Love is all There Is
Nurturing Spiritual Intelligence in Children
Introduction and Outline
by Gretchen Shaw
Introduction
This book is for Parents and Educators who seek nothing less than a complete transformation of our world. We are in the midst of major planetary shift towards greater love, light, and harmony, and it is my hope that what you read here will help you and your children navigate through this uncharted, often confusing territory. For those who wish to take a more active part in this shift, this book will help you make better sense of just what is happening and will offer ways you can work together with your children to transform your lives, and in the process, transform the world.
If you are at all frustrated, as I have been, by the inability of our present day educational, mental health, and health care systems to recognize our children for who they really are –expressions of divine energy - this book will bring some hope. You will learn to recognize new/ancient, emerging forms of consciousness within yourself and your children, as we all consciously learn to live and work together in more harmonious and loving ways.
I believe that in order for us to reach this harmony, we must first be willing to open ourselves up to entirely different ways of seeing and being in the world. This new/ancient form of consciousness encourages each of us to see everything in the world, including ourselves, as expressions of sacred and divine energy. As each of us dares to express this Divine consciousness in our lives, and as we teach our children to do the same, we become powerful catalysts for global transformation.
Here you will learn how to allow these more natural, healthier, ways of learning, knowing, connecting and understanding to transform, shift, and bend the consciousness of fear and separation both within your own psyche and in the lives of those you live and work with. As life on our planet marches into greater light, expanded love, and lasting peace, we are all meant to learn how to literally raise the vibration of the energy within our bodies, and in doing so, helping to raising the total vibration of our planetary energy systems.
This book will also show you ways you and your children can learn to see the earth and yourselves as a part of greater energetic systems, which connect us all. With a simple intention to connect with the available healing and balancing energies, we can also connect with celestial beings, personal guides, and other healing energy systems.
Provided here is a map, to be used to get to whatever destination you wish to go. It can help to guide you and your children towards who you really are and why you are here on earth. This book can help anyone who wishes, to become like a modern day shaman, able to recognize disruptive negative energy patterns in your bodies, minds, and spirits. You can, if you wish, learn also to recognize these patterns in your homes, schools, and communities. Once recognized, you will then be armed with the information found here to consciously work with others to shift these negative patterns. Yes, young people can do this, and are actually quite good at it when we, the adults can see our relationships with them, as that of co-creators. Young people understand these principals, just as you do already. All we need to do is remind them of their innate abilities, just as I am reminding you of yours with this book.
You will also learn here to connect with millions of others, both virtually, and spiritually, who are also working towards healing and transforming our planetary village.
Personal and planetary transformation is happening and it is happening now, with or without our conscious cooperation. How fast we shift towards a more loving, peaceful, compassionate world, though, will depend upon on just how strong our desire for change is. It is my prayer and hope with this book, that parents, teachers, and young people will listen to this message and wake up and start living in the light and love of who they really are. I pray that it will not take further pain and trauma, as in the September 11th tragedy and the war in Iraq, to wake us up. I sincerely believe that with enough of us working for, meditating on, and praying for world transformation, that our collective effort will allow us to peacefully make the transitions we need to. We are now in the process of shifting the energy towards a truly positive vision of the future. This book is an invitation for you who are reading these words, to take an even more active part in the collective creation of that vision.
You will be inspired here by the stories of others who have made this consciousness shift within themselves and who now live and work from this loving, aware state of being. You will learn of virtual and actual communities all over the world where people are working together in a conscious and deliberate manor, to raise the vibration of the planet. You will learn how you can consciously connect to the collective consciousness of the millions of others who also recognize themselves as expressions of Divine Energy.
This book is especially designed for teachers and parents who are ready to open up their homes and classrooms to deep soul connections, divine collective consciousness, and transformational learning. Here you will be encouraged to go trust even more in your divine guidance, as you may also be called to help other parents and teachers do the same. Another way is possible. Many are choosing it, and all of us, if we wish, can create the lives, the schools, and the communities we dream of. With this book, I wish to inspire more people to stop hoping, wishing and dreaming, and start creating. For it is time for all of us to express our own divine consciousness in all that we do – time to share this energy with others- to allow our private moments of prayer and meditation, of divine oneness to spill out into our public lives. Then all of life becomes a meditation, and all action a prayer. May you allow the unity, love, harmony and peace which flow from reading this book inspire you to transform your homes, your communities, and your lives with children.
Section 1 - The Vision
This section gives the reader a basic understanding of just what is happening to us now - the widespread planetary opening to greater spirituality, harmony, light, and love. I explain in this section the ways people around the world are opening their hearts, minds, and spirits to this new transformational energy, and how it has the potential to transform our public educational systems and our world. Some questions addressed are:
Just what is this collective call to higher consciousness and where is it taking us?
What sort of world do we wish to create?
Why is it so important to be able to vision together?
What exactly is our vision and how can we get there?
Chapter 1 – The New/Ancient Energy Consciousness
Energy/Divine Consciousness
What is it? - Characteristics
Historical Context:
Tribal Cultures – Native American, African, Aboriginal Everywhere
Becoming like the Shaman
Transcendentalists
The 60’s Hippies
As Defined by Quantum Physicists,
Neo-Humanist Educators,
HeartLight Educators,
Spiritually- Minded Parents/Educators,
Steiner
Montessori
Holistic Educators
Energy/Divine Consciousness Applied – Helping Children understand it
Chapter 2 –Oneness (Sample Chapter – see enclosure)
Chapter 3 –The New Human
The New Children
Indigo Phenomena: Jan Tober, Lee Carrol, and Doreen Virtue
Spiritual Intelligence
Examples
Highly Sensitive Children – Indigo and others
ADHD – one response to an insane culture.
function in old patterns of thinking
When adults bring oppressive ways – these children clearly recognize the oppression and react.
Differing reactions:
Rebellion
Cannot Settle Down
How to work with them? – examples of holistic approaches
We can teach them to respond rather than react.
Become more sensitive ourselves
Learn to tune into their life purpose
(See Section 3)
Chapter 4 – Educating The New Human
New Paradigm/Ancient Intelligence – Defined
Ancient/Cosmic Intelligence
The Universal Human – Sarkar
Chapter 5 – The Return of the Ancients
A vision of the future based on ancient world views
Modern education is not sufficient to take us to where we say we wish to go – greater harmony, more cooperation, etc.
We need a consciousness that includes everything
You are a part of everything
Complete and total love.
Aboriginal cultures who have preserved teachings, and educational systems can teach us about this consciousness
Diagra Tribe – African
Native Americans
Eastern Teachings
P.R. Sarkar – Neo Humanists
Aurobindo
Krishnamurti
HeartLight Learning Communities – Based on CWG material
Teachers and parents can learn from these teachings, but ultimately, each of us must make the journey within our own souls – this is crucial. We must learn to live in the moment – in wisdom
Discover our own ancient roots.
We each is then able to connect to a vision of the past, discover clues, and begin to build a vision for the future that includes:
Lifelong Learning Centers
Chapter 6 – A Vision of The New Spiritual Learning Centers:
New Spiritually Focused Learning Centers will help children directly experience and feel their interconnections, and soul energy.
These connections will form foundations for all learning.
Look at NeoHumanists, HeartLight, and Waldorf Models
Teachers in Centers
Energy Consciousness is well developed in teachers through meditation, Commitment to Spiritual Growth.
Higher levels of consciousness are actively pursued by teachers, students, administrators
Chapter 7 - New/Ancient Educational Model
Energy Consciousness Experienced
Life Purpose integrated into curriculum
Use of Astrology, numerology and other ancient tools for understanding
purpose and direction
Tuning into other ways of Understanding/Knowing
Teaching Reiki and other Natural Healing Techniques
The Third Way
Using both Self Directed and Teacher Led Programs
Beyond Summerhill
teacher and student work together to tune into what student needs. Teacher can help students find, “inner teacher.
Careful not to project – this is what this student will be doing when they get older, etc. Rather, this is what student is now, with this group, this particular project. These are the gifts the student brings to this situation.
Teacher and Student both authority
Inner Teacher – Connecting with Soul
Emergent Curriculum
Chapter 8 – Story of Teacher from Neo-Humanist School
Chapter 9 – Stories of Parents/Teachers from Waldorf Schools
Rachael Distlesweig
Waldorf School in Eastsound
Chapter 10 – Stories of Spiritually Minded Homeschooling Parents
Chapter 11– Story of Public School Teachers Who Successfully Integrate Spirituality Into Their Classrooms
Section – 2 – Grounding the Vision
This section describes what educators and parents can do together to facilitate these transformational shifts in education. Specific ways in which all of us can more consciously make the shift towards a more enlightened consciousness in our homes, schools, and communities are offered.
Chapter 12 – What Happens when we allow this Ancient Energy Consciousness into our daily lives?
Until we learn to trust:
We may feel chaotic
Like nobody is running the show
Like we are doing nothing.
We must all learn the ways of the Shaman – Stay grounded
We become the all.
Examples from:
Carlos Cansteneda - Another way of “seeing”
Diagra - Getting out of ordinary consciousness
The message of, “The Real People” from Mutant Message Down Under
The Great Masters – Auribindo, Krishnamurti, Anandamurti (Sarkar)
Chapter 13 Energy Consciousness in Education
What does it look/feel like when teachers allow energy consciousness to shape educational experiences?
Examples from Teachers who do it.
Holistic Peace Education – Sonnie McFarland
Other Examples
Refer to educators and teachers from previous chapters
Curriculum – Based on idea that all life is sacred –
From Aboriginal World View
Circular
Cyclical
Creative
Noticing Patterns, Connections, Unity, Wholeness
Community Connections
Affirmations/Prayers/ Excursuses for Teachers and Parents
Chapter 13 More Games, activities to help children experience this new/ancient energy consciousness?
Some people are more sensitized to energy than others, and we must recognize that everyone connects with and expresses this new/ancient consciousness in different ways.
Spiritual Intelligence manifest itself in different ways
Must see how each child connects and express connection.
How to simply be with children.
Quiet down
Do more listening, less talking
Learn to open yourself completely to each moment, and teach students to do the same
Questions/Activities
Guided Meditations/ Games
Section 3 – Manifesting The Vision
Chapter 14 - Life Purpose
The importance of connecting with individual and group purpose
Connection between Individual and Group Purpose
Examples of Groups around the world who are, “tuning in” together
Helping young people make the connections
Using questions- exercises form Carol Adrienne’s Life Purpose Book
Helping adolescents get in touch with their purpose
Examples from programs and other cultures
Passages
HeartLight
Diagra Tribe
Developing Intuition/energy consciousness through
Meditation
Ritual
Initiation
Silence
Ideas for Parents/teachers to help them tune into kids’ purpose
Helping children tune into and discover life purpose?
Parents must be tuned into this themselves first – into their own purpose
Chapter 15 - Letting the Children Lead the Way
The New Children have a mission
To Transform
It is up to us to make use spirit does not get squashed in these generations
The job of parents and teachers now is to help prepare the way – set the stage for transformation
Training young leaders
Chapter 16 – The New Evidence
The Mind Body Connection
Studies in the effect of positive and negative thought on water crystals
Studies on the subtle energy field of the body
Studies in non-local phenomena
The effect of meditation on the brain
Implications for Education
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