In Search of the Heart’s Sense of Truth: A Life Journey
Ben Cherry, traveller, educator and author, is currently in Australia to meet people where they are living and engage in purposeful conversation within the context of all that is racing towards us from the future.
The stimulus for this has been his recently published book, In Search of the Heart’s Sense of Truth – A Life Journey, which is the fruit born of his deep connections with other cultures and his commitment to Anthroposophy and education. The book weaves together a lifetime of experiences with an exploration of ways through which we can find the courage and clarity to meet the mighty trials racing towards humanity at this time. Central to this is the clear understanding of our full human nature and potential as beings of body, soul and spirit.
He says:
My book has been a catalyst for enabling these very special encounters and conversations to happen and I usually begin by sharing something of what I learnt through writing it (along with my articles for New View). It is because I have had to think thoughts through to where they lead and connect them with my own life experience that I feel prepared to speak in this way, but the way I do so is always related to what I sense to be living in each place I visit.
It is my wish to help people dare to look beyond the outer appearance of what is happening in the world and for all of us to have more confidence that we can and will create ways forward, no matter how painful and challenging the process may be. As I see it, we are in a world war for the idea of what we are as human beings. My deepest wish is to help bring hope and courage through facing the reality of our threefold entelechy and living it truly.
A Conversation with Ben Cherry
Jane Bradshaw recently conducted this brief interview with Ben on his way to Hobart Airport to catch a flight to the mainly, for further ‘encounters’ in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney before returning to his home in Taiwan on 8th December.
Here, they converse about what it means to be a human being, about becoming aware of the spiritual beings around us, and confronting death and dying in light of spirituality.
More about Ben Cherry
Ben Cherry was born and brought up in the UK, with a master’s degree in law from Cambridge University and a Diploma of Education from NSW Australia, Ben Cherry has lived, worked and travelled through five continents and has given courses in schools on all of them. His search for peace and for answers to the huge social, cultural and environmental issues he encountered as a young man, especially through his experience as a teacher and journalist in Vietnam during the war, led him more than five decades ago through many spiritual streams to the work of Rudolf Steiner.
For twenty-five years he worked as a class teacher and upper school teacher at a Waldorf school in Australia, of which he was a co-founder, and he was privileged to be one of the founders of this education in Mainland China, supporting its growth until the onset of the lockdowns in 2020. For the past two decades he has been mentoring and giving courses in schools throughout the broader Asia Pacific region.
Benjamin is the co-author of the book Of Pandas and Wandering Geese, which is based on the long journey he and his small family made through Mainland China and the Tibetan Plateau in 1994, which laid the ground not only for his subsequent work there but also for this book. In all his journeying, both outwardly and within, his deepest quest has been for Truth. During the past years he has been writing regularly for various journals and magazines about what is happening in the world today and how we might be able to transform it. He now lives in Taiwan.
This book, In Search of the Heart’s Sense of Truth – A Life Journey, is the fruit of a lifetime. It is a depiction of ways forward through the mighty trials that are racing towards us, so long as we have the courage and mental clarity to recognize what we are, in fullness, as human beings.
This book is dedicated to those many people who care deeply about the world’s future and are willing to put energy into creating new ways forward.
Ben Cherry
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