Podcasts about white cloud press

Podcast: This week on the show, we present a telephone conversation with Barbara Du Bois. Barbara Du Bois, Ph.D., longtime teacher of Buddhadharma, is known for the clarity, freshness, humor, and fearless love with which she shines a frank Western light on the path. Her principal gurus are Padmasambhava, Milarepa, Machig, H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche, and H.E. Garchen Rinpoche. Barbara's lifetime of service includes work with disarmament, African refugees from colonial regimes and genocide, United Nations social development, feminist scholarship and teaching, and initiating an indigenous women's peace movement during active civil war in Africa. She holds the doctorate from Harvard University and has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels as social scientist, psychologist, and psychotherapist. Barbara is also a visual artist and author of Light Years: A Spiritual Memoir (Laughing Vajra, 2011) and the newly published Brave, Generous, & Undefended: Heart Teachings on the 37 Bodhisattva Practices. She currently resides in Arizona. More information about Barbara Du Bois' work can be found at: Barabara Du Bois at White Cloud Press: www.whitecloudpress.com, Brave, Generous & Undefended at the Garchen Store: www.garchen.store, Light Years on Amazon: www.amazon.com.

Shaw helps us get acquainted with the kinds of folktales and myths that can be helpful in navigating these turbulent times. He says, “They are always trying to dig into the mud of the encounter with the notion that possibly there's a little bit of gold in there. There's some information that, over time, could turn into wisdom.”  Martin Shaw, Ph.D. is a scholar of myth and an acclaimed storyteller. He's a wilderness rites-of-passage guide and is internationally regarded as one of the most exciting proponents of the mythic imagination. He tells "prophetic stories" that speak deeply to the challenges we face today, in the world and in our personal lives. He has devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University, is a visiting fellow at Shumacher College, and the Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, a learning community in Dartmoor in the far west of the United Kingdom. His books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016), The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come (Cista Mystica Press 2019) and Courting the Wild Twin (Chelsea Green Publishing 2020) Interview Date: 4/23/2020       Tags: Martin Shaw, The Odyssey, transcending, underworld, depression, despair, Percival, Grail King, The Lindworm story, alchemy, Gioia Timpanelli, Robert Bly, educated heart, James Hillman, Gaston Bachelard, Hermes, Arts & Creativity, Personal Transformation, Mythology, Philosophy

Martin Shaw, Ph.D. is a storyteller and mythologist. He's a wilderness rites-of-passage guide and is internationally regarded as one of the most exciting proponents of the mythic imagination. He tells "prophetic stories" that speak deeply to the challenges we face today, in the world and in our personal lives. He has devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University, is a visiting fellow at Shumacher College, and the Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, a learning community in Dartmoor in the far west of the United Kingdom. Hs books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016), The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come (Cista Mystica Press 2019), Courting the Wild Twin (Chelsea Green Publishing 2020)Interview Date: 4/23/2020         Tags: Martin Shaw, our wild twin, Robert Bly, Questing Beast, Poets, The Lindworm story, Tatterhood story, fairy tales, desire, Hermes, listening, multitasking, Danny Deardorff, initiation, William Blake, storytelling, coronavirus, lock down, staying in place, Rumi, Lorca, duende, Arts & Creativity, Mythology, Writing, Soul

Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founding Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Caucus, where she is working nationally and internationally with grassroots leaders, policy-makers, business people and scientists to promote resilient communities and foster a post-carbon energy future, while also addressing societal transformation. She is an advisor to the International Eco-Cities Framework and Standards Initiative; an international advocate for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; and has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. In addition to her advocacy work, she is a bronze sculptor and author. She is the author of Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature (White Cloud Press 2010) (Winner of 2011 Nautilus Book Award)Interview Date: 1/11/2012       Tags: mp3 Osprey Orielle Lake, water,climate change, nature, Ecology/Nature/Environment

Lake offers a frank inquiry into the causes leading to our current global peril and provides a deep well of hope and profound insight. She regales us with many stories of her adventures in nature including taking inner city young people to the desert where, for the first time in their lives, they experienced the full measure of the night sky filled with stars. She is the author of Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature (White Cloud Press 2010) Interview Date: 1/11/2012        Tags: Osprey Orielle Lake, water, climate, change, new narrative, new story, television, TV, nature, stars, deep ecology, children, vision quest, fracking, Thomas Paine, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Indigenous Wisdom, Social Change/Politics

Here we climb the attic steps and kneel before an old trunk, lift the lid and allow ancient tales to rush out and pierce our hearts and souls with their wisdom. Our guide in this quest is Martin Shaw who invites us to look at folktales not as therapy, not as giving advice but as tributaries that lead us to the bigger river of essential truths that nourish our lives.His books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016) and The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come, (Cista Mystica Press 2019). Interview Date: 6/4/2019        Tags: MP3, Martin Shaw, Captain Beefheart, Robert Bly, Odyssey, Ulysses, Nostos (returning home), longing, Psyche and Eros, Medusa, Charles Eisenstein, Mythology, Philosophy

Here we climb the attic steps and kneel before an old trunk, lift the lid and allow ancient tales to rush out and pierce our hearts and souls with their wisdom. Our guide in this quest is Martin Shaw who invites us to look at folktales not as therapy, not as giving advice but as tributaries that lead us to the bigger river of essential truths that nourish our lives.His books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016) and The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come, (Cista Mystica Press 2019). Interview Date: 6/4/2019 Tags: MP3, Martin Shaw, Captain Beefheart, Robert Bly, Odyssey, Ulysses, Nostos (returning home), longing, Psyche and Eros, Medusa, Charles Eisenstein, Mythology, Philosophy

Martin Shaw, Ph.D. is a storyteller and mythologist. He's a wilderness rites-of-passage guide and is internationally regarded as one of the most exciting proponents of the mythic imagination. He tells “prophetic stories” that speak deeply to the challenges we face today, in the world and in our personal lives. He has devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University, is a visiting fellow at Schumacher College, and the Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, a Learning community in Dartmoor in the far west of the United Kingdom. His books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016), The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come, (Cista Mystica Press 2019).Interview Date: 6/4/2019       Tags: MP3, Martin Shaw, fairytales, folk tales, monsters, Beowulf, Lindworm, feral, Siberian tale, underworld, naïveté, Baba Yaga, decent, underworld, Robert Bly, efficient initiation rites, grief, innocence, experience, rite of passage, self esteem,  Mythology, Philosophy, Personal Transformation

This 23-year-old trucker was sick with worry when his beloved cat co-pilot went missing – but incredibly, an obscure online forum helped to reunite them within 24 hours. Hear our Good News Guru tell the miracle story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the May 31, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE the video and full story on GNN...  Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press!     

Eve Wiley, originally from a small rural town in East, Texas, uncovered a life changing family secret about her genetic identity. Becoming a modern day Erin Brockovich, she found purpose for her pain by single handedly lobbying for a fertility fraud bill that passed the Texas House and Senate unanimously and exposed the dark side of the grossly unregulated fertility industry. Eve’s story, documented by ABC’s 20/20, thrust her into an advocacy role for donor conceived rights and women’s reproductive rights. As a licensed professional counselor, she is passionate about the mental health implications of genetic identity family secrets that commercial DNA testing is revealing. Tune in as Eve chats with Ellen and Jennifer about: -When and how she found out she was donor conceived (yes…this included snooping through her mother’s email ya’ll) -How the confrontation with her mother went after she found out she was donor conceived -Finding Steve, who she thought was her biological father and how she reached out to him -Their first meeting and how their relationship progressed — including her mom first meeting Steve! -What it was like meeting Steve’s “social children” and his wife -How she found her two half-brothers and how this ended up with her telling one of them he was donor-conceived -Finding out Steve was not indeed her biological father but rather her mother’s doctor was -The draft of the letter she wrote to her mother’s doctor that explained how he was her biological father and his smoke and mirrors response -What she did in response to this gigantic debacle — like helping to create a law to stop other doctors doing this in the future — yeah NBD -Her advice to other donor conceived offspring And don’t go away because we have a bonus episode. Steven Scholl is an independent scholar of Islam and comparative religion. He has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East after doing his graduate studies in Islamic philosophy and history at McGill University. Steve is the founding publisher of White Cloud Press and is the editor of several books including "The Peace Bible:  Words from the Great Traditions" and "Common Era: Best New Writings on Religion." He writes on religion and culture for newspapers and magazines and is a contributor to the "Encyclopedia of Religion" (ed. by Mircea Eliade). His new book is “Muhammad,” co-written with Sam Deeb. Steve, the person Eve believed was her father, chimes in with his side of the story and discusses: -How he got into sperm donation — it involved a poster on a pole — yep…a side hustle for pocket cash -Whether he thought through the ramifications of donating sperm — hint…nope -His thoughts 13 years later when he got the phone call from the sperm bank asking him to update his records and then the email that he got that Eve was looking for him -How his wife did a 180 regarding his relationship with Eve, his thought-to-be donor conceived daughter -How his children responded when they found out about Eve -His feelings when Eve called to say he wasn’t her dad after all -Whether he has a relationship with his other donor-conceived children Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com
Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawfirm.com

Eddie struggled with his 5 siblings and single mom in a homeless shelter. Never did he dream of being on stage as the lead cellist in an orchestra. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the May 24, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE the video and full story on GNN...  Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press!     

Despite a tiny high school budget, students did such a realistic job bringing the film ALIEN to life that Hollywood showed up to see it, and Ridley Scott sent money. Hear our Good News Guru tell the fun story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the May 3, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE video and the full story on GNN...  Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

We should all have such a hobby we love to practice as passionately as the one that Dion does. He is even willing to give up a prosthetic leg to do so. Hear our Good News Guru tell the fun story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the April 26, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE video and the full story on GNN...  Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Here’s a fun origin story about the all-night party that preceded the first modern bungee jump using a device invented by Oxford students... Hear our Good News Guru tell the fun story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the April 19, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE photos and read the full story on GNN... (Photo by SWNS) Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Keanu Reeves became the perfect travel companion when a plane was forced to land 2 hours away from its destination with dozens of passengers stranded in Bakersfield. Hear our Good News Guru tell the fun story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the April 12, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE the Video and full story on GNN... Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Not only was the mini-fridge a perfect reward for their hard labor, the guys became almost folk heroes and learned the history of the ‘Little Appliance That Could’. Hear our Good News Guru tell the fun story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the March 29, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE the full story and more pics on GNN... Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

This third grade homeless student has only played chess for a little more a year, since fleeing Africa as a refuge – but he is already breaking tournament records with his victories. Hear our Good News Guru tell the heartwarming tale on the radio in Los Angeles—during the March 22, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  WATCH the video or read the full story at GNN... Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

A tenacious stray dog may have just set a world record for the highest elevation ever reached by a canine – and it also resulted in a loving new home. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the March 15, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  SEE Full Story with more pics at GNN... Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. (Photo by Don Wargowsky, Facebook) Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

A caring veteran, Stefan DeArno, has moved out of the homeless shelter thanks to his charm, love of cooking, and a fortunate accident he made in a restaurant kitchen. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the March 8, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  WATCH the video or read the full story on GNN… Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Pete has never stopped repaying an animal shelter who kindly took in Buster during their bout with homeless—and strangers rewarded him mightily for his integrity. Hear our Good News Guru tell the heartwarming tale on the radio in Los Angeles—during the March 1, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  WATCH the video or read the full story on GNN… Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

No one imagined a malnourished mutt would go from sifting through trash to being adored on the silver screen with millions of new fans. Hear our Good News Guru tell the heartwarming tale on the radio in Los Angeles—during the February 22, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  WATCH the video or read it on GNN... Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Devoted Irish hockey teams will soon have a place to skate thanks to a very famous Canadian hockey fan on the other side of the pond. Hear our Good News Guru tell the fun story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the February 15, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  READ the full story on GNN... Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Instead of being angry at his son's bully, this man approached the boy with compassion – and now, they are all enjoying the wonderful results. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the February 8, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  READ more or WATCH the video on GNN. Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

This rock idol didn’t hesitate to hop aboard his private jet and fly first to Trinidad, then 6000 miles to Syria, to reunite a two siblings with their mother. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the February 1, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  READ more or WATCH the video on GNN. Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press!  (File photo by Alterna2, CC)

After a 24-year-old woman was discharged from the hospital at 4:00 in the morning, the Lyft driver who picked her up restored something she thought might be gone forever—her hope. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the January 25, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  READ the full story on GNN. Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. (Photo by Sean Carter) Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

Auburn Sandstrom was desperate and in dire straits when she made a phone call to an unlikely person who—in a sudden plot twist—would change her life. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the January 18, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5.  HEAR Auburn tell the incredible story from MOTH on GNN. Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean. (Photo by Sean Carter) Also, Check Out Our Little Paperback Book of Good News—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press! 

A man was stuck in airport security lines and no one cared that he would be forced to miss his grandson’s funeral—except the employees at this airline, who delivered the most incredible customer service... Hear The Good News Guru tell the amazing story (from our 50th episode on the radio in Los Angeles—the January 11, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5).  Check Out Our Little Paperback Book—Buy on Amazon or White Cloud Press!  Subscribe to our Good News podcast on iTunes, or for Android devices on Podbean.

Guest Info/Bio: This week we kick off our series on religious pluralism with the incredible Sumbul bol Ali-Karmali! Sumbul grew up in Southern California in an ethnically Asian Family. She earned her undergraduate degree in English, with Distinction, from Stanford University. After working as an editor in a publishing company, she attended law school and graduated with her J.D. from the University of California Davis. She practiced corporate law in San Francisco for several years. Although always a practicing Muslim, Sumbul began the formal study of Islam when she attended the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She graduated from SOAS with her L.L.M. in Islamic Law, with Distinction. She has taught Islamic law as a teaching assistant at the University of London, worked as a research associate at the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law in London, and lectured on Islam and Islamic law. She has had many articles published, both in mainstream news publications and legal journals. Her first book, an accessible yet scholarly, anecdote-filled introduction to Islam and Islamic law written for the lay reader, was published by White Cloud Press in September of 2008 and is called The Muslim Next Door: the Qur’an, the Media, and that Veil Thing. Sumbul is currently spending her time on speaking engagements, radio and television interviews, writing, raising her two children, and volunteering her time to various causes. She serves on the board of trustees of a nonprofit educational institution that teaches multicultural education and environmental education to children and youth. She also serves on the steering committee of Women in Islamic Spirituality and Equality (WISE), an initiative dedicated to mobilizing a movement for social justice. Guest (Selected) Published Works: “The Muslim Next Door: The Qur’an, the Media, and That Veil Thing” and “Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam.” Guest Links: www.themuslimnextdoor.com Special Music by: Birdtalker www.birdtalkermusic.com Twitter: @birdtalkermusic Instagram: @birdtalkermusic Facebook: @birdtalkermusic Enjoy the songs? Songs featured on this episode were: “Want, Heavy, Just This, & Blue Healer” from the Just This E.P. and the single “My Lover.” You can find Birdtalker’s music on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, and anywhere good music is sold. The Deconstructionist’s Podcast is mixed and edited by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat, located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on Facebook and Twitter or visit their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsociety Twitter: @napsrecording Donation: If you’re digging what we’re doing here consider making a small donation. Maintaining a podcast isn’t cheap and every dollar donated helps us to keep this thing going. Money donated goes to helping to purchase research materials, maintenance of the website, storage of episodes, etc. Click the link below to donate: Htps://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Brand new unisex T-Shirts now available! Pint glasses available now in 3 cool packages! https://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Find us on social media! If you enjoy our show consider leaving us a nice 5 star review on iTunes. It helps new people find us! www.thedeconstructionists.com Twitter: @deconstructcast Facebook: deconstructionistsanonymous Instagram: deconstructionistspodcast Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Host: Catherine VanWetter Spiritual /shamanic practitioner focusing in the area of highly sensitive people. giftsofsensitivity.com Guest:Toni Gilbert, RN(ret), MA, ATC  www.tonigilbert.com We find archetypal symbols in our imagination, dreams, fantasies, and in the world of the arts, myth, legend, literature, and religion. Toni describes the characteristics of the archetypes so that the listener can begin to see and use them in personal growth and healing. Toni Gilbert, RN (ret), MA, ATC is a transpersonal counselor with a background in holistic nursing. As a professional with a formal education in nursing, art, psychology, and transpersonal studies, she offers clients an array of healing arts techniques to enhance wellness and prevent illness. She was the editor of the online magazine, Alternative Journal of Nursing and the founding director of the Oregon Holistic Nurses Association. Toni is the author of Messages from the Archetypes: Using Tarot for Healing and Spiritual Growth, published by White Cloud Press, Gaining Archetypal Vision: A Guidebook for Using Archetypes in Personal Growth and Healing by Schiffer Books and Images of Our Time: A history and pictures of a pioneer family. She has written for national and local publication and was a guest on multiple radio interviews. You may see her published articles and listen to her radio interviews on her personal web site www.tonigilbert.com Gift for listeners: 15 minute one Tarot card session. E-mail Toni through her web site to begin the process.

Interest in the structure of the Qur’an has its beginnings in the ninthcentury CE with Muslim scholars. Since that time, Muslim and Western scholars have debated the coherence of the Qur’an’s structure. Raymond Farrin, professor of Arabic at the American University of Kuwait, opens his newest book, Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation:A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text (White Cloud Press, 2014) with a historical synopsis of the views adopted by the two primary camps regarding the structure of the Qur’an and the development of the study of the Qur’an’s constitution. Following in the footsteps of Muslim scholars and Western scholars of Islam who acknowledged and demonstrated patterns of connectivity between verses and chapters, Farrin argues that the entirety of Qur’an is organized according to three common patterns of symmetry: parallelism, chiasm, and, the most ubiquitous of three, concentrism. As the reader moves form chapter to chapter, Professor Farrin explores how these patterns of symmetry are found in the individual chapters, chapter pairs, groupings of chapters, systems of chapters, and then the entire corpus. This structural analysis provides Farrin the opportunity to explore the overall connectivity of messages throughout the Qur’an. Accompany this study, Farrin provides multiple appendixes providing structural analysis of selected chapters, a complete listing of chapter pairs and groups, a “Reading Group Guide” of revelations mentioning prophets, and a chronological listing of chapters based on the work of Nöldeke. Professor Farrin’s work is a significant contribution to the field. It is of great value to scholars of Islam but written in terms accessible to all interested in exploring the Qur’an. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interest in the structure of the Qur’an has its beginnings in the ninthcentury CE with Muslim scholars. Since that time, Muslim and Western scholars have debated the coherence of the Qur’an’s structure. Raymond Farrin, professor of Arabic at the American University of Kuwait, opens his newest book, Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation:A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text (White Cloud Press, 2014) with a historical synopsis of the views adopted by the two primary camps regarding the structure of the Qur’an and the development of the study of the Qur’an’s constitution. Following in the footsteps of Muslim scholars and Western scholars of Islam who acknowledged and demonstrated patterns of connectivity between verses and chapters, Farrin argues that the entirety of Qur’an is organized according to three common patterns of symmetry: parallelism, chiasm, and, the most ubiquitous of three, concentrism. As the reader moves form chapter to chapter, Professor Farrin explores how these patterns of symmetry are found in the individual chapters, chapter pairs, groupings of chapters, systems of chapters, and then the entire corpus. This structural analysis provides Farrin the opportunity to explore the overall connectivity of messages throughout the Qur’an. Accompany this study, Farrin provides multiple appendixes providing structural analysis of selected chapters, a complete listing of chapter pairs and groups, a “Reading Group Guide” of revelations mentioning prophets, and a chronological listing of chapters based on the work of Nöldeke. Professor Farrin’s work is a significant contribution to the field. It is of great value to scholars of Islam but written in terms accessible to all interested in exploring the Qur’an. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interest in the structure of the Qur’an has its beginnings in the ninthcentury CE with Muslim scholars. Since that time, Muslim and Western scholars have debated the coherence of the Qur’an’s structure. Raymond Farrin, professor of Arabic at the American University of Kuwait, opens his newest book, Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation:A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text (White Cloud Press, 2014) with a historical synopsis of the views adopted by the two primary camps regarding the structure of the Qur’an and the development of the study of the Qur’an’s constitution. Following in the footsteps of Muslim scholars and Western scholars of Islam who acknowledged and demonstrated patterns of connectivity between verses and chapters, Farrin argues that the entirety of Qur’an is organized according to three common patterns of symmetry: parallelism, chiasm, and, the most ubiquitous of three, concentrism. As the reader moves form chapter to chapter, Professor Farrin explores how these patterns of symmetry are found in the individual chapters, chapter pairs, groupings of chapters, systems of chapters, and then the entire corpus. This structural analysis provides Farrin the opportunity to explore the overall connectivity of messages throughout the Qur’an. Accompany this study, Farrin provides multiple appendixes providing structural analysis of selected chapters, a complete listing of chapter pairs and groups, a “Reading Group Guide” of revelations mentioning prophets, and a chronological listing of chapters based on the work of Nöldeke. Professor Farrin’s work is a significant contribution to the field. It is of great value to scholars of Islam but written in terms accessible to all interested in exploring the Qur’an. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Martin Shaw is a mythologist, storyteller and award winning wilderness Rites-of-Passage guide. Author of 'A BRANCH FROM THE LIGHTNING TREE: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness (June 2011 White Cloud Press), he works internationally and is visiting lecturer on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Leadership Programme at Templeton College, Oxford. Director of the Westcountry School of Myth and Story he has a weekly blogspot at http://www.theschoolofmyth.blogspot.com/. See also www.schoolofmyth.com.