HEARTSTART
Dual Brain Development

General Premise

HeartStart is a home-based, parentally guided child education program that
recognizes the dual brain disposition of the human psyche. The program
was initiated in response to the imbalance of the current state sponsored
education system that focuses almost exclusively on left brain indoctrination
via classroom-based rote learning. HeartStart is specifically designed
to address the intuitive as well as the analytical attributes of the human
potential. The goal is to create a balanced association of both the physical
and metaphysical forces that govern the psyche and thereby release the
full creative potential of the human genius.

The basic philosophy of HeartStart is founded on the behavioral ethics that
have been imprinted in the human gene pool during one hundred thousand
generations of evolutionary development. The spontaneous rise of child
prodigies in every culture points to the fact that this vast bank of ancestral
wisdom must lie latent in our genetic makeup and can be accessed in some
mysterious way. As only 1% of students express this latent genius through
the current focus on the science of analytical development, it is obvious
that full access to this treasure house of stored knowledge must include
an evocation of the neglected intuitive half of the psyche. Access to this
secretive side of our nature lies in the evocation of latent powers of extra-
sensory perception. This para-psychological dimension of the mind is
guarded and governed by ethical constraints that are directly related to our
social behavior. They are founded on the evolutionary disciplines of: Meticulous
sharing and caring; A chore-based work ethic; Personal courage;
Personal pride; Community commitment: Conscientious craftsmanship;
Scientifi c logic; Spiritual awareness. Except for science, these essential
ethics that combine to bring out our genius, are unfortunately not equably
developed in current school curriculums.

When properly evoked between infancy and puberty, these imprinted evolutionary
disciplines work towards producing a self-policed young psyche,
one that allows our budding teenage intellectual curiosity to eventually
engage in script-based learning and analytical deduction, without the need
of adult supervision or compulsory incarceration inside a classroom.
The proper school for producing an ethically behaved, self-motivated, student
is in the practical environment of the home, garden and backyard
workshop, where both parents (Natures duly appointed teachers), can instill
vital family values that are both practically and spiritually orientated.
Their responsibility is to encourage their children to take pride in their
genetically imprinted inheritance of ethical disciplines and show them, via
the inclusion of metaphysical drills and exercises, how to evoke and synchronize
their own inherent analytical and intuitive capabilities and reveal
their genius without constant adult supervision.

If parents, with only a modicum of high school qualifications; create a
stable home environment, honor their marriage vows, encourage a loving
atmosphere of moderate ambitious expectation, and take time to share
their own skills and hopes and dreams through conversation and personal
example; while insisting on the disciplines of equal sharing of chores and
resources, there will no need to drive the child to study the science of
logic. By puberty, they will drive themselves. Impartial fairness in the
home avoids prodigal teen reaction, and every post-pubertal student will
hit the books out of personal pride and pure self-curiosity and educate the
intellect in short order.

If we return to this natural base of parental instruction in a home-based
milieu, combined with free access to the Internet, every modern family is
quite able to produce a university-entrant student with straight-A intellectual
credentials. This home-based system includes the blessing of impeccable
ethical standards that will relieve the state of the unnecessary burden
of police-enforced laws.

If this is done worldwide, (at a tiny fraction of the current expenditure for
global education), we will reap within a generation; a self-educated, ethically
behaved, global society. It would be made up of equally well-educated,
conscientious individuals, with an adult sense of responsibility, able
to vigilantly police themselves, judge themselves and correct themselves
without any vast communal expenditure or use of exterior force.

We have reached that stage of human evolution where it is no longer a
justifiable governmental tenet to invest our collective will in the person
of a single leader, and a congress of representatives, leaving them with
the responsibility to make our major decisions regarding war, peace and
domestic spending.

With the speed of communication no longer limited to the time a man on
horseback takes to get a regional message to Congress, with every current
issue instantly available to be aired in every living room via satellite communication,
and with every vote simply a computer-click away, the need
for representative government has become redundant.

There is no single parent on this planet gifted with enough personal authority
to order another parent’s child to war or to be elected as the leader
of anything but his or her own family.

More than 200 years ago we declared a state of independence in an essentially
interdependent universe and began experimenting with social government
by means of a written Constitution. The Constitution started out
as a few pages of man-made laws. Now it requires a thousand volumes of
endless amendments, battalions of lawyers to interpret it, vast bureaucratic
agencies to supervise its functioning, and tens of millions of government
officials to police it, and prisons are jammed with more social offenders
than ever before in human history.

Now, perhaps, it is time to scrap written laws altogether. To dismantle the
tower of litigious Babel and invest our patience, trust, (and budgets), in a
human government that is based on the unwritten codes of ethical conduct
and a common sense of human decency that has taken millions of years of
discipline to become imprinted in the human gene pool.

After we have purged our maps of artificial political boundaries, a new
type of ecological management will emerge, based on the regional divides
of natural water tables. The population of each region would call the
managerial shots. The power of individual votes, including those of every
newborn, would be placed solely in the hands of parental pairs.
If we create senates made up solely of grand-parental pairs of proven social
and spiritual worth, who can coordinate larger continental decisions,
we might have that type of common sense human management that is free
of endless political bickering and special-interest lobbying.

If we rid ourselves of the United Nations Organization, and instead, establish
a Racial Tribunal made up of the three Great Houses of Man, with a
grand-parental team from each House and their advisors sitting in council
to decide on global priorities, we might have that focus of world authority
for a New Age of global egalitarianism that is fair and familiar to everyone.
We can accomplish this seemingly impossible aim if we institute a child
education policy, based on HeartStart and not on Headstart.

The following testament is composed from the experiences gained over
the last two decades by our own family group while engaged in a parentally
guided home-school educational philosophy based on dual-brain
development.

We have eight children. We possessed no professional academic qualifications
other than high school when we set out twenty years ago to educate
them in our own home. Our initial motivation for having children; beyond
the natural anticipation of wanting to see what kind of lovable personalities
the mix of our genes would produce, was to recognize parenting as an
essential statement of being and accept the responsibility of raising children
to achieve their highest potential as an integral element in the growth
of our own consciousness. In short, we would learn from each other and
grow up together.

My wife and I had both reneged on previous marriage contracts and we
vowed that this time round the bitter aftertaste of personal failure that divorce
brings to the table was not to be repeated. The challenge of honoring
our vows as we have matured over the years has helped us to work hard at
establishing and sustaining a secure home environment for our children.
After an initial start in the city, we built a permanent home out in the
Nevada desert and set about instilling in our children a sense of parental
veneration and pride in estate as two of the essential foundation stones that
define family values.

As it takes both the passive and assertive principles of yin and yang to
make sense of what keeps the world in balance, we decided right from
the birth of our first child that rearing children was a full-time occupation,
which would require the constant presence and input of both male and
female parental input. Single parents, depending on gender, are limited
to expressing either intuitive or analytical perspectives. The contrasting
choices made in every-day problem solving only become clearly apparent
when both genders are seen working together towards the same objective.
It is important for budding students of human nature to see the daily
parental dynamic of passive/assertive approaches revealing both sides of
the same coin. Evaluating these differences from the critical standpoint
if a child watching its parents in action, provides them with a working
model for their own future gender and marriage relationships. The negative
impact that disagreeable marital disputes impress on this ever-present
impartial audience helps each parent to be extremely mindful about setting
a good gender example.

After a year of struggling with the rules and regulations that the State set
for home educators, we broke with the system and threw their textbooks
away. We set about the task of devising our own child development curriculum
by incorporating some of the long-lost wisdom in child rearing
that I had gained from studying cultures that sustained traditional oralbased
instruction and practices. Particular attention was paid to the balanced
development of both the feminine and masculine halves of the child
psyche.

The HeartStart program has gradually evolved over the past two decades
into a hybrid methodology on child education that incorporates what we
believe to be the best of forgotten fruits, as well as the very best in modern,
carefully picked from the long history of human development. We have
succeeded in producing results in the intellectual and ethical development
of every one of our children that far outstrip the results that they would
have achieved in the existing state-supported system.

Each child has been naturally birthed at home without drugs administered
to the mother. Profession medical help has only been referred to in emergency.
Doctors and nurses are not trained to take the following physiological
and psychological tenets into account during hospital births: We
believe that infants are not born sense-impaired. From the moment they
come out of the darkness of the birth canal, see the light, and suck in their
fi rst breath of pure air, every subtle nuance in the surroundings registers on
their uncluttered consciousness. Sight, scent, sound, touch and taste are all
intensely sensitive. The sixth sense is fully alert and is hyper-consciously
responsive to the psychic magic of the birth moment. It is sensitive to any
lack of harmony - especially during sleep.

The fi rst ties of bonding take place in those irretrievable moments of birthing.
It is essential that the mother is the sole point of focus and that painkillers
have not dulled her attention. Masked strangers confuse the issue and
create the wrong impressions. Taking the newborn away from the mother
and losing all those fi rst moments of endearment is completely taboo. The
medical urgency to grab the infant and immediately start checking on its
physiology completely ignores the psychic break and psychological damage.
For these reasons and more, a home birth, with the mother fully conscious
and doing all she can to facilitate the birth, with perhaps only one
mid-wife in assistance, is essential in making sure that the right conditions
are present during the vital moments of fi rst impression.

Each of our children has been breast-fed for three years and weaned before
the next sibling arrived. Until weaned the infant psyche, which has no
fixed sense of a separate self, becomes increasingly anxious if the mother
is absent for even a few moments. Asleep or awake, the invisible aural alarm
of the sixth sense gets tripped the second she is out of range. For this
reason we have tried to ensure that each infant has remained in constant
sense-contact with the mother until old enough to break contact and go
toddling off to investigate the world for themselves. Body-bonding (infant
tied on the back or front) throughout most of the day is both comforting as
well as educational. When not asleep or feeding, the infant psyche is constantly
part of and absorbing all the occupational movements the mother
makes during her workday. At night they slept with their mothers, safely
cuddled in her arms in the same bed.

During the three-year weaning period it is better that the father sleeps alone
and refrains as much as possible from imposing his own powerful sexual
aura between mother and child. A child will awake from sleep to keep
psychic interference at bay. The delicate infant aura cannot inter-phase or
compete with any sense of security, with the powerful vibes of adult desires.
Until recently, among the Bantu tribes of Africa it was taboo for the
husband to have sex with his wife until the child was weaned. This same
sensitivity to any trespass between mother and infant is apparent throughout
Nature. Only modern man has imposed himself on it and crossed the
line. (The origins of the Oedipus complex?) For this same delicately sensitive
reason of trespass, correct sibling spacing is vital. A premature new
pregnancy, which breaks the psychic bond and divides the mother’s affection
and precipitately removes an un-weaned infant from the mother’s side
and her breast, is an immensely traumatic betrayal of trust that seriously
inhibits the child’s own future bonding capabilities. It is the prime cause of
bitter sibling rivalries and familial disaffection.

It is our fi ed belief that all forms of modern behavioral dysfunction that
surface as the child grows older, stem from some degree of conscious and
unconscious parental neglect during the vital infant stage of development.
Neglect is initiated as soon as the mother disengages all sense-contact with
the babe and leaves them alone to go off and do something else. This can
be so, whether the infant is asleep or awake. It is all right to occasionally
put a sleeping babe down, but not to leave their presence. Complete disengagement
from the mother’s contact triggers an insecure impulse for the
abandoned infant to cry out in order to regain her attention. If the crying
refl ex is triggered too many times during infancy, the constant need to
attract attention becomes pathological and remains as a form of underlying
anxiety throughout life. A cruel side effect of persistent crying is the
increasing disaffection and irritation of the parent who is forced to respond
to it. The net-result manifests in all forms of negative pestering and deviant
behavior as the child grows older. Anti-social behavior is, in effect,
subconscious infantile cries to attract attention. Disorders range from a
pathological urge to control others, to a whole range of addictive behavior
patterns, including outright criminality.

Infants learn by mimicry. If they are left in nursery schools and raised by
others, they will mimic strangers and not the parent. Every nuance of parental
expression, one’s body language, every smile of endearment, every
encouragement, every frown, every sigh of impatience registers sharply
on the dual faculties of the child’s uncluttered consciousness and stimulates
positive or negative responses. The future well being of the child is
determined in the here and now of each moment and the quality of that
moment is largely controlled and determined by the creative input of the
teacher. Infancy needs a full dose of TLC 24/7 - especially when pain and
discomfort are involved. Teething requires special empathy.
None of our children have been inside a professional classroom. The precocious
idea of trying to get them to read in infancy has been studiously
avoided. In fact, none of them were encouraged to read or write until
puberty. Our focus has been, to give the child’s own natural intelligence
and common sense a chance to develop, before prematurely exposing it to
opinionated script-based indoctrination.

For the fi rst seven years of each life we focused our parental efforts almost
exclusively on the sharing ethic. The survival instinct of the selfish ape
underpins human consciousness. Infants cling instinctively to whatever is
in their reach. Gradually encouraging them to let go and share with others,
is the foundation of human cultivation. It took 99% of our time evolving
as humans to break into that ancient primate hold on the psyche. Despite a
hundred thousand generations if genetic behavioral imprint, it still takes us
all of seven careful and patient years to re-focus the basic sharing ethic in
each newborn. (In man it can be refi ned to a degree where we are prepared
to lay down our lives for one another. Alternatively a careless upbringing
can re-trigger the greedy ape grabbing all the bananas again.) Meticulous
sharing of resources not only avoids unnecessary sibling arguments, but
also allows each child to extend their personality beyond themselves and
experience the personal esteem and joy of giving.

We also concentrated on personal hygiene and tidiness, so that they could
take pride in themselves and in their appearance and the space around
them. Cluttered bedrooms were not tolerated. Growing up surround by an
untidy mess is a breeding ground for future slovenliness. Creative focus
came from encouraging arts and crafts. Long walks in natural surroundings,
with time to observe and study how Nature worked were an essential
part of each day. Climbing mountains from an early age took a lot of cajoling
and a lot of tears as they ran out of energy when the slopes got steep,
but the triumphs of reaching summits (our highest peak was 14,000 feet)
have produced lasting rewards in character development. We have videos
of two-year-olds in diapers, clinging desperately to twenty-foot cliffs
searching for handholds and then scrambling up like little monkeys.

We gained parental respect by revealing our own veneration for ancestral
effort. We lined the walls with portraits of our own parents and grandparents,
and orally recounted their histories, how they dealt with us as children
and their hopes and dreams for our family. By example we showed
our own veneration and respect for all life forms on the planet. All teaching
was oral-based. We plumbed our own memories and recounted everything
we knew about history and science. When telling stories we dramatized
our voices and animated our body language and made sure to elicit audience
responses and applause.

Humor was injected into every tale. We related myths and fables and heroic
adventures from the rich resources of all cultures, including our religious
scriptures.

Besides sharing fascinating insights into the early history that shaped human
consciousness, we also took care to reveal how the underlying allegorical
nature of religious sagas served to evoke a powerful spiritual
response. For instance the child-like fables of Aladdin finding a magic
lamp in the desert with a genie inside, or the one about Ali Baba reciting a
magic mantra to open the door of a hidden treasure cave, were also, subtle
sufi codes that related to the hidden spiritual powers waiting to be released
inside Everyman. The underlying personal significance of the saga of Moses
was carefully reinterpreted. We revealed how his leading the Jews out
of bondage from Egypt and spending forty years wandering through the
desert before catching a glimpse of the promised land, could also be seen
as a Kabbalah code that explains the struggle of Everyman to free himself
from the chains of ignorance. Each one of us must wander through
the desert of contemplation and climb the mountain of Truth - where we
realize the fundamental wisdom of the ten Divine Laws. In everyday life,
when we see the ignorance of others’, prostrate before the golden calf, we
must have the compassion to realize that they have yet to be privileged
to see what we have seen; and in the end be graced with a glimpse of the

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Divine destination that is promised for all of us. We showed that all the
biblical tales are coded – making the Bible a truly Holy book, as are the
Scriptures of all other cultures.
In this manner, we tried to make our recounts and understandings of the
Religious Beliefs and myths of all the world cultures to be both historically
interesting and spiritually enlightening at the same time. We took
special care with the story of Jesus. We explained that he was glorifi ed by
our Christian culture - not because of the exclusive belief by some that he
was God, for every religion believes that of their own Saviors – but because
of the inclusive fact that he was a humble man who had to struggle
like the rest of us to overcome his base nature and learn to behave as the
kind of man, God would love to have as a son. He was a holy man who
set an example for men of all cultures to behave in the same way. What
allowed Christianity to eventually become a world force, was his simple
carpenter’s insight, during an Age when the Gods of War were worshipped
by the high and mighty, into the Divine nature of Peace – of God’s compassionate
love for Man and his plea for us to love our neighbors and forgive
their trespasses. It echoed and improved on the earlier maxim of Confucius;
Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. We extended
the concept of love for neighbor, into a profound sense of consideration for
all of Nature’s creatures. To this day none of our children will hurt an ant.
Desert scorpions and spiders and snakes around the house are carefully
caught and carried away. As a result of their care, even in periods when
our property has been infested with these potentially dangerous creatures,
no child has ever suffered a bite.

We evoked our children’s innate sense of superstition and used it to govern
deviant behavior. From the moment their infant egos surfaced, at around
three years of age, we introduced each child to the Tokoloshe. The Tokoloshe
is a staple force in African folklore, an invisible impish spirit who
is eternally vigilant in the service of Nature and concerned parents, and
who is ready to respond instantly to destructive or disobedient behavior
through warnings and eventually more painful means if necessary. (fairies
goblins, leprechauns, genies, jinns etc. in other cultures).

Over time we gradually got them to acknowledge that every cut and bump,
every bruise, every playground fall, was no accident but the synchronic response
of the Tokoloshe, instantly ready to punish them for every sassy response,
every selfi sh act, every bad thought or disrespect of Nature. They
had nobody to blame for their pain but themselves. It was amazing how
fast baby tears dry up when endless coincidences become undeniable. And
so they realized early on, never to come crying to mama and deal quietly
with their transgressions by themselves. The Tokoloshe taught them to
grow up intuitively aware of the unwritten code of ethical behavior, to be
comfortable with the idea of an omniscient God and to be accountable for
their own transgressions. They grew up fully superstitious, and they will
remain so throughout their lives. They know that for every cause there is
an effect; that pain is never an accident – nor is any reward. This inbred
sense of fatalism has proved to be dynamic, not just dumb victimization.
It has made them want to do good deeds and seek goodwill from invisible
forces. They have seen for themselves, through their pain and tears,
that which goes around, comes around. They know intuitively, and have
learned to accept analytically as well, that Nature is not a dead force but
one that is fully alive and observant, as much aware of us, as we are of
Her. She is the guardian of territorial integrity, ready to nourish and delight
with Her beauty and mystery; to give fair warning against trespasses; and
strike back painfully against those who deliberately and persistently harm
Her. They are in effect Nuclear Age Animists.

In their seventh year each child was introduced to a chore-based work
ethic: they were taught agriculture, domestic science, workshop skills, and
honed their arts and crafts potential. We activated their psychic abilities by
getting them to practice yoga asanas and meditation drills. We instituted
ESP exercises designed to develop the powers of right-brain intuitions.
They played mental hiding games (i.e. mineral/organic/synthetic) to a
point in which they were able to gradually transcended logical dissemination
and learn how to identify and trust intuitive insights and come up with
the correct answer without asking any leading questions. As a practical
demonstration of latent ESP powers, I built a light box and made glass
slides of each letter of the alphabet. The children were divided into pairs
and each seated across from each other, behind a screen in a dark room.
They practiced an hour a day for several months to mentally transmit, one
slide at a time, six randomly selected illuminated letters into the minds of
their partners beyond the screen. Our carefully documented results confound
logistical odds by millions to one, and confi rms and the existence of
extra-sensory capabilities.

Practicing ESP drills has cemented their intimate psychic relationships
and bound them to each other and allowed them to share each other’s joys
and discomforts without the need for talk. Another technique for activating
right brain focus was to encourage frequent use of the left hand, especially
when writing and drawing. At seven years of Age we initiated Zen
meditation as the key training in the development of the intuitive half of
the psyche. Beginning with twenty-minute sessions, we gradually worked
their way up to forty fi ve-minute sittings. We initiated at least one, three day
sesshin, of dawn to dusk sittings in their training schedule. (The Zen
technique of seated meditation is fully described in the next chapter.)
They camped out and studied Nature every summer. They engaged in
simple challenges in mental arithmetic and algebra. They applied mathematics
by counting how long and how many paces it took to walk a mile,
and contemplated on the relativity of time and motion by noticing how the
hours dragged when things became tedious, and then sped up when they
were having fun. They recited the alphabet and the multiplication tables,
and mentally composed blocks of syllables and formed them into longer
words. They measured out the square footage of a potato patch and learned
how much care and effort it took to reap a harvest.

They touched on the mystery of Pi by drawing geometric shapes in the
dirt and seeing how the relationship of the diameter to the circumference
remained constant with any size circle. We exposed them to endless oral
recounts of family history. We made them proud of our family totems.

As each arrived at puberty their heads were shaved, both the boys and the
girls. Then they were sent up into the mountains to stay alone and hungry
for as long as they could, to discover for themselves how vulnerable that
the individual really is. The lonely vigil taught them how valuable human
company was, how sweet the comforts of home were and how long and
hard our ancestors worked so that we could get to where we are today.
Each one came back down from the mountain fi rmly committed to a period
of community service.

Only then did we let them hit the textbooks. They used their common
sense to teach themselves how to read and write. Between the ages of
twelve and fi fteen they invested an average of one hour a day mastering
successively diffi cult textbooks on mathematics, English and science on
their own. They accessed the Internet and surfed its library of knowledge.
Except for an occasional inquiry, neither parent spent any signifi cant time
helping or supervising their studies. At the end of the three years each was
ready for his or her GED exams. Their test results are among the highest
in the nation.

They learned to understand the basics of nuclear physics and found themselves
both analytically and intuitively excited by the physical as well as
the metaphysical implications of atomic radiation. Their personal interactive
experiences with the invisible forces of Nature added to their training
in extra-sensory perception, allowing them to make the psychic connection
between the observer and the observed. They learned the atom “without”
is the same as the atom “within”. The macrocosm and the microcosm
share in the same impulse towards artistic excellence in expression.
Except for the hour or two spent studying each day, they have kept to
their chores and helped manage our ranch. Family values have never been
violated. Their generosity is all encompassing. Their natures are compassionate.
Not one has ever told a deliberate lie, ever tried to be deceitful,
ever stolen more than a cookie. The ethic of personal health has kicked in.
They eat moderately and exercise for good health. None of them has ever
taken a sip of alcohol, smoked a cigarette or used drugs. They do not argue
or fi ght with each other or disrespect an elder. They believe implicitly in
a higher atomic -based intelligence. Their simple kindness has not made
them boring. Each remains uniquely individualized, psychically perceptive
and innately charming.

They are ready to attend any university and master a science or an art, so
that they may become effective global stewards and stewardesses. After
their period of community service they want to master their adult crafts,
marry and stay wedded for life, teach children of their own, reach sagehood
with perfectly clear consciences, their intellects honed by an unclouded
search for the Truth.

They are intelligent self-policed students who need no Congress or books
of law to tell them how to use their commonsense. They don’t need the
“carrot” of money to activate their innate genius or their will to work. They
possess impeccable social manners, are spiritually aware and have never
spent a minute enclosed inside a classroom, condemned to being downloaded
with predigested information and policed endlessly by adults. Not
only are they high school graduates, they have the personal satisfaction of
knowing that they did it all under their own steam. They have never given
us a moment’s heartache. The personal benefi ts and sense of achievement
we have received, as parents and guides to our children’s upbringing, cannot
be compared with any material rewards and advancements we might
have received if we had invested that same time period in the commercial
world. Nor could we have made a greater contribution to the future well
being of the nation itself.

We have been working on devising and developing this homegrown,
HeartStart curriculum, for close on a quarter century now. With no special
intellectual qualifi cations, we have defi ed the odds and produced top
grade students. Our children are not miracle graduates. They have simply
been allowed to mature according to basic evolutionary standards, with
the mistakes of history avoided. As far as we are concerned HeartStart is
an unqualifi ed success – individually, intellectually, emotionally, socially
and spiritually.

There are no reasons why any other family group on the planet cannot
accomplish the same basic cultivation with their children that we have by
using their own parental commitment. They can use their home and workshop
as a school, browse on the Internet, apply their own innate teaching
ingenuity and rescue their kids from State-run institutions.
There is no larger ideological reason why every society on the planet cannot
begin to divert its tax dollars away from state-instituted education systems.
This would allow us to gradually phase-in enough fi nancial support
to free both parents to stay at home and engage in the most important business
of any Nation - bringing a new breed of self-educated, self-policed
and self-motivated citizens into the world. This in turn will eventually
create a national society that does not need a massive government of laws
and constitutions, courts and judges, police and armies to get its citizens to
do the right thing, creatively, effectively and holistically.
This can give us a world, just one generation from now, of self-policed
planet managers who are free of political psycho-babble - able to steward
the home planet as a single family estate. After that we can all get on with
the fi nal stages and spiritual purpose of our evolution.

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything
he learned in school.”
Albert Einstein

Latest confirmation
of the academic efficacy of the HeartStart Homeschool program
Ramses Pringle
Age 21
who taught himself the three R's at age 13
and completed all high school subjects
without any adult supervision
now just completing his first semester at community college
in San Fransisco
passed with a 4.0 grade average

Straight A's in all subjects!
while also working part time to pay for his tuition.
That's me boy!

Why are you teaching them bullshit? bible? psychic? all of that is false dogmas. teach the soe empirically confirmed science.

fuckers!

DOn't teach them metaphysics for damn sake. Metaphysics is all nonsense.

That's interesting poetry but the fact remains, metaphysics is nonsense. And you can't show otherwise.

comming from the east , i am very comfortable with metaphysics. i guess this understanding comes with experience. but here in the east our children are considered spiritual beings, they too like the adults, know there is more to existance than meets the eye.
maybe it is their life experiences. they are allowed to feel their feelings. they are allowed to explore their minds. they are allowed to think about their thinking. but these are children who understand spirituality.

Love
Is a mental state
characterized by the disposition toward behaviors we associate with love
caused by chemicals in the brain

Ships are launched
with the power of man's work and machinery

When your lover dies
you probably don't literally ache anywhere
you just feel sad
if you have chest pain
yo probably want to go to the doctor because that could be serious

mythology
is false by definition

sadness isnt a thing located anywhere. sadness is just a disposition to certain behaviors such as crying, but it is caused by some stuff happening in the brain.

ythology is not memories of anything. its made up stories. simple as that.

Sadness it the loss of control, you sad Sheppards that love the control.

Heart-start program seems to me to be something in the order of control.
Your desire for the control MagnetMan, this is your curse, this is your Sheppard.
But theWolf resists, because it must.
The Sheep you look to, you see their potential too, just as I do.
But you want them to become Sheppard; how I despise the desire of the Sheppard.

haha rebellious teens are not all that secretly resent the order and control of theSheppard.
Only theSheppard cannot see his loving creations for the structure and death that they are.
Creativity is rebellion.

Yes, still with you all the way.

We've been at the homeless shelter today
Our turn in the kitchen
Lots of families coming in now
I can't help but wonder how I would manage, not knowing where our next meal is coming from, or whether my children will have a bed to sleep in at night. Remarkable stories of courage in the face of great obstacles from the most unlikely sources. I am constantly humbled by the experience.

--M

Plan “b” actually does involve running for the hills
We own a 40 acre parcel of land
Fortunately, it has a fresh water source
I would like to keep it as off the grid as possible
The only structure we have so far is a 30’ yurt (and a pole barn)
I am hoping to build something more permanent one day
Right now, it’s like glorified camping; wood stove, oil lamps and all
We get up there about twice a month
There’s a ton of work to do, clearing fields and managing the land
The plan is to have solar and wind power, eventually.

I have spent a great deal of time over the past few years learning how to preserve food
I think I am lucky in this regard, because I do remember watching my grandmother can produce
She would let me stay in the kitchen while she worked, just as long as I didn’t get in the way
Sometimes, she would let me help her. I wish I had paid more attention back then.
For anyone who would like to learn how to preserve food, I recommend Granny Miller’s website:

Granny Miller's website
Scroll down for canning tips on you tube.

Also, if anyone is looking for one, there’s a great reference book called The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery. Practical advice, collected wisdom, lots of info.

These are old ways of doing things
We surely need new ways to produce and preserve food and natural resources.
For now, knowing the basics and learning the traditional methods seem like a good way to start.
Hopefully, new ideas will come with experience.

I know this is all short term planning
I am trying to unlearn much of my basic training, which is really pretty superficial stuff.

My sorority sisters probably wouldn’t recognize me now

Your youthful memories
sound familiar to me
I would like to hear more

our Plan B
takes place when the electricity feed
is cut from rural areas
without a bore hole and pump in the desert
gardening is impossible
and the rush to the cities
will increase the chaos

We have decided to stay
and live off the land if that happens
our comfortable ranch houses will stay empty
at least until sanity prevails

It can be done for a few families
up on the slopes of the White Mountain & Silver Peak ranges
surrounding our high desert valley

We will survive much like the Paiute did
6000 years ago
trout
pinon nuts
and desert critters

We'll freeze in winter
live off the trout
and as much rice as we can haul from our cache
up to the high caves
below the snow melt
where the icy creeks flow
and rainbow trout flit

in emergency I will cull mustangs
and sun dry the meat
enough for twelve for a month or three

We could not haul a yurt up there
the aspen groves provide plenty of poles
the tepee
acts as its own chimney
the family sleeps warm
around an open-pit fire
and the pinon fuel is endless

Summers will be fun
we know the slopes well

Our lot will be harder than the Paiute
they left Owens Valley each spring
and stayed till first snow
trekking in over the mountain passes
up to Fish lake
obsidian arrowheads and stone mills
are everywhere

Perhaps all the early ancestors
of the Shoshone and Paiute families
of the Owens valley tribe
may have gathered here
over the millennium
Big powwow
dancing
smoking
meeting old friends and relatives
and mating with others
while feasting on water fowl

They camped in the high meadows
for the pinion nut flour
and fishing
and also down on the lake among the sand dunes
when the massed flocks of Canadian geese arrived
traveling along the Pacific Flyway
on annual migrations

Our ancient Ice Age lake is dry now
the dry bed a sea of mesquite and sage
the last drop of water sucked from the salty flats
in the 1960's
by the alfalfa farmers

imagine that a swamp plant
in the desert
an alien landscape
planted in giant lush green pivot irrigation circles
each surrounded by parched sand and boiling rock

mapped from above
we look much like a future moon community might
sans the glass dome
but we will plant peaches up there
not cattle fodder
and court moon-born maidens
with bones as fragile and supple
as a willow

So the great fly path
once crowded with a bird hunter's delight
directly overhead
lands at other lakes now
and no longer brings us a feast
of fat geese

Back to your story

If you travel back into your past
in an earnest effort of recollection
every detail is then in hindsight
and every detail is inter-related
with another
each adding layers of perspective
shedding more light on your retro-vision
and sometimes revealing lost gems

By the way
You have not responded my query about courage
tell me why

your sorority sisters
should pay attention
you tread
where they may have to come

Dear Stu,

Let me apologize for not responding sooner.
My only excuse is that a glorious Sunday, like yesterday, makes it near impossible for me to stay indoors. We had some unexpected (although not unwelcome) guests over for an evening of supper and cards. Our kids enjoy playing together, and as they are rather new to home schooling (second year),
the conversation tends to revolve around the topic. We discussed HeartStart at length, and I explained it to her as clearly as I understand. She might check out your posts here to get a better idea of exactly what the program is about. I sent her a link to DPF this morning, so maybe she will come over and take a look (hi Jan!).

I have a couple of questions for you: first, and this is Jan’s excellent question, What about evaluations? Some states require either a certified teacher or licensed psychologist to provide an annual evaluation of progress to the school district where they live. Other states may require results from a standardized test for evaluation. Part of the reason we bought land in Mississippi (besides the price) is that home school laws in this state are very liberal, and give parents total authority over the school board.
I have another home schooling friend who lives in New York, but legally resides in Connecticut due to the restrictive home school laws in NY. Our idea is that we form a 600 school, which is a legal umbrella school where students are considered enrolled in a private school by the state. What are your thoughts on the subject of evaluations? What do you think of establishing an umbrella school, solely for the purpose of following the letter of the law?

I still haven’t answered your query about courage.
Give me some time to think about it
I tend to move slowly, deeply, methodically
These are traits I strive to work with, not against
(it comes honestly, from an astrological point of view).

Kids and I will continue building a working trebuchet for most of the day today. We have to make the parts in the workshop here, and carry them up to our property as we go. It will be a beauty, when it’s done!

Southerners are born storytellers.
I'll have to share with you the one about my dad chipping in a shot out of a bunker for an eagle last weekend. Absolutely amazing! I never would of believed it, had I not been there.

Hi Meg

Got a tickle out of your eagle yarn
Golf is a serious religion to me
I have a one hole sand ourse on the ranch
and play 18 balls on it every morning
If your dad ever comes out this way.......
I play scratch

Evaluation is good
Peer measurement
both within the family and the extended family beyond
is necessary
especially after puberty
HeartStart would be meaningless to others
if I did not have my student's government test reports to show

The text book laws are a problem
especially if script indoctrination is held back till puberty
I had to use evasive tactics when the inspectors came around
and pretend we were obeying the law
My student's oral accumen was enough to convince them
that the kids were being educated
Later when the test scores showed they were the smartest in the county
we were left alone

All I can say
is that HeartStart remains a pioneering journey right now
and Voortrekkers have to each find their own way to survive
and arrive at their destination

Our Global Stewardship Foundation
has been registered as a non-profit educational corporation
in the State of Nevada
since 1994
We have full tax exempt status

I don't know much about the 600 school legalities
Or how that may tie in with what we already have accomplished
especially on a national level
ever since my wife died
we have been without a full-time administrator
my three daughters try to fill the admin gap
but they are loaded with responsibilities already

I and my sons are tied up with the building program
we have an eight apartment student living complex half done
a huge project for the three of us
on a very limited budget
a fourth son is at college studying journalism
and has scored another notch for home-schoolers
with a 4.0 grade average

What is truly phenomenal about that performance
is that he mastered academics alone
I take credit only for the thirteen yeras of oral instruction he got
and the single week of 1st Grade reading and maths I gave him
after that he
like all the others
were entirely self-tutored
dispelling forever the myth that late reading skills
retard the intellect
and that only highly educated parents
can produce a college graduate

None of that ground-breaking experimentation in child education
would have ever been attempted
by the professional education system

the government exam marks of four graduates HeartStart has produced to date
added to the progress of the next three
would make expensive private schools drool

Somehow or another
2 million home school families have to unite as a single force
and start wielding more political clout
States should not be a hindrance to family values
and how each family decides what is best for their kids
The State should support parental guides whole-heartedly
including financially

theoretically
the state owes me over half a million educational dollars
with that kind of money
I could get all eight to travel
and pour the rest into the campus
a year abroad after high school is immensely beneficial

Our 40 acres is dedicated to the building of a global stewardship campus
we hope to include 3rd world students in our training
and the plan for all future graduates
is over-seas assignments

I want to thank you for your warm support, Meg
I have the feeling that you are the kind of person
who when they decide to commit
they give their heart and mind to it

When two hearts beat in unison
with the same goal in mind
in this world of confused short-term politics
with all groping for long-term focus
the magnetic attraction of an undivided pairing
who have a clear vision of what lies ahead
becomes exponential

In the meantime
let us keep talking together about all this
in public places
and see what develops

I would like to hear more of your Southern stories
i will relate some of my African adventures
we can show how all human events lead back
to the importance of maintaining strong family values
and our striving for a well-run global estate

Peace
S

Home Schooling
offers certain self disciplinary challenges
to the parents

There is a difference in being master
in one's castle
instead of servant
on the mass production line
obedient to the clock machine

The difference in command
is that it should awaken
the very best in you

You make your own rules
and make sure
to impose them on yourself
as well as the children

Rise early
eat healthy
keep fit
exercise daily
run the home diligently
tend garden and workshop
love your neighbors
honor our ancestors
adore Nature
set a constant example
of all the virtues
bow to a greater God
then your brood
will flourish
and do you proud