Summer '73

Research Assembly

Week Four

Core Curriculum

July 26, 1973

QUESTION

1. I've been wondering lately what it is about water that intensified man's experience of his own humanness?

CONTEXT

2. Some of my experiences with water are experiences that I find I am extremely thankful for. (personal stories: going fishing, wading along shore, water fountain)

LEADING

QUESTION &

DISCUSSION

3. What is one of your most awe inspiring experiences with water?

EXPANDING

CONTEXT

4. Where do you remember experiencing the power of water? (waterfall. Niagra Falls swift. river)

TURNING CONTEX T

5. What movie or novel do you recall where the water impacted you? (Moby Dick, African Queen)

EXPANDING

CONTEXT

6. Now quickly, when I say water, what kind of picture comes to mind? ~epeat 'water" seteral times until a broad montage is out.)

TURNING CONTEX T

7. What ima6es of water from history do you recall?

(Red Sea, Columbus, Pearl Harbor]

DIRECT

QUESTION

8. Water also horde the awe of death. Where have you experienced burning thirst? Whore have you been terrified by water?

PEARL

9. Remember the flood of the Noah Story. Every civilization had flood myth. A flood is dreadfilling. Yet there is a kind of Joy in it. It washes the earth. Water is a symbol of both Judgement and mercy, of destruction and cleansing.

FINALE

10. Where has water been associated with that kind of event in your life?

METHODOLOGY

REFLECTION

11. Reflect on the Spirit Conversation methodology.

OFF STAGE

12. Change subject to lead into the next section.