflective of the wholeness and self-actualization of the client personality. The client thusly becomes the work of art and artist. Through interaction with the counselor, the client interreflects with the traits of self-mastery of the counselor. Among these traits are self-reflection, self-awareness, self-management and self-direction. The client, through the process of self-actualization, cultivates the knowledge of the personality while applying it as a palate to the canvas of self. In this manner, the client is empowered to create a personality that is unique, whole and balanced. At the base of client personality lies the client autobiography. Autobiography provides the paradigm for the uniqueness of personality and the means of mentoring and empowering the client. Taken into consideration are the following: culture, education, family, nationality, religion, spirituality, gifts, talents, interests, desires, achievements, struggles, weaknesses and strengths. Interreflectively, such characteristics lie at the base of artists, musicians, writers, and designers and counselors. Another metaphor applied to the counselor is that of pedagogue from its ancient Greek and Roman understanding. This is not in the contemporary sense of the teacher who is considered as imparting knowledge and skills to the learner. Rather the pedagogue cared for and taught the total person from childhood through early adulthood. Such is the counselor as mentor and guide. This person fosters the nature of the client with the power of creativity, as creativity is of the essence of the human beingness of the person. This assumption lies at the base of this book: "In the beginning God created...," "God made Adam in his image and likeness," and "God breathes into Adam ruach, the Spirit wind of his life and Adam becomes a living life" [Italics mine] (Genesis 1:1, 26-27; 2:7). As God enters into and with the human being in creative relationship, initiating and fostering the livingness of creative life, the counselor as artist and mentor enters into this same creative process. In process, as God and humankind fellow share in the dynamic spiritual living of creativity, so counselor and client inter-reflect with this same dynamic. This terminus becomes manifested in the esthetic of self-actualization, wholeness, balance and creativity.

Through my life, I have sought the mystery of wisdom. Mystery includes that which is unseen and unfelt yet existing within person and being. Respectively, the poetry herein reflects the meditative exploration of my soul and person as related to my experience with world and knowledge. This book is divided into six chapters demonstrating personal reflections on my Life as I have encountered it. In writing in the genre of poetry, I am striving to express experiential knowledge through the heart as the heart is the seat of wisdom in the human soul. Through continual thinking in the heart, a person can penetrate the mystery of cosmic being. This has been my striving since my youth.From The PublisherIt is with great pleasure One Spirit Press has published this book of poetry.It is a stirring account of a soul seeking to know and understand the tides of time and existence. An ontological and Christian approach to life plays out in the poetry in such a manner that the words belong to whom ever should read it. Our hope is that this work will stir you to explore your personal connection to the existence we all share

Reconciliation contains a complete Index including names and phrases as well as an extensive bibliography. The principle thesis is based on the tension of conflict as the driving force behind human behavior and culture. The human being finds the self in conflict with self, context and other. In the midst of conflict, he or she strives to find meaning by making sense out of encountered nonsense. Finding entrapment in the apparent chaos of antitheses the psyche becomes challenged and motivated to the creative acts of power. Reconciliation involves the approach of finding unity in differences rather than seeing then as antithetical. Rather than alienating, the psyche sees the other not as a stranger or enemy, but as an opportunity to learn and grow. This so-called other of enmity and estrangement principally appears as stimulus and stimuli of the opposing other in conflict. Nevertheless, this experience provides the gateway to learning, growth and maturation. At the same time, this experience provides the provocation to meaning through creativity, the substantial power in humankind that drives the psyche to the shaping of self and world as a unique composition of being. It presents the psyche and personality as the developmental ego in the struggle toward individuation and self-actualization. It strives for a harmony of self with being as well as a harmony of psychological learning theories. It advocates the high value of self-directedness in learning and maturation.Overall, this piece presents the shaping of psyche and society through an education and counseling that is ontological, wholistic, individuating, and self-actualization. It calls for the generation of the self-directed learner as the positively self-directed person who brings about a society as self-directed communion.

This study is being republished; as the saying goes, "it's sitting on musty university book shelves." Hence, its message is minimally read due to its inaccessibility to others. In fact, its content has been the impetus of my philosophy, world-view, and professional life by providing effective theoretical approaches to counseling, teaching, and ministry. The title suggests a two-fold approach involving an analysis and synthesis of culture. Through Levi-Straus' structuralism and that of Mary Douglas through the Book of Leviticus, the implicit domain of American culture and education is deduced. Demonstrated are the hierarchical value and belief structures driving culture and curriculum through the dialectic of purity and impurity as danger. This heart of Mosaic Law which Douglas saw working in her cultures of study is applied with Max Weber's analysis of the Protestant Ethos. In turn, this is applied to Puritan colonial America and its emergent education and curricular culture. The inversion of this model via industrial secularism resulted in the breaking down of culture and education into specializations and disciplines reflected in classroom, graded, and curricular structure. Resultantly, the identity of the person was lost in a cultural values conflict of aspects of mind and body, self, and being with the emergent non-self ever seeking identity external to self and person. This essential analysis divulges the pyramid with its many antithetical levels of purity and impurity energized by hierarchical levels of dominant and subordinate power demonstrated among them. Conversely, the synthesis posits this pyramidal resolution through the indigenous circle. Geometrically, implicit to the pyramid is the circle and the pyramid the circle. Suggested are the spinning circles of the uroboros and the Native American medicine wheel. The spinning nature of the circle as wheel brings opposites into harmony and synchronization.