Monument Museum of American Indigenous Cultures
Spirituality rooted in Native American cultures was chosen as the basis of the future Monument because it is the heart of the Native people, the last unexplored and unconquerable territory of the New World. It is a place that no one can own, but that everyone can experience…
The future of Indigenous Cultures are primarily depends on every one of us, their spiritual energy, their creative power, and their Indigenous consciousness. Nature is the foundation of the life of the Indigenous people while spiritual cultures are the structure of their being. Preserving cultures is as natural and necessary as preserving nature. Therefore, through our Monument Museum the nature and the spiritual cultures of the Native American people will be elevated to an unprecedented level and presented in the light of the American Indigenous Spirit.
Man - Does he know who he is?
What do we know about ourselves?
Do we know what we are, who we are, how we find ourselves in the world, what we live for? Today, we know more about the world and the cosmos than about ourselves. All spheres of cognition have been interested in man for millenniums. Art and literature, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and science have made great contributions to the library of the knowledge of man. This shows that man is a very special kind of being in the world.
We journey on a new quest for the rediscovery of man. It endeavors to show that there is no possibility of achieving an understanding of man’s total nature on the basis of phenomena known by science, philosophy, and religion. Man will remain the greatest mystery in the world now and forever. However, this project will nonetheless establish an effort to define man’s search for the essence of being in order that he may find his life purpose and goals.
Finding the talented child
THE PROJECT IS FOCUSED ON KEY TREND OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD ARTISTIC ABILITIES.
Childhood is the period of formation of abilities and development of human personality. This is the time of deep integrative processes. The giftedness of a child is often manifested in successful activities that have a spontaneous, amateur character. Giftedness in the childhood can be considered as a potential for the mental, intellectual and spiritual development of the future human being.
The purpose of the program is to search for and identify the talented children and adolescents in private schools.
Program objectives:
Creation of the conditions for self-realization and development of the child’s creative potential;
Expanding the possibilities of the creative educational environment of schools to work with gifted children.
The New Serbian Cultural Center
“Our cultural heritage institutions are mission-driven and our primary purpose is to support and promote Serbian culture, art, history and orthodox faith.” – V. Rev. Dr. Darko Spasojevic
In the creation of the new Serbian Cultural Center we considered the following important reasons:
- Demand for cultural programs, visual and performing arts, importance of Slavic literature, orthodox faith, and exposition of true Serbian history to the young and coming generations.
- Demand for preschool, kindergarten and school spaces, including space for physical wellness, health, and sports activities.
- Demand for various types of cultural space, including performance, art exhibition, art studio, and music studios.
- The size, condition, function, quality, and opportunities of existing infrastructure cannot fulfill the needs and demands of the Serbian community.
- The goals and priorities of the Serbian community are education, connection to Serbian and Slavic culture, arts, literature, history, and Orthodox faith.
These issues were explored through open dialogue, interviews, and visual orientations of the majority of the Serbian people.
Is technology confronting human culture?
PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT: The ARC Prospect International Foundation is seeking a grant of $40,000 to conduct a three-year of philosophical and scientific research on the account of the complete discovery of truth of such an important topic. ARC Prospect’s mission is to provide and facilitate access to objective, accurate, scientifically, and philosophically tested information about technology and related issues that are already affecting the core of human life, including man’s lifestyle, physical and mental health, freedom, and human spiritual culture. This Project is encouraging and calling for the execution of scientific and philosophical research on the highest scale that will expose all the concealed issues and problems of science and technology that are confronting and affecting man and human culture in a very radical manner. We have urgent concern that our rapidly rising technological civilization will destroy the spiritual culture of man and take control of the human mind, will, mentality, and life in the very near future. We also have concern that human cultures will be vanished, as mankind will fall under the totalitarian dictatorship of technologies – at which point, man as a spiritual being may not survive.
Therefore, the goal of this project is to bring this awareness through scientific research and studies, philosophical and religious analyses, past knowledge and experience, inter-fields dialogue, and a philosophical forum in which people can ask questions and share their ideas. For the sake of preserving the spiritual culture and creative development of man, we seek collaboration with people of all important fields who are intelligently and spiritually invested in this matter.
The broking bridge between four spheres of creativeness.
The arts, religion, philosophy and science as spheres of human creativeness had intimate intellectual and spiritual relationships with one another for millenniums. The imagination, the way of perception, the cognition of the world, and the creative act itself were always in unity, while each still maintaining their distinctive language.
At the start of the 20th century, as one of those spheres began to dominate over the others, it slowly drifted away from each other, until by the 21st century its distance from them became vast. Many people today hold an assumption that the scientific view of the world should be the foundation for all knowledge and spheres of human creativeness. Therefore, philosophy, religion, and art had lost their respectful status in our society.
The emerging radical scientific materialism promotes this vision, which results in nihilism, materialism, atheism, and reductionism. Each of these generate a potential impoverishment of the way man sees himself and makes our society unhealthy spiritually, psychologically, and even physically.
This phenomenon requires very thoughtful investigation. The balance and harmony between these four spheres must be restored, and the bridge of connection and creative collaborations must be established.
Our Foundation invites professors and students, artists and writers and religious leaders to collaborate in a series of annual projects involving several universities from the US, Europe, and Asia. Each year, the results of these collaborations will be presented in the form of exhibitions, interviews, debates and will be published for observation and further studies for international audience.