FOUNDERS' PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

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background="2768dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <B>The Conscious Transformation     </B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="2768dfc3.jpg"> <bR> <div> <B>FOUNDERS' PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The following professional backgrounds are of Joseph and Sharon , the founders of the <I>Studies in Meaning</I> critical-creative thinking program, and of the Public Benefit.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="536" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 453 WIDTH="526"><div> <U>Joseph</U></div> <div> <B>Educational Background</B>: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">B.A.in philosophy at UCLA </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">M.A. completed credits in philosophy at CSULA </div> <bR> <div> <B>Profession</B>: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">educator....creator, developer and co-owner with Sharon Sguigna of <I>Studies in Meaning</I>, a critical-creative thinking program </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">former high school teacher of ethics and logic </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">writer of philosophic-wisdom </div> <bR> <div> <U>Sharon</U></div> <div> <B>Educational background</B>: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">B.A. in English Literature at CSULA </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">M.A. completed credits in English literature at CSULA </div> <bR> <div> <B>Profession</B>: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">educator...co-developer and co-owner of <I>Studies in Meaning </I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">teacher...10 years as 1st grade bilingual teacher, 6 years as a high school English teacher, and currently teaching in the Los Angeles Unified School district.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>OUR BASIC BELIEF</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Inquirer:</div> <div> I'm a little confused. Are you Christians or into New Age? </div> <bR> <div> My response:</div> <div> Thanks for your interesting, brief response; and in answer to it, I suppose I would say I'm a "wild card," inasmuch as I'm neither this nor that, except that I fit into whatever propounds the eternal truth that "the kingdom of God is within you." (Jesus; that "Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure; all things are only its manifestations." (From Buddhist literature); that "The gods are all things, and so are we. The gods are only ourselves, as we are in our moments of pure manifestation." (D.H Lawrence); that "The unconscious of man is the consciousness of God, the end of the world." (Thoreau; that "All things are eternal by their very nature." from The Upanishads); that "<I>All are but parts of one stupendous whole / Whose body Nature is and God the soul</I>." (Alexander Pope); that "<I>Limitless, undying Love, which shines around me like a millions suns / It call me on and on across the universe</I>." (John Lennon<B>)</B>;<B> </B>that "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe...a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble." (Einstein); that  "The unity I revere behind multiplicity is not a tedious, gray, intellectual, theoretical unity. It is life itself, full of play, full of sorrow, full of laughter." (Hermann Hesse); that Love is the bond of all unity (myself).</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Contact</div> <bR> <div> thepublicbenefit@roadrunner.com  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>