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Pua Male, C. K. Macfarlane

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #2 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Pua Male" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 80.25". The original envelope containing the pattern lists “Mrs. C. K. Macfarlane” as the sender.

Pua O Molokai, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #35 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Pua O Molokai" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 64.5" and a border piece measuring 91.5".

Pua Pake (Chrysanthemum), Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #106 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Pua Pake (Chrysanthemum)" design. The pattern measures 78".

No Name, Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #16 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection. The original pattern was unnamed. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 73".

Sego Lily, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

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Torch Ginger, Martha Pukahi

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #31 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Torch Ginger" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 67" and a border piece measuring 93".

Silversword Of Haleakala, Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #105 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Silversword of Haleakala" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 93".

Ulei, Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #102 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Ulei" design. The pattern measures 88.5".

Ulei Mahelona, Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #62 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Ulei Mahelona" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 89".

Ulu Kukui O Lanikauila, C. K. Macfarlane

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #90 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Ulu Kukui O Lanikauila" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 100". The original envelope containing the pattern lists “Mrs. C. K. Macfarlane” as the sender.

Ulu V, Martha Pukahi

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #28 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Ulu V" design. The pattern consists of three pieces: a centerpiece measuring 74.5" and two parts of a border lei piece measuring 88" x 116".

Ulu Vi, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #64 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Ulu VI" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 82".

Ulu Vii, Elsie Sato

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #90 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Ulu VII" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 89".

Uluwehi O Pauoa, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #62 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Uluwehi O Pauoa" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 79".

Umeke O Kamehameha, Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #91 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Umeke O Kamehameha" design. The pattern consists of a centerpiece measuring 82".

Water Lily, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #49 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Water Lily" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 66" and a border piece measuring 88".

Winds Of Waimea, Elsie Sato

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #81 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Winds of Waimea" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 95" and a border piece measuring 96".

Wood Rose, Agnes Haiku

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #70 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Wood Rose" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 74" and a lei border piece measuring 96.25".

Reimagining Education Through Intuitive Interspecies Communication: Listening, Learning, And Belonging Beyond The Human, Avantika Mathur, Megan Tucker, Anita Vallala, Cathrine Nyquist

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Conventional educational paradigms have long been shaped by worldviews that centre human rationality, and exclude the agency, intelligence, and communicative capacity of non-human beings. While holistic and contemplative education movements have begun to open space for alternative approaches, a broader reconceptualization is needed – one that embraces the living world as intelligent, interconnected, and full of meaning.

This submission explores intuitive interspecies communication (IIC), described as the direct, non-verbal exchange between humans and other animals that draws on intuitive capacities. IIC is widespread and growing rapidly as a global professional practice, and academic interest in this topic has expanded in …

Geopoetics: Expanding The Philosophy Of Teacher Education, Linda M. Craig Dr

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Amidst our accelerating ecological crisis, this essay argues for a fundamental reimagining of teacher education through Kenneth White's theory of geopoetics. Drawing on complexity science and Whitehead's process philosophy, I trace a paradigm shift from mechanistic models of education - characterised by fixed knowledge transmission and neoliberal performativity - toward a relational, orientation grounded in emergence and becoming. Geopoetics offers a transdisciplinary framework that dissolves boundaries between science, poetry, philosophy, and spirituality, positioning education not as content delivery but as participation in the creative unfolding of life. Through an exploration of Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain as geopoetic spiritual practice. …

Poetry As Liminal Inquiry: Illuminating Complexity, Mysticism, And Embodied Knowing, Vicki Boley Dr.

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This paper explores poetry as a form of liminal inquiry, positioning poetic practice as an embodied, intuitive, and relational mode of meaning-making within the complexity of teaching and learning. Drawing on a reflective collection of poems written during a doctoral course on Mysticism and Activism in Education, the author revisits this work from a current perspective as an educator and scholar, using complexity theory to understand both the poetic process and classroom learning as nonlinear, emergent, and relational systems. Rather than yielding to linear thinking or single answers, the paper argues that poetic inquiry mirrors how insight develops in complex …

Can One Learn From Dreams?, Anastasia Lavrenyuk

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This reflective essay explores the educational significance of dream-based and intuitive knowledge through the lens of a field experience in the Peruvian Amazon. While participating in a course on sustainability and Indigenous knowledge, I encountered a member of the Ese Eja community who described how medicinal plant wisdom once came through dreams—through spiritual connection with the forest. This moment prompted a personal and scholarly inquiry into how non-rational, subjective ways of knowing have historically shaped both scientific and cultural breakthroughs, from the structure of chemical element benzene to Indigenous learning systems. Drawing on examples from physics, neuroscience, and Indigenous epistemologies, …

In The Problem Lies The Solution: How Digital Mindfulness Can Address The College Students’ Mental Health Crisis And Support Holistic Education, Steve Haberlin

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

The mental health of today’s college students remains a serious concern. The alarming trend of greater psychological distress among undergraduates shows no signs of slowing. Excessive smartphone usage, screen time, and social media have been attributed as partial factors. However, what if forms of digital mindfulness and technology-assisted contemplative practices are the key to assisting students with stress, anxiety, depression and other problems? In this article, the author posits that innovations, such as neurofeedback-loop meditation platforms that dramatically increase focus, virtual reality platforms featuring in depth-meditation instruction, and Artificial Intelligence have the potential to address the crisis, establishing a refreshed …

International Students And Spiritual Capital: Meditation As A Tool To Support Student Well-Being, Anna Grigoreva, Anna Lytkina

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

In a new academic environment, international students often face more than just academic challenges, as they also navigate cultural adjustment, identity shifts, digital overload and emotional stress. These multidimensional challenges are further intensified by performance pressures and rapidly evolving educational technologies. This article explores the role of meditation as a contemplative practice that may support international students’ adaptation within the American higher education system. The article focuses on how international students draw upon inner strength, purpose, and resilience to navigate and sustain themselves through periods of transition and difficulty. Using autoethnography as a primary methodological approach, the authors analyze their …

Nurturing The Spiritual Core In Teachers Within The Nexus Of Science And Spirituality, Sarina C. Molina

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This reflective essay explores the intersection of science and spirituality in nurturing teachers’ inner lives as a foundation for supporting student well-being. Against the backdrop of a global mental health crisis, it integrates insights from neuroscience, Indigenous wisdom traditions, and values-based education to advocate for a holistic mind–body–nature connection. Emerging research on neuroplasticity, heart–brain coherence, and self-transcendence has shown the physiological and psychological benefits of spiritual cultivation for educators. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies, this essay highlights contemplative and heart-centered practices that foster self-transformation, resilience, and authentic relationality. Practical applications for teacher education, curriculum design, and community engagement illustrate how spiritual …

The Calculus Of Difference: Pluralism And Integration Through Education In India, Deepa Srikantaiah

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This paper introduces a calculus-based conceptual framework to examine how India sustains pluralistic integration across its extraordinary religious, linguistic, and cultural diversity. Drawing on mathematical principles of integration, continuity, and the Infinity Principle, the analysis demonstrates how social cohesion emerges from sustained attention to the infinitesimal: the localized communities, languages, and practices that constitute India's complex social fabric. The framework positions education as the primary integrative mechanism, functioning analogously to the mathematical process of integration by decomposing social complexity into comprehensible parts and reassembling them into collective understanding.

Through historical analysis spanning from the Indus Valley Civilization to contemporary India, …

Ancient Wisdom & Its Cultural Relevance: Reimagining Deeper Learning In Science Classrooms Through The Lens Of Yoga And Vedānta, Raaghav Pandya

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Contemporary calls to reconceptualize how science is taught and understood have brought deeper learning to the forefront of education at-large for its emphasis on critical perspectives, creativity, and student-centered inquiry. Yet this paper argues that its prevailing framework remains constrained by Cartesian dualism, a materialist foundation that disassociates the individual from self, other, and nature, and falls short of addressing the mental health, environmental, and cultural challenges facing youth today. To address this limitation, this paper proposes a complementary convergence between deeper learning and the contemplative traditions of Yoga and Vedānta, whose ancient paradigms of self-inquiry, interconnectedness, and well-being offer …

Toward A Post-Modern Daoist Pedagogy: Bridging Complexity And Dao Through Inner Cultivation And Autopoietic Currere, Jie Yu, Jingyu Liu

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This article first critically examines the call to reenchant the world as it resonates within a middle space between science and mysticism and then connects key ideas from complexity theory and systems thinking on complex adaptive systems with two seminal Daoist texts: the Neiye (《內業》, Inner Cultivation), a proto-Daoist chapter from the Guanzi anthology (4th–3rd century B.C.E.), and the Huangting Jing (《黃庭經》, Yellow Court Scripture), a later Daoist classic (3rd–4th century C.E.). Through this dialogue, the article advocates a post-modern Daoist pedagogy through inner cultivation and autopoietic currere—an autopoietic process wherein curriculum emerges organically through participatory dialogue …

When Quantum Physics Meets Laozi, Jing Lin

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This paper explores the profound convergence between quantum physics and Laozi’s Daoist philosophy, proposing a quantum-Daoist cosmology as a transformative foundation for reimagining education. Drawing on core principles of quantum physics—such as wave-particle duality, entanglement, and the observer effect, and Laozi’s teachings on Dao and De, the paper argues for a cosmology in which reality is energetic, relational, and morally ordered. While quantum science reveals the unseen, interconnected nature of existence, Laozi advances this view by emphasizing the role of virtue as an energetic and ethical force that sustains the universe. The paper proposes that meditative practice and the cultivation …

Bridging The Abyss: Reclaiming Spirituality In Academic Knowledge Production, Neil Boland

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Over recent decades, Western academia has shown a growing interest in spirituality, accompanied by methodological innovations and epistemological expansion. Nevertheless, spiritual inquiry continues to be subtly subordinated to scientific rationalism, with Western science often presiding as gatekeeper over what is considered legitimate knowledge. Drawing on Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ concept of abyssal thinking, this article argues that spiritual and experiential forms of knowing remain largely relegated to the far side of an epistemic divide, valued only insofar as they can be reframed within scientific norms. Despite increasing institutional recognition of spirituality in fields such as education, psychology, and medicine, …