William R. Stimson

Dr. William R. Stimson leads free monthly all-day Montague Ullman style experiential dream groups in Taiwan's capital Taipei and also in the mid-island city Taichung. Together with Shuyuan Wang and Yeh-Jen Lin, he originated the Ullman dream group course at Taiwan's National Yang-Ming Medical University. Subsequently he refined the course and, with Shuyuan Wang, taught it to graduate students in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Taiwan's National Chi Nan University. In this course every class is an Ullman dream group. Everything the students learn about dreams they learn from working with their own dreams. Bill is eager to introduce this course at other universities and train resident faculty how to teach it.

Dr. Stimson also leads a monthly silent meditation retreat at a beautiful small rural temple on Bamboo Mountain in central Taiwan. There is no charge for this retreat, although he suggests those who attend donate $NT600 to the nun who built the beautiful simple building and planted and maintains the pretty garden all around. The retreat schedule is here.

Another Chinese Writer Goes To Jail For Telling The Truth

In China, Hu Jia, 34, and his wife, Zeng Jinyan were placed under house arrest because they posted information on the internet about human rights cases, peasant protests and other government abuses.

On Dec. 27, 2007, Mr. Hu was taken away by the Chinese police. His wife and daughter were left under house arrest, and cut off from telephones and the Internet.

On April 3, 2008 a Chinese court sentenced Mr Hu to three and a half years in prison for telling the truth in a country where this is not permitted.

The New York Times