Thus Spoke Golden Guru

By Conrad Linden

Thus Spoke Golden Guru is a collection of eleven
self-contained episodes in which Golden Guru
discusses the vital issues of people on Earth: the
Earthfolk. The author introduces a new genre:
Dreamtime-Fact. He combines discussions from
a higher perspective with essay questions. He
illustrates a new approach to essays.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Mar 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456844509

Conrad Linden

Conrad Linden was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. When he was 15, WW2 had started. He saw Prague under sieze by the Nazis, then the Communists. When he was 18, he studied Education at the University of Carolina in Prague. At the same time he worked as a night editor for United Press. He then came to Australia and taught English to the migrants at Wittenoon Gorge, WA. He could speak six languages. In Australia he qualified as a school teacher, and taught in the primary and secondary schools. When he was in Melbourne, he was a religious Education Co-Ordinator for Melbourne International Airport area, when he worked for the Catholic Education Office. Late in his life he held workshops and private tutoring in writing English for students from La Trobe University, Melbourne.

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CONTENTS

EPISODES

1=Romance

2=Kurikaruna

3=Advice To A Young Girl

4=Nuclear Holocaust

5=Can Our Education System Be Improved?

6=Climate Changes: Innovate!

7=Larger Memory

8=Three Testimonies Of The Crucifixion

9=Garden Of Pure Land

10=In Today’s World Does Anyone Have Any Morals?

11=United Europe

BRIEF AUTOBOIGRAPHY

12=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography

13=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography BBB

14=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography CCC

15=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography DDD

16=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography FFF

17=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography HHH

18=Conrad Linden’s Brief Autobiography III

SUPPLEMENTS

How to approach the question of perspective

How to approach essay planning and construction

How to plan and construct a subjective mode essay

How to plan and construct an objective mode essay

How to Set Essay Questions

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Writing and teaching English have taken up a larger part of Linden’s life. When he arrived in Australia, he came to Queensland. Later he went to Wittenoom Gorge in Western Australia, where he taught the migrant workers of an asbestos mine how to speak English. Conrad Linden could speak six languages.

He qualified as a teacher by state examination in Australia. He was a primary and a secondary school teacher in Tasmania and in Melbourne.

He taught English as Commonwealth-of-Australia chief in English to migrants of all different backgrounds. And continued teaching throughout his later years. He also offered workshops in essay writing to the students from La Trobe University, Melbourne.

In his most senior position with the Catholic Education Office, he was Co ordinator of Religious Education in the area of Melbourne International Airport. He instructed teachers how to approach the delivery of Faith Development to their students.

Conrad Linden was born in Czechoslovakia, went to school there and attended university. He studied at the seven-centuries old University in Carolina, Prague where he learned Science of Education (Pedagogy), Philosophy, World History and Psychology of Personality.

Linden was a pupil of Academician Otokar Chlup, a lecturer at Lomonosov University in Moscow, the State University of Leningrad. Academician Chlup taught Linden the Science of Education (Pedagogy) at Carolina in Prague. Chlup is remembered as the father of work experience and was a member of the team responsible for Education Revolution in the Soviet Union.

Linden worked as a reporter and editor with UPI in Prague, Frankfurt and Sydney, declined promotion to Tokyo.

He joined United Press close to finishing his studies. After several weeks of translating articles from English to Czech for the local newspaper, he was promoted to night editor.

He started work at midnight and continued on till 8 am. University started at 9 am and finished by 4 pm.

Before Linden could qualify for Doctorate of Science in Pedagogy, he became almost blind. Doctors told him he should be treated at a sanatorium for at least six months. Even then, the prognosis was not good. Academician Chlup, who was the dean of the Faculty of Education in Carolina, granted Linden leave without time limit to submit his doctoral dissertation. He graduated from Carolina with straight high distinctions.

Linden decided to go to Australia, as he was challenged to do, and win a new deal for the aborigines by democratic means. It was decided that Linden, who seemed to have no future, would try to win the new deal without any support from Prague, but with his progress report from time to time.

Linden drafted and negotiated a thirty-year bi-partisan accord whereby the worst injustices were to be removed by amendment of the constitution, repeal of discriminatory legislation, and practical help with housing, education and other sore needs.

Later he drafted a proposal for World Anthropological Year (WAY). The WAY Proposal had a powerful echo, in the words of UNESCO, Paris, in the United Nations International Year for the World’s Indigenous People.

Writings by Conrad Linden are published around the world through United Press International (UPI), Reuters, and independent submission. Some of Linden’s free-style poems appear in ten books published in the US and in Australian journals.

EPISODES

First Episode

from Thus Spoke Golden Guru

ROMANCE

by Conrad Linden 2010-12-23

Mr Frank decided to return to Prague after many years in Australia. He had no work for two years, and he missed Prague.

He was close to sixty, still in his middle age, slightly overweight, and had touches of grey in his hair. Not tall, just average height.

Mr Frank has been a teacher in Melbourne Girls Grammar School for many years. As he had passed 55 years of age, he was replaced by a younger teacher.

He longed for Prague, his home country. He missed his mother and he had left an old girlfriend behind.

Two years was a long time to not have constant work. The heat was starting to get to him. He had tried to start a small business tutoring English to migrant students from the local university. There was enough students but he had trouble with the local telephone company. The phone kept cutting off. It was difficult to keep in contact with his students.

Mr Frank started to make plans to leave. He looked for his passport and looked up the internet for available flights to Prague.

He then went to see his aunty. They had a long talk at her home. She made him sandwiches and tea.

After speaking to his aunty he became more determined to leave for Prague.

He put his furniture in storage, and sold any extra belongings. Then he bought his aeroplane ticket.

Finally the flat was empty and clean. He handed the keys back to the real estate.

The heatwave was unbearable. The temperature had reached 45 degrees. Sweat poured from his forehead.

He called for a taxi. Panting and out of breath he put his luggage into the taxi, which took him to the airport. He waited patiently for his aeroplane, thinking of his journey ahead. (Inside his suitcase were the notes from his classes.)

The plane journey had made him tired. At Prague airport he telephones his old girlfriend to make an arrangement for dinner. He then goes to his hotel room to rest.

At the restaurant he greets his old girlfriend, Carmen, You look lovelier than ever!

Thank you, my dear, she said. You look the same as before, except broader everywhere and some grey hair.

What do you think we should order? she asked.

He replied, Pot of tea, veal schnitzel and vegetables. And later apple strudel.

Sounds fine, said Carmen. I’ll go and order.

Once at the table they started chatting about old times.

Remember all the times we spent at Bondi Beach? I was studying cooking at AGL Bondi. I used to meet you after school finished. We’d catch the bus to Bondi Beach and take our shoes off and walk along the beach. she said.

Thus spoke Mr Frank:

In our young days

We’d walk along the water’s edge

Without a care in the world.

Hand in hand

We planned to conquer the world,

Happiness and laughter

Surrounded you.

You passionately wanted

To know your loved one,

Share all your dreams

And innermost thoughts.

In old age, these times

Will become fond memories,

That we will cherish forever.

I remember, Carmen said, Then I had to leave Australia to see my parents in Prague. I thought I would never come back.

And when you sailed away on that ship to Europe,

A letter is written to the beloved:

When you left,

You took my heart,

Please do come back,

And give me your heart,

So that we can be together

And never be apart,

The dewdrops that we are now

Will slip tomorrow into the shiny sea.

But you did write, he said, But you didn’t want to go back to Australia!

Yes, I stopped writing. My parent’s newspaper business was quite demanding. I couldn’t leave. Eventually I met my husband there. Carmen said.

I miss my cousin, Lotte. said Mr Frank said.

Thus spoke