Last night I went to a wonderful meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah which is part of Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It was a devotional gathering on the theme of life after death. The host was this extraordinary women who is a principal of a school of about 1400 students. It also coincided with …
Two nights ago I had a dream where I was going downhill in a sort of half walk, half- run trot about the speed of a camel, and as I approached the bottom a group of about 4 children around the age of 10 or 11 went racing up the hill full of energy and …
Last summer I had a dream where I was in Brazil having a lot of difficulties and then toward the end of the dream I found myself in a patch of oregon grape plants which I started eating. So, after I woke up, I immediately looked up the healing properities of oregon grape and found …
This post is primarily for Shane, my son-in-law, who is a personal trainer. He uses a lot of interesting exercise programs like intu-flow and kettlebells that can keep you fit and playing for a long time. Since Shane and I have had numerous conversations about how sport and fitness training can be combined with …
In one of my last posts I wrote about the four elements, earth, wind, fire, and water as they relate to dreams. In this post the focus is on transportation. The purpose of the four elements is to give you an indication of what kinds of qualities that you can be working on to improve …
This is something of an adventure story. You see back in the early 80s I was studying with one of the great mentors in my life, Dr. Daniel Jordan, who had created a model of education called Anisa. In the Anisa Model we believed that human beings have unlimited potentialities and that we should combine …
Baby Fiona was born today. She is the third in her family, like her grandfather. That would be me. Her parents named her Zaynab in between what people will call her and her family name. Zaynab is an historical figure in the history of the Baha’i Faith. She was a village young maiden, who during …
“One day I had a dream that a giant mutant worm tried to eat me. When I was sleeping I heard a noise outside. I went outside and couldn’t see the giant worm. It was right behind me. It tried to eat me, but when I turned back, I woke up because I was so …
I learn a great deal of life lessons by watching sports so when I stayed glued to the TV for nearly two during the Olympics, there was one moment that struck me. The finals in the men’s basketball game was between the USA and Spain. Spain played a magnificent game and made it close during …
I am just one of those persons who was born under the sign of Taurus that can get really stubborn about certain things. On the bad side I can become extremely stuck by being determined to accomplish something that is largely a waste of time like trying to change the mind of a leader. However, …
It is 8:00 am, the starting time for the track and field meet, in Shah Alam with 8 international schools, over 500 athletes. I am excited and extremely nervous. Nervous because in my head I see the judgmental eyes of my colleagues ready to pounce on my mistakes. They have always been supportive of me …
Sabah is a federal territory of Malaysia, not a state in its own right. It is like the Yukon or the how the Northwest Territories used to be in Canada. It, like Sarawak is located on the northern part of the island of Borneo which Malaysia shares with Indonesia. We arrive in Kota Kinabalu, K.K. …
I was all set to do a great unit on cooperation with my kindergarten students. They passed through some great work earlier in the semester with courage and determination and attention. It seemed so right. Then one day they came in bouncing way off the walls and the sequence of cooperative activities became a sequence …
I have a theory about parenting based upon much of the work that I have done with dreams that the issues that first children face have a great deal to do with changing the way things are in one’s family, and that the last children’s issue are designed to change the culture around them. I …
Debby and I just returned from the Singapore Baha’i Summer/Winter School in Kota Tinggi in the south of Malaysia at an eco resort called Kota Rainforest Resort. The chief organizer said you can call it winter or summer because if you know this part of the world, there is really no difference. They asked me …
During the last week or two I have several challenges in my work about getting photos taken and then downloaded for applications and printing. One of the interesting things that is happening is that the school has a very expensive camera so that events can be recorded and used in the yearbook. Recently, when I …
Last April my wife and traveled to Vietnam. So here I am in the middle of Hanoi about 9 am in the morning faced with the challenge of crossing a busy street with 2 million motorcycles and no traffic lights. This could possibly be a North American’s worst nightmare because in the U.S. pedestrians have …
Today we crossed back from Vancouver Island to the Mainland and Juliet, my daughter told me that I should write more about my methodology. In my last posting I said that I would write about guilt, but I will save that for the time being. The first principle of the method is simple. Just keep …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a Baha'i and currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Read more...
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