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[MagnetMan]

Originally Posted by Zythryn

MM (and family).

I was very concerned and quite speechless when I read your social experiments with your own family. Many of your experiments sounded very dangerous and detrimental.

Your concern for the children is natural, since you do not know the background to our educational experiments. The children and I have been hiking and camping in the mountains ever since they could walk. In fact I have videos of them still in diapers, clmbing rock faces. By the time each hit puberty threy were relative experts in out-door living. The 14,000 foot mountain peaks they were sent solo into overlook our ranch. They had been trained to use firearms and each was armed against possible mountain lion or bear. Each had a mirror reflector to let is know each morning if they were still fine. So they were well prepared beforehand and evey precaution was taken. The remaining risks had to be part of the program, or it would have had no dynamic.
Secondly I am from Africa. I have some Pondo bllood. It is ancient tradition to send pubertal boys after circumcision(I sent the gitrls too) into the mountains for three months. The objective is to wean them from childhood and get them to appreciate the values of family and community and the long efforst of the ancestors to develop the comforts of home. When the ordeal is over, they come down from the mountains as young men, no longer boys. So there is much precedent. Each of my kids are more proud of the days and nights they spent alone than all the other years in the mountains put together. Additionally Home Sweet Home has special meaning to them now.

I am thrilled that your kids have done so well. Instead of psyche-genisis, I would recommend documenting the incredible system which allows the kids to learn to read and advance so quickly from Lady and the Tramp to much more advanced novels immediately. With this introduction of how well it works, you can then move into psyche-genisis with a better chance of success.

The average African child who has never been inside a classroom. has a vocabulary at least five time greater than those who have. The difference between listening to an oral account of tribal lore or any of the other adventures in life, as apposed to reading it in a book leaves far deeper impressions on the psyche. The imprint in memory becomes indelible, as the child listens to the stories, watches the facial expressions of the recounter and the body language. It is the reason why all people love to watch staged plays and movies. So instead of books, my wife and I told stories and recountred everything we knew about our family and national hiostories and world history. We gave our own interpretatations of mythology and the scriptures and the metaphorical implications behind them.

We have a large home and property, so there are endless chores and each got their assigmnents rotated. We built our home ourselves and maintain it ourselves. So there is constant repair work. All learned workshop crafts, which gave them a practical basis of mathemetaical measurements. We have satelite TV. Watching documentary channels fed them with all the world's wealth of social and environmental facts. And so, as they reached puberty and wanted, of their own accord. to master reading and writing, they were already bursting with imagery, ideas and fantasies of their own. With very little guidance from us, each compressed the whole of primary school training into three months and passed their (comulsory for homeschoolers) 8th grade examinations with flying colours. They immediately mastered and surfed the internet, and began writing phantasy novels.

Yoga exercizes, meditatiion and telephathic drills where part of their daily routine. We have proved that ESP is an integral part of human communication. If you train daily to guess what I am thinking of with feqwere and fewer clues- after a year or two you start getting direct hits. My kids were getting six out of six regularly. That same ESP training is done among shamans throughtout Africa. Most scientists have no idea of what the mind is really capable of.

As far as we are concerned our HeartStart program is an unqulaifuied success. We formed a non-profit foundation and our plan is to encourage a few more families to try it out so that we can present the findings from a larger experimental base.

In a nutshell though, if you can structure your statements with evidence and logic rather than stories and 'insights' (without related tests) that will be much more easily accepted.

I have written a book and tried to detail the rationale and methodolgy of Psyche-Genetics as clearly as I can. The task of redefining human consciousness in entirely new terms is way beyond the capacity of a single mind. Psyche-Genetics presents a basic skeleton of a brand new way of evaluating and quantifying human consciousness. My greatest advantage in formulating it is also my greatest handicap. I have almsot zero professional training - which has allowed my mind to explore new avenues without preconcieved in-put. As a film maker I was able to report on my findings without too much trouble, for that is the direct advantage of visual imagery. Script and style of presentation has been is the big barrier, hence the struggle I am having here trying to present aspects of Psyche-Genetics without rewriting the whole book each time. With luck people more qualified in presentation will grasp the implications of this radical new theory, and be interested in helping to improve on the presentation.

As for some of these books your kids have written, can you give us the names, or the names they are written under?

They will not even let me read more tha n apage or two yet. They keep saying, Dad, its a work in progress. They are unquestionably far above average writers. I am hoping at least one emergerges as a truly great writer

Is your idea of society more communal in nature? It does sound so.
If so, do you and your kids all live together?

We have forty acres. All want to live and die here. Old fashioned family values are as tight as they were during my grandparents time. None of them want to become migrant workers. Nobles look after their own estate. Every family should have a noble home base.

Have you ever lost a child sending them into the mountains alone for three days? If you have not considered that, please be careful in the future.
Mark

To loose just one will surely break our hearts. But life cannot be dynamic without risk. But thank you for your interetst and your care.