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The book portrays Daniel Jordan, "a most remarkable man," who was a child prodigy, a Rhodes scholar, and an educational innovator. Prior to his death, he was pioneering a new educational system.

This book highlights Daniel C. Jordan’s life and provides an overview of the Bahá’í Faith, which is essential to grasp to understand his quest to create an educational system to empower men to overcome challenges.

The author presents thirteen articles Jordan wrote on topics such as the Bahá’í solution, the cause of poverty, and the psycho-spiritual approach to self-actualization. Other articles address the breakdown of civilization and a new educational model for creating a new race of men.

He also examines Jordan’s growth, revealing how he became an atheist at age sixteen. Jordan then began reading challenging literature, such as David Hume’s A Treatise on Human Nature, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and Bertrand Russell’s Why I’m Not a Christian.

Fortunately, he did not remain an atheist for long. In 1950, at age eighteen, he matriculated to the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he met Charlotte Gillen, who was studying international relations. Jordan was struck by this “extraordinary woman” who introduced him to a book written by the Bahá’í Prophet Bahá’u’lláh titled The Hidden Words.

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Date de parution	20 octobre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665725941
Langue	English
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A MOST REMARKABLE MAN
The Life and Legacy of Daniel C. Jordan: Musician, Philosopher, Psychologist, Educator

HARRY P. MASSOTH

Copyright © 2022 Harry P. Massoth.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

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Edited by Harry P. Massoth

ISBN: 978-1-6657-2593-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-2594-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022911826

Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/19/2022

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Articles from World Order magazine and the Comprehensive Deepening Program reprinted with permission of the copyright holder, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’í of the United States.
The chapter “Applying Knowledge of Human Development: New Dimensions in Parent and Teacher Education” appears in the book Nutrition in Human Development edited by Pattabi Raman and published in 1978 by Greylock Publishers. It is printed by permission of the publisher.
The book cover depicting the Anisa Tree of Life, based on the ANISA logo, was created by graphic artist in cooperation with the author. Anisa means “tree of life” and symbolically represents never-ending growth and fruition in the contexts of protection and shelter, and signifies the blending of the usable and fruitful past with a new sense of the future.
The exquisite portrait of Daniel Jordan was drawn in pencil by graphic artist Mindy Mendelsohn of Petaluma, California.
I am indebted to Keith Bookwalter whose e-document, “Who was Dr. Daniel C. Jordan? A Tribute,” served as the template for chapter one of this book. His essay was not only inspirational but was chuck full of information.
I wish to thank David Langness, Mark Ochu, David Maytan, Judge Dorothy Nelson, and Arden Lee for sending me tributes and stories about Dan. I owe thanks also to Dr. Donald Streets for reading the preface and chapter one and making suggestions to improve the accuracy of the information on Dan Jordan’s life.
Finally, I offer heartfelt thanks to Mindy Mendelsohn, Jacquie Richards and Linda Montgomery for their contributions of editing and proofreading the preface and chapter one of the manuscript.

Portrait of Dan Jordan

To Dan, his beloved wife Nancy
and their three daughters
Melissa, Sarah & Charlotte

CONTENTS
Theme And Variation
Preface
PART 1 DAN JORDAN: RENAISSANCE MAN
Chapter 1 Who Was Dan Jordan?
ANISA: A Mission-driven Enterprise
An Untimely Death
Replanting Dan Jordan’s Educational Legacy at Stanford
Some Tributes to and Anecdotes about Dan
Dan Jordan’s Writings
Notes and References
PART 2 DAN JORDAN’S BAHÁ’Í WRITINGS
Chapter 2 The Dilemma Of The Modern Intellectual
Chapter 3 Social Disadvantage The Real Enemy In The War On Poverty
Chapter 4 Guardians Of His Trust
Chapter 5 Becoming Your True Self
Chapter 6 In Search Of The Supreme Talisman A Bahá’í Perspective On Education
Chapter 7 The Meaning Of Life
Chapter 8 Divine Attributes
Chapter 9 Spiritual Education
Chapter 10 Knowledge, Volition, And Action
PART 3 THE ANISA EDUCATION MODEL
Chapter 11 Applying Knowledge Of Human Development: New Dimensions In Parent And Teacher Education
Chapter 12 The Philosophy Of The ANISA Model
Chapter 13 The ANISA Model
Chapter 14 Being And Becoming: The ANISA Theory Of Development

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THEME AND VARIATION
(For Erma)
I
Fossile, fuchsia, mantis, man,
Fire and water, earth and air—
all things alter, even as I behold,
all things alter, the stranger said.
Alter, become a something more,
a something less. Are the reveling shadows
of a changing permanence. Are, are not
and same and other the stranger said.
II
I sense, he said, the lurking rush, the sly
transience flickering at the edge of things.
I’ve spied from the corner of my eye
upon the striptease of reality.
There is, there is, he said, an immanence
that turns to curiosa all I know;
that changes light to rainbow darkness
wherein God waylays us and empowers. (1)
Robert Hayden, Collected Poems

PREFACE
Just over one-hundred and seventy-five years have passed since the birth of the Bahá’í Revelation, the latest in a succession of messages from the Supreme Creator, God. It is assumed that most of the readers of this book will be familiar with at least the basic tenets of the Bahá’í Faith. The mere century and three quarters of its existence have witnessed its spread to the far corners of the world and, owing to the latest spate of inhuman persecutions of its followers in Iran since the revolution of 1979, it has regularly occupied an important place in the deliberations of international, national and local governmental and non-governmental fora concerned with the preservation of human rights, and has appeared in the headlines of the world’s media. However, for those who hear of the Bahá’í Faith for the first time, know little about it and wish to learn of its history and teachings, there are many fine introductory books, some of which are listed in the bibliography. One can also access much information on the Bahá’í Faith through www.bah á’í.org and www.bah á’í.us.
It is important for the reader of this book to understand some of the background of the Bahá’í Faith in order to help the reader grasp the motivating impulse that drove Daniel Jordan to undertake the great task he envisioned—the goal of creating an educational system that might raise up a new race of men and empower them to address the great challenges of our age. Thus, I offer here a brief overview of the life and teachings of Bahá’u’lláh (1817-1892), the Prophet-Founder of the religion. The following section is an abridgment of the statement, Bahá’u’lláh, produced by the Bahá’í World Centre for the occasion of the centenary of the passing of Bahá’u’lláh. 1
As the new millennium [dawns], the critical need of the human race is to find a unifying vision of the nature of man and society. For the past century humanity’s response to this impulse has driven a succession of ideological upheavals that have convulsed our world and appear now to have exhausted themselves. The passion invested in the struggle, despite the disheartening results, testifies to the depth of the need. For, without a common conviction about the course and direction of human history, it is inconceivable that foundations can be laid for a global society to which the mass of humankind can commit themselves.
Such a vision unfolds in the writings of Bahá’u’lláh, the nineteenth-century prophetic figure whose growing influence is the most remarkable development of contemporary religious history. Born in Persia, November 12, 1817, Bahá’u’lláh began at age twenty-seven an undertaking that has gradually captured the imagination and loyalty of several million people from virtually every race, culture, class, and nation on earth. The phenomenon is one that has no reference points in the contemporary world, but is associated rather with climactic changes of direction in the collective past of the human race. For Bahá’u’lláh claimed to be no less than the Messenger of God to the age of human maturity, the Bearer of a Divine Revelation that fulfills the promises made in earlier religions, and that will generate the spiritual nerves and sinews for the unification of the peoples of the world.
If they were to do nothing else, the effects which Bahá’u’lláh’s life and writings have already had should command the earnest attention of anyone who believes that human nature is fundamentally spiritual, and that the coming organization of our planet must be informed by this aspect of reality. The phenomenon lies open to general scrutiny. For the first time in history humanity has available a detailed and verifiable record of the birth of an independent religious system and of the life of its Founder. Equally accessible is the record of the response that the new faith has evoked, through the emergence of a global community which can already justly claim to represent a microcosm of the human race.
Bahá’u’lláh’s writings cover an enormous range of subjects from social issues such as racial integration, the equality of the sexes, and disarmament, to those questions that affect the innermost life of the human soul. The original texts, many of them in His own hand, and others dic