Putting the Self in Its Place: A Four Week Online Course
Taught by Jack Petranker
Sundays, February 23 – March 16, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Pacific
Sliding scale: $40 – $120
Online via Zoom
Because we put the self and its concerns at the center of experience, we get caught in emotions and reactions, in bias and frustration. We live uneasy lives. In this course, Jack offers a new way to cut through this frustrating way to live. It starts with a simple question: Where is the self located?
Week One: Locating the Self
For most people, most of the time, we experience ourselves as located in or around or above the eyes. We will investigate this sense of the self and the place it calls home.
Week Two: Getting Out of Our Heads
An experiential inquiry: What happens if we shift the locus of experience from the head to the throat?
Week Three: The Logic of Experience
We are bound by the logic of exists, but the logic of experience returns us to ourselves.
Week Four: The Self in Space and Time
Time bears down on us and space is indifferent to our wants and needs. But in the logic of experience, space becomes rich and meaningful, and time invites us to be free.
SPACE33 (to pay $80)
SPACE66 (to pay $40)
The sliding scale is for the purpose of economic justice, allowing those who have benefited from unjust and inequitable systems to cover a greater share of the costs of the course.
Instructor
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Jack PetrankerInstructor
Jack Petranker (he/him) is the founder of CCI and regularly offers courses and retreats. He is the author of When It Rains, Does Space Get Wet? (Dharma Publishing 2006), and has written numerous academic articles in consciousness studies, organizational change, political transformation, and the value of work as a spiritual practice. Jack holds an MA in political theory from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Yale Law School. He is also the Director of Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA.
