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Item Open Access A 'Fear' Studies Perspective and Critique: Analyzing English's and Stengel's Progressive Study of Fear and Learning in Education Theory(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2011) Fisher, R. M.The author critiques the progressive approach of two contemporary educational philosophers (English and Stengel) on the topic of fear and learning. Using a postmodern integral approach (i.e., fearanalysis), this article examines the tendency of reductionism, individualism, and psychologism as part of a hegemonoic liberalism and modernism in discourses on fear and learning commonly adopted by educators....Item Open Access A Guide to Ken Wilber and the Education Literature: Annotated Bibliography(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2007) Fisher, R. M.Item Open Access A Movement Toward a Fearless Society: A Powerful Contradiction to Violence(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2000) Fisher, R. M.Item Open Access A New 'Fear' Studies Vocabulary(Center for Spiritual Inquiry & Integral Education, 2011) Fisher, R. M.Item Open Access A Post-9/11 Watershed: Uniting the Fearlessness Movement(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2008) Fisher, R. M.The author makes the case for an Integral Curriculum Revision (ICR), like no other curriculum reform, transformation or revolution, this planet has seen in history. ICR offers a 'curricular' meta-theory encompassing and transcending those curricular theories and models that have come before it, be they sacred or secular....Item Open Access A Research Agenda to Legitimate the Study of 'Fear': Beginning Fearology 2000-2011(Center for Spiritual Inquiry & Integral Education, 2011) Fisher, R. M.I recently came across the new book published on Integral Ecology and after reading a few chapters it struck me that if these authors of this new field can call their work Integral Ecology = the "ecology of ecologies" --and they mean over 200 ecologies...--then I can call my work Integral Fearology = the "fearology of fearologies"....Item Open Access A Research Resource Guide to Ken Wilber's Critics(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 1997) Fisher, R. M.Item Open Access Aesthetics of a Decolonizing Mind(Center for Spiritual Inquiry & Integral Education, 2014) Fisher, R. M.The author draws together insights from his phenomenological thought experiment, the creation of the A-ness/D-ness Survey, and the assumptions and theory behind it, in order to show us the impact of aesthetics and aesthetic development in the W. society. He offers a co-inquiry method in the article involving readers' participation....Item Open Access An Integral Fearlessness Paradigm(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2006) Fisher, R. M.This paper summarizes some fundamentals for any holistic (integral) critical inquiry into the nature and role of fear ('fear') in our world, utilizing a fearlessness paradigm (perspective, theory, inquiry, integral philosophy and practice). A guiding premise for this entire venture is: Fearlessness is essential to a healthy quality and 'complete' knowledge for understanding fear ('fear')....Item Open Access An Introduction to an Epistemology of 'Fear': A Fearlessness Paradigm(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2012) Fisher, R. M.The temptation to think we know what 'fear' is all about, is one of the key factors that gets in the way of truly understanding ways of knowing 'fear' (and fear) as a very large and complex topic. This paper will introduce some of the various ways of knowing 'fear' as a holistic phenomenon and not merely a "feeling or emotion" (as fear, usually defined).Item Open Access Beginning Dispensations of Integral Fearology: Systematics and Problematics in the Study of Fear(Center for Spiritual Inquiry & Integral Education, 2012) Fisher, R. M.As part of a new scholarship on fear (post-9/11), this paper introduces integral fearology as a legitimate new genre of hybrid postmodern ologies. Beginning with an autobiographic introduction, the author reviews his own work on the topic over the past 25 years and situates this sub-field within emotionology and the current interest in emotions generally....Item Open Access Conceptualizing a Fearlessness Philosophy: Existential Philosophy and a Genealogy of Fear Management System 5(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2007) Fisher, R. M.The two main purposes of this paper are: (1) to document the history of my own philosophical thinking about fear ('fear') and fearlessness in regards to existential philosophy.... (2) to lay the groundwork for a genealogy of Fear Management System-5 (and its later re-emergence in FMS-6b).Item Open Access Critical Integral 'Fear' Studies: Basic Organizational Framework(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2005) Fisher, R. M.Item Open Access Culture of 'Fear': Toxification of Landscape-Mindscape as Meta-context for Education in the 21st Century(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2012) Fisher, R. M.This paper presents the view that opening up learning beyond school walls and age barriers, although a positive extension of human potential, has left the learners of this open learning to be exposed to the toxic meta-context of a culture of 'fear', with its attending violence/hurting that pervades the cultural landscape...Item Open Access "Culture of Fear" and Education: An Annotated Bibliography, 1990-2011(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2011) Fisher, R. M.This is the first annotated bibliography on "culture of fear" and educational professional literature. Although there are many discussions on excessive fear in the educational literature, only those who have used the term "culture of fear" have been recorded and annotated within....Item Open Access Death of Psychology: Rebirth in the 21st Century(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-04-25) Fisher, R. M.Dr. R. Michael Fisher, is a fearologist and educator who has taken a very unique path to the study and applications of the powerful (often dominating) field of knowledge of Psychology. He introduces viewers to the "death of psychology" and critique of psychology by psychologists of the brightest minds throughout modern history, like Friedrich Nietzsche, Otto Rank, Harvey Jackins, Abraham Maslow, James Hillman, Fox and Prilletensky, Ken Wilber and concludes the discussion with Desh Subba's fearism psychology and his own fearlessness psychology as essential for the crises times we are heading into as humanity and as a planetary ecosystem. The purpose of this video is to help serious learners understand why it is essential to have critical ways to both use and critique Psychology and its Power in an Age of Psychology (since the 19th century). He says we are sitting on the abyss of an exciting death and rebirth of psychology, where a new Fearlessness Psychology is awaiting to be developed to guide us through the Dark Time ahead.Item Open Access Decolonizing: Physician of the Mind (Interview with Jason Martez Massey)(Center for Spiritual Inquiry & Integral Education, 2014) Massey, J. M.; Fisher, R. M.Item Open Access Decolonizing: What Makes for a (R)evolution?: Oppressor and Oppressed in Critical Integral Praxis(Center for Spiritual Inquiry & Integral Education, 2014) Massey, J. M.; Fisher, R. M.The authors mine the territory of what might make a (r)evolution today--not just any kind--rather one that is truly liberational. What happens when two very different Westerners come together to co-inquiry into oppression-repression dynamics and a liberation model....Item Open Access Defining Philosophical Disability: Notes to the Bitter End(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-07-07) Fisher, R. M.Dr. R. Michael Fisher, fearologist, educator and philosopher, explores existentialist frameworks within a new and exciting imaginary that goes beyond traditional philosophical and existential pursuits--he does that by taking off with a notion of having us all acknowledge "philosophical disability" and he creatively demonstrates what that might mean, how it could be applied--albeit, this is a very preliminary sketch only of this concept--and the way this philosophical work can prepare everyone interested in it for the coming "end times" or more accurately, the coming of major cascading crises that will bring and are bringing already massive suffering and extinctions on the planet. This is a teaching video for the Anthropocene era.Item Open Access Defining the 'Enemy' of Fearlessness(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 1997) Fisher, R. M.