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Otolith Education:   a non-profit organization conducting year round adventure education based programming in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings to promote the development of healthier people, communities and environments.

Inner Tapestry:    The Premier Holistic Journal, is packed with Articles, Directory of Resources, and Events that support alternative health, natural living, cultural, environmental, and educational needs.

About
About Founders
Words from Norm & Skye Hirst, Eugene Pendergraft and a tribute to Robert Hartman.
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History of TAI
The Autognomics Institute was founded in 1993 as a non-profit research and education organization, (a 501C 3) in New York and Connecticut, USA.

Skye Hirst chose the word, Autonomics which points to a unique characteristic of how life-knows itself.  Gene Pendergraft added the “g” to make it Autognomics for greater clarity of meaning drawing from the word gnostic, to know. So the word Autognomics was born.

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Mission
As the logos of life-itself is becoming more and more apparent, so are the inadequacies of materialism. Materialism simply cannot account for life-itself.  To understand the logos of life-itself, we have to ask what can be done to overcome mechanisms and traditions of Western materialism, to break with our culture’s scientific materialism and to replace it with new foundations.
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What People Are Saying About TAI
 What I Learned from Norm and Sky Hirst
And How It Changed My Life
by Rodney Plimpton

Before I met Norm and Skye I had a pretty good handle on how Life worked, or so I thought.  I had a PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford, had studied Human Potential for Five years with Jean Houston, knew all about stimulus-response and something about cybernetics.  I didn’t consciously realize how much my model of life was based on a popular concoction Darwinism, materialism, elitism, and computer science.
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