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Reconnecting our species to the web of life can be most effective with the young - those who have not already "learned" that it is impossible.
"And the day came
when the risk it took
to remain tightly
closed in a bud
was more painful
than the risk it took to
bloom."
- Anais Nin
Kids of the Life Web
- Beginnings are always important. We are thrust into this world at birth in a sudden overturning of everything we know. The warm, dark, safe womb expels us into a harshly lit hospital, where rough, plastic covered hands hit us, put painful liquid into our eyes, and place us into a cold bed, away from our mother.
- Natural Childbirth is an alternative
- embraced by many mothers to the harsh introduction to life provided by the medical profession. Reversing the trauma of birth plays a central role in spiritual healing - is it not far better that birth occur naturally so that the experience of the child is that which nature has intended?
"The laboring woman must put aside her own comfort and learn to surrender to a process so intense that it threatens to consume her. She must have the willingness and openness to dive deep within herself and find the stamina to endure, to focus, and to trust. She may have to stretch beyond her own perceived limitations in order to experience this act of creation in the now." from an interview with a midwife: socalbirth.org- The Farm Midwives: www.thefarm.org
- Trina Paulus
- Hope for the Flowers - Quite possibly the best children's book ever written. (with a nod to Dr. Seuss)
- "because we have actually seen a butterfly we can hope for other transformations invisible to the eye." quote from website
- Small Website: www.hopefortheflowers.com/
- Summerhill School
- Summerhill is a school in England, founded in 1921 by A.S. Neill, based on freedom and creativity.
- "All are equally entitled to citizenship of the school - teachers, big kids, and little kids alike - and this is reflected in their interactions with each other. There is an ease of manner between equals that cannot exist in a hierarchy."
- This means that students and teachers vote equally on the rules of the school and that students go to class only when they want to. That they do go to classes is evidence of the basic desire of children to learn, and an indictment of schools that force attendance.
- "We feel that children in other schools are being disadvantaged by the fact that they have no decision making processes to learn from, making it very difficult when they subsequently leave school and have to start living in the adult world." quotes from website
- Book: Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing by A. S. Neill
- . . . (extraordinarily important)
- Website: www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
- Elia Wise
- Instruction manual for life in the universe.
- "Children's early capacities for learning are profound precisely because they precede the imposition of worldly constructs."
- Website: www.lettertoearth.com/
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Re-inventing education, heart consciousness.
- "In its original, genuine sense, Waldorf (school) is not preparing the child to be a dollar commodity in the marketplace, but is meeting each stage of a child's life with the environment that allows the child to be fully and completely and wholly a child at that time. My statement has always been that the three-year-old is not an incomplete five-year-old, but a complete, total and whole three-year-old."
- On social change: "... so long as a system is stable, or at an equilibrium, you can't change it, but as it moves toward disequilibrium and falls into chaos then the slightest bit of coherent energy can bring it into a new structure. What you find ... may seem small, but they will be the islands of coherent energy which then bring about the organized, entrained energy for a new situation. I think it will happen very rapidly." . . . (like how ice crystals form)
- Both quotes from an interview: www.ratical.org/
Ronda, Spain by David Roberts, 1834.
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