Teaching Teens to "Channel" in schools

[Marguerite F]

The article below was sent to me by a teacher who has recently become savvy about the New Age practices creaping (or should I say, since Harry's Pot...streaming) into the public schools. She found it on an "About Education" website in their newsletter for teaching teen creative writing techniques.

What is being taught here is a combination of Zen and Spiritualism. Note that the student is asked to shut off their reasoning mind and "just let it flow". Note also, they are told not to be concerned about the often bizzare content of their writings. This is very concerning indeed. "Let the words come right from your subconsciencous", students are told. In other words, give control (use) of your rational abilities over to... to "whatever shows up!"

It is is exactly how disenfranchised entities will enter a person, akin to the Qujia Board. And to think it's now being done to EDUCATE our students!

Automatic writing goes back to the days of Madam Blavatski and the Theosophists who believed in "channeling" spirits what would assist them with their needs and instruct them about the "spiritual realities" of the world. Channel writing was one way in which these spirits communicated. The simple fact that they are instructed to do this in the dark should raise the red flags!

Please read. Stay informed. Pass it on where it is appropriate.

Blessings,
Marguerite.
(PS- Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. My family obligations have tripled and as Fr. O used to say..."feed the hungry, sure...but after you've tended to the ones God sent you FIRST!"-and thanks to all who have been praying for my mother)

St. Michael, Defend us in Battle.


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Creative Writing for Teens
Keep Yourself in the Dark
An Automatic Writing Exercise


Instructions: You know how sometimes, when you're writing away, you seem to hit a point where the writing takes over and the words just come without any effort? What if you could make that happen on purpose? This exercise won't quite do that, but it should come close. It works best on a computer in a room that can be made dark, but an electric typewriter will work if you can get that printed paper that's attached together at the end (so you don't have to ever put in new sheets); or, if you can write legibly without looking at what you're doing, you can do this with paper and pen.

1. Open Notepad or Wordpad, or another basic text-editor on your computer. (You can use a word-processor like MSWord or WordPerfect, but make sure to turn off any automatic hints or help options--like that animated paperclip in Word--you don't want anything to break the flow of words once you start writing.) Save the blank page with a logical name so you'll know what it is later. Practice the keyboard-shortcut for "save" so you'll be able to do it without looking (it's ctrl-s on a PC). Get as comfortable as you can.

2. Turn off your computer monitor (or cover it with a towel if you're working on a laptop that doesn't have a way to turn off the monitor). Turn off the lights so the room is dark. If you can't get the room dark, put a cloth over the keyboard (it's probably easiest to work with your hands under the cloth, as well), and close your eyes as you work. The aim is to make it so you can't see either the words on the screen or the letters on the keyboard (if you can't type, it would probably work better to write by hand than allow yourself to look at the keyboard, but try both and see what works best).

3. Write whatever comes into your head. If you can't get started, picture a scene or imagine a character, but then let things go from there. Try not to think about what you're writing; try to let the words come right from your subconscious and onto the page. Remember to save once in a while.

4. You may want to decide on an amount of time to spend on this exercise ahead of time, and set an alarm so you know when to stop. Even five minutes is better than nothing, but the longer you write, the more interesting the results are likely to be, and the easier it will be to get into the exercise next time. When you're done, save the file, then turn the lights back on, turn on your monitor, and see what you've written. If you hand-wrote the exercise, this is a good time to tidy up your writing a little (or even transfer what you wrote to a computer), while you can still decipher it.

Notes: If you find it hard to write without thinking, don't give up. Each time you do this exercise, you'll find it easier and easier to get to the point where the words seem to come by themselves. Eventually, you may even find that you can do it without covering the keyboard or turning off the monitor, that you can see what you're writing without losing that state of mind. Being able to shut off the part of your mind that analyzes and criticizes what you're writing gives a huge amount of freedom to the part of your mind where the words come from. You may find your results truly bizarre, but you might also find them to be the best work you've written. I can pretty much guarantee that you'll wonder, "Where did that come from."