![]() ![]() ![]() These people point to the power of her ideas and to the fact that she affects many people powerfully. Her admirers, however, see Houston as a Renaissance woman whose mastery lies in having a little to say about everything and in having a comprehensive in which everything has meaning. From this point of view, Houston rakes over the top of volumes of information while being a master of none. Her own scholarship, in fact, doesn't play by the rules of the academy, just as Houston, an accomplished student of history, is more a futurist than a historian.įor her detractors, it is these qualities that make Houston a dilettante. ![]() She is, many would argue, chiefly a performer, not a scholar of ideas. Although serious about thinking, she would not be called a serious thinker not in academic circles, at least. Houston, like the dream world and the new age movement itself, is a woman of paradoxes. And Houston may not argue with that assessment, if by Dreamland we mean that place and time where people are free to think, talk and act creatively and daringly for a better humanity. Some would argue that Jean Houston has never left the land of dreams certainly not in her more than 30 years in the far reaches of the new age/human potential movement. When she asked him why he called it that, he replied: "Cause that's where we are, kid, that's where we are."ĭreamland. ![]() In her autobiography, Jean Houston writes about the name her father, a Hollywood comedy writer, chose for his office: Dreamland. ![]()
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