I just received the following request from my friend, Prapanna Smith, principal of the innovative and very successful Integral Elementary School and Rainbow Kids Integral Preschools in La Jolla, a small oceanside suburb of San Diego, California, USA. I can speak personally for Prapanna's skills and integrity. I recommend participating in the survey he describes below.  ~ ronjon

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Hi Ron,I am currently working on a Doctorate (Ed.D) in the Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership at UC San Diego and CSU San Marcos.  Through some of the research for my dissertation I discovered some really interesting ideas regarding life purpose.  In light of Mother's opening in her essay on "The Science of Living" ("An aimless life is always a miserable life. . .") life purpose is a particularly relevant idea in the context of Integral Education research.  

Recently I found two interesting surveys on life purpose and sources of meaning in life, which I would like to use as a sort of trial run for the collection and analysis of data.  I have uploaded the questions from these surveys to Survey Monkey, a website where one can create, store, and administer research instruments.  I am calling this the Aim in Life Survey.

I would be very grateful if we can get as many members of the worldwide Sri Aurobindo community as possible to fill out the survey on-line by going to the link below.  The survey consists of six pages and should only take about 15-20 minutes to complete.  The survey is completely confidential.  My interest in doing this is to validate the survey and then share the findings with anyone here who would be interested in them.

The more participants the better.  There are hundreds of people on the SCIY Blog and I need a minimum of 200 respondents to get reliable data.  If you take the survey, make sure you complete all six pages and answer all the questions. 

If you choose to participate, please click here: 

<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4i_2fZx0hoAZ7aRGumkXBWPQ_3d_3d">Click Here to take the Aim in Life survey</a>

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanking everyone in advance,

Prapanna

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