“unless we become as a little child we would not see nor enter the kingdom of God… and a little child shall lead them.”~Bible
We all can remember the joy of childhood when everything was fresh and new…but this awareness continues in the background of the right brain buried behind all our socially conditioned adult expectations and goals…but at times when we are able to suspend this continues preoccupation our inner child has a chance to express itself.
This concept called an Inner Child has been a part of the world for a very long time. Carl Jung called it the “Divine Child” and Emmet Fox called it the “Wonder Child.” Some psychotherapist call it the “True Self”. And Charles Whitfield called it the “Child Within.”
The Inner Child refers to that part of each of us which is ultimately alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled; it is our “Genuine Authentic Self”, who we know deep within us, our “Real Self.”
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~Pablo Picasso
Social conditioning is more concerned with conformity than creative individuality. ~Sid
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud
We are detoured away from our natural intelligence of the right brain in order to develop a dominant left brain. ~ Sid
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sensory perception is the natural awareness of the right brain but is usually subdued by the thinking process of the aggressive left brain. ~ Sid
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
The left brain ego is obsessed with the past and future leaving little time for awareness of the present. ~ Sid
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~Norman Podhoretz
The left brain’s sense of order is a necessary tool for survival and maintaining a standard of living but usually mistaken as our true identity. ~ Sid
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
It is important to distinguish the difference between childishness and childlike. ~ Sid
A grownup is a child with layers on. ~Woody Harrelson
The layers are a social facade covering up our more authentic inner child and right brain. ~ Sid
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My Boyhood Dreams
Right Brained Children
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Hi Jinan,
I totally agree that schools are a primary source of left brain conditioning…however in America we are entering into a post industrial age when left brain dominance is no longer desirable and right brain abilities are more appropriate.
Education now is searching for a new approach to right brain development…as a pioneer in this field your contributions can be valuable to a transforming American culture.
Sid
Sid
This reply is not enough. Please try to study how harmful is ‘schools’ for human beings. The cognitive damages of schooling is enormous.
We are born learners, holistic with proper balance in left and right brain activities. The splitting is done by schools by not allowing the right brain to function. The people who are least damaged manage to keep the right brain active,
let me explain in another way. The non literate communities culture is right brain dominated supported strongly by the left. But the textualised and digital cultures the left brain is the controlling factor. School does not allow independent, autonomous, organic and natural functioning of human brain. It always takes you to past, text (words), control,obedience, authority,
I have studied how children are brought up in non literate socities. It is so different from both western and the westernised indian culture. There childrens right brain is truely given freedom to grow. But the ‘educated’ does opposite to this.
I can chellenge that the results we are seeing now is only because the study is being done on literate people and also because of the biase we feel educated are better than the non literate in solving problems. I have conducted tests to prove other wise.
We live in a textualised left brain dominated culture. and education is the cause.
Jinan
Hi Jinan,
Thank you for your kind and informative comment.
I have visited your fascinating website and was particularly impressed with your understanding and commitment to right brain awareness and activities.
Your journey is quite extraordinary !
Sid
I liked ur site. I have been living with non literate communities and studying them and their children. The left right brain split is caused by schooling and education. they learn experientially. The school reverses the natural way of learning which is the right brain collects information and the left brain does the processing but in schools we dont let that happen. we use only the left. some people escape it like Einstein.