More chanting and music online Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish - if you know of others please let me know!

 

"O sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord all the earth. Psalm: 95:1,2


Some more chanting (and music) online can be found on these sites;

http://www.asu.edu/clubs/religiousstudies/RSSWebsite/11audioreligio.html

http://www.fssp.com/main/chant.htm

http://www.taize.fr/en_article681.html

http://www.buddhanet.net/audio-chant.htm

http://www.selfasinstrument.com/products.html?gclid=COqmjoCihokCFQEhEAodVXJ-Jg

http://www.cam.net.uk/home/nimmann/chanting/taize.htm

On Meditative singing the Taize site says;

Singing is one of the most essential elements of worship. Short songs, repeated again and again, give it a meditative character. Using just a few words they express a basic

reality of faith, quickly grasped by the mind. As the words are sung over many times, this reality gradually penetrates the whole being. Meditative singing thus becomes a

way of listening to God. It allows everyone to take part in a time of prayer together and to remain together in attentive waiting on God, without having to fix the length of time

too exactly.

To open the gates of trust in God, nothing can replace the beauty of human voices united in song. This beauty can give us a glimpse of "heaven’s joy on earth," as Eastern

Christians put it. And an inner life begins to blossom within us.

For full article see http://www.taize.fr/en_article338.html

If you know of more good sites please send them in!

SunWALK is a framework to help you articulate your model of (holistic) education & evaluate others.

My own work, using the SunWALK framework suggests

a spiritualizing (or humanizing) pedagogy of human education as:

the storied development of meaning, which is constructed, and de-constructed, physically

mentally and spiritually, through

Wise & Willing Action, via Loving and Knowing – developed in Community, through

the ‘Dialectical Spiritualization’ of Caring,

Creativity & Criticality processes, all undertaken in the light of the ‘Sun’ of chosen

higher-order values and beliefs, using best

available, appropriate content.

SEE http://www.sunwalk.org.uk/_sgg/mu_1.htm

What then is the real difference between the 'holistically minded teacher/practitioner'

and the 'non holistically-minded teacher/practitioner'?

After thinking about this for the last 14 years my best answer to date is that;

the holistically minded practitioner is trying to do each particular thing, theoretical and practical,

with consciousness of connections with, and between, all pertinent contexts - environmental

context, social justice context etc. - right up to and including some sense of the Whole.

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