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Raymond Klassen – Ideals and Identities

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Invitation to Guest Authors

Are you looking for a place to write? Do you care about the topics of Authenticity, Personal Identity, Mass Society, Freedom, Faith, and Community? If you are a new writer looking for exposure, please feel free to write for Ideals and Identities. Other topics will be considered as well.

Our site will, beginning August 1, July 2022, be hosting guest authors. Currently, our website has about 10K annual viewers, within approximately 30 viewers per day.

We especially seek authors who really want to criticize and critique the Western worldview of individualism and current forms of capitalism, and who want to develop and inform of spiritual practices that can nurture a more liberating life. We especially seek writers who want to nurture further and deeper conversations about moral values and spiritual living.

Please feel free to contact me by email: klassen.raymond@yahoo.com if you want to clarify anything. Posts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, be between 1500 and 2500 words and will be reviewed for clarity and for being both accessible (not overly academic), and thoughtful.

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I am an internationally and domestically (Canada) experienced educator and writer who impacts people’s lives by helping them bridge social barriers through language and concept education, and professional teaching and learning opportunities. But more than this, I want us to be encouraged to inhabit fully the Kingdom of God. My educational background includes formal training in Philosophy and Metacognition, Linguistics, Religious Studies, History, teaching certification, and ESL practice. But it also includes many years of travels/residence throughout North America, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Northern Europe. Within this has been the study of other languages with various proficiency, and and intimate awareness of Zen meditation studied in South Korea. Importantly, I am a husband and a father, and in those roles and others, I have a wide reach of connection in various international communities.

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About me: I am a career educator and traveler at heart. My written work includes academic writing in philosophy and linguistics, English acquisition, and most intently in the areas of spiritual engagement with reality and what that means for our public lives.

My education is a mixture of formal study in philosophy, political theory, Biblical studies, and history, along with professional teaching certification in TESOL and in cognitive testing, and international teaching.

My travel experiences include a range of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. I have lived in Canada, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Thailand. From those places I have traveled to many others besides.

I am a child of the 70’s and a “family man.” That means I have two wonderful kids who have been round the world with me.

Lastly, I am married to a wonderful woman since 2004. She is my partner, my friend, and my muse.

Thanks again for stopping by,

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