Many of Bering Academy’s teacher/students are people who have become uncomfortable with the way that organized religions have deadened the destabilizing power of theological symbols and have transformed them into metaphysical or magical entities that offer false comfort in exchange for blind allegiance. At the same time, these people are unable to escape, deaden, or distract themselves from the pressure that works from within these symbols and the questioning it generates. Bering Academy offers such people a space where they can honestly explore this questioning alongside others whose questions both reinforce their own and unsettle them.

If you have become uncomfortable with the tidy boxes of conventional thinking offered by secular and religious ideologies of all stripes, unrestricted inquiry may be calling you. If so, we invite you to explore Bering Academy’s courses for yourself. Your questions and your passion are welcome here.

Alan Richard, Ph.D.
Dean, Bering Academy