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Parental Intelligence - Issue 56
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Bob Collier
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Aug 25, 2003 08:27 PDT
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25 August 2003
Issue 56
Bob Collier, Editor mailto:quauss-@hotmail.com
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on in California, as its citizens consider who they want as
their next Governor. Apparently, there are 135 candidates,
one of whom is the legendary Brian Tracy, one of America's
leading authorities on personal and business success. Since
we've been talking about happiness in recent weeks, my main
article in this week's issue presents Brian Tracy's own
views on the subject: "The Journey to Happiness".
The plot thickens in The Candlelight Project, with my
discovery of more interesting ideas behind the cult of
biopsychiatry; and, in Doug Bench's Brain Stuff, find out
how thoughts we're not even aware of can affect our moods.
Leading off this week's issue of Parental Intelligence, an
update on the 3rd International Soul in Education Conference
being held here in Australia at the end of September.
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3rd International Soul in Education Conference - UPDATE
"Celebrating Spirit of Learning"
Lake Ainsworth, NSW, Australia. (15min south of Byron Bay)
27th September - 2nd October 2003
FOR EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, PARENTS & ALL LIFE-LONG LEARNERS
Choose from 40 experiential workshops, 25 interactive paper
sessions, 9 plenary panel presentations, nightly
entertainment, outdoor recreational facilities;
Choose from a global array of innovative presenters,
educators and performers.
Please visit updated website:
http://www.spiritoflearning.com/conference
Workshop Presenters include:
Maggie Dent (Australia)
Workshops: 1. Teaching children the magic of silence and
stillness; 2. Inspirational teaching
Maggie Dent is an educator, counsellor, speaker and
internationally accredited facilitator with a special
passion for children , youth and adults seeking greater
fulfilment in their lives . She has a wide background of
experience that she brings to her work and is currently
running seminars for teachers and parents across Australia
that increase awareness in the healthy raising of children
in our chaotic world.
Maggie currently runs her own independent business called
"Esteem Plus" that aims to inspire, encourage and assist
people of all ages to make a positive step forward in their
lives. She does this by using a transpersonal approach to
helping them to improve their emotional literacy and
competency, as well as building their personal resilience to
life. She is the author of "Teaching Children the Magic of
Silence and Stillness."
Bruce Gill ( USA )
Workshop: Skills for living, learning and loving in a
diverse world
Bruce Gill is a specialist in organizational development and
management training. He has held leadership roles with Kraft
General Foods, Educators for Social Responsibility - Metro,
The New York State Division for Youth, and Sponsors For
Educational Opportunity.
As a partner and principal with Inter-Change Consultants, he
designs and delivers training in diversity, conflict
resolution and executive leadership. He also conducts
organizational assessments, planned interventions, and
executive coaching. He has worked with organizations
throughout the US and Kenya.
Bruce holds a BA from Middlebury College and a Masters in
Private and Public Management from Yale University.
Lonny Gold (Sweden)
Workshop: Suggestopedia: learning as a healing process
Lonny has taught over 200 one-month long Suggestopedic
language courses since 1978, and has been an international
Suggestopedic teacher trainer for the last 10 years. He is
the creator of all of his own material - both for language
instruction and teacher education. Originally Canadian, he
has lived in France for most of his life and directed a
Paris-based training organization from 1984 to 1998.
He currently works with the Narwal in Holland as well as
with a variety of organizations throughout Europe. His
most strongly held conviction is that when a teacher looks
after the learners, the learning looks after itself.
Lonny will be available for workshops in Australia. Contact
below for details.
Amrita Hobbs (Australia)
Workshop: GETTING REAL ... about growing up! A JOURNEY INTO
SELF-AWARENESS
Paper:The Rites of Every Child
Amrita Hobbs (B.Ed. Hons) is a trained teacher and has
facilitated groups with teenagers and adults since 1975.
Amrita founded Harmony Holiday bush camps in 1986. She
organised and led ten-day 'Rites of Passage' Journeys
assisting youth to become aware of the transition from child
to adult. She currently offers programs for schools and
other organisations.
Amrita's first book, It Could Be Different - A self-help
book for teenagers was published in 1991. SisterWeb Stories
in 1998 and GETTING REAL ... about growing up! in 2003.
Her groundbreaking work Girls Growing Up! with mothers and
daughters was featured as an ABC Documentary. She has
appeared on national and local television. Her work has been
well received internationally.
Dr. LindaMichelle Baron (USA)
Talk: Reaching the heart and soul of children through
poetry
Paper: Poetry from my soul to your heart
Workshop: Reaching children with diverse backgrounds through
poetry and story
Dr. Lindamichelle Baron, a former New York City public
school teacher, earned her Master's Degree in Reading and
her Doctorate in Cross Categorical Studies from Columbia
University's Teachers College.
She is the founder, and over a decade has been president of
the publishing and educational consulting company Harlin
Jacque Publications.
Her books include: The Sun Is On (listed as a recommended
book for New York State middle schools); Rhythm & Dues:
Poetry & Idea Book; For the Love of Life; and Anthony Ant
and Grady Grasshopper.
"transformation rather than information"
Visit the website for further information on the program,
presenters, performers, the voices of youth forum and
registration details:
http://www.spiritoflearning.com/conference
Tel: 02 66 85 44 98 or email: adm-@spiritoflearning.com
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THE CANDLELIGHT PROJECT
This week, I was sent an article called "The Rebranding of
a Disease", written by a Jerome Burne and originally
published in the New Statesman 11th March 2002.
The article is, essentially, about the deliberate
suppression of negative information about drugs. You can
read it here:
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/bigpharma/index.html
I was interested to note that this article, as you can see,
came from a website called biopsychiatry.com and it turns
out it was written by a mainstream biological psychiatrist.
Hmmm... That's interesting, I thought. So, I spent half an
hour or so having a look around the biopsychiatry.com
website. It appears to be run by an organisation called BLTC
Research.
What do the letters BLTC stand for? Well, according to the
website FAQ page:
"'BLTC' was coined originally as a tongue-in-cheek acronym
for the old DuPont motto Better Living Through Chemistry.
Since such a slogan understates the moral urgency of the
abolitionist project, the acronym was dropped."
And what is it these people want to abolish?
This is the BLTC Research 'Mission Statement':
"BLTC RESEARCH was founded in 1995 to promote paradise-
engineering. We are dedicated to an ambitious global
technology project. BLTC seek to abolish the biological
substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all
sentient life.
Absurdly fanciful? No. The blueprint for a Post-Darwinian
Transition to a cruelty-free world is conceptually simple,
technically feasible and morally urgent.
At present, life on earth is controlled by self-replicating
DNA. Selfish genes ensure that pain and malaise are endemic
to the living world.
Yet all traditional religions, all social and economic
ideologies, and all political parties, are alike in one
respect. They ignore the biochemical roots of our ill-being.
So the noisy trivia of party politics distract us from what
needs to be done.
Fortunately, the old Darwinian order - driven by blind
natural selection acting on random genetic mutations - is
destined to pass into evolutionary history.
For third-millennium bioscience allows us to:
rewrite the vertebrate genome
redesign the global ecosystem
deliver genetically pre-programmed well-being
In the new reproductive era ahead, biotechnology will make
us smarter, happier and just possibly nicer. Post-Darwinian
superminds can abolish "physical" and "mental" pain
altogether.
The ethical importance of the decisions we take can scarcely
be exaggerated. For soon we'll be forced to choose how much
suffering in the living world we want to conserve and
create. Or we can choose instead to abolish suffering
completely.
Life on earth can be animated by gradients of ecstatic well-
being beyond the bounds of normal human experience.
In the end, the greatest obstacles to lifelong superhealth
and a cruelty-free world may prove ideological, not
technical. BLTC RESEARCH campaign to promote paradise-
engineering as a rigorous academic discipline and a mature
applied science."
To be honest, that all reads to me like something from a
university student with a John Lennon complex who's
overdosed on sci-fi comics and pseudo-intellectualism, but,
that's only my personal opinion, of course. What would I
know? I'll leave you to figure out what it means to you.
However, there are clues here that tell me quite a lot about
the way biopsychiatrists think.
If the ideas expressed at the BLTC website are
representative of the belief system underlying the cult of
biopsychiatry, it goes a long way to explaining why I so
often find that (even taking the issue of financial gain
into account) the response by its proponents to problem
side-effects with drugs currently on the market is always a
search for new, 'better' drugs and never a search for more
beneficial forms of treatment.
It appears that biopsychiatrists are simply on a quest to
produce 'happy pills' designed to solve all of humanity's
'problems'. Is that what it's all about?
Then, these people have lost the plot. Yes, it would be
great if we didn't have to take personal responsibility for
our own lives, if we didn't have to learn in order to grow,
if we didn't have to exercise our ability to consciously
control our thoughts and our moods in order to produce
successful behaviour, if we didn't have to take action to
safeguard our personal environments, look after our bodies
and develop our relationships - if we didn't have to do the
WORK necessary to create a life worth living. How wonderful
to simply pop a pill and have it all done for us!
But, that's not what's happening. People are not popping
pills and getting these things done for them. They're
popping pills and FORGETTING that these things need to be
done. And, just for good measure, they're often being
handed a nice line in collateral damage at the same time.
For, the facts I've discovered over recent weeks about the
pharmaceuticals being given to millions of people all over
the world - supposedly to help them live better lives -
strongly suggest that they actually do more harm than good.
Welcome to paradise!
And there's more. Anti-depressants, apparently, are the
biggest selling pharmaceuticals in the world by far - the
archetypal 'happy pills', you could say. According to an
item in today's Canberra Times, reporting on recent studies,
"anti-depressants either don't work at all or have an effect
that is so small as to be clinically unimportant."
But, you still get the side-effects.
What can I say?
At the end of the day, you have to look beyond people's
ideas to the results those ideas produce - the fruits of the
vine - and it seems to me that not only has biopsychiatry a
track record of dismal failure that only an intellectual
could turn a blind eye to, but its practitioners and
supporters continue to add insult to injury through their
stubborn maintenance of its scientific pretensions in
defiance of plain facts.
Here's something I'm curious about.
The word 'biopsychiatry' is, of course, a contraction of the
words 'biological psychiatry'. 'Biological', according to
the 2002 edition of the Penguin English Dictionary, means
simply "relating to biology, life or living organisms".
However, it seems to me that the ideas being promoted by so-
called biological psychiatry are actually not simply
biological. They're 'biomechanical', which is a different
mindset altogether. And doesn't it show.
If 'biological psychiatry' was more accurately renamed
'biomechanical psychiatry' - in other words, if the
proponents of this ideology actually made it common
knowledge that they perceive human beings to be nothing more
than biological machines whose behaviour can be manipulated
at will by pharmaceutical technology - would that affect
their influence in modern society?
Possibly, a lot more people would wake up a lot sooner.
Here's a slightly inconvenient something that a practitioner
or supporter of biopsychiatry would probably never tell you:
"Your body is its own pharmacy: it makes all kinds of drugs
- sleeping aids, tranquillisers, immuno-modulators. Just
about any drug you can name, the body makes by itself. Not
only that, but it provides the right drug at the right time,
in the right dose, for the right organs. There are no side
effects and all the instructions come with the packaging.
That is a fact, and one that is well documented by science."
- Deepak Chopra, M.D., and Leon Nacson, "How to Live in a
World of Infinite Possibilities" (Rider, 1998), pp.62-63
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BREAKING NEWS - THIS JUST IN!
Dr. James H. Scully, Jr, Medical Director of the American
Psychiatric Association, has been challenged to a public
debate on the legitimacy of biological psychiatry by
Nicholas Regush, Editor of Red Flags Daily.
Read about this and the Pasedena hunger strike against
psychiatry right here:
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/extra/2003_aug25.html
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The Journey to Happiness
by Brian Tracy
The key to happiness is both simple and complex. It is the
sum total result of more than 2000 years of philosophy,
psychology, speculation and discussion about the meanings
and sources of happiness. From Aristotle in 340 BC through
to the modern thinkers, speakers and writers of today, this
key to happiness has hardly changed at all. It is the same
for virtually all men and women, in all countries and
situations and in all walks of life.
The key to happiness is this: dedicate yourself to the
development of your natural talents and abilities by doing
what you love to do, and doing it better and better, in the
service of a cause that is greater than yourself.
This is a big statement and a big commitment. Being happy
requires that you define your life in your own terms and
then throw your whole heart into living your life to the
fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly
selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you
can be unselfish for the rest of your life. In Edmund
Rostand's play "Cyrano de Bergerac", Cyrano, is asked why
he is so intensely individualistic and unconcerned with the
opinions and judgments of others. He replies with these
wonderful words, "I am what I am because early in life I
decided that I would please at least myself in all things."
Your happiness likewise depends upon your ability to please
at least yourself in all things. You can only be happy when
you are living your life in the very best way possible. No
one can define happiness for you. Only you know what makes
you happy. Happiness is an inside job.
Now, there is a good deal of confusion on the subject of
happiness. When I was growing up, I was told by older
relatives that my happiness was irrelevant. I was reminded
again and again that it was selfish for me to set my own
happiness as a goal and to strive toward it. I was told that
I was here on earth to make other people happy and that if
I got a little happiness on the way through, I should
consider myself lucky.
Many people fool themselves into thinking that by giving up
their own personal happiness, they can make someone else
happy, usually members of their family. But this way of
thinking is completely confused. You can't reap where you
haven't sown. Just as you cannot make someone else healthy
by being sick, you cannot make someone else happy by being
unhappy. People who think that they are unhappy so that
others can be happy are deluding themselves. They are
rationalizing their own dissatisfaction by somehow
pretending that it is noble to be miserable.
Study after study shows that the best thing you can do for
the people around you, especially the members of your
family, is to be a happy person. If you want to raise happy
children, be a happy parent. If you want to have a happy
spouse, be a happy husband or wife. Only happy people can
make other people happy.
A very important point on the subject of happiness is
whether or not you feel that you "deserve" to be happy. The
question of deservedness is one of the most fundamental and
confusing issues that we have to deal with throughout life.
Most of us have been brought up with vague feelings of guilt
and uneasiness. Deep down inside, we often don't feel that
we deserve to be truly happy. In fact, these feelings of
guilt and inferiority can lead us to sabotage our own
happiness when we finally do achieve it.
A starting point for enjoying happiness is for you to accept
that you deserve all the happiness you can honestly attain
through the application of your special talents and
abilities. The more you like and respect yourself, the more
deserving you will feel of the good things in life. And the
more deserving you feel, the more likely it will be that you
will attain and hold on to the happiness you are working
toward.
Another key is to make happiness the organizing principle of
your life. By doing this, you can compare every possible
action and decision against that standard of happiness to
see whether it would make you more happy or less happy.
Soon, you will discover that almost all of the problems of
your life come from choices that you have made, or are
currently making, that do not contribute to your happiness.
Of course, there are countless times where you will have to
do little things that don't make you happy on the path
toward those larger things that make you very happy indeed.
We call this paying the price of success in advance. You
must pay your dues. For example, if you want to enjoy the
good life of success, prestige, respect, and inner
satisfaction that comes from successful selling, you must
often get up early, make cold calls, prospect with rude or
indifferent people to find business, and stay later than
anyone else. Sometimes these interim steps don't make you
happy directly, but the happiness you achieve from attaining
your goals is so great that it wipes away the temporary
inconveniences and dissatisfactions you had to endure in
order to get there.
As Earl Nightingale said, "Happiness is the progressive
realization of a worthy ideal." You only feel really happy
when you are moving, step-by-step, toward the accomplishment
of clearly defined goals that you feel will enhance the
quality of your life.
Since you can't be truly happy until you are clear about
your inherent possibilities, it's very important that you
take some time on a regular basis to analyze yourself and
identify your strengths and weaknesses. There is an old
saying: "Success leaves tracks." You can often look back in
your life, and look around you today, to identify who you
really are and what you should really be doing with your
life. One of the best ways to do this is to ask yourself
two powerful questions.
The first question is my favorite: "What one great thing
would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail?"
Imagine that you are absolutely guaranteed success in the
pursuit of a particular goal, big or small, short term or
long term. Imagine that you had all the money, all the time,
all the education, all the contacts, all the resources and
everything else that you could possibly need to achieve any
one big goal in life. What would it be? This is a very
important question because when you remove the limitations
from your thinking, you often get a very clear idea of
exactly what you should be doing with your life.
All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine
what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then
they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal
or purpose. And step-by-step realization of their ideal
makes them genuinely happy. The second question you can ask
yourself is this: "How would I spend my life if I learned
today that I only had six months to live?" If you could only
do one or two things before your time on earth was over,
what would they be? Where would you go? Who would you spend
your time with?
Often, when you think about only having a short time left,
you become very clear about exactly what it is that you
should be doing with your life.
Both of these questions assess your values. They go right
to the very heart of the person you really are. They give
you indications of your natural talents and abilities, of
what is really important to you.
You get indications of your heart's desire, the key to your
happiness, throughout your life. The things that you did
with the greatest joy and happiness between the ages of 7
and 14 contain the seeds of what you should be doing as an
adult if you want to fulfill your full potential and become
everything you are capable of becoming. Think back to your
early teenage years. What did you most enjoy doing? What
kind of people did you most enjoy associating with? What
sort of things did you most enjoy learning about? What sort
of activities did you most enjoy engaging in?
Dr. Viktor Frankl, who wrote the book "Man's Search for
Meaning," said that you can divide the things you do in life
into four categories. The first category consists of the
things that are hard to learn and hard to do. An example in
this category for many people is mathematics. Many of us
struggled with math in school, and still struggle with
bookkeeping, accounting, financial statements, and tax
returns as an adult. If you find mathematics hard to learn
and hard to do, this is the sort of activity for which you
are clearly not suited. No matter how much of it you do, or
how good you get at it, you will never achieve any lasting
satisfaction or happiness from it. The next category
consists of things that are hard to learn but easy to do.
Riding a bicycle and driving a car are hard to learn but
easy to do once you've practiced enough. Tying your shoes
is another example. These are seldom the sort of activities
where you feel terrific about yourself when you engage in
them. They do not demand your best.
The third category consists of things that are easy to learn
but hard to do. Physical labor falls into this category.
Digging a ditch with a shovel or chopping wood with an ax
are easy to learn but they are hard to do. And they never
get any easier.
The fourth category is the key. These are things that are
easy to do and easy to learn. You seem to have a natural
proclivity for them. When you are engaged in this sort of
activity, time flies. The things that are easy to learn and
easy to do for you are the sort of things that you should
be doing with your life. They indicate where your natural
talents and abilities lie. It is engaging in these
activities with your whole heart, and committing yourself
to becoming better and better, that will give you all the
joy, satisfaction, and happiness you could want in life.
Everyone has an area of excellence. Everyone has something
that he or she can do in an outstanding fashion. It may take
weeks, months, and even years for you to develop yourself in
that area so that you can really perform in an extraordinary
fashion, but you will be strongly attracted to that sort of
activity from the beginning. You will enjoy reading about it
and talking about it and thinking about it. You will find
yourself admiring people who are outstanding in that area.
You will look longingly at that field and wonder what it
would be like to be in it and to be successful at it. And
that is very often your heart's desire. That area of
activity, the area where you can become excellent, is
probably what you were put on this earth to do.
There is a direct correlation between the feeling of growth
and the feeling of motivation or personal power. It is when
you are growing progressively, becoming better and better at
something that is important to you, that you really feel
alive and in touch with your world. And remember, excellence
is not a destination; it's a lifelong journey.
So resolve to persist until you succeed. The first part of
courage is the resolve to launch in faith toward your
objectives; the second part of courage is your willingness
to endure in the face of the inevitable disappointments and
setbacks along the road.
Happiness is not an accident. Happy people are those who
deliberately do the things that invariably lead to
happiness. Happy people are those who know what they want
and then throw their whole hearts into using their unique
talents and abilities to make a contribution to the world in
the achievement of their goals.
You were put on this earth with a special purpose,
programmed with unique talents and abilities that have not
yet been fully tapped and utilized. When you focus all of
your energies on unlocking your true potential, you can
claim your ultimate birthright: happiness.
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DOUG BENCH'S BRAIN STUFF
Your brain has enormous power to help you bring forth what
you think about most! But be careful what you think about!
At Ohio State University, Dr. T. Chartrand has conducted
experiments that show our nonconscious brain can form goals
for us that we consciously don't even know about! If we
don't reach these unknown goals, it can create in us, a bad
mood for DAYS, and we don't even know why! It also then can
harm performance!
Dr. Chartrand had two groups of students read a list of
words over and over for several days before attempting to
solve a puzzle that was impossible to solve. One group read
a list of words that were achievement and success oriented,
such as "finish", "overcome", and "accomplishment". The
second group's word list had no connection to success or
achievement. A week after attempting the unsolvable puzzle,
the first group reported anxiety, depression, and several
other low mood indicators, but had no idea why! The second
group had no such mood problems. Dr Chartrand's conclusion
was that the first group's nonconscious brain had taken
these words as real and created a goal for the students to
reach "success" with the puzzle. When they failed, they felt
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PROJECTS OF INTEREST
The Natural Child Project
Parent, homeschooler, author and psychologist Jan Hunt
shares her vision of the world in which all children are
treated with dignity, respect, understanding and compassion.
http://www.naturalchild.org/
The Parenting Project
A non-profit organization founded in 1995 by parent advocate
and mother of three Suzy Garfinkle Chevrier working to bring
parenting, empathy and nurturing skills education to all
school age children and teens.
http://www.parentingproject.org/
Project HappyChild
Penny Rollo Midas' extraordinary extravaganza of resources
for children and parents. Started in 1998, it's now more
than 7,000 pages and still growing!
http://www.happychild.org.uk/
Project Renaissance
Creative thinking pioneer Win Wenger's core mission is to
enable as many human beings as possible to become more than
a match for the situations, opportunities and problems or
difficulties that they find around them, and to enjoy a
richer quality of life and experience.
http://www.winwenger.com/
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I hope you've enjoyed this issue of Parental Intelligence!
Issue 57 will be published on 1 September 2003
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