This book tells five stories of a three-year leadership capacity building program designed for residents of government housing estates in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. It tells its stories through the voices of the project leader and four participants. While the project leader explains the workings of the project each of the participants tells how it fitted into their life-story. They talk of their childhood and growing up and sometimes precarious survival at the poor end of town. The four insider stories are set beside the program's intentions as seen by government funding body and program managers, and the philosophical understanding that underpinned the program leader's actions. In so doing the book explores the relationship between: one person's theory; a community development program in practice; and real life experience. It does this not through a voice of authority commenting on people's lived experience and attempting to relate this to the theory, but by showing what the program meant to the project leader and what it meant to each of the four participants. It tries to demonstrate, but not explain, how these disparate meanings connected, or otherwise, with the theory that the project leader believed she was applying; and how in the end all knowledge is personal, built up over a life time and stitched together with the threads of our relationships in whatever environment we happen to inhabit.
In this book a new view, different from what is explained by big-bang theory about the creation of structures in the universe, is presented. According to this alternative cosmology the universe has not begun at a particular moment of time, and is not expanding since an explosion has taken place at the beginning of creation. Instead, the universe is eternally existing without any beginning or end in time. This alternative story is based on the analysis of observational data in different wavelengths, and revolves around the idea that there exists an eternally unchanging design, which appears in a similar way in different scales. It proposes a fractal universe, which is made of smaller replicas of itself, which in turn are made of even smaller images of the same design, and so on... hierarchically embedded in smaller and smaller scales. In it time exists as a consciousness generated by the fluctuating world entangled in a pattern which remains timeless. The book delves with the ideas of a hidden order and deals with the concepts of chaos theory, fractal geometry and evolution of fractal knots. Through it the readers will be acquainted with a universe, fine-tuned between equilibrium and disequilibrium, swinging between order and chaos, where no accident can exist without being absorbed in a purposeful action of creation. Nothing is inseparable; no accident can ever derail the course of its path of fulfilling the eternal design, which upholds the existence of all united as ONE. It opens the vision of a profound universe where one may be able see God as inseparably one with all existing from the micro to the macro cosmos.
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