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In essence
learning, it is useful to interchange essence for understanding and
wisdom, Value for Quality, and Knowledge for Quantity. With this interchange
of words we maintain the essential structure of our approach while
penetrating deeper into the essential process and structure of essence
learning, which at this point may be stated as: we are in pursuit
of Value-knowledge, which leads to essences. Our pursuit continues
into ways of expressing this knowledge and essences."
Essence learning is an inward spiraling process that brings
one to deeper and more complete awareness of the
essence in experience. It is a process of progressive,
inner, reflective awareness. That is, in its application, essence
learning progressively reflects inner awareness of the "truth"
of ones experience. This inward spiraling continues until one
is capable of lifting himself or herself beyond experiences of
ordinary emotions and mentations to a point where he or she grasps
the essence and quality in the experience. This happens through
a series of repetitive steps and phases. Through essence
learning, we first acquire a total picture of the dynamics happening
in the situation surrounding us; then we elicit from ourselves
the events in the situation that are relevant. We work through,
in repetition, a series of five steps and phases that successively
spiral in on the essence in our experience. Through this progressive,
reflective awareness we are ranging in on value knowledge, which
is in one sense our capability to appreciate authentically another
human being. We become aware also of the many factors in the
situation that we heretofore did not cognize. This increases
our capability to value others for their own sake and not only
because they might have something that is useful for, or important
to, us. More importantly, we begin to discover our own essence,
without which we can never fully understand another. |
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