Andrew Seaton's Homepage

Andrew Seaton, Ph.D.
Philosopher, Author, Deep Intelligence Consultant and
Educator, Healer, Counsellor, Agent for Inspiring Stuff

Welcome to my website.
What ways of knowing, relating, living, and being-in-the-world are most effective and satisfying?

We can develop a broader set of faculties, qualities and abilities than we have been able to do through our traditional schooling, and we can find new and more adequate answers to this question. In the limited, mental view of intelligence, we may 'know' about the world, in an abstract, interpretive way, but we fail to experience a real connection with it. With what I call 'Deep Intelligence', we can prosper by living intimately connected with the world.

This website contains information on a few of my contributions towards a fundamentally different way of being in the world, through the awakening of Deep Intelligence. Below is an outline of a book I've written on the subject, which is due for release about July this year. It will be available for purchase here as a paperback and as an eBook download.

NOW AVAILABLE HERE, my new book...

Deep Intelligence: Giving our Young the Education they Really Need

About the Book
Billions of dollars are spent every year around the world on school reform. Despite this, there is a mountain of evidence that nothing much changes, that schooling still fails to awaken very significant faculties and inner resources in young people, and that it has significant negative impacts on them. The reason is that reform efforts do not question the mistaken assumptions underlying school education.

Many caring teachers, academics, students of education and parents are strongly sensing the inadequacies of schooling and the deeper possibilities of human functioning, but are frustrated by the lack of a coherent and comprehensive rationale or framework to rally around. Deep Intelligence: Giving our Young the Education they Really Need provides one. It presents strong and coherent evidence concerning the ways in which human beings can function more fully than they typically do, and it outlines the kinds of activities, experiences and relationships needed to awaken and nurture them. This book will stir and delight, challenge and inspire.

"Just excellent! I read it twice."
PROFESSOR B.K. PASSI
Fulbright Scholar
International Educationist & Consultant
Founder, Long-Time President, now Patron of the All India Association for Educational Research

"Institutional structures, especially as they prevail today, refract any attempts to penetrate into the deeper levels of being and transform them. Dr Seaton has rediscovered this great truth about education. However, the greater value of this book lies in its outlining of ways and means of imparting education for deep intelligence, which have not previously been adequately or appropriately articulated."
PROFESSOR D. RAJA GANESAN
Dean (Retired), Department of Education, University of Madras
Past Member of the Executive Board of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Alienation
Editor, Experiments in Education, official organ of SITU Council of Educational Research

"The truth is that the majority of children experience the traditional/current system of education as an assault on their emotional selves. It negates and damages the core of their being. 'Deep Intelligence' outlines a completely different approach to education, one that recognises, respects and nurtures that inner core, as well as the unique gifts each individual brings to our world. Dr Seaton's vision is not only an appealing alternative to the present system. It is an urgent necessity."
DEIRDRE MIDDLEHURST
Clinical Psychologist

Quote for the Month
"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." (Robert Louis Stevenson)