Landscapes For Learning

24 min Maureen and Pierre discuss spiritual traditions of solitude versus the disaffectation of anxiety and isolation.  Spiritual practices include: Jesus in the desert for 40 days.  Thoreau “On Walden Pond.”  Meditative practices.  John Francis - not talking for 17 years.  Modern disaffection include recent school shootings, which is on Maureen's mind as a former school teacher, mother, person. It’s counter-intuitive or perhaps ‘unnatural’ that there are these traditions of finding integration into society by withdrawing from society. Because we are so society bound, its not usual for a person to take up spiritual practices of solitude.  Maureen’s website:  Landscapes for Learning focuses on working out within, and the wisdom of knowing thyself.  Often finding oneself involves being with oneself outside of the complications of society.   Maureen a former school teach brings up the flip side of the coin, a disaffected person who retreats from society and ‘loses’ themselves versus finding oneself via a spiritu