Welcome to the ((Global Education))™ section of ((AwakeningMind)).Org. This area of the website is devoted to educating citizens of all nationalities in the areas of Global Thought, Awareness and Dialogue.

The acheivment of this objective rests with those individuals, such as yourself, who seek to have a better understanding of the Global nature of their world and whose desire is to find better, non conflict-oriented methods for resolving inter–personal, inter–cultural and inter–national differences.

This ((Global Education)) section of the website is only beginning to come into form, largely distilled from Dr. Ashok Gangadean's 35+ years of education at Haverford College. For more information on his educational life, please visit his Haverford Professorship page on this website.

Wondering where to get started? The good news is, you already have. Just follow one of these links (also located in the upper left–hand corner of this page) and start learning about ((Awakening Your Global Mind)):

Please check back with this page regularly as updates, new online ((Distance Learning)) courses, PDFs and other educational information becomes available. Have a particular subject or area which you would like to learn about? Please email your ideas, suggestions and/or questions to Dr. Gangadean at ashok@awakeningmind.org.

((Distance Learning)) Programs

"Meditative Awakening"

 Six Intensive Sessions for Self–Awakening, Part One

The diverse meditative and spiritual teachings which have been developed and tested through the centuries all have a common objective: the awakening of the higher self, the self realization of our individual potential, the deepening of our capacity to be alive and fulfilled in the moment and the enhancement of our personal freedom and joy of life.

Over the past thirty years my primary research and teaching have been focused on cultivating a direct living encounter with diverse spiritual traditions of East and West, and the quest to uncover and tap the common source that flows through the great traditions of human liberation and self realization. One of the most important lessons of the spiritual traditions and meditative practices is that how we conduct our mind and thinking is vital in all forms of meditative awakening.

Through my years of teaching experiments I have sought to develop practical ways to encounter more effectively the spiritual powers and awakening potential of the great traditions. I have designed a series of intensive interactive sessions to assist the participants in developing the methods and skills for a more meaningful and lasting encounter with diverse spiritual traditions.

In Part One of this series I conduct six intensive introductory sessions which focus on a direct experiential encounter with the methods of personal awakening of diverse meditative teachings. These sessions are designed to augment and enhance the meditative or spiritual practices of the participant. The sessions encourage the direct participation and interaction of the participants as we work through selected diverse meditative teachings. The primary aim of the sessions is to practically experience the awakening power of these teachings, and to develop effective ways for the continuing and long–lasting future development of the participants.

The meditative awakenings focus on opening and realizing the higher powers of awareness which directly results in a heightened capacity for all dimensions of daily experience.