it’s just like the Australian Aborigine, I’ve known people, a former college Professor, a woman who spent eight years in walk about with them and she said nothing I’d ever read and I’ve read a lot about them, she said none of those reports by the ordinary Anthropologists had any resemblance really to what’s going on.  She said it was a world to itself like nothing else she’s ever known.

Rudolph Steiner for instance thought that wasting one’s time in fantasy was a great lazy brain waste of time.  On the other hand, true imagination, the ability to create whole scenarios within is a totally different process than fantasy which goes nowhere.  It’s a good thing aimless dreamlike nothing, but true imagination, you can shape the world according to that inner image and that’s really one of our great capacities that we’re given that gets shut off and lost pretty quickly. The child will maintain that great capacity for imagination if it’s encouraged.  If it’s discouraged then there’s no payoff to it out of fear of disassociation, out of fear of abandonment, being cut off.  They’ll screen out all of that kind of capacity of the mind.  Rudolph Steiner’s Waldorf School was to encourage it but channel it and subject it to discipline.  That is I’m going to discipline, that’s not the right term. We’re going to make a discipline of it like mathematics or anything, the whole imaginative capacity.  He felt that that should be the sole thrust of the years from about 7 to about 14.  That would certainly fit with the Stanford Psychologist whose name evades me right now.

it’s just like the Australian Aborigine, I’ve known people, a former college Professor, a woman who spent eight years in walk about with them and she said nothing I’d ever read and I’ve read a lot about them, she said none of those reports by the ordinary Anthropologists had any resemblance really to what’s going on.  She said it was a world to itself like nothing else she’s ever known. She took part in it for eight years walking about until her health broke and she had to leave.  The final part of that was a medical doctor I knew who was a Jungian Analyst, as well as being a medical man, and Jung dream work, which is very powerful.  You begin to lucid dream an awful lot, he was doing all this intense Jungian dream time stuff and he plugged in not knowing it with an Aboriginal group still on the reservation.  They looked him up, got in touch with him because the said he was coming into their sacred circle and had made contact.  He was himself not aware of it until they then approached him.  To make a long story short, they invited him to come in and become a part of their clan, go through their ceremonies and so on.  And he did and he said that what he experienced tactilely as a very real living thing was totally impossible within his scientific Western kind of thinking.  And these were very real entities that he encountered.  One of whom injured him, left a big slash on his face simply because he had transgressed the taboo’s and so forth of honoring these entities that until that time he could not have believed existed. So there again the brain is going to screen out from an infinite number of possibilities those that match the parent’s world view or we’re isolating in limbo, in chaos.