30 years of working to advance
our understanding of the mind toward conscious evolution
Today humanity faces unprecedented challenges. How
can we apply advances in science and technology to ensure health and
safety for all the world's people? Can we learn to tolerate and appreciate
cultural diversity in an ever-shrinking global community? Can we learn
to manage the planet's dwindling vital resources and basic life-support
systems before it's too late?
Many worthy organizations address these issues in
the political, cultural, and humanitarian spheres. But none focus, as
does ISHK, on the root cause — our very nature as human beings.
What do we know about the way our brains work, about the way we receive
and process information from our environment, about how our mental and
nervous systems evolved, which create these crises in the first place?
What other capacities might be inherent in our nature to help us rise
above our narrow-minded reactions and choose the most appropriate mindset
for a given situation? How can we develop these new capacities in ourselves
and in our children?
For more than thirty years, ISHK's programs have been
addressing these questions, contributing to some major shifts in public
thinking and public policy — such as in the recognition of the
role of the mind in health. ISHK's efforts have been supported by renowned
specialists in medicine,
ecology, psychology, and education. Today some of our key programs focus
on early education.
We’ve
just received a $125,000 Matching Grant from the Will J. Reid Foundation!
Please help us DOUBLE this amount!
Donors who give to ISHK before the end of this year will continue
to have their donations matched 1:1 up to $125,000 by the Will J.
Reid Foundation!
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we are making good progress
on our programs. Here are the most recent NEWS & UPDATES for this
year.
We will keep all our supporters up to date on our plans and progress
by email. If you want to receive these emails, please give us your
email address by filling in the form provided on the left.
ISHK RECEIVES A GRANT FROM THE US DEPARTMENT
OF STATE To provide over 2.4 million books to the children of Afghanistan!
ISHK- Hoopoe Books has received a Public Diplomacy Grant from the
U.S. Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Department of
State to print and distribute six traditional Afghan stories retold
for children by Idries Shah in Dari-Pashto bilingual and English editions.
For more details please visit: www.booksforafghanistan.org.
Now
you can purchase books and tapes and
register for CE@Home courses online.
SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS NOW AND
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANOTHER MATCHING GRANT OPPORTUNITY!
AVAILABLE
NOW:
TWO NEW TITLES from the Hoopoe Books ALL
ABOUT ME SERIES
Me and My Feelings: What Emotions Are and How We Can Manage
Them
by Robert Guarino Illustrated by Jeff Jackson
For more information or to preorder this book, click here.
What's the Catch? How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated
by David Sobel, M.D. Illustrated by Jeff Jackson
For more information or to preorder this book, click here.
NEW PAPERBACK FROM MALOR BOOKS
available now
MINDREAL:
HOW THE MIND CREATES ITS OWN VIRTUAL REALITY
by Robert Ornstein and Ted Dewan [for more information
and to order, click here.]
A SPECIAL OFFER FOR UNIVERSITY
& COLLEGE LIBRARIES - FREE!
Cross-cultural understanding and background knowledge
on the religion, philosophy and culture of the Middle East and Central
Asia are essential for students. ISHK has received a substantial grant
to enable us to provide university libraries, FREE OF CHARGE and with
FREE SHIPPING, with a selection of titles that will provide this.
For more information on the set covering Comparative
Religion, click here.
For more information on the set covering Cultural
Studies: East & West, click here.
To order one or both selections, please send an email to ISHKLibrary
@ aol.com. In your email include the set(s) you wish to receive, your
name, your university library's name and shipping address, and a contact
email address. All shipping will be via UPS ground. Since supplies
on certain titles are limited, we may add alternative appropriate titles,
if available.
SPECIAL OFFER
ON FREE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES!
The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge is able to offer a limited
selection of Hoopoe Books titles to school and children’s libraries,
FREE OF CHARGE and with FREE SHIPPING, thanks to a grant from the Will
J. Reid Foundation. These unique multicultural, universal teaching-stories
are an ideal way to introduce young people to the cultures of Central
Asia and the Middle East, showing them how much we share and can learn
from each other. Now beautifully illustrated books, these ancient Teaching-Stories
were originally designed not only to entertain, but to foster thinking
skills and perception in children. They suggest, in their structure
and in the movement of their characters, alternative ways of looking
at difficulties and solving problems. They help children develop an
understanding of themselves and the world around them.
For more information on a set of English hardbacks to choose from, click
here.
For more information on a set of Spanish or Spanish-English Bilingual
hardbacks to choose from, click here.
To order one or both selections, please send an email to ISHKLibrary
@ aol.com. In your email include the set(s) you wish to receive, your
name, your library's name and shipping address, and a contact email
address. All shipping will be via UPS ground. Since supplies on
certain titles are limited, we encourage you to act now.
BOOKS
FOR AFGHANISTAN:
We provide bilingual Dari and Pashto Hoopoe titles, audio readings of
them and classroom Teacher Guides to schools, orphanages and libraries
throughout Afghanistan. Read
more.
HOOPOE
BOOKS FOR PAKISTAN
Your donation is desperately needed. ISHK-Hoopoe Books is now collaborating
with DIL (Developments in Literacy) to donate these beautiful children's
books by Idries Shah to the children they serve. DIL runs 150 schools
serving approximately 15,000 children, especially girls, in underdeveloped
regions in Pakistan. For details,
click here.
Visit THE HUMAN JOURNEY www.humanjourney.us
A new website developed by ISHK in which we attempt to provide a basis
of information to the general public about what it means to be human:
our capacities, our weaknesses and our potential.
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