We have dendrites that reach deep into our cellular biology and/or out to the furthest reaches of the universe. We can bring our vision and imagination together in holograms to see and feel that which can’t be seen or understood by vision alone. The brain is the center of our senses, perceptions and life force and the eyes are just one of the aids in sensing or more particularly, visualizing.

The mind requires no more focusing than eyes do, both on the bottom line, are obsessed with survival. If we can be open and relaxed with these biological processes, we can see, feel and think in a hologram that can awake, rise and form like a bump on the head in the evolutionary, survival- focused, instinctive brain.

In the recent Tsunami disaster, we learned that elephants disregarded their trainers and moved to high ground as if they knew what was coming and a group of ‘primitive’ people as well, who also reacted to a similar knowing. These stories were in the media and are what caught my attention. It’s what triggered my interests that led to this line of thought.

In a healthy mind-body relationship, seeing, feeling and thinking in a hologram provides us with instinctive knowledge and what may appear to be magical awareness. When it happens it may be mind-boggling but at the same time it’s easy and effortless. It’s an evolutionary gift and it’s the way of being. It’s both a vital and an important, but lost part of our cognitive survival equipment. Tragically, it’s been replaced by misrepresentations manipulative indoctrinations, fear, greed and trivia. We’re lost from ourselves and from one another.

Another important aspect of our problems is that we are trained in the modern day school systems to memorize unquestioningly what is being taught. This leads to compliance and the breaking down things into the smallest possible categories, learning step by step as in linear or as we do in the scientific method. This works fine for ninety to ninety-five percent of the left-brain dominant part of the population. Then there are the right-brain dominant personalities who are listening to a different drummer and who operate at a distinct disadvantage in trying to fit in to the school system. These students don’t learn in a linear format. They learn in gulps as in gestalt. They visualize the whole picture first and then understand the parts that make the whole. Left–brain starts with the parts to make the whole. They come from different perspectives. Left-brain is all about memorization and learning step by step or linear, whereas right brain is creative and passionate, if interested.

The instinctive nature of the social animal still found in primitive people gets squeezed out with advancing civilization and, maturation culturally distorted, is no longer the same for all of us. The instinctive nature is replaced by manipulated social values and hammered into place by schools, Madison Ave and the media. Freud, Maslow and Erickson, brainwashed by the culture also got it wrong. The manner of teaching and learning in the left-brain teaching school system washes critical thinking out of the generations. It abandons the hologram way of thinking and, in so doing, constricts the relationships we have with ourselves, the world around us and, with one another. Further, it restricts breathing, spontaneous wisdom and awareness.

As we lose the ability to access organic, effortless knowing, we find that our learning and seeing is compromised. We become separated from the world, separate from others and separate from ourselves. This introduces notions of individuality for social animals, distorting us even further and self-actualization becomes unlikely, if not impossible. The way we learn to think in the public school system is contrary to the natural order and maybe the biggest problem we face today. It may be the root of all our irrational, suicidal occupations as individuals and as specie. In the words of Albert Camus and I paraphrase, “The only real question in life is, “suicide”. And I couldn’t agree more because, if we decide not to commit suicide than we must pay attention to what we eat, drink, how we exercise our bodies and minds and arguably more important, how we cater to the needs of the planet. Accepting suicide as a way of life devalues love and life and leads to self-hatred and ultimately to profoundly alienating disturbances and depression.

The only thing that can save us and our planet is a return to our evolutionary roots and the instinctive mind, it represents our needs far better than our leaders do and I believe it’s the only way back home. That says it all and describes what the world needs most now. Call it love, call it what you want. But wake up before it’s too late.

Returning to the present, the public school system is designed for linear, school-fitting children of the left brain who will learn compliance, job-conforming, respect for authority and obedience to orders. The education is not for itself or for the children, but for the best interests of the ruling class and its corporate needs. Consumers, soldiers and workers are all shaped for these interests.

The longer children stay in school, especially here in the United States, the more altered and less educated they become. None of the humanistic institutions seem concerned about this. Psychiatry and the medical profession would rather treat the symptoms of ADD and ADHD as a sickness, rather than as a social failure. As a social failure, they lose marketing opportunities and grants of all kinds from the corporations and the federal government. We need to pay more attention to this ongoing tragedy. We’re all paying the price, especially future generations for this failure to act and, if you’re paying close attention, you’ll notice that these professions are reaching out beyond the kids to adults with what they call ADD. We need to understand the hologram way of thinking to identify, maintain and utilize our most gifted people to better serve our needs.

To put this into perspective, we need to understand that virtually all children start life as passionate, creative geniuses. A study was conducted by George Land, a world renowned general systems scientist with a background in anthropology, communications, business and education. It focused on 1,600 children in the early days of the Head Start Program in the United States. They were given eights tests covering divergent, creative thinking over the course of several years. The first tests were given when the children were between the ages of three and five. Ninety-eight percent of the children scored in the genius category. When the same children took identical tests five years later, only thirty-two percent scored at that level. After another five years, it was down to ten percent. Two thousand college graduates over the age of twenty-five also took the same tests. Only two percent scored at the genius level. Evidently, the education and the socialization process negatively affect our ability to express creativity, which evidently declines the longer we stay in school. I can say with absolute conviction that my education didn’t begin until I was out of school. That was when I was able to pursue my own interests.

In the public school system, learning to accept other’s opinions and beliefs above our own undermines our ability to think globally confining us to the box. The process demands compliance. We are trained not to look in, but to look outside for the truth and for the answers to our questions.

When they start school, most children express themselves freely. But when they discover that to be rewarded, they must learn to think first before they speak, they tend to become fragmented thinkers and vulnerable love slobs. On the other hand, when learning to walk we get immediate feedback, so we can go on learning from failure until we get it right.

On the other hand, when learning to think, there is no feedback. We don’t learn from our mistakes unless we successfully resist the socialization process and, if we could and would we are labeled ADD or ADHD and medicated. Medication steals our gifts. We are not allowed to make mistakes. If we are not successful taking on the new way, we are conditioned to believe we are failures. No other way, including the natural way for the individual is permitted.

When you think about it, the central question is, who does the educational system serve if not the corporations and the ruling class? If it serves anybody, it’s certainly not the children. We need to do something and we can’t expect it to come from the power base. It must come from each of us, one by one. It could happen that way and it would be worth it! Besides it seems to be the only way. Power is corrupting and power corrupts, so don’t expect it to come from political leaders, their gifts and intentions are for sale. They listen to another tune and pay the piper.