TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Raise Your Hand
Earth 2: The Real Paradise
Be a Part of This
Reclaiming the Heart
Try the Heart-Mind
Back to the Circle
The
Importance of the Original Language to the
Child
How?
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FOR TEACHERS
AND PARENTS:
Listening to the New World Children
By Patricia Jepsen
(2003, 8 1/2"x 5 1/2", 27 pages, stapled
booklet, US$6.00)
EXCERPT
We must
go back to school--not to obtain further
degrees, accolades of learning. We need to
remember what it was like to be fresh and
enthusiastic in our learning. We, as an adult
community, have for the most part squashed our
ability to truly learn, and we must recover
that gift if we are to point the way for our
children and grandchildren.
How do we
do this? Where can we go to remember and to
recapture our gentleness of spirit and our
loving manner of watching? Is there a place
within that carries that record of
remembrance?
The
greatest and most profound gift you can give
your children and your grandchildren is to
remember. And this can be done swiftly,
providing you are willing to go empty and
flush out the reams of paperwork and lifeless
bureaucracy that has invaded your temple of
being. You must be willing to live as you have
never lived and release that which can only
stifle your inner child--the creative
intelligence that has come to light the world
and the schoolroom!
Raise
your hand and say "yes" to your inner child.
Return to the relationship you once had with
all life. Remember the joy of discovering the
magical, industrious worm squiggling into the
earth, or hiding beneath a leaf. Recall the
dance of the spirit radiating through the
butterfly's wings, or the sudden, unexplained
pinpoints of light that filled the room before
you went to sleep and the wondrous peace that
followed. Remember the exciting sound of the
train? No other sound was quite like that.
Remember...and be magical again.
Raise
your hand and volunteer to find out what the
children know. When did you forget what they
know? What caused your forgetfulness? Can you
remember?
As you
step into a whole new room of consciousness
where many children stand already, be open and
ready for a delightful new experience; and
trust that it will be there for you as teacher
and parent.
Go
swiftly now. There is no time for pause. The
children are waiting; the child in you waits,
as it has always waited, to become one with
you. Listen to the new, and to the voices of
the children. You once heard, you will hear
again, if you believe.
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