Alice phylosophy

Alice Project derives its name from the famous book by Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland and like Alice the school invites children to enter the magic land of our unconscious mind, exploring the inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions and to cross the borders between our inner and outer realities. In this way they will hopefully be able to understand and cope better with the challenges and contradictions of our everyday world.

The philosophy in all our teaching is based on the understanding that our perception of the external world originates in the mind, and so it is that our mind constructs our transient reality depending on many interweaving influences:
- the laws of interdependence;
- the laws of cause and effect;
- the subjectivity of perceptions and dynamic of projections;
- the relativity of boundaries;
- the ever changing nature of our thoughts and feelings.

Our aim is to explore our understanding of self.

These universal understandings and values originate in diverse philosophies and spiritualites, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Christianity, etc. and likewise our philosophy is not exclusive to one religion but embraces all of them; we are and we teach without borders. Most of the children in Sarnath and Bodhgaya are Hindu with a few from the Islamic, Christian and Jain traditions. Children are encouraged to know and understand their own traditions, and through these traditions the universal truths are conveyed.

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Alice Project
Ghurahoopur
Sarnath
Varanasi
221007
UP
India
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Tel. +91-542-2595062, 9935681530
Fax. +91-542-2595379, 2585380
Bodhgaya + 91-09431278699