If you've read my revealing report about the Genius Dip, then you would probably be equally - or more - concerned about our children's future as I am.
Yes, it is indeed amazing to think that those hardworking Harvard researchers have actually proven that
ALL Children are Born Geniuses... and I am indeed shocked to know that 98% of them will LOSE their Genius Potential by age 20 because of environmental factors.
But if you've read the report .... you already know my opinion of how the education system contributes to The Genius Dip.
Now I'd like to know what YOU think. What you -- the parents and caregivers to our children who are the most important people on our planet -- think about The Genius Dip.
What do you think are the factors that are fueling The Genius Dip?
What do you think we can do about it?
I would love to hear what you think. This would help me understand the situation a lot more. Only with better understanding can we know what the next steps should be.
Together, lets make a difference for our children.
Looking forward to read your comments
My name is Burt Goldman. I’m one of those “lucky people” who discovered a secret early in life. For the last 50 years, I have been traveling the world and meeting and studying spiritual masters from every inch of our planet. Now, at the age of 82, I'm ready to share with the world what I have learned. I started this blog to be able to share with you my most valuable teachings and insights I have gained over the past few decades. Here, you'll find plenty of valuable information on meditation, energy healing, spirituality, and my latest revelation, Quantum Jumping. I look forward to connecting with you and I sincerely hope you enjoy being a part of this blog.
My son is 6 years of age and I am already noticing a change in him. Before he was able to walk he was bringing me books to read and as soon as I got to the end he was saying again, again, like a sponge, soaking up all the information. At pre-school I was told that he had an amazing vocabulary for his age.... now at six he is almost like a different child. I was already worried about him going to school. I wanted to home-school him but I listened to the very persuasive arguments of the head teacher to keep him at school as it was important for him to socialise. Already he has no interest in books, and tells me that he doesn't like reading and he has started to say that he is bored. I never heard him say this before. When he was younger he built a museum in his bedroom with artifacts from all over the world, and he was interested in Dinosaurs and Ancient Artifacts, and he was never bored. I think it is a shame, but I already had this worry due to my own experience. I think that I have no where near reached my full potential. I was top of my secondary school but I got to an age where I just wanted to fit in rather than do many interesting things. It is something that I would like to hear more about and find out what the solutions are.
Haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed
The brain is not a muscle and thus should work effortlessly, that is, without conscious effort.A single glance at a long row of numbers should produce an instantaneous sum.This and much more is how the brain is supposed to work.No amount of straining or concentration will make it work better, in fact this will inhibit it from it's effortless ability.Mental tensions are the closest answer I have been able to come up with.Perhaps one of the factors is the right brain competing with the left brain for dominance and the suppression of the bodies natural instinctual wisdom.Religion(Christianity)for instance has always preached against the natural man.It serves religious and secular governments well to keep people stupefied.Keep up the good work.Jordan.
use the subject "genius techniques" if you want to email me. I'm the same dj as right above this post
I'm actually a 16 year old who got an email for parents that led me to the report. i thank that person who sent it to me. i have been lucky enough to survive the genius dip acceleration program called school nearly unscaved. but during my sophomore year, i actually lost my sense of direction and am regaining it this summer. i have extremely high empathy already. my intuition is still outstanding. to the point of be known as the local slightly psychic kid. i can send people emotions and forms of energy as long as they actually truly open their mind. i can sense what someone is wearing from anywhere in the world as well as tell them where they once had an injury, the shape and the size, because when i think of them, i feel the pain. i have projected a visual of myself to Illinois from my home in Wisconsin.
i will use these techniques to further my abilities and am glad to share some of my own if anyone likes. my email is dstewar68@gmail.com if anyone wants to contact me. if you read these comments, Burt, please contact me personally so we can discuss techniques and experiences. I'd love to know more about you.
P.S. my high school has completely abolished the gifted and talented program that i was in in elementary school where i was at average 8th grade academic level.
Dear Burt,
I am really impressed.Many times dring my life time I have felt that I have lots of potentials, but something is lacking. You have opened the way and I and many others can help our grandkids in becoming genius which they are.Your help will be the biggest service to the mankind for yars to come by helping many many parents and grandparents like me, let this be the social service to the next generation.
Many good points. How do you suggest we fix our school system. I suggest to banish the union and the tenure status. This doesn't motivate the teachers very well does it?
I believe education is more about uncovering what is on the inside than feeding information from the outside. No one ever displayed greatness by imitating another. We can see what others have done and gain inspiration for our own actions and expressions, but if what we are doing is not our own creation it has no life of it's own, it is merely a copy. We can do things repetedly as long as we bring a fresh attitude and it is still new to us,like a young child that does something over and over with the same exitement as the first time. If we just keep doing the same things out of habit or a belief "that we must do this to get that" then we become humandoings instead of humanbeings. It is fine to learn skills and techniques as long as we remember these are tools to be used or not used or altered according to our inspiration. The people who have done big things knew when to break the rules. The really free ones are barely aware of rules. It is only from a lack of trust in ourselves and others that has us make rules.
For an education program to bring out the full potential of the students, it requires inquiry and encouragement. The inquiry needs to be pure of expected answers. The encouragment needs to be unconditional. The instructors need to be unattached to specific results from the students. A course based on curiosity, creativity and wonder is very powerful.
Brett
Hi Burt,
Well that was a very informative report and it will be one that i will be bringing to my wifes attention.I have two girls , my step daughter 13 and my daughter 4.The older girl is in high school and those techniques that were outlined will be very important to her as she is struggling with some school work.I`ll work with my two girls on maintaining and developing their natural ability to use intuitive and creative capabilities.I`s good to know that i can play a part in their education other than just paying the bills.You can`t just leave it up to the educayion system.
thanks Troy
Mr. Goldman.
I am 67 years old and a life long student of personal and spiritual growth. I am excited and shocked at the information in your report. I agree with what you say about our educational system. For now,at least, I see the parents as the source of maintaining genius. In time maybe the school system.
God Bless.
Gary Elkins
Dear Burt
I think that there are a number of factors that contribute to this dumbing down and genius dip, I'll share the ones that I have experience with in relation to my own children.
Firstly, we don't have a television. Television is one of the biggest theives of imagination, everything is visually presented and the brain and imagination do not have to work at all. It ensures that the children become passive and always need to be entertained because they have lost the ability/imagination to dream up their own games.
Secondly, the kinds of toys that we have nowadays in the toy shops are crippling our children's imaginations. Everything is completely explicit and can only fill one function. Take a stick as an example, a stick may be a gun, a sword, a horse, a riding crop. And every single one of those requires the imagination to fill in the blanks. The more generic and natural things we give our children to play with, the more their imaginations are engaged. Instead of nurse's outfits and ballet tutu's in the dress up box, how about lots of brightly coloured pieces of cloth that they can make into anything.
Electronic toys, computer games and the like, likewise rob their imagination and remove them from their relationship with their body. Teaching them that easy entertainment is the norm.
The more we remove our imagination from life, the more we lose contact with the knowledge that things aren't always the way they appear or the way we think they are.
How often to do parents (some just don't have the facility to do this) send their children outside with an instruction not to come in until suppertime? Then the things in the garden have to become part of their imagination and join in the game. Rocks are stoves and cupboards and trees become walls.
I think schools do contribute to this, but home environments play a large part too. Parents have forgotten what empathy, imagination and intuition are themselves and they can't nurture and keep alive something that they can't recognise or know about. We are second generation dumbed down.
What do we do with our children's intuition when it comes. Most of the time we don't even recognise it. We dismiss it with "You know how kids are!"
My oldest daughter was extremely intuitive and on a number of occasions we had to question how we interpreted or acted on the information she had at her disposal. She is now 6 and doesn't so often tell me that her dad is stuck in a traffic jam (and he was) or meet him at the door with a "You've got lion king dvd's for me" (which he did) or tell him "Daddy turn here!!" (and she was right).
She does still follow her intuition and yet just because we grew up in a world where those things were just not possible we have shut her down even with the intention to be open and allow her to be.
An alternative view is that by the age of 4 children start to lose their connection to the spiritual realm just because they are nearly fully incarnated into their bodies.
I will continue to follow your research.
Peta Dukes
report is apt, the outbased education system is speeding up the duming up rate of kids world wide, it leaves no room for imagination or proper interaction, its focus is on getting the children through the system,allowing the various states to pat themselves on the back with robotic young adults, whom suffer from the instant gratification syndrome, partly due to our day and age we live in and partly due to the very poor education system.the entire syllabus needs to overhauled. OBE to be banned in all countries.rather extend the school years for the previously disadvanged, and have better qualified teachers to assist them than dumming down the system.
Burt
It took me 48 years to learn to trust my intuition, keep up the good work!
Regards, Gerrie
HI Burt! I read your report and you are absolutely right in saying that children do lose their creative intelligence even as they strive to keep ahead in class. I have always felt that somebody should take up this subject and create a school with a difference which will allow children to be on their own while nurturing the genius within them. good work Burt. All the Best!
Hi Burt,
I have a child who is left handed and as you have rightly mentioned she was truly a genius in her childhood. but now she is 16 and has become highly disobedient and both of us are always on loggerheads ,please help me help her.
dr. sunita
Hello
I am eighteen... I am not sure if I am still a child, I'd like to call myself a half child. I am not apparent but I'd still like to give my opinion. I guess I might be a parent if you consider a cat a child! Lol.
Anyway what you're doing is fantastic! I LOVE it!
I used to be into stuff like this when I was a little younger my mid-teens and... I always felt a little strange because other children weren't interested in things like this. I feel touched that you want to help people younger than me or near my age. I just think that people like you were only reaching out to adults and I always felt slightly annoyed. No offense.
I was thinking of sending this report to my Aunt because she takes care of my cousin Hannah. I want her to delevop intuation and her to discover her genious as you say!
It would be so awesome if HAnnah could revover her genious at the age of three she is! That would have been way younger than me that I was into this stuff! AWESOME!
I love this report because... I think it shows everyone has equal quality for magifience and I want to show it my parents. I want you to make programs for kids so I can somehow help my cousin! She is really dear to me...
I really liked this report, I am from Canada but I think I can relate to it.
WELL DONE!
This seems to have been well-recieved because there are so many comments on this page! It's overwhelming. Maybe friends slightly younger than me will turn into 'hypies' lol. Or more seriously get into this stuff.
I am so excited! THANK YOU!
I won't feel so weird for having knowing my Dad's feeling. He gets annoyed when I say he's pi**ed and he's not. THANK YOU!
You're awesome. Are you a monk though? Can monks be married? I am just wondering.
Maybe your like a monk? Anyway
YOUR AWESOME! Similar words to awesome that would desribe you are inspiring.
Oh I forgot to say something, I inspired by this report because maybe I have the gensious to paint beautiful pictures. You seem to think so maybe.
So John Holt's Homeschooling movement from the 1970's is being revived. His books influenced me to help my two children to develop their individual talents. I am proud to say that I read to my children at night, which I believe to be a fundamental and positive practice in any child's education, as well as soothing, meditative in nature.
I am proud to say that I romped on the floor with my children, and laughed uproaringly, whenever possible.
I watched them, and they showed me the activities that most turned them on, which I tried hard to encourage for them.
It is my hope and prayer that they have selected well, the area for studies for their university careers, and my even greater desire, that will find the jobs that they love. The money, prestige, and honors will follow, when they find what they love to do.
Although, my genius was lost, when I bought the home study program of Jose Silva's The Silva UltraMind ESP System, and then the "Law of Attraction" and the teachings of Abraham, as channeled through Esther Hicks, it is as if the final pieces of my puzzle (though, I gleefully was put together, before starting 1st grade, at the age of 5, I threw myself up in the air to be scattered, knowing that I would find myself again, even though pieces were hidden in very dark, dark, dark places for so long)are again assembled correctly in fron of me.
I feel freer, in love with myself, and happier than I have been since those days before I began in the school system.
These days I help my children to love themselves, to believe in themselves, to desire and imagine what they want for themselves, and I encourage each of their baby steps. They were damaged within the school system, and yet, I see their potential, and do all that I can to love them, and to allow them to develop their geniuses, just as I know, whom they are.
You are absolutely right, that it is the children, to whom we need to direct our attention.
As a parent, it is my responsibility to follow the dreams of my children. If along the way, I correct, tweak, and reignite my own genius, so much the better, but first and foremost, and always, I will do all in my power to help my babies, my blood, my future, to become all that they possibly can be, do and to have (to use words from the teachings of Abraham).
I am so excited to finally catch the tail, of someone, like me, so ferverently seeks a better planet, by fueling the fires of our children.
It is with the greatest pride, that I present the world to my children, and my children to the world.
Because I see the beauty in this world, I see the colors, hear the birds, feel that same excitement in a new era, and want to be a part of it.
Thank you for your work, thank you for your dedication, and thank you for making this EARTH, a better place to live.
Sincerely,
Joanne Larkins
Thanks for ur insight. We have been using drawings and visualization to help our daughter who has CP to study and it works well. She visualizes her time-tables and science charts. I do believe that ones time and lots of patience are essential factors when bringing up children. Thank you once again and looking forward to more on this topic.
Hello Burt,
I read your report and it took me back to elementry school in Israel.
I had a teached that did not support a student that did not go in the way he taught. In fact another teacher told me "you are a failure ..."
Guss what at the age of 18 I enrolled to a a program that enabled me to study in the no 1 engineering school in Israel.
I never was the first in class and my average was not impressive.
At the age of 22 I graduaded and became an egninner again with average grades.
All this made me to use another approach to educate my children. I taught them to ask questions in the way of solving problems. I made them to think.
In all my studies I did not have any course of thinking all I had to do is to memorize information and follow school instructions. I was always in trouble since I did not follow my teacher's instructions.
This helped me to come with some inventions and grant some US patents.
So keep what you are doing children with non-standard approach and those who use their own way. These children will be tomorrow's inventors creators writers and so on.
If I can contribute to your activity please do not hesitate to contact me via the above email
Thank you - Daniel Meidan
Thank you Burt, for your report. I only wish I had it when my kids were growing up. I have two, a daughter who is 24, and a son who is 19. They don't listen to me anymore..... I have forwarded your absolutely wonderful report to my brother who has a eight-year-old daughter. I pray that they will read and make use of your advice, because indeed, I truly believe your advice works, even for adults - why not? Thank you. Am very much looking forward to your next report. God Bless!
I just wanted to tell me and you that I AM listening and so are my parents.
Not only have I read your "Genius Report Dip" but also the article regarding the rainbow children, but please don't fotget the crystals. They are the next generation of doers to save Mother Earth.
Too share a little of my background would help in assessing my intuition and feelings on our future generations. I am a retired teacher of childen with learning difficulties. I am what they call a late bloomer! I received my degree in 1985 and taught up until 2003. I had a great deal of difficulty working with the system called "No child left behind", especially when it came to children who for some reason who find learning in an envirnoment that is rigid and likens itself to an assembly line where each child is rubber-stamped OK to move on whether they can or cannot. When testing and group scores become the focal point for funding it is time ou generation steps in to say we have had enough!
These are individual children who come to school with unique circumstance and should be looked at on an individual basis. I think if testing needs to have its place then we should be assesing areas such is right-brained functioned, i.e.creativity, abilities to solve problems that require new thinking NOT memorization, intuition, etc. Children need time to pretend and play while they are young...they need music, languages, dance. They need to able to choose the direction to which their soul is leading them. They need tools to assist in an inquiring envronment which foster individuality with group consciousness.
I have two beautiful grand children who are either rainbow or crystal. I have been with my grandson since before birth. And, what really struck me intuitively was when I went to see him in utero with an ultrasound. I know he communicated with me when he saw me while I was watching him move around. My impression of that day will stay with me for my life because he for one is a miracle child and his uncanny abilty to communicate with his mind. By the way, that day he told me he wanted out! This was in January and I predicted he would be born the 12th of February. As the story goes he was born the 11th. My daughter is able to connect with him on his level of mind communication and knows what he needs without him using words...she has been using words to share with him so that he some day will have the facilities to communicate orally. He can match things with uncanny demonstrations, he is able to throw and sometimes catch a ball, and he can really dance!
I will provide more impressions because I have shared your report with my daughter, who by the way had her creativity stripped with all the boring memorization that was required of her. She graduted magna cum laude and valedictorian from high school.
Burt, I am gratful to have you as a correspondance and now this opportunity to share my beliefs regarding education. You are on the right track, now to inspire the world is our now goal!
Thank you,
Rhea Lynn Austin
thank you, burt,
for the information and inspiration in the genius dip report. i have always seen the american public education system as being more about indoctrination than education; more about creating obedient, disengaged cattle than nurturing uniqueness and genius. i'm even more concerned upon hearing from friends with school kids that the local kids today are not allowed to speak to each other during lunch or on the school bus. can't imagine a positive result from that aside from it making things easier on the people who herd the cattle... thank goodness there are plenty of talented, committed, passionate people working within the flawed system to make a real difference in kids lives!
i envision a grass-roots movement of like-minded enlightened concerned people creating supplemental learning opportunities, such as workshops, classes, study groups, summer camps, etc. geared for kids (along with the same for not-so-kids – parent/child classes could be cool, too). the three main areas you pointed out in the genius dip report (empathy, visualization and intuition) are natural points of focus for skills-building through these non-schools. unitarian or other churches might be good venues for programs like these, as could community centers. they could be easy enough to present if some guidebooks were created. perhaps a web forum for developers and presenters of such programs to share their non- or open-copyrighted materials, ideas and inspirations would incubate the creation of shared guide books, classes, workshops, etc. (maybe create this forum on the american monk site?) i could see a variety of possibilities – how about a junior achievement-style program that starts with beachhead or borrowed genius work to determine the product to be created? and how about it's done with sixth graders? "genius mind power summer camp" would be pretty fun, too...
creating environments where it's easy to identify and encourage genius development in the various intelligences would be a good secondary focus, too. sort of a big playroom (for kids of all ages!) where the various intelligences are represented through a variety of interactive displays/elements, with feedback and direction provided based on what one was drawn to and their experience with that display/element. it would probably be easy to involve some area businesses to help cover some of the costs of creating and maintaining the space and maybe even creating 'internships' for helping develop kids' genius talents (seven or eight year-olds learning small engine repair or helping design playgrounds – that sort of thing). while i'd love to imagine the public school systems (or head-start programs) doing this sort of thing, it's probably more realistic to look at creating it outside that system. if the schools eventually catch on and incorporate it into their curriculum, all the better.
thank you again for sharing the gift of your spirit! - alan
I believe IQ testing is not as accurate at a very young age as it is later in life and the early scores tend to be slightly inflated. In other words everyone's IQ score tends to drop with age. This makes sense because as a person gains more skills we have more tools to help make an assessment.
To place much of this loss on the American school system is in my estimation unfair. My guess is this is a natural phenomena. Is there any one culture or society on this planet that has many more adult geniuses than any other? If so, let's check out its educational system.
I do agree that creativity, imagination & intuition are important parts of the "educated" mind and should be taught in our schools. And I can think of no better place to do that than in the Arts. 'Readin', writin' & 'rithmatic are not the end and the all of knowledge.
One other point, not all learning can be tested, nor should it be.
Respected Sri Burton Gold ji
Just read yr report in a short style explaining abt the geniousous of children & liked it & would be fw to many of my contacts also for the purpose of yours to spread it to many to bring up this world to a best psossible level of peace & geniouses,thanks for yr best motivations & we all pray for yr long lovely healthy life to serve the society .
Would be waiting to hear yr still more CDs etc
Regards thanks bye Mahendra Guntur India
Hello Burt
I agree entirely with your research. I always knew my oldest son was very bright, but struggled to get his primary school to accept that he was not being stretched enough in his early years at primary school. He is still very bright academically but I feel his creativity has been curtailed. My youngest son on the other hand was birth damaged and was not ready academically in the same way, however, he was and remains very creative and I believe intelligent, but creativity never was and I believe, is still not treated with the same respect or even expectation of academia.
I know my oldest will reach his expectations academically but may not aspire to his creative genius, which I still believe to be explicit and my youngest will flounder becasue society is not ready to accept his creativity and genious for what it is, musical and artistic creativity.
I don't want to let down either of my boys, but worry constantly that I do so.
Maria
respected monk regards, I read your report the genius dip, I salute your VISION, a spiritual man having love for all, can only think for the gens. to come.
I liked your work & is always in waiting to hear your blessings for me &whole of the humanity!
BIG THANKS.
AT YOUR LOTUS FEET
JANAKRAJ, INDIA
Hi Burt,
Thanks for the report, I find it interesting and timely. I have a 16 year old daughter and 13 year old son. Both of them are creative and find it hard to be motivated in the school.
My son rated very high in visual learning skill, however he has problem with short term memory. Our schools do not allow for individual learning styles and both my kids are frustrated, especially my son who wants to quit school.
The three techniques that are outlined in the report would most likely work with younger children. Any idea how to work with two frustrated teenagers who lost confidence in their ability to learn would be appreciated. Hopefully it is not too late for them.
Thanks again
Good work
Hello Mr. Goldman
I just read your report on the Genius Dip and have to tell you it shouldn't be Harvard telling the American Public what's happening with our children. It's really a shame that it takes writers and Universities to awaken people to the tragedy that this country is becoming. I have been employed by one of the largest school districts in the US for 13 years now and can unequivocally tell you "teaching is not what is taking place" in our school system.
I don't want to be to harsh as there are teachers still left in school districts across America. But these teachers are turned out like a bucket of water to a fire. These teachers aren't aloud to teach, the are trained to prep our children for the F-CAT, C-CAT, ACT, and any other Government provided mandated test. This is what our school system has turned into. It's all about the score, not only for the child but now also for the schools. If your school is graded an F or C in educational standards, your school is penalized and the Government gives the parents Vouchers to leave that school to attend a better school. Reducing the population of school, reduces the e-rate funding, makes for greater burden on teachers for materials and technology and if you reduce technology and resources in a system that is already the Brunt Baring Child of every Federal Funding Cut Back program, you are left with nothing.
This is the true Genius, the fact that parents believe that this will take care of it's self. Parent Conference Night at schools across America are a joke. Why aren't parents given the entire financial report on school budgets, with salaries, and all itemized expenses, allocations of funding to special programs, funding for software, listing of specialist degrees, listings of masters, PHD and all other degrees of professionals in schools. This should all be made readily available to all parents by every district across America. It's PUBLIC INFORMATION. The Public School System is PAID FOR AND BOUGHT WITH TAX DOLLARS, public money and we should have a right to see how our many is beeing spent.
If this was done, then parents would see the reality of what the public school system is. No, Mr. Goldman the Genius is not what our children are or can be or what they will loose with time. The real Genius is how the Government lawed us all to sleep, with distractions, false reports, glorified programs (No Child Left Behind) and Governmental manipulation of the books and Federal Funding. Still to this day I can not for the life of me understand why education is the first and worst hit when a financial crisis hits this country and parents just stand by and do nothing. Just yesterday I received a not from my daughters 1st grade teachers that they are doing a collection drive to collect funds for school supplies, such as paper, ink, wipes, chalk. All I could think to myself was "how sad" that a professional teacher would have to degrade herself to the point of begging, while the Government and the State collects Millions of dollars from Tax payers. My response was a simple one "I can't I am also having financial hardship because I too am in the education field" Maybe we should strike together!
Your report is amazing and should serve as a great tool for parents including myself across America. But please understand that if more isn't done and done fast. Parents won't have to worry about the Genius of there child, because the Public School System will no longer be there for there children. It is being disassembled before our very eyes. Please look further than just the children, make a difference for all the Families that will one day loose what little we have left in a free and good Educational system.
The Genius in our children will always be there, Public Schools, that another question.
I hope your daughters are doing well in there perspective schools.
God Bless you and the work you do.
Dear Burt Goldman,
your Genius Dip Report has really done something to my complacency!
The education situation here in Germany seems to be even worse than in the USA.
I think we are urgently called upon to do something about this!
With your kind permission I would like to translate your Report into the German language and distribute it free to whoever wants it.
I have been translating technical manuals during my working life and now, being 75+ years old, I feel this is a challenge to keep me on my toes for while longer.
Please let me know, if you agree to this proposition.
BTW I have subscribed to your newsletters and online course for some time now and admire the work you are doing!
Trying to follow in your footsteps!
OM MANI PADME HUNG!
Karma Sherab Gyatso aka Georg Schmidt
you are so right, I have had to pull up many teachers on what they say to children, not only teachers but parents as well how constantly tell their children that they cannot do this or that because thats not the way it is taught, which totally leaves them dishearten, and feeling useles , then angry that they no longer which to learn
Hi Burt,
Yes , no child left behind is a national travesty. There are statistics now that saying , because they are no longer challenged, because they become bored with the standard cirriculum, because they are held back, the new drop out from the school system is the gifted child.
I will take your work a step further back. The founder of Sony corporation did a study taking many yrs on the effects of environment on the fetus in the womb.
It was shown that as the fetus developed for instance, that just living in a violent area of a city ( being exposed to continous siren noise, and occasional gunshots, etc) developed a child with tendencies not to trust, to fear,an inner paranoia.
On the other hand fetuses developing in a stable environment, being talked to, sang to, read to, by the Mother while in the womb, created a more responsive and open child upon its entry into the world.
Toward the closing yrs of this study women were encouraged to meditate, listen to soothing music, to speak multilingually to the child. Any good quality they could expose the fetus to, it was found could be easily emulated by the child once it made its entry into the world.
In previous comments there have been references to the school system dumbing down education. There IS an over emphasis onmath and science, and in a suppressed way that doesn't not teach one any critical thinking skills, or as you put it developing imagination or intuition. Lil wonder that a good number of inventors and millionares are people who had low grade averages, but retained or developed the ability to think outside the box.
I personally believe video games do nothing for children but keep their minds occupyed on unrealistic situations and distract them from the potentials and beauty that life has to offer.
I read once that if you can keep a person focused on where their next meal is coming from, there is lil chance they will see past that to the reasons why they are in that situation, or the bigger picture.
This situation has been many yrs in the making, all in slow small steps; each step spaced out too far for anyone to really notice a progression, but it is there.
Thankyou for bring this to the forefront.
It is horifying to realize that only 2 % of the children keep their natural genius while growing older. In Holland it is the same. Children have to learn to do tests. The knowledge of the people in Holland is lowering, while first knowledge was an export article so to say. Knowledge build by creativity and intuition. It makes the difference between healing a patient, man or animal, or to let the creature die by ignorance because of lack of intuition and creativity and imagination and empathy. People who have lost these precious gifts by nature cannot fullfill their dreams and are more agressive, frustrated and jealous of people, who still are capable to use these talents. That makes the lives of those gifted people difficult.
One can make the conclusion, that it is important for whole mankind, that children stay in touch with their genius. Children who have an animal at home are lucky, because the animal helps a child to feel empathy by taking care of the animal. That is one way to let the child keep his/her genius.
In my live I suppressed my intuition, because when I expressed it, it was critisized. Now I have it back since a few years and it is the best guide I ever had. I donnot have to ask other people what to do or if it is right what I want to do. Now I do things, following my heart, and I am suprised myself about the outcomes of my doing, while that doing is not always accepted by other people.
By not listening to that inner voice, my intuition, I have had so much trouble, very frustrating.
I like to help to save children not to loose this excellent equipment they get by birth.
I am sending your article to friends with children.
Your article will be spread all over the world.
You are doing a great job by telling us what you know.
Thanks a lot !!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've known this for years and have been teaching our young how to use their creativity, inspiration, intuition and personal gifts to empower themselves. So good to see more of this information getting out to the masses!
Keep the flame burning my friend! Be blessed and be a blessing, Tina
Burt:
I have two daughters and 5 grandsons. Since I am a creative person, I tried to instill creativity in my girls while they were young and both of them were put into advanced programs when they went to school. They are both extremely intelligent and intuitive, though the younger one is a bit more intuitive than the other.
Both of the girls have had trouble with the schools and their boys, however. The two older boys-the oldest of each daughter--are naturally curious to the extreme and expect answers when they ask questions. AS you can guess, this doesn't go over too well in today's education system.
The younger of these two had a particular problem trying to learn to read. Here in Georgia they were doing a method called "sight words" which I understand when it comes to simple words like 'and' or 'the'. But when you use it for all words it just doesn't work.
The way his teacher treated him because of this made him feel stupid and he quit trying. That summer we tried to work with him, but he just shut us out.
The next scool year he had a teacher who encouraged him to do his best and when he finally made the breakthrough there was no stopping him. In 2nd grade, he read the entire set of the Harry Potter books.
No the education system in America is doing our children no favors, especilly those little ones with so-called psychic abilities. Their awareness is cut off as soon as it becomes apparent. I know--I was one of those children. I learned early that some things were best kept to myself and buried my abilities for years. Thankfully my daughter and I know better than to kill it out in this generation.
Thanks, Burt, for your work and dedication to our future.
Hi Burt,
I'm a former higher ed LD Specialist. I studied the Multiple Intelligences theory as part of my graduate training and applied it heavily when working with students with various problems. Quite frankly, I think your report is right on. In so many cases, these students had far less disability than the fact that they approached learning differently. I tried to help them develop strategies to help them learn the way they best took in information and many of them excelled once they discovered the strategy that worked for them. On top of that, I took the research studies about visualization and taught my students how to visualize for greater success. But what you're suggesting takes even what I was doing many steps further.
I just wonder if there isn't some way to sufficiently "enlighten" the government so no further children will have to suffer through this nightmarish school experience? Or if there are ways communities could open up opportunities for gifted children to keep them involved with learning? I know exactly what this is like because this very thing happened to my middle nephew. Because children with LDs needed extra help, programs that could have and should have been available to him due to his "giftedness" were cut. How can parents and communities create more opportunities outside of school for these children so they don't lose their ability to access their innate genius?
JD
Hi Burt,
I agree with you 100% that our children are being
short changed in our school today. The schools are
juat focusing on passing the test and making top
ratings for their schools. Children are bored with
taking all those tests (worksheet after worksheet).
By the time the test comes around they could care
less if they pass or not. There is no creativity
in the schools at the present time. g.a. d.
IT IS REALLY A GREAT ARTICLE, NEEDS PAGES TO ANALYSE AND BE PRAISED.
YET, IT IS IMPORTANT TO VISUALIZE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE.
MANY PEOPLE SAW A 6 YEARS OLD CHILD ( FROM IRAN )ON CNN AND MANY OTHER TV CHANELS, WHO REMEMBERS THE HOLY QURAN ( COMPRISING OF 680 PAGES )IN SEQUENCE BY SENTANCES AND BY EACH SINGLE WORD AND BY PERFECT PRONOUNCIATION, BY HEART .... BY BIRTH.......WITHOUT LEARNING FROM ANY TEACHER. IN HIS INTERVIEW,MANY QUESTIONS WERE ASKED AND HE REPLIED CORRECTLY WITHOUT A SINGLE FAILURE. THIS CHILD WAS ALSO HEARD IN PERSON BY THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA ALONG WITH HIS BROTHERS AND GOVERNERS ( ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE CONFRONTATION AND DIFFERENCES ON RELIGIOUS ISSUES WITH IRANIANS )
THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE OF NATURAL ( SPIRITUAL ) GENIOUS. THERE SHOULD BE MORE IN THE WORLD.
HOWEVER, THE GREAT ACTS OF BLIND CHILDREN/PEOPLE ARE LIVE EXAMPLES OF IMPORTANCE OF VISUALIZATION.
I AM A STUDENT OF SILVA METHODS IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW OF ATTRACTION. IN BRIEF, I NOT ONLY APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS TO ENLIGHTEN THE WORLD WITH THIS REPORT, I DO RECOMMEND AND SOLICITATE THE MARVOLOUS ASPECTS TOWARDS SUCCESS AND GENIOUSNESS.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR EFFORTS.
Dear Burt,
What a wonderful report! Going to school in Norway I was encourage to use imagination through classes in different arts (sewing, drawing, woodwork, jewelry making etc.) and music/dance. I know see how fortunate I was to grow up in such environment. Now I live in the US and have children off my own and they don't get the same benefits I received. So I have had to compensate the best I can with having plenty of paint and coloring pencils (I am also an artist) and telling stories from my own imagination and let my children help me tell them. There is also the game I play with them off and on; I hide a toy and they have to guess (use intuition) on where it is in the room. (I have them close their eyes, visualize the room and then sense where it might be).
Thank You ~ look forward to reading more about this.
Love,
Rev. Mary Madeline
http://www.toolboxforemotionalmastery.com
This is a very good article although I am form Ireland the education here supresses children. Over the last year or so every noght before my children go to bed I simply ask them waht they can by the reply ANYTHING YOU WNAT TO BE there has been an amazing chamge in their attidude. My older child has become very confident and this was confirmed by his teachet. It was vey satisfying to hear this . Its amazing how the little things are so powerful. Great article again.
Kind Regards
John
Burt,
Your views on improving education are interesting. I am very disillusioned with our present school system and I feel that individuals should wake up and realize that they are responsible for preparing their children for adulthood. The government is incapable of doing anything other than creating a larger more all encompassing version of its self. Steering families toward independence
and understanding is an honorable mission. I wish you well.
Bill Burden
Hello Burt,
Thank you so much for the Genious Dip report, very interesting also for us who live in Europe to observe what they are doing here in schools and nurseries. I myself have a 4 year old grandaughter and my daughter and i are very aware of how the nursery where she is at the moment is teaching her, Frequently my daughter have to question the manner the nursery treats the young ones.its very important that parents themselves take part in their childrens education and follow up. In todays world when material gains is more important than the wellfare of the future generation i am glad that there are people like you and many others that are sending out this "be aware signal", because the way its going here in Europe and as you say in the US is that we will not have many Geniouses to enjoy. So lets do the best we can, us who are aware. Best wishes to all Lise
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. I now can give to my granddaughter what i did not give to my children. When you know how to give you can receive. All three of my children, ages 22, 36, 37 have the ability to use their sixth sense but my granddaughter is even higher. Her vibe is strong and she can sense even when the phone rings when one of us are calling. With the information you have given I can nurture her correctly. Thank you so much!
Dear Burt
not only have I read you document and briefly read some of the comments i totally agree with all of what you are saying. I am a single mother of two girls and they are at an age where they i feel have lost their genius inside them and just settled with the norm which as their mother feel their potential is far more than what they are settling for. In our school system there is alot of money for first nations if they are diagnosed with some sort of problem(learning disablity) so because the education systems need money for the schools they intregrate this money into the school mean while our first nations students are labelled disabled/problem students, which i feel from this point on shuts the students down because some if not all feel they are beyond help and in turn, turn to drugs and alcohol and in reality become problem children youth and young adults with an addiction added to their profile and hear we go again exausting the mental health dollars to figure out how to help them when all they needed was the lessons you talked on Instill empathy encourage visualization and intuition. i love reading this and i am a true believer in its never to late. i will talk to my girls on what i read and learned Thank you so much.
when i first started reading i had tears in my eye, so some emotion came up and was let go because of the healer in me.
Greetings Burt,
I'm becoming a bigger fan of yours by the day. I have the "American Monk Mindbox" and have found it priceless.
Now you are tackling yet another long overlooked problem, at least here in the US (and worldwide from feedback I've been getting lately).
Since I was in my 20's I've minimized the value of education. Don't misunderstand - education is vital. We all need to know the basics of readin' ritin' an' rithmatic. However, in other areas, schools are supressive. They teach how to be just like everyone else and tend to drive students towards "getting a job."
There is no emphasis on individuality, in fact, today's education tends toward making everyone look alike, dress alike, think alike and be alike.
It's about time someone made some noise about this. I commend you.
Duane
Dear Burt,
You are right. We are training our children to memorize rather than to think. We measure intelligence according to what the child memorized rather than on what he/she asks. A child asks a lot of questions. He/she also imagines a lot and even dramatize and make believe what he/she imagines. But teachers, parents sometimes will stop the children from doing this things and will urge them to memorize. In the end, our children stops to think. They are only thinking of the things that are feed to them by the tv, books, magazines, etc. Creativity and research orientation are lost.
Hi Burt
I'm not from AMERICA and from where I'm sitting it looks like THEY don't want an educated race over your side of the water that would be dangerous having people who are able to think for themselves everyone is taught to think with the left hand side of the brain using the right involves using your feelings and this is what they want a society with no feeling towards each other your right we neglect our children to much and it's time for a re-think
Hi Burt.... my comments will probably open up a whole 'other' can of worms, but it's the world as I see it.
I agree that many children (in the regular school system) today have little or no imagination or creativity. They play computer games non-stop, they only communicate with text messages - in a language all their own. Many lack interest in the world and act without conscience or remorse. Human contact and empathy is lost. The school system has let the kids down, but it's done for a reason. We are ALL being 'herded' into a way of life where we can be easily manipulated, whether it's to buy certain products, or we're made to believe something is being done for 'our own good'. We don't even realize it's happening. All of us and especially kids, believe (buy into) anything on TV, whether it's on the news or in commercials and advertising. We don't think for ourselves anymore - just take everything at face value. Taking control away from people - by dumbing down - it's the easiest way to manipulate. We are losing freedoms, privacy (with chips in everything) and our right to choose. And we don't even question it! We do NOTHING!! It's not just the kids - it started with us (the older generation). It's a world up side down. But the travesty is - we think we can't do anything about it...we believe it's hopeless....so it continues.
My sister homeschools 3 beautiful boys. They are the most interesting, knowledgeable (young) humans I know. They are walking encyclopedias and seem to be involved and interested in absolutely EVERYTHING!! My only fear is when they have to get university degrees and will have to go into a school system they aren't familiar with. What will happen to these beautiful minds then?!
Thanks Katherine
Dear Burt,
I feel so privileged and grateful in a way to know about the mission you are realizing to help open the consciences of many souls to reality all around the planet.
I live in Colombia a country where education is mostly private and in a way has become just another good business. I believe some of the factors greatly affecting the genius dip in our society starts by the influence of the media over our children especially television that tells them what and how they should act like, what things they should have and wear and what is good and bad. This has led us to an amazing social pressure when interacting to each other at school where judging, criticizing, and conditioning the acceptance into a group of friends is what conversations are about. Besides, teachers want to be seen as the main authority, the ones who know it all; above their knowledge capacity there is no one else. I see there is too much theory and writing what is already written in the books. Grading is made according to how accurate the answers are about facts, events and dates and hardly ever on pupil’s opinions. Assignments do not incentives investigation; it usually becomes a copy-paste from information found on the internet. Practice exercises on books are most of the times abstract and do not refer to daily or challenging situations.
What to do about, in my humble opinion, could be to give music, writing, painting and exercising the importance these disciplines deserve and never grading them.
Understand that all the exact sciences come from the appreciation of mother nature where everything is perfect and there is no good nor bad and our mission is to work together with the creation of God and not against it or even worst manipulating it.
Thank you so much for your report. I am sure it will be a useful tool for many of us.
With lots of appreciation for you and your work,
German
I fully agree with you Burt our schools need to encourage our children, their imagination and their intuition.I have one question what about children that have been dianosed with fetal acohol syndrome where the cognitive part of their brain is suppose to be effected or completely missing? Is it still possible to teach these children the same teqiniqes.I would love to hear your take on this question.Thank you Shirley.
Hi,
The report on the Genius dip has brought into the limelight what I've experienced through my life. Right now, at the age of 21, I can clearly relate to the dip that comes about. At a young age, I remember the frame of mind where nothing was impossible. That state of mind was one open and eager. But as time passes and one becomes older, the factors of life affect one so much, that one strays and forgets the initial capacity of the mind. As a child, I could effortlessly show my talents in a wide circle of fields, but as I grew up, that enthusiasm and energy has been slowly fading away. It is ripe time that something is done.
Hailing from India, I've read about the old customs of Guru-Shishya(Teacher-disciple) relationship and the teaching customs of old where every student would be looked after in all aspects and helped to grow completely.
But in the 21st century, the processes and customs vary, and this is causing a lot of harm to a lot of children.
I'm looking forward to your reports and solutions.
I believe that if something can be done at the root levels, it'll change the world for the better.
What a co-incidence!
I have just completed outlining a book on the education of children, explaining and using imagination. The web page is under construction and I am in the editing phase(s) of the book.
Now if you are on Burt Goldman's site, you will understand my influences as a graduate of The Silva Method, Advanced Silva, and more, plus The Goldman Method and American Monk.
We toiled for over 20years, successfully, to keep the creativity in our 5 children (and many others along the way), in spite of the education system here in Australia. In 2007 I began to teach other parents how to teach their children to read. I was stopped in my tracks when I discovered that by age 5,these children lacked active imaginations and yet were prepared to passively absorb drivel from TV and film. (not all films of course). When it came to Using their own minds it was 'hard work', to be avoided at all cost. The belief systems they had created to support their actions was the only creative part of the exercise.
I know why I feel so passionate about this, because I am the product of just such a creative stifling education.
Thanks for the impetus to complete and market the work.
Nadia
Great reading, I very much believe that children are led away from their natural abilities just by living in todays societies.
Hi, I wonder that no-one mentions Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf schools which are a world wide phenomena. They teach children from pre-school to univesity. Use of imagination and the class teacher's intuition as the main stays of what is the children need each day. Obviously they follow a curriculum but everything starts from art and music. It is the most creative education system in the world today.
The children who are educated in this system end up as stable, creative, intelligent and innovative, caring human beings with an acceptable that there is more to life than what science can prove.
I would recommend that anyone with kinder age children if all you can afford is one year of a Steiner education give them the kinder year. It is ALL imaginative play.
Parents get so hung up on not giving their children the latest toy, DVD, etc that they miss the whole point of childhood which is to use imagination and not act out stuff they have seen on tv or at the movies.
Dear Burt please explore this avenue of education. Plus watch Sir Ken Robinson of TED.com on the education today.
Thanks
Jenny
Burt,
Thank you so much for this amazingly truthful and profound report. I have long known that education teaching was wrong my own education saw my having to conform to many many changes in how maths was applied yet I fundamentaly knew the four main principals required to gain the answer.
I am adult indigo and it really is true that the child of today are teaching us so much. If only we nuture the value of that.
I am 54 years old and spend a lot of time communicating with children via the internet encouraging them to stay as close to their natural intitutive selves and to apply a empathic focus.
I never ever understood the value in what I was doing until reading your report.
I would be ever so much happier to learn that the new president of your country would value education and remove these false imprints and destructive laws.
Yet I fear that goverments are corrupt and focus majorly on robbing the citizens of the country.
As the saying goes power corrupts ultimate power corrupts ultimitly.
Bless you for your timely report..
Paul
Dear Monk,Thanks for your info and your kindness, I also feel that the spider is a genius ,no man tells him or her how to build a web. We must tell the child that he or she is a co/creator of his or she world.Man likes to control,after leaving the womb he is still afeared,we must step out of the blame game and learn to love everthing.Blessings Godfrey.
Hello Burt-the report is very interesting,
the "1-2-3 combo" is something i agree with 100%- do you(or anyone else) have any ideas how to actually do it?
one more thing-by saying that "Less than half of American
teenagers know that the Civil
War took place between 1850
and 1900" aren't you falling to the same trap of memorizing dry facts?
thank you for sharing the important insights.
I'm able to express myself in english,but let me do it in french first:"j'ai été vraiment très ravi de lire ces quelques pages sur the genius dip, et tout tes travaux me font plaisir Burt. Je suis enseignant de Tai Chi au Cameroun, et la visualisation est vraiment fondamentale pour l'épamouissement de l'esprit de l'Homme et donc pour le developpement de son genie!" Ok: "I've been very pleased to read the genius dip and all your work available to me, I'm very fascinated!(Espacially the young boy with glasses and e=mc2 behind, great laugh and joy ...) As a Tai chi teacher, here in Cameroon, I feel it perfectely right that visualisation is the primordial key and other things can and most be add, but visualization first!Thank you for all what you do, Keep going on, we will all help you on the way!
tfabricet@yahoo.fr
Hi Burt,
Really great report. I think children should be more in nature. It would help their visualization. We practise intuition at home by letting my daughter to guess what names I write. Classical music adds also creativity, I have read. Keep on doing good work.
(Burt, use spell-check, will you?!)
(Audrey, the report is in PDF format. Look at the upper left area (not of the whole window, just the report itself). You will see a little blue square that says 'save a copy' next to it. Click on the square and it will save a copy of the report to your 'my documents' or wherever you want. If you have a printer, click on the next little picture of a printer and it will print the report. No need to cut and paste. Most PDF documents will not let you alter them at all so you have to save it if you want a copy.)
Now to the report...I know exactly what you are talking about and I am not at all surprised that anyone researching like Harvard did found the results they did. I felt it myself when I was in school, a frustration with being forced to think and do things in a certain and restricting way. I felt it again when my kids were in school. I could not afford a private school for them where they might have had more freedom to learn, but I did what I could at home encouraging imaginative play and going with their 'gut feelings'. One rule we had was that they could not spend all their time playing video games. They had to spend time outside, with no toys, inventing games and getting fresh air. I taught them all the games I knew for outdoors and set them free to invent their own. I can say that all four of my kids, who are grown now, three with families of their own, are intuitive and also creative thinkers, so I was able to do that much for them. I would LOVE to see our educational system overhauled and revamped. It needs it badly. Right now I am visualizing that the next President will repeal 'No Child Left Behind' immediately and get a small committee of liberal educators to come up with something better.
People wonder why our country is showing signs of going downhill. How about today's young adults? They can't spell, they don't know grammar or manners, they talk in internet 'code', they can't add without a machine, they know no history or geography (another thing I had to teach my kids myself) and colleges are adding basic courses in reading, math and writing so that the kids can deal with the courses! It does not make sense to dumb down to the kid's level. They should be getting to college already prepared to deal with it. I wonder how full the philosophy courses are? Or the literature or art classes? And now we have 'colleges' that are really vocational schools. Not that vocational pursuits are any less in significance, we also need chefs and medical and legal assistants and so on. People should have the choice to do what they like, without any stigmas attached. We all need all levels of employment and plenty of people are working jobs that don't pay that well because they CHOSE to. It's what they have a gift for and enjoy and that's more important than the money. We all need a certain level of subsistence and after that it's just excess. (Maybe you can tell I'm Native American, with philosophies like that!) I do always try to think ahead to the 7th generation before I do something and I do walk in the other's moccasins in order to gain empathy and understanding. I wish I could spread those ideas around the world, it would be better off.
Anyway, I agree with you, we must DO something and that something should probably be badgering Congress to right the wrong until they do it. They're there because we put them there and they are supposed to be representing us, not pushing their own ideas and playing political games. People need to speak up. Maybe the answer is to use the internet to spread the word and a petition. Then get the news to follow it for publicity. It could create a ground swell that cannot be ignored. It's been used before and worked for other things.
I'm in! Call on me if you need me.
Hi Burt,
The report is a revealation to me. I agree partly with the report, however besides education system, Cable TV & Internet is one more important reason for the Genius Dip.
The kids just want to watch cable TV & Use internet more & more in order to stay connected with peers. However they have no intention of staying connected with the life energy. For staying connected they have to meditate & visualise which needs time.
Thanks for the Report.
Thanks for sharing a great article!
I love your work!
Dr. Eve***
I think your insight on this topic is right on. I have an organization (501c non-profit) Child's Miracle Mind and another leg of it will be The School of Now, which is a whole different way of teaching. I would like you to be on one, if not both of my inter-net radio shows. If you go to my web-site http://www.nancyspsychicresources.com you will be able to get all the info you need, plus you can listen to some of my interviews. I am so very glad that you are not affraid to talk about our government and our school systems, which I believe both need to be re-done. Take care and keep up the good work. I thank you. Nancy
I would like to express my gratitude to god for people like you I am impressed by your drive and effort to share thank you
about the genius dip
I absolutely agree a few years a go my very gifted spiritual teacher told me that there is a way to stimulate baby intelligence I on got the internet and found gentelrevoulution .com and got the books listed
how to teach your baby how to read.
I have two daughters and I personally don’t have the ability to compare them to children how ever people who do tell me how smart they are for there age
I always said never underestimate baby’s intelligence
may good give you health, strenght and prosperity
tehila
I think this report is important and i'd like to forward it to my cousin who is a school teacher who is looking for ways to challenge kids to reconnect with their natural, god given abilities. Particularly the last couple of pages. the report was extremely cumbersome for me, as it moved sooo slowly and i couldn't get it to let me cut and paste those pages. any way those pages could be emailed to me? thank you so much
Hi I agree with your report. I used to work with kids
who joined my after-school art program/summer art camp. Nowadays it seems that schools "dumb down" to pass everyone thru the system On the flip sid are these crazy parents, my Music Teacher friend calls them "Helicopter" parents because they are so in your face about their genius kids...and very severe about learning: languages, art, music, dance...the kids are so structured they dont know how to just 'play". I had to teach kids in my program how to just look at things and imagine them as something. ie: a stick could become a snake or a crocodile. The kids knew nothing of street games, like we played growing up. So while the schools are offering just structure and cookie cutter education, the parents really go the other way and indeed they see their kids as genius-but only in the way the parent him or herself would define it. OK I think I gave more than enough of my thoughts on this. I do believe in Indigo. I have 3 kids myself, all geniuses of course, but the middle one is that sensitive one...and I believe the children are evolving. The brain is evolving because our world is evolving. Again, I have shared my piece; and it is only opinion and nothing more than an opinion. I have gone thru your program as I have made many poor choices based on beliefs about myself that now at 50 I strive so hard to correct. We just have to acknowledge our own genius; and try to share with each other. Thank you for this and your "Goldman Method" I highly recommend it; and I use the New Moon mediation among others and my life is slowly making sense. So I would be happy to know you are doing something for kids. Bless you, Burt. Sincerely, Patricia
Someone once said: "give me the son of a pastor and I will make him a doctor".
Before Birth our cells contain the full potential, our cells depending on the physical space that they are thus become in brain tissue, muscle, bone, etc....
After the birth we are also a bit like: depending on the environment around us also be taught to use our brain potential of certain way and so keep (although it can be modified more or less easily).
What we have read about it recall the great importance of praise in education: it is a recognition of the utmost importance.
Dear Burt,
I extremely agree with you and I know you can develop yourself in any age of your life. Just you have to believe on yourself.
Hey Burt, very enlightening report. As I'm only fourteen so far, this was a real wake up and as I've already been on this path (i.e. studying LoA, manifesting, etc) since age 9 I will do my best to preserve whatever capabilities I have.
I'll make sure to blog about this tomorrow, to "awaken" a few more souls.
Thanks man,
//Linus
I really believe thet children needs attention to encourage them to dream. Gone are the days when parents will read fairy tales before their children sleeps because of their busy schedules. It is time for parents to train and have more time for their children. With mind control the best of these children will come out and creative citizens of the country.
Hi Burt.........I love your work, and would like to sign-up for your courses, I have a limited income at the moment and was wondering if you would consider a payment plan a little more affordable than the one you have now?
Always blessings!
Nancy
thankyou for posting the video from the TED conference; it confirmed what I have sensed for such a long time; I am a language teacher in primary school and experience first hand the importance of the principals you have outlined in your report..