This book shows quantum learning is the resource that unites parts into wholes and then wholes into continually larger wholes. Just as quantum computers can regard sub-atomic particles as a wave and as particles, quantum learning can understand learners as simultaneously nondual (whole) and dual (part). The study includes a reconsideration of clarity in expression and thought
CONTENTS
FOREWORD vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xi
PART ONE
Similarities Between Quantifying Quality
and Qualifying Quantity 1
ONE Recombining Separations 3
TWO Roots of Dualism and Grounds for Holism 21
THREE Teaching as Art and Science 31
1. What I Will Not Learn from Closed Educators 39
2. Woody the Student 41
FOUR Opening Wide the Door: Nonduality 47
FIVE The Convenience of Balance and Balancing Conveniences 57
PART TWO
Reconsidering Clarity in Thought and Expression 65
SIX Consequences of the Boiled Frog Syndrome 67
SEVEN Specialization and Generalization 77
EIGHT Determining Readiness to Accept Uncertainty 89
NINE Attention and Attention Traps 93
TEN Discontinuously Continuous Learning in a Quantum Age 111
ELEVEN Focusing on Present Experience 119
TWELVE Intelligence and Humor 123
1. Expression of Present Experience 129
2. An Experience Is Worth a Thousand Pictures 134
THIRTEEN Catching Ourselves in the Act While We Are Acting 137
1. Broadness in Open, Holistic Teacher Training 145
2. Ifs and Thens about Iffing and Thenning 150
FOURTEEN Concrete Abstractions 151
1. What and Nonduality 153
2. Hermann Hesse's View of Nonduality 154
3. Ahas! And Their Ordering 157
4. Endings and New Beginnings 159
FIFTEEN Points About Points 163
1. Compelling Evidence 168
2. Something and Nothing 168
3. Learning for Understanding and Forgiveness 170
Afterword 177
Notes 179
About the Author 185
Bibliography 189
Index 191
CONTENTS
FOREWORD vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xi
PART ONE
Similarities Between Quantifying Quality
and Qualifying Quantity 1
ONE Recombining Separations 3
TWO Roots of Dualism and Grounds for Holism 21
THREE Teaching as Art and Science 31
1. What I Will Not Learn from Closed Educators 39
2. Woody the Student 41
FOUR Opening Wide the Door: Nonduality 47
FIVE The Convenience of Balance and Balancing Conveniences 57
PART TWO
Reconsidering Clarity in Thought and Expression 65
SIX Consequences of the Boiled Frog Syndrome 67
SEVEN Specialization and Generalization 77
EIGHT Determining Readiness to Accept Uncertainty 89
NINE Attention and Attention Traps 93
TEN Discontinuously Continuous Learning in a Quantum Age 111
ELEVEN Focusing on Present Experience 119
TWELVE Intelligence and Humor 123
1. Expression of Present Experience 129
2. An Experience Is Worth a Thousand Pictures 134
THIRTEEN Catching Ourselves in the Act While We Are Acting 137
1. Broadness in Open, Holistic Teacher Training 145
2. Ifs and Thens about Iffing and Thenning 150
FOURTEEN Concrete Abstractions 151
1. What and Nonduality 153
2. Hermann Hesse's View of Nonduality 154
3. Ahas! And Their Ordering 157
4. Endings and New Beginnings 159
FIFTEEN Points About Points 163
1. Compelling Evidence 168
2. Something and Nothing 168
3. Learning for Understanding and Forgiveness 170
Afterword 177
Notes 179
About the Author 185
Bibliography 189
Index 191