[GJM] Fw: New Project From Marion Brady

[mary rose]

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From: "Marion Brady" <mbrady22 at cfl.rr.com>
To: "mary rose" <maryrose333 at att.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: [globalnetnews-summary] In weak economy, forgoing $4 lattes for 
home brews


   "My thing" for the last 40 years has been an attempt to convince
 policymakers that the so-called "core curriculum" to which just about every
 kid in the world enrolled in a Westernized school is subjected, is totally
 unacceptable.  It was put in place in 1892 and is fundamentally flawed,
 contributing in a major way to our present fix by turning out graduates
 unaware of the systemically integrated nature of reality.
 Thomas Merton: "The world itself is no problem, but we are a problem to
 ourselves because we are alienated from ourselves, and this alienation is
 due precisely to an inveterate habit of division by which we break reality
 into pieces and then wonder why, after we have manipulated the pieces until
 they fall apart, we find ourselves out of touch with life, with reality,
 with the world, and most of all with ourselves." - Contemplation In a World
 of Action, Paulist Press, 1992, p.153.

 Thanks much.  Here's the link to my effort:

            http://www.avwebnet.com/EducationReformLetter.asp

 Marion

Dear Marion, I believe the key word to the future is "integration."  As I've 
written previously, it is estimated that 75% of the population of the U..S. 
is left-brain linear oriented.  So, this means that they only get a 
"particalized view of the world."  And, we need to get everyone, not just 
kids, operating from a holographic/holodynamic orientation where the two 
hemispheres of the brain are entrained and connected with the heart brain. 
But, of course you know this, and I just want to bring this out and note for 
people new to the list that you have done workshops with Dr. Carla 
Hannaford, so we've got the "neuro-education" connection going here as well, 
leading to an understanding why "learning is not all in the head," and we 
need to get into this "hands-on-learning" in order to get the action 
associated with the head stuff.  And, again for those new to the list or who 
have forgotten, when learning takes place, movement is necessary to mylinate 
the nerve endings involved. (And this is the short explanation, we'll be 
exploring this subject more in depth as we move along in helping me to bring 
together and organize all the info for "The Sacred Quest for the Who of I 
Am."  With love and in gratitude to all of you for assisting in this 
endeavor.  It would be so much more difficult for me to do this alone.

I just posted a draft on the way the world appears to be moving into the 
future, and I see it as moving into the "home-based-community" setting. And 
I want to expand on this a little. You know Alvin Toffler in his "Third 
Wave" saw us moving into "electronic cottages," with an emphasis on "local" 
rather than transportation to a distant location.  And, I believe that the 
end of oil environment is forcing us in this direction.  Toffler points out 
in his book the staggering amount of money it would take to bring all of our 
school buildings up to code and to modernize them. But he also points out 
the staggering amount of money that is spent on the maintenance and care of 
all large buildings that are used for only about 1/3 of the day.  This 
includes educational facilities, office buildings and some industrial 
facilitis.  When you figure in the costs of maintaining these facilities, 
and then factor in the costs of transportation to and from them, it would 
make more sense to pay people to stay home.  And, Toffler wrote this back in 
1979, so the info is even more timely now.

Then, Buckminster Fuller wrote in "Critical Path" that he felt TV was the 
best means of delivering education, so with TV and the computer morphing 
together and providing for interactivity in real time, we have a coming 
together of events that create a whole new paradigm.

And, then you have Richard Heinberg and Julian Darley heading up this 
"relocalization movement, based on what is happening as peak oil gets into 
the picture, so, we are getting preview of how the worldview for the future 
may be shaping up.

Good work, Marion.
Again with love and gratitude for all that you do and all that we do 
together.

mary rose

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