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ABOUT ME

HENRYK SKOLIMOWSKI was born in Poland, in 1930, and educated in Warsaw,MSc. in Engineering, MA in Philosophy at Warsaw University.  He received a doctorate from Oxford University, in Philosophy, in 1964.  Taught at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor for over 20 years and other universities, including Madras.Consultant to UNESCO on Culture and Development, member of International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) -- in the 1970's.
Published over 40 books and over 600 articles, some poetry volumes and an album entitled \"Himalayan Hymns and Meditations\", co-authored by M.D. Dewan. Among the books published in India is:  \"Dancing Shiva in the Ecological
Age,\" 1991.

Skolimowski is a creator of a new branch of philosophy called Eco-Philosophy, which claims that THE WORLD IS A SANCTUARY. From this central assumption immediately follows reverence for life and for all there is, responsibility for the world and society, altruism and sharing as the basis for ethics, and ecological spirituality, which maintains that the ecological and the spiritual are one.

Swimming against the current of the disengaged academic philosophy,Skolimowski has insisted, for the last four decades, that philosophy must be committed to life, must be living philosophy, helping life to unfold and to flourish.  More recently, he proposed a new cosmology of light, according to which Light is the source of it all;  it is truly a Great Helper; if we have the eyes to see and the mind to bear its greatness.  Light is the source of all spiritualities and religions.

Skolimowski's passions are: hiking in the mountains - the higher the better; watching the sunrise over the Himalayas - it has been his sublime experience; also watching the stars in the mountains on moonless nights...and sometimes dialoguing with the stars; dreaming the impossible dreams of saving and redeeming all humanity; and sculpting in white marble on the island of Thassos in Greece.

Master's website is: www.ecophilosophy.org