File 5 - 3: Metaphor and Grounding

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CJA-PTK-5

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3: Metaphor and Grounding

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  • 1992-1995 (Creation)

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1 folder

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Contents of a folder labelled '#3 Metaphor + Grounding'. The file consists mostly of correspondence from Charlene Spretnak, including:
-typescript letter on personal headed paper thanking Charles and Maggie for the hospitality and sending gifts, 1992
-manuscript letter on Grand Hôtel Jeanne-d'arc headed paper discussing plans to meet with Jonathon Porritt, 1992
-typescript letter discussing Matt [Matthew Fox], Petra [Kelly] and Gert [Bastian]; proposal for Charlene to speak to Charles' students at UCLA; proposal for future conferences [seminars] and suggestions of participants; suggests of interviewees for Charles' books on cosmology; request to delete material from their interview together on her spritual background, 1992
-typescript letter to Charles and Maggie sending cuttings and giving personal news, 1992
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, confirms meeting with Wm. Irwin Thompson (Bill) and making other arrangements to meet, 1993
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, sending a draft of an article 'Radical nonduality in ecofeminist philosophy', 1993
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, sending cuttings and referring to their visit to SF, 1993
-manuscript letter on personal headed paper, sending cuttings and making suggestions for future conferences [seminars], 1993
-manuscript letter to Charles and Maggie on personal headed paper, sending a clipping for Charles and discussing a Vipassana retreat with Maggie, 1994
-typescript fax on personal headed paper, suggesting participants for the 'Reconsidering the Post-Modern' conference [seminar], 1995
-typescript fax on personal headed paper, sent to participants of the Symposium, discussing the relevant pages of her books in relation to postmodernism, 1992

Folder also includes:
-typescript form letter from Charles, on UCLA headed paper, to particpants of the 'Portrack Seminar' in Santa Monica March 1993, giving arrival instructions, 1993
-typescript fax proposal for Santa Monica seminar titled 'How is Meaning Grounded?: implications of the embodied mind' on California Institute of Integral Studies headed paper, 1993
-photocopied newspaper articles on Petra Kelly and Gern Bastian
-programme for the Bay Area Memorial Service for Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian, 1992
-manuscript notes, post-it notes and 'while you were out' messages
-handwritten list of contract details
-blank form for Charles' AUP 289-7 The Post-Modern Breakthrough course with a table headed 'Chaos Theory - Complexity theories - Los Angeles - Religion - Feminism'
-flyer for Charlene Spretnak's 'States of Grace' book
-flyer for William Irwin Thompson's classes at California Institute of Integral Studies, 1993

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