School as a Weapon of Social Engineering
School as a weapon of social engineering shows you that schools are designed to warp our view of reality and disconnect us from God. Most people mistakenly believe that schooling is an institution of education where learning happens. Nothing could be further from the truth. Schooling was invented by the oligarchs to keep us happy in our state of enslavement. First they distort our view of reality, then they teach us that their game of life as wage slaves is the only path to “success".
Below is an excerpt from my book, Healing from School. Learn about the weapons that are used by behavioral psychologists in the psych labs we call schools.
Achievement
Social Engineering: Academic achievement is the game of schooling. Whoever processes the most information wins. Children are told explicitly and implicitly that their value and self-worth is dependent upon their achievement in a narrow band of academic activities. The worth/value of students is measured by grades and obedience. Children who are good with symbols and rote memorization and learn in an auditory-sequential way win the game of schooling.
Truth: You cannot achieve your way to happiness or peace of mind.
Comparison
Social Engineering: Students are continually compared and sorted by teachers and administrators. Parents compare the achievements of their children in school to other kids. “My kid is an honor roll student” bumper stickers are everywhere. Grades, GPA, honor roll, and college scholarships are all used to psychologically manipulate children to perform and achieve.
Truth: You are a unique expression of God, we all are. As spiritual beings, we are all equal. We are all created in the image of God. You are unique, but not special. Comparing yourself to anyone will cause suffering.
Competition
We all learn in school that evolution advances by pitting each individual against every other in the struggle for survival. As a forester, I learned that trees are competitors that struggle against each other for light, for space. But we are now learning that individuals of a species are actually working together, they are cooperating with one another.
One thing is that mother trees suckle their children, they feed the young tree just enough sugars produced by its own photosynthesis to keep it from dying. Trees in a forest of the same species are connected by the roots, which grow together like a network.
— Peter Wohlleben, author of The Secret Life of Trees
Social Engineering: Students are conditioned to compete for scarce resources (grades, praise, honor roll, etc.)
Truth: Life is cooperative. We are designed to cooperate. If trees cooperate with each other, don’t you think that we are designed to cooperate with each other? Yes, we are. But the psychopaths at the top just want to control all of life.
Fear
Social Engineering: Use fear as a weapon of control. Students are threatened with disciplinary action for breaking the rules: coming to school with an uncharged computer, not wearing the proper uniform, talking in class, not doing homework, not following random rules, going to the bathroom without a hall pass.
Truth: Physical fear is good when a fight/flight/freeze response could save your life from imminent danger, otherwise it’s just a lie your thinking is producing. Fear comes from a negative identity you accidentally created in a moment of emotional stress. Does school cause many moments of emotional stress and trauma? Yes it does. School is a big source of negative identities that hold people captive.
Shame
Social Engineering: You are bad if you don’t do your schoolwork, do poorly on a test, or break the rules.
Truth: You are unbreakable and your real self operates in the high levels of love, happiness, peace, integrity and honesty. Shame is connected to a negative identity you unknowingly created to survive.
Sacrificing the Joy of Presence for Future Rewards
Social Engineering: Work hard now for promised rewards in the future. Kids check out of the present because they are so bored. They look to the carrot of future rewards.
Truth: The only thing that exists is the eternal now. Stay present and let your inner wisdom guide you.
The Inner Voice
Social Engineering: Sit still, be quiet, and listen to the teacher. Ignore your body if it wants to move.
Truth: You will be guided every moment by your inner knowing and tuition that come to you as a loving, calm, quiet voice. Your body is designed to move. True learning is embodied learning. We learn by doing.
Lessons on Consciousness
Social Engineering: Consciousness is the by-product of an advanced brain. It exists locally within your brain and will disappear when you die. There is no inner life of the individual.
Truth: You are conscious and aware. This consciousness allows you to experience your thought-created reality. You are a timeless, unlimited, powerful being who is conscious.
Imagination
Social Engineering: Thinking is an analytic skill that you need to develop by processing information. Thinking is passive and describes an outside reality. Students are taught to navigate life with their intellect, analyzing situations to make decisions. They end up living in their heads.
Truth: Your beliefs shape your reality. Imagination is a creative power. You can imagine a world based on desires not past programming.
Feelings
Social Engineering: Doesn’t acknowledge the inner life of children (or adults). It doesn’t matter how children are feeling when they are in school.
Truth: Feelings are your inner GPS system that tells you if the real you is in control thinking productive, helpful thoughts, or a negative identity is in control, thinking negative, destructive thoughts.
School cannot be reformed
I know because I tried. I had $500,000 to start two self-directed learning charter schools in California from the US Department of Education and I couldn’t get them authorized by the local school board or county office of education.
Your sons and daughters would be much better off learning outside of school. Let them stay enchanted with the beauty and wonder of the world. Let them play and explore nature. Show them how to grow their own food, build things, and follow their curiosity where it may lead. If you want to take your kids out of school, but are afraid or don’t know what to do, reach out and set up a conversation with me.
