Forum Guidelines

Forum Guidelines
The Forum is the interactive heart of the site. The Discover/Discuss toggle, upper left, switches between two functions.

Discover
The Forum opens to Discover. This allows you to search the site for publications by key authors or by categories, such as birth, education or media. Click an author or topic and all the links to publications or media for that person or topic are listed. Very simple. Very useful. All publications can be freely viewed and downloaded by members.

Discuss
Click the upper left toggle and the Forum switches to Discuss. Click a key author or topic and the chat-threads developed for that category are displayed. Supporting members and patrons have open access to join any thread freely.

Submit A Topic
Another key feature of Discuss is Submit a Topic. This allows members and patrons to post questions to key authors, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Michael Mendizza, James W. Prescott and Barb Lundgren (home and unschooling). The most interesting questions and responses relevant to most people will be selected and posted to each author’s chat-threads. In this way you and others will benefit from the responses posted over time. (Not all questions can be answered.)

Example

Subject: Re: Love or Violence

Hi Michael,
Will the DVD address what to do if you are an adult who had the type of childhood which leads to the depression and violence? I have a neighbor and good friend who experienced severe childhood sexual abuse and maternal deprivation. She is definitely depressed and has a lot of anxiety and panic attacks. She also has a lot of pain and grief, and things in her current life (which is pretty good on the outside) trigger the pain from childhood. Do you have any resources for how to heal such a childhood and the effects it has had on people.
Thanks.
Lisa

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Hi Lisa…Great question.
The key is prevention.

Once the house is wired it is a lot of trouble and not very effective to rewire the system. On the other hand, the body/brain is plastic, always adapting to a new world-environment.

Most everyone agrees that during the early optimum window no effort is required. The body-brain simply absorbs and becomes the stimulation provided by the model-environment. As these early patterns are established they become ever-more difficult to alter or add too. It can be done but with extraordinary effort which distracts from the learning and development that should be taking place today.

A second critical factor is that the early pattern provides the basis upon which one interprets the experiences happening now. If the mirror is distorted everything that surface reflects is wiggly and this distorted image is what the person experiences, which compounds remediation.

Third – the source of the distortion is deep in the social-sexual-emotional brain. It is not an idea, concept or cognitive. The treatment needs to match the dis-ease. What is needed is to provide the sensory-emotional stimulation that was neglected and abused. The difficulty is that the abuse and neglect has wired the person to avoid, at times violently, the very thing that will cure them.

Nature works perfectly. As for forms of therapy that will get around the defense – that will depend on how wiggle the mirror is.

mm