Help Our School Children Reach For the SKy

It’s way past time that we start bringing the arts and creativity back into our classrooms.

We have been living in a world of left brain logical, robotic over analytical thinking world for 50 years.

It has gotten us to this mess we are in now. We are in our heads and not our hearts.

We need to allow children to be children, and allow them to use their right brain creative mind as well.

The right brain mind is loving and thinks of holistic solutions not single solutions.

All of our greatest discoveries come from the right brain thinking.

All our ideological dominator thinking comes from our left brain thinking.

The 21st century will become creative. Teach our children creativity in school.

Do not continue to inhibit their natural creativity.

Science without creativity and love is killing us.

Let the children free!

12 steps to calming your Mind

Carl G. Jung, the brilliant Swiss psychiatrist adopted the Sanskrit word Mandala and used Mandalas to help himself and his patients heal.

A circle organizes all that is within and as such, the Mandala is a microcosm of the macrocosm of the universe.

A form of Mandala – the Great Round – was developed by the great art therapist, Joan Kellogg,  in order to help us understand our own stages of growth. It turns out that our subconscious and collective minds do reflect nature in its perfection as nature and life is cyclical.

There are periods of growth, periods of stagnation and of death. I study the Tao Te Ching and Divine using the I Ching. The Tao and the I Ching interpret the cyclical flow of events. Mandalas and the Great Round are other tools that we can use. Kellogg studied thousands of mandalas and found that there was a recurring pattern in the drawings. Labyrniths are also circular and useful for shutting down our left brain thinking side, thus allowing our right brain creative side to flow.

The Archetypical Stages of the Great Round,  is a series of developmental stages that we all go through, reflecting the cycles of growth of nature, numbering 12 stages. Each stage has a task.  Here a the stages with a brief description:
1 – The Void – This is akin to fertile black soil of creation
2 – Bliss –  Like a baby in its mother’s womb with images of water
3 – Labyrinth/Spiral –  A quickening of life, like the Breath of God Upon the Waters
4 – Beginning –  A trusting state where we are in the mothers world
5 – The Target –  Separation from Paradise, an awareness of self as separateness
6 – Dragon Fight –  A time of inner conflict during which we give birth to a new sense of self
7 – Squaring the Circle –  A time to learn, plan and love, on top of the world at high noon
8 – The Functioning Ego   Symbolized by a star, a clear sense of self is developed.
9 – Crystallization –  feelings of satisfaction, harmony and fulfillment
10 – Gates of Death –  the connection between ego and self grows distant.
11 – Fragmentation –  The dark night of the soul, confusion, fear
12 – Transcendental Ecstasy –  Returning home, able to accept the gift of grace

Life being cyclical in nature, we go back to the void and start again.

Stages 1 through 6 are related to the Mother.  Stages 7 to 12 are related to the Patriarchy.

Humans reflect nature in these stages and we repeat these stages over and over again in our lives.

Your Creative Muse

The Muse – the source of knowledge and creativity is the voice within. Each of us has a creative Muse within us.

While the modern world drowns out her call to creativity for most,  if one can quiet their mind and allow her creative beauty and intelligence to reach their ear,  then the divine knowledge, and creative inspiration of the eternal Muse will flow  freely.

The greatest advances for humanity occur when the Muse flows.

“This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.” ― Steven Pressfield

Join with us on this site – Stephens Musings.com –  for creating a more compassionate and healthier world for women, children and our animals. The compassionate spirit resides in the hearts of these our most precious and loving.