The Sacred Urge to Play

Authors: Pennie Brownlee
Published Date: 30th November, 2025
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Issue 82

There is one thing all children have in common regardless of which culture they are born into, which ethnicity, which era, which method of education they encounter, which philosophy of learning is imposed on them, and that is the Pattern of Being.

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The Sacred Urge to Play

Listening to the call of change

PENNIE BROWNLEE

This article was originally printed in The Space #58 (2017). It has been reprinted to honour her life and work with the permission of the Pennie Brownlee foundation. More information on play urges can be found in ‘The Sacred Urge to Play’ by Pennie Brownlee & Kimberly C

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