By Andy Douglas
A new book has been published by NHCA faculty member Andy Douglas. “Songs of the New Dawn: Selected Song-poems of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar” offers fresh, literary translations of 90 of the 5000 songs written by Neohumanist founder Shrii P. R. Sarkar, framing them as works of poetry. Douglas has worked to capture some of the magic and mystery, the literary depth, and the love-energy of the original Bengali, in English. The book also features twenty full-page illustrations by artist Kindle Corwell, depicting subtle aspects of the poems, bringing out their beauty even more. This book can serve as a way to introduce people to the richness of Neohumanist philosophy, and to Sarkar as a mystical poet.
All profits from the sale of this book will go to support Neohumanistic projects. The book is available on Amazon, but to direct your money more to these projects and less to a big corporation, order directly by writing to . The book retails for $16.
The young plants of today
Will one day blanket the desert
With their fruits, flowers, and green leaves.
The call of love demands that we preserve them. We’ll protect you from storm and fire, Drought and disease.
We’re here for you, little trees.
I want to see the arid earth rise
In deep green freshness,
The thirst of the wilderness quenched.
I want to see every desert lush with beauty.
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Neohumanist Educator, Niiti Gannon, contributes to new book
The Global Healing Curriculum Project
Nancy Niiti Gannon, serves on the Neohumanist College of Asheville board and has been a Neohumanist educator since NHE’s inception by Shrii PR Sarkar. She recently had three of her curriculum activities included in a new book, The Global Healing Curriculum Project*, which has twenty-six intergenerational learning activities in the branches of Human Dialogue, Play, Spirituality, Sustainable Living and Healing Trauma. This book honors and reflects the legacy of ninety-seven-year-old Dr. Edgar Klugman, a holocaust survivor who founded the Global Healing Project and whose lifelong career has been in child and family development, play, and advocacy for young children.
The chapters that included her work are as follows: Aesop’s Fable: The Boy Who Cried Wolf; Aesop’s Fable: The Crow and the Pitcher; and Meditate Moments with Calming Visualizations. The chapters include an intergenerational group play/drama activity, discussion, and a meditative moment.
*The Global Healing Curriculum Project: Promoting Intergenerational: Healing and Bridging Trauma to Hope & Well-Being Paperback – May 31, 2023 by Edgar Klugman PhD (Author), Dolores Stegelin PhD (Author), & 8 more
Global Healing is a lifelong process that addresses issues of the inner and outer world of all humanity, to heal from personal trauma and create a peaceful future society. Now, more than ever, Global Healing is necessary and urgent.
The Global Healing Curriculum Project (GHCP) meets this urgency through a collection of intergenerational activities targeting social emotional learning and closing the gap between mental health and education. The GHCP is an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to support and understand families from a trauma perspective. Twenty-six Learning activities are presented in five domains or branches of Global Healing–Human Dialogue, Play, Spirituality, Sustainable Living, and Healing Trauma.
The Global Healing Project was founded by Dr. Edgar Klugman, whose life-long career in child and family development, play and advocacy for young
children, and personal story of healing and resilience as a Holocaust survivor, are an inspiration. The book includes a personal account of his life’s journey, beginning as a boy at the start of WWII leading to his present work of Global Healing. An Overview, Rationale, Mission Statement, Goals, Learning Objectives, and Literature Review on early Holocaust and contemporary trauma research are also included.
The GHP Curriculum is written for leaders/educators in public/private schools, community play-based and family-focused programs, after-school and youth programs, faith-based centers for children and families, elderly centers, and professional agencies and groups working with children/youth/adults.
“The impossible is possible!” – Dr. Edgar Klugman