update Monday, 10-01-11 6:28 PM Re.:"...critical and analytical thinking...":
One of the most important things in terms of critical and analytical thinking is to be free of substances that skew the machinery of thought i.e.: sucrose, caffeine, alcohol and other drugs
...more on this later in the VFU Foundation course in Technethics.
Sent at 10:44 AM on Saturday d~.m~.: I wanted to focus more on critical and analytical thinking
Reply Saturday, 10-01-09 2:34 PM:
Foundation Course - cc. Audio Intro. Technethics 100109
Suggested Reading : Propaganda (introduction and preface)
by Jacques Ellul
http://world.std.com/~jchat/ellul/web.htm
E-mail to Association Internationale Jacques Ellul sent Saturday, 10-01-09 4:33 PM:
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Association Internationale Jacques Ellul
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Bonjour
S.V.P.: We would like to post sections from Ellule's "Propaganda" on
http://VirtualFreeU.com
for our students to access
...do you have any links to PDF files that we can make available to them.
merci
g~.k~. /VFU
links updated Saturday, 10-01-09 2:47 PM on:
http://de-school.net/NewStudy/StudentCommons/index.htm
:
VFU Library (under construction) 
and Suggested Readings for the Foundation course in Technethics (under
construction)
Where you can find links to Ellul's works
See Random Sample of dicourse analysis on MFTv32n2
RE. Symbolism See Also:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=manly%20palmer%20hall
and:
"...The initiated brother realizes that his so called symbols and rituals are merely blinds fabricated by the wise to perpetuate ideas incomprehensible to the average individual. He also realizes that few Masons of today know or appreciate the mystic meaning concealed within these rituals. With religious faith we perpetuate the form, worshiping it instead of the life, but those who have not recognized the truth in the crystallized ritual, those who have not liberated the spiritual germ from the shell of empty words, are not Masons, regardless of their physical degrees and outward honors...
Freemasonry is not a material thing: it is a science of the soul; it is not a creed or doctrine but a universal expression of the Divine Wisdom.1 The coming together of medieval guilds or even the building of Solomon’s temple as it is understood today has little, if anything, to do with the true origin of Freemasonry, for Masonry does not deal with personalities. In its highest sense, it is neither historical nor archaeological, but is a divine symbolic language perpetuating under certain concrete symbols the sacred mysteries of the ancients. Only those who see in it a cosmic study, a life work, a divine inspiration to better thinking, better feeling, and better living, with the spiritual attainment of enlightenment as the end, and with the daily life of the true Mason as the means, have gained even the slightest insight into the true mysteries of the ancient rites.
...The age of the Masonic school is not to be calculated by hundreds or even thousands of years, for it never had any origin in the worlds of form. The world as we see it is merely an experimental laboratory in which man is laboring to build and express greater and more perfect vehicles."
Alchemy
as a Key to Social Regeneration (MP3) 
from:
The Secret Teachings of All Ages - An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
http://secret-teachings.tripod.com/st3.htm
http://www.manlyphall.org/text/the-lost-keys-of-freemasonry/chapter-i-the-eternal-quest/
Manly Palmer Hall Lectures via P2P:
DVD cc. study available to registered students on request