“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou​

Intuitive Education Workshop

​​Recent research in neuroscience highlights both horizontal integration of the brain as well as vertical integration of the body, brainstem, limbic areas, and cortex. Horizontal integration means connecting “our left hemisphere’s narrator function with the autobiographical memory storage of our right hemisphere” (Siegel, 2010, p. 74). A great joy for me is that the time we live in embraces the intersection of spirituality in education through the research being done on the integration of right and left brain and the parallel integration of heart thought and head thought. In other words, the right hemisphere uses our intuitive abilities for observation while the left hemisphere uses our analytical abilities to narrate what we have observed. 
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Humankind Three Dot O

Version 2.0 of Humankind is out of date.   It’s passé, lapsed, antiquated, invalid, obsolete. Look it up on the Mayan calendar. If this version of humankind was a can of beans, it would have a label that says, “Expiration Date: December 21, 2012.” Version 2.0 is over. Time is up. People walking around trying to still be 2.0 are simply hanging on to the old way because they don’t want to change. They just don’t get it. You can’t live in the past. And Version 2.0 has passed! Look. It’s simple. Basically speaking, there are three versions of humankind. You know how we label computers as version 10.11.7 and 8.0 and all? Well, what if humankind came with an operating system. It would have had Version 1.0, 2.0, and now, 3.0. Version 1.0 humans are the pre-historics. Version 2.0 humans started writing and recording history around 5,000 years ago – and they ended (or should have) in 2012. And we are now in Version 3.0 - though some of you are desperately trying to avoid it. Avoiding 3.0 and trying to still act like 2.0 is like a comedian staying on the stage past when the audience was laughing. It’s getting creepy and awkward. It’s just not funny anymore.

I look back at Version 2.0 with mixed feelings. I see just about all of Version 2.0 as a kind of an intermediate, awkward stage of humankind – one where we were trying to be grown-ups, but really weren’t. It’s like humanity’s collective puberty. Version 2.0 is what you get when humankind was a teenager with raging hormones. I mean, look at all of the stupid things we experimented with, not to mention what we gave up from Version 1.0 in our reckless, headlong quest for adulthood. Do you remember good ole Version 1.0? There we were walking around our caves, wearing our nifty one-piece fur outfits, - no need to dodge traffic - having fun. We got up with no alarm clock, straightened up the cave, went out for lunch, then went fishing and swimming. Version 2.0 humans would call that a vacation! Now that I think about it, it just might be that Version 1.0 felt like a vacation more often than not! I don’t believe, for one minute, that picture they gave us when we were little. Weren’t you told that cavemen and cavewomen had a terrible life; they pulled each other around by the hair; they were always in grave danger of being killed off by saber-toothed tigers; they weren’t too smart, had poor posture, poor vocabulary, poor clothing, poor grooming - they apparently didn’t think of pony tails or buns to keep their hair back; and they used clubs instead of using their words to resolve differences? Isn’t that what you were told? Well, I don’t believe any of that crap. Isn’t it possible that some of the time, Version 1.0 people sang and danced and played games and made great food and well, basically partied? If so, who would you rather be: a Version 1.0, on your way to a party, occasionally skirting the La Brea tar pits because some saber-toothed tigers are there eating a wooly mammoth, or a Version 2.0 navigating the L.A. freeways every day for the rest your life? Who has the greater chance of survival? Who’s got the better quality of work-life?
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- See Wake Up Call #5 ... Points of View

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
by Charles Eisenstein
​(2013)

​​Eisenstein warns that we often project our modern self onto ancients and miss how they truly experienced the connectedness of the parts of their life.
 
“This is not merely an enlightened understanding that no person can be truly healthy if his family, village, or ecosystem is not healthy; it is a broader definition of self that includes family, village, and ecosystem. It is an understanding written into such spiritual teachings as the hermetic principle “As above, so below,” the Taoist concept of an internal universe embodying all the relationships that exist externally, and the Buddhist teachings of karma— that anything you do to the world, you do to yourself— and the unreality of the self.” (2013b, p. 155)
 
He calls the connectedness among us ‘interbeing’ and powerfully advances examples with studies he cites from both science and psychology.
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A conversation between a Humankind 2.0 and a 1.0

​​Do you think cavepersons wish they had what we have now? Maybe Humankind Version 1.0 had a life. Think about it – try selling writing and texting and blogging to a Version 1.0. You catch up with her as she’s in the middle of ecstatically tasting some fruit with a partner, on their way to bathe and sun in a waterfall.You say, “Is that fun?”

She says, “Yes.”

You say, “How about you stop and enter it on a blog, then take pictures of it and send them to lots of people to show the fun you’re having and share?”

To which she replies, “Huh?” Not because she has poor vocabulary, but simply because of her incredulity.

You try another tact, “Isn’t there anything about this you need to remember?”

​To which she replies, “I like where I am, who I am, my friends, my family, and my time. I’m not at war with any people, nor any part of nature. I don’t need a clock. I’m not trying to get ahead in life – I’m not trying at all. I’m actually happy. There is enough food - so more isn’t better. My friends and I share clothing, housing, and club accessories, so I don’t need money. There are no transportation or communication devices, so I have no appointments with the local garage or internet service provider or phone company. So, what do I need to remember? To remember actually means to put back a part (a member) of something that used to be whole. I am whole. My life is whole. I know what I need to know when I need to know it. The member parts of my life are all together. I do not need to re-member. So I do not need to write things down.”

But, the worst part about Version 2.0 is the sophomoric arrogance that sometimes accompanies adolescence. Version 2.0s go around like they’re the only thing that has ever lived on the planet, in the galaxy, or in the multiverse. They project themselves onto everyone and everything. Go ahead, try to ask a 2.0 some kind of intelligent question about inclusion. Inevitably the conversation goes something like this.
 
You: “Is there anything you haven’t thought of?”
2.0: “No. We have a theory of everything.”
You: “Is there any resource you don’t deserve?”
2.0: “No. We deserve any land, food, water, and air we can conquer and defend. But, you have to use your rugged individualism to earn it.”
You: “What do you mean earn it?”
2.0: “Well, take farming. That’s a totally good thing to do, right? Well, to earn a farm, you first make boundary lines in the dirt, then you kick out animals and sub-species like weeds and rocks. Next you divert the nearby stream. Then you blockade your God-given plot of land with fences and spray insecticides to protect your crop. It takes hard work and rugged determinism to conquer and fend off all of those undeserving others.”
You: “Is that how your ancestors did it?”
 2.0: “Doesn’t matter. They knew nothing compared to us. We are the crowning achievement of humankind and the most important species around. With our science we can figure out how to control nature. Could our ancestors control their lives like we can? They were superstitious. They were at the mercy of the weather, their enemies, disease – and they were probably bored to death without TV.”
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Test the Power of Your Incredible Intuitive Mind

Plasee raed tihs aluod and ntoe the seepd at wihch you    poreced.
A hamun bnieg lokos mroe for cnotxet and wolhe wrdos tahn for ecaxt sllpneig. Yuor inceiblre mnid mstoly lkoos for the fsirt and lsat ltretes of a wrod. Yuong cilhrden wtcah for eevn brodaer ctenoxutal cleus. Trefheore, mkae srue taht you aenttd to btoh the wlohe and its prats.

- from  Intuitive Education Workshop and also   Heart Thought Exercises

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​​Telling, I became a teacher.
Listening, I became a student.
Thanking, I became a friend.
And then I realized ...
I was Truly Teaching!

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- see  20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching Workshop (Part 1 of 5)
and Wake Up Call #2  ... The True Teacher

“It is very simple to be happy;
​but it is very difficult to be simple."

- Rabindranath Tagore

In other words, always lead from the heart. "You have the permission to Awaken. You may begin to move toward a new possibility before you see how to get there." Almost every training in education since the 1800s would have asked a student, "How are you going to get there?", first. The question should be, "Do you believe you can?" That's the question! And then, "How are you going to get there?" comes from that question.
- from   The Teacher's Bill of Rights

 Heart Thought       

We need to commit!

What if we cannot see the next version of humankind by using our heads to analyze our current situation?

​Isn't it time to Awaken, then look again by thinking with our Hearts?

We cannot transform the world around us
​until we first transform ourselves.

- see Wake Up Call #1 ...  First,   Change Yourself
- see   20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching (Part 1 of 5)