Carey Giudici explains how his idea for a system of social media based mentorship will work in practical terms.
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Carey Giudici explains the background behind his open source education project “SMILE”. Read more →
Open-Source Education: Carey Giudici – Episode 161
The Story: Decentralised micro-education for future leaders
Millions of children around the world are aware to some extent of one specific truth – that schools no longer teach what is relevant to them, and the structure of schooling doesn’t serve them. Many modern schools are built around the Prussian model – a military model, which in many cases, demands compliance above all else, and secondly, emphasises the memorisation of facts. Once upon a time, this was beneficial in certain ways, preparing workers for the monotony of factory jobs in the industrial era. Now that era has passed, and with the age of automation upon us, it becomes increasingly obvious that learning to be a human robot not only won’t help students thrive – it will barely allow them to survive.
Carey Giudici is an editor and writer who realised that there were paths to knowledge as yet unexplored, and one way to lead children along the path of self-knowledge was by giving personality tests to them, and connecting them with mentors, experts with similar personality traits around the world who can guide them.
In this interview, Carey tells us about how this system of education, which he calls SMILE, might function, how it already is beginning to function, and how it will help young people with high levels of stress, frustration, and confusion in schools that don’t teach them to become leaders.
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Education: Psychedelics Forever – Episode 138
The Story: Psychedelics Forever
Learning should be considered a super power! Traditional schooling illustrates that the ability to absorb knowledge, duplicate skills and regurgitate information, is a sliding scale. However, what if everyone has equally ability to learn, grow ideas and apply knowledge. We are aware that people learn in different ways and that mainstream topics may not be interesting to all.
Almost the complete first world has accepted a generic, one size fits all schooling system. Children and young adults are forced to forfeit their innocent years for behavioural pruning, locked-in then routinely fed approved programming. The brain training is extensive (13 years and growing) for a long future of receiving instruction. This destructive habit building process of uniform activities, has high jacked a ‘valued education’ of critical thinking and stolen the imagination of generations.
The students are distracted during critical years of mental and physical brain development, while their parents have 100% of their trust in federal government bodies and corporate interests. The socially accepted education system is believed to serve families, while economic constraints hold mum and dad at work, while the children are being baby sat.
Machines have no mind, machines are also rated on output. Our children are taught performance from day one – A, B, we ‘C’ that you are average, ‘D’ and why are you such an F?
Now lets explore some ideas, in short – everyone has a preferred learning style, visual, aural, read/write and kinaesthetic. You don’t need to be a professor to realise that combinations of styles accompanied with targeted studies that align with individual interests will improve learning effectiveness. Expanding the experience by including multiple senses can be very useful in effective learning.
Now for those jumping ahead, I am not setting up an argument pro the introduction of psychedelics to the classroom. However, being able to cross wire the human brain and experience short periods of synesthesia (seeing sounds, hearing colours and tasting language) could potential have some positive application. From the perspective of a sensible adult studying a vast topic (the life experience) and with no prescribed curriculum, perhaps psychedelics have something to offer? New research in the area of micro-dosing psychedelic substances (LSD) have published positive results and illustrated extremely interesting effects on the brain.
In this episode, we discuss a new found benefit to homeschooling and a few personal views on living to expand your mind. Kurt outlines the philosophy of trip life, an option to pursue a career as a psychedelic adventurer – ‘If you’re not coming down from a trip, you are preparing for another’. This came from the concept of avoiding the cage of a small-town mindset and expanding it to universes and possibly dimensions, If you dare.
Prepare yourself to slip and trip into The Paradise Paradox, where there is no such thing as a bad trip!
The Eps:
What drugs do you use to contact aliens?
Peyote Trip Overview: San Luis Potosí
Ayahuasca Diaries 1
The Links:
Brains potential – Effect of LSD on the brain
VARK – Study
The Serious Limitation of Rote Memorisation You Probably Don’t Know About
Dayna Martin – Radical unschooling: Peaceful parenting and natural learning
The Cash:
If you enjoy our posts, please have a look at The Paradise Paradox’s page on Steemit where you can join, earn money, and upvote our posts to help support the show! You can also find a lot of additional content which is not posted on this site, with Kurt’s posts on Steemit and Aaron’s posts on Steemit.
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Our Ideas
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It’s never my intention to initiate a violent revolution, a coup d’état, to take up arms to dominate people, in the hopes of freeing people. The reason being, you can never free people who don’t want to be free – who don’t even know what it means to be free. Like a brainwashed prisoner when his cage’s door is opened, he will cramp himself in the corner, and cower. A free man is a free man even when inside a cage. A true slave will find a master, even when he is released. For truly meaningful change, the mind must be freed first.
That means, people must learn philosophy, and they must know themselves. Why do the powerful try so hard to censor; why have they always tried so hard? With war propaganda, peacetime propaganda, lies, covert manipulation and overt force? Because they know intuitively: ideas are dangerous to them, because ideas can liberate us.
The real war can’t be fought with guns, because the real war is fought with ideas. Ideas will not be stopped by bullets or by bulletproof glass. No manmade law applies to ideas, nor the laws of economics or even the law of gravity. Their immortal, impermeable qualities demonstrate to us that they are a manifestation of Spirit, moving through the world like God’s fingers, unbound, divine, and relentless. Our ideas will outlive us, but more importantly, our ideas will outlive Them.