I very much like the post of my husband Walter Baets I very much understand his post, since I as his wife know the background, the context based on the many dialogues and discussions we had.
I like to support him in the many activities he develops and I fully underline his thoughts and ideas of learning. Learning "should" be pleasant and calling upon the creativity, intelligence and curiosity of the delegates. Schools and Universities "should" be safe and friendly environments and “teachers and professors” an example themselves of these values. Marshall Rosenberg prefers to use another English word for "should" and I completely agree with him but I can not find another word (I am not native English) that signifies the strong need I feel for what I like to call fundamental for learning.
It needs courage to go beyond the mainstream since we have unfortunately many examples of people that were killed due to their ideas, different assumptions and personal involvement. I believe, feel and experience that this is a sad expression of unfulfilled needs. Safety, love, respect, happiness, peace and harmony are not always present in the life’s of individuals and in groups. It is since we have the idea that “others” are not as “we”. As long as we separate ourselves by talking about “them and we”, as long as we express ourselves in words as “the insiders” and “the outsiders”, we will actively and passively spread violence and aggression into the world. It is based on fear and it causes an artificial separation between all living creatures, who are fully connected and enact in the same time and space. I watched late in the evening “National Geograpic” and saw how four individual scientist worked in their field on natures “history”. All of them found, while working in different fields and in different places in the world some “surprising” outcome of their scientific approaches. The question they all came up with was: “What the heck happened about 75.000 years ago”? How is it possible that in the ice layers at Greenland the sulphite percentage about 75.000 years ago was much higher? How is it possible that in certain areas on planet earth volcano dust exist that we can not relate to a specific volcano we know. (Every volcano has his/her own fingerprint, like an expression of DNA). Somebody else sourced at the LakeToba at Sumatra, an Island of Indonesia and was wondered by the incredible depth, the size and the dust and volcano stones he found in this area. All worked separately from each other and could not find any further answers to their questions, until the moment their knowledge, findings came together. Instead of competing and fighting each other they connected their wisdom and knowledge and came up with new evidence of a what we would call an eruption of a SUPER VOLCANO. An eruption of a super volcano in the area of Lake Toba that caused an enormous disaster that all of a sudden changed the water temperature with 6 – 7 (lower) degrees.
“Some 75,000 years ago a super-eruption from the site of Lake Toba in Sumatra blasted out more than 200 cubic miles of ash and volcanic debris. Now, NGC investigates the devastating aftermath of one of the most powerful volcanoes of the last 2 million years, including the fascinating theory that it triggered a human genetic bottleneck - leaving a population of as little as a few thousand survivors to preserve the entire human race”.
Why is this important? Since it shows us that when people start working together and share knowledge, we can find interesting things that hopefully lead us to knew questions.
Nature also shows us that what happens in some areas of the world, can influence every other region, continent miles and miles away. This super volcano had an enormous impact and when it would happen again it can cause the destruction of all life on mother Earth.
The re-searchers continued being curious and worked together from a mind that is "willing to discover". This is what we like to talk about in the class rooms sessions. About synchronicity, that things happen at the same moment in space and time. That you do not “lose” when you share the outcome of your work and allowing others to take part in it.
I watched television in the middle of the night since my son Derk Jan was working on his mathematical assignment. Walter and I choose to stay with him and to support him and I liked it very much since otherwise I would not have discovered the research of these brilliant scientists. I did it in the first place for my self since my need to support him was met. Indeed, I experienced how important this is, since I received an enormous richness thanks to National Geographic’s.
I fully understand some of the parents of the “students” we have at Euromed, since I feel connected to them and I share many of their concerns. I have a need to know that “my” children are safe. I have a need to feel convinced that they are in a pleasant, enriching environment. I have a need that they can explore an open mind and can ask as many questions as possibly. I have a need that they find their ways in freedom and are not manipulated by a rigid vision that only leads in one direction. I share all of that and even more.
Yes, I talk about feelings, emotions and other paradigms, since I feel that it is time to find some new understandings of “reality” since our environment is asking for new approaches. Yes, I do support the search for another economic vision, paradigm, other than shareholders only, since I think and feel that it caused and still causes disasters. Yes, I believe that what happens in other parts of the world, will have consequences for yet other places.
Poverty, starvation, aggression, violence, wars, child labour, depressions, maltreatment (human, animals) obesity, illnesses caused by pollution and chemical reactions, global warming are SUPERVOLCANOS and will affect all of us. It seems that they are going beyond borders. We can built tower high walls between countries but epidemies, diseases, polution and the effects of natural disasters do not know the boarders we created artificially.
When seen from outer space, our beautiful blue planet has no national boundaries. Dalai Lama
Is this “negative”? I would think the contarary, since we can have another impact by making other choices. Respect, empathy, grace, beauty, kindness, love and a peaceful state of mind does not create boarders. It is the same energy used in another direction. I hope that we agree that Love is the most powerful one.
AMOR VINCIT OMNIA
OMNIA VINCIT AMOR
This is what I express during "my" lectures and where I ask questions about. Yes, I know that I have an impact. I am sure I have.
I was always impressed by the expressions used by: P. Watzlawick
“Even when you do nothing, it will have an impact”.
“You can not NOT communicate”
I love to finish with some beautiful words:
We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place or not to bother.
Jane Goodall
Action without love is meaningless, and love without action is irrelevant. Hafsat Abiola
It is on our shoulders to create the future. Nobody's going to do it for us. Andrew Cohen
(All the phrases used are found on the site of The Alliance for a New Humanity)
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