<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Good Morning Visionaries:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">
<span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">I just got back from teaching this course for continuing education at Western Wash. U. The Unitarian Church is sponsoring this second "incarnation."</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">UI Continuing Education has been sadly been "discontinued," so perhaps some of us can rebuild this education opportunity in an informal way.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">There are two venues, primarily because one interested party is house bound:</font></p>
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<font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Wednesdays 7:30-9:30, Nov. 13 & 20 and Dec. 4 & 11</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Thursdays 2-4 PM, Nov. 14 & 21 and Dec. 5 & 12.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px;text-indent:48px"><font size="4">The four PowerPoint presentations:</font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px;text-indent:48px"><font size="4"><br>
</font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px;text-indent:48px"><font size="4">(1) The Indus Civilization, the Ayrans, and the Vedic Gods </font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px;text-indent:48px"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px">The Wednesday sessions will be held at Nick Gier’s home at 509 Taylor Ave., Moscow.</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px"> </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Please call 301-1278 for directions. </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px">The Thursday sessions </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px">will be held at J. D. Stevens' apartment, 909 Travois Way #16, Moscow. His number is 883-3683. </span></font></div>
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<b><span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px;font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">Hindu Gods and Goddesses: <br clear="all">An Exploration of the Hindu Religion </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center">
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<b><span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px;font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large;line-height:18.399999618530273px;font-family:Georgia,serif">For 30 years I taught Asian philosophy at the University of Idaho, but it was not until my first sabbatical to India in 1992 did I discover the richness and complexity of Indian culture and its amazing religions. After two sabbaticals, a research leave, and a recent 6-week temple and lecture tour—a total of over a year in this amazing country—I now have a huge photographic record of my adventures.</span><br>
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<span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px;font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">I visited the fabulous Hindu temples of Tamil Nadu and other states; I marveled at the Jain temples in Gujurat and Rajsathan—one mountain top, after climbing up 10,000 carefully carved steps, I stood in awe of 762 marble temples standing cheek to jowl. </font></span></p>
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<span style="line-height:18.399999618530273px;font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">I visited the Buddhist cave temples at Ajunta and the 35 Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cave temples at Ellora 60 miles away. In 1999 I took eight students to Kathmandu, Nepal, which is the very best place in the world to study both Hinduism and Buddhism. There are at least a hundred major temples and monasteries there.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:large;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:18.399999618530273px;text-indent:0.5in">I have gathered my best images of Hindu gods and goddesses, ranging from world class bronze statues and bas reliefs to ordinary calendar art, which even prosperous Hindus use for their home shrines.</span></p>
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