Christopher Largent

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Teaching:

Chris taught university-level philosophy and comparative religion (half-time) for over forty years, studying teachings from spiritual traditions, East and West, modern and ancient — having the opportunity to work with indigenous elders, a Hindu yoga teacher, a Taoist, and two Tibetan Buddhist teachers, which led to his talks during the International Year of Tibet.

Chris taught courses at the University of Delaware (History of Philosophy, Ethics, Contemporary Moral Problems, Logic, Clear Thinking, Philosophies of Life, and World Religions), Wilmington College (Philosophy and Religion in Philadelphia hospitals), and Widener University (Nursing Ethics, Business Ethics, and Critical Thinking at Widener Law School).

For several universities, he advised students getting advanced degrees in studies of mysticism.

He also taught sociology, poetry, the Arthurian cycle, and Shakespeare, and he has taught the history and philosophy of science and medicine to engineers, physicians, and nurses.

Early in his teaching career, Chris was invited to the University of Pennsylvania’s “Cosmic History” meetings for distinguished scholars and was also invited to work with a conference of Buddhist scholars at the same university.

Early in this century, he was asked to address the World Future Society (Washington DC chapter) and did a training on the Constitution for citizen activists, run by Marianne Williamson.

He presently teaches in his own Seventh Academy (www.theseventhacademy.org) in Pennsylvania and Delaware, modeled on dialogue-oriented classical academies, East and West — which emphasize the natural genius of everyone.

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Writing:

Chris has co-authored three non-fiction books (with Denise Breton, a talented writer and publisher of Living Justice Press), praised by many thinkers, including the Dalai Lama, Stephen Covey, Martin Luther King III, economist Ravi Batra, religion scholar Huston Smith, Rumi-poet Coleman Barks, native activists Vine Deloria, Jr. and Russell Means, famed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Charles Tart, and Marianne Williamson:

(1) The Soul of Economies: Spiritual Evolution Goes to the Marketplace

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(2) The Paradigm Conspiracy: Why Our Systems Violate Human Potential and How We Can Change Them, and

(3) Love, Soul and Freedom: Dancing with Rumi on the Mystic Path.

As a single author, Chris won journalism awards (in his teens), is a published poet and essayist, and was chosen to contribute to Marianne Williamson’s millennium book, Imagine as well as Beliefnet’s acclaimed 9/11 book, From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America — Experience, Strength, and Hope from Spiritual Leaders and Extraordinary Citizens.

His two latest works are:

the highly regarded 11th-Century historical novel, Tapestry,

and a readable rendition of the Roman 1st-Century slave-turned-philosopher, Epictetus, and his startlingly relevant teachings for today: The Best Advice in History: Epictetus’ Manual for Living.

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Speaking and Consulting:

As a lecturer, Chris has given seminars in United States, Canada, and England, including at New York’s Open Center, the Center for Science and Philosophy in New York, the Walter Russell Museum, the Omega Institute, and the World Future Society in Washington DC.  

In the business and government sectors, Chris has been a workforce development consultant, training businesses and government agencies, including tribal governments, to build teams and excel with entry-level workers — offering seminars in communication, strategic thinking, time-management, and conflict resolution.

Early in this century, he was asked by the Vietnam Veterans of America (Delaware Chapter) to create a model program for helping returning Iraqi veterans.

At the same time, he was given a Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant to study corporations that help people get out of poverty (CERI, the Corporate Employee Retention Initiative), also working with the U.S. Labor Department and state Labor Departments along similar lines.  He is also a consultant to tribal governance groups and works with indigenous elders.

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Other work:

Chris is also a master dream interpreter, Jungian astrologer, a regression hypnotherapist, and musician, and has been a meditation teacher, athletic instructor, branch bank manager, small-press publisher, marketing manager, professional book reviewer, and editor.

Working with animal companions, he’s also been on the board of a large-animal-rescue center and placed rescued dogs and cats in family homes.

And he’s given courses at a grief center and a birth center.

In the 1980s, he served on the board of and did research for a media-watchdog group, first in Delaware, then Pennsylvania, and then nationally.