Body & Soul Dynamics
is delighted to introduce one of the world’s leading philosophical
thinkers in the area of health, fitness and total well-being.
His unique contribution
has been to reconceptualize our understanding of the concepts of
health and diseases of civilization in the light of a new paradigm,
which affirms the primacy of consciousness and intelligent design as
structural components of the entire cosmos.
Professor Ronald Laura at age 62
His lifelong commitment
to integrating the dynamics of body and soul, has been pioneering and
profound, having provided a whole new approach to the way in which
we define our relationship to nature, to our technologies, to the food
we eat, and ultimately, to each other.
Born in Boston, U.S.A,
Dr Ronald S Laura
is currently the Senior Professor in Education at the University of
Newcastle, Australia, where he specializes in the philosophy of Health
Education, with a companion interest in the ramifications of our
technological lifestyle as it impacts on the human body and spirit.
One of few
individuals ever to have studied at three of the most prestigious
universities in the world,
Harvard
University – St Johns College,
Cambridge
University,
and
Oxford
University
– Brasenose College - (where he was awarded the Doctorate of
Philosophy).
Professor Laura
has written 32 books with another three books in press to his
credit, along with literally hundreds of articles.
He has received
several International coaching awards, including a Medal of Honor
from, the
UNESCO affiliated Sports Medicine and Health
Education Committee of the
IFBB, for his ‘outstanding contributions
to health education’ and the drug problems in sport.
His remarkable
accomplishments are far too numerous to detail here, but it would be
remiss not to highlight a few which give sense of the depth and
breadth of his interests and talents.
In addition to
his academic pedigree and wide-ranging books, the following
accomplishments, honours and other distinctions are noteworthy.
·
Awarded a
Rockefeller Fellowship to
Harvard University,
where
he graduating with Honours in 1970, achieving ‘Summa Cum Laude’ in
his major area of study.
·
Awarded a
Harvard Traveling Fellowship in 1970 to assist him in his
international research in philosophy of medicine
·
Recipient of a Roothbert Research fellowship for study at St John’s
College, Cambridge University.
· Elected to the World Council of Churches Fellowship for study at
Brasenose College,
Oxford University.
· Elected
to the Oxford University, Denyer Johnson Research Fellowship
in 1975.
· Visiting Professor to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the Philosophy
of Town Planning in 1976.
·
Appointed to a Lectureship in Philosophy of Education,
Monash
University, Australia,
in 1977.
·
Appointed Professor of Education at the
University of Newcastle,
Australia, in 1978, the youngest Chair Professor ever appointed in
this field within Australia.
· Twice elected Dean of the Faculty of education, for a total of six
years, at the
University of Newcastle.
· Twice
elected Chairman, Committee of New South Wales Universities
Deans of Education.
·
Appointed, Head of the Department of education, for a three year
term of office, at the
University of Newcastle.
·
Twice Elected President,
The Philosophy of Education Society of
Australasia.
·
Co-founder with Professor Saxon White of the
Hunter Institute of Sport.
· Foundation
Chairman, Sports Medicine and Health Education Committee, the
Hunter Institute of Sport.
·
Honourary Election to the
New York Academy of Sciences.
·
Elected Lifetime International Fellow, the Philosophy of Education
Centre (PERC),
Harvard University.
· Served on the Editorial Boards of the following journals and
Magazines: ‘Philosophy and Education Theory’, ‘Practical Ethics’,
‘Philosophical Theory’, ‘Vogue’, ‘Nature and Health’, ‘Flex’, ‘Ultrafit’,
‘Australian Fitness and Training’, ‘Pump’, ‘Muscle Power’ and
‘Muscle & Fitness’.
· Recipient of the Gold Medallion of Honour from the
IFBB for his
Research and Practical Contributions to the Drug problem in Sport,
awarded personally by Dr Robert Goldman Head of American Athletic
Union (AAA) at the IFBB World Bodybuilding Championships in Paris,
France.
·
Appointed by the International Federation of Bodybuilding as
Director, The Human Performance research Centre, Australasian
Division.
Given his widely
read books and approximately 300 research articles, along with his
many years of television work and his own bodyshaping shows,
teaching and public lectures, he is regarded as one of the world’s
leading health educators and spiritual teachers.
His radical view
that society’s excessive reliance upon technology as the means by
which ‘mankind’ seeks to play God is profoundly elaborated in a
number of his books, see.......
‘Empathetic
Education’, with Dr M. Cotton;
‘Don’t let
Technology steal your Soul’,
with Dr T. Marchant ;
‘Technology &
Nature in Harmony’, with
Dr J. Ashton and
‘Philosophical
Foundations of Health Education’,
with Dr S. Heany.
His insights
have inspired people worldwide and his research has proven itself to
have important implications for personal health, and wholeness,
fitness and community well-being, environmental philosophy and
personal happiness.
What is perhaps
most exciting about the depth of his message is that despite its
seriousness and sense of urgency, it is always embedded in hope and
the unlimited power of love.
Professor
Laura’s philosophy is ineluctably self-transforming, because he
shows that we can change the world for the better, only by first
changing ourselves for the better.
Appreciation of
this point makes easier to see why his published work ranges so
widely.
He has spent an
academic lifetime in an effort to understand and teach the subtle
secrets of personal empowerment associated with self-transformation
of the body, mind and spirit.
He calls his
comprehensive program of multi-dimensional self improvement the
‘Matrix System of Universal Consciousness’ within which he
teaches a whole new awareness of the body and mind as a unified
energy field in constant dynamic with the surrounding world.
Professor Laura
believes that consciousness is itself a dimension of reality. This
is why the power of ‘positive thinking’ is so vital for personal
empowerment, as the counterpart to ‘personal action’.
In essence
thinking is a modality of action and action is a modality of
thinking. To put it differently, the way in which we think about
ourselves, about others and about the world around us is in subtle
but significant ways an action within the realm of universal
consciousness within the ‘cosmic energy field’, as he sometimes
calls it, which alters each of these things.
We all have the
power to change our lives dramatically by changing how we think
about ourselves and the world around us.
As Professor
Laura has argued in his book, ‘Matrix Mindpower’, every cell
in the body is constantly ‘evesdropping’ to everything we think and
is thus being constantly shaped and transformed by our thoughts.
As you read on,
let Professor Laura show you how you can release and realize your
untapped potential for good health, true success and personal
happiness
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