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and the opinions of the conference organisers. It does not
necessarily represent the views of the author whose role was
to provide an accurate and independent report of the event.
kids
are really different these days
...pioneering an evolutionary world
A
conference report written by Dr Graham Taylor
November 11 2006 saw the coming
together of a group of diverse yet energetically linked people
from the various corners of the world. The focus of their
attention was an inaugural conference sponsored by three driving
forces set to challenge the way we think about and approach
education and wellbeing in our complicated and apparently
increasingly troubled society. 'The Energy Alliance', 'The
Evolutionary Network' and 'Develop Your Child' include the
exploration of energetic connections amongst their numerous
'raisons d'etre' and one of their tenets is the notion that
young people from the very earliest of ages have phenomenal
potential that must be unleashed in order to capitalise upon
the importance of the information they hold. Whilst the sponsors
rightly deserve their acknowledgement, it must be said that
the vision required to create such an event, and to draw an
enthusiastic and, as it turned out, highly interactive audience
was that of Alan Wilson, a man steadfastly on a path towards
re-defining the ground rules within which parenting and education
may be provided in the future.
The conference involved various
sessions throughout the day. Mr Wilson welcomed the attendees
and showed an extraordinary film of various people that profess
to have unusual abilities (more of later). He was followed
by Annimac, an Intuitive Futurist, Trend Forecaster and Life
Coach, who spoke about The Secret World of Kids. Annimac
had travelled from Australia specifically to be present. Multidimensional
Awareness was the subject of the next session, led by
Suzy Miller, an accomplished Speech and Language Pathologist
and Educator from Arizona (again having journeyed specifically
for the event). Alan Wilson, an Ambassador for young people
then discussed Parenting Potential before introducing
Soleira Green, a Global Visionary and Evolutionist from the
UK, who presented Pioneering an Evolutionary World.
As you can perhaps imagine, the day was liberally topped up
with questions, comments, theories and answers contributed
both by the presenters and their highly interested audience.
To many people, subject matter
like this is very contentious. It challenges conventional
wisdom as it applies to education and teaching and health.
It challenges those whose decision-making is based upon evidence,
and therefore potentially opens itself to ridicule from the
scientific community. It asks us to stretch outside our comfort
zones in the way we think about things that have become second
nature to us. But what it also does is to ask a vital question
of us all. If all those things that have become second
nature to us are correct, why is it that so many things seem
to be going so dreadfully wrong in our society? To put
a little more meat on the bones of this question, if we consider
issues such as deteriorations in standards of education, increases
in crime and unemployment, the drugs and alcohol culture and
deteriorating quality standards in healthcare and hospitals,
surely we must be sensible enough to consider that perhaps
we don't have all the answers. Perhaps instead, if someone
stands up and puts forward a theory that has even the slightest
potential for benefit, we would be stupid to ignore it. Wouldn't
we?
Enter Mr Wilson and his collaborators.
I'm going to cut to the chase (so to speak) and set the scene
for this report. The conference explored (amongst a great
many things):
.
apparent flaws in our systems of education and why we should
 be
consulting with young people to put things right
. telepathy
. parallel
universes
. the
facility to be 'aware', 'conscious' and 'actively
communicating'
within multiple dimensions at the same time
. the
apparent ability to communicate with people one has never
met
before, located at opposite poles of the earth, in order to
help
each other
. certain
young people that the Western World might label
'autistic'
or as being on the 'autistic spectrum'
It (the conference) spoke of
these young people as being particularly special. It argued
that because we might find it difficult to communicate
with them, this ought not to be considered their problem
- rather, it is our inability. But it might just be
a costly inability. Those speakers who regularly work with
such people attest to their extraordinary qualities and their
capacity to help and provide incredibly valuable information.
But here comes the nub of the whole debate - in order to interact
meaningfully with these people, we have to be able to communicate
with them using a common language. To date, the vast majority
of us seeking to have such interaction fail miserably.
Parents of people on the 'autistic
spectrum' eventually tire of their failing abilities and consult
with so-called authority figures for assistance - be they
in the educational or medical worlds. Because such authority
figures very often lack the specific qualities and abilities
necessary for effective communication with these young people,
they can perceive them to be problematic, challenging and
abnormally overactive and demanding. Their natural response
is often to seek to dampen things down by reducing the perceived
over-activity. But who is to say that the young people are
experiencing abnormal activity levels? Perhaps we might instead
consider that parents, educators and healthcare professionals
feel the need to use these measures because of their own
interpersonal inabilities with such levels of communication
quality. The answer is surely not always simply to tranquillise
and reduce brain activity - this may in effect amount to treating
our own inadequacies. The real answer must lie in seeking
to learn how to communicate much more effectively with people
whose abilities are simply on a very different plane compared
with our own.
We will return to this topic shortly but for the moment let's
look at each of the sessions in brief.
The film recording Alan Wilson introduced was of various young
people discussing how they interact and learn. It was apparent
that they commonly use non-verbal communication, intuition
and telepathy and that they are highly capable of multi-tasking.
They talked of the frustration the school environment can
bring where the need to multi-task is ignored and the requirement
is to focus exclusively on the teacher and taught materials.
They spoke of the potential for and importance of mutually
nurturing relationships between grandparents, parents, friends,
and young people, and broached the topic of virtual relationships.
They also introduced us to the concept of relationships based
upon energetic exchange across dimensions. It is quite clear
that of the people interviewed, some describe how they can
communicate with people they have never met or spoken with
(as we know it).
Annimac described how we now
experience as much change in one day as our grandparents experienced
in one year! The speed of change is exaggerating the differences
between generations and the youngest and newest generation
is now living without boundaries as we know them. The resulting
impact upon educators, parents and the business community
is understandably massive, particularly for those unaware
of the 'secret' world in which such young people operate.
This youngest generation knows no limits in a world in which
technology dominates change. In order for us to ensure global
and societal survival it is vital that we rapidly discover
more about these young people, the world they live in, what
we can learn from them and how our mutual interactions can
influence our long-term sustainability.
Suzy Miller led an emotionally
charged session in which she drew hugely and generously upon
her own experiences in describing how conscious awareness
exists at various levels. Whilst we are all able to know that
we can taste, smell, touch, see and hear, most of us do not
know that we can also appreciate energies extending beyond
these five special senses. Such multi-dimensional awareness
is, she suggests, absolutely critical if we are to understand
and appreciate the tremendous potential of young people. She
described knowing how children are, in reality, much more
than they might at first appear, having had numerous personally
life-enhancing experiences through her professional interactions
with them. Using guided imagery, she sought to demonstrate
that whilst it takes a particular approach in order to 'tune
in' to the differing frequencies at which such young people
can function, we are all capable of it if we simply make a
conscious and committed decision to explore how. She introduced
the wonderful term 'awesomeism' as a replacement for 'autism'.
The point was well taken by this knowledgeable audience.
Alan Wilson reflected upon
a parenting culture based upon children being 'seen and not
heard'. He argued that such an approach crippled their potential
- and still does so today. The long-term effects of such approaches
have contributed to our present global predicaments and he
suggests that their resolution must include a dramatic re-evaluation
of the way in which we parent our young people. Such 'new
parenting' must include encouragement of innate creative abilities,
the learning of new levels of quality communication and much
greater sharing of learning objectives. All of this of course
couched in the context of loving, nurturing relationships
based upon principles of equality. It is quite clear that
there is a huge educational void crying out for replenishment,
for the many that wish to focus their attention on improving
the quality and nature of the relationships they have with
their young ones.
Soleira Green drew numerous
strands together in her session on the importance of 'kids,
connection and consciousness' as we evolve, and how it is
to our children that we must turn to be the pioneers in this
respect. She described how we are now in a time in which we
are capable of becoming consciously aware of all levels within
ourselves, and we must begin to use our natural, innate creative
abilities. The fact is that the world is changing at a tremendous
pace. It is prudent for older people to join younger people
en route to the creation of the 'new world', in a spirit
of co-creation. In accepting that it is to younger people
that we must turn for much of the information we need to ensure
our future survival and sustainability, it is the collaborative
nature of such progress that will be crucial. And she argues
that such collaboration must involve shifts in consciousness
and an appreciation of energetic sensitivities.
Well right up front I did suggest that the subject matter
was going to be somewhat contentious! It most certainly is.
Much of it is of course conjecture. Most, if not all of it,
is based upon anecdotal evidence (if it is based upon any
evidence at all that is). Those of us with a scientific education
and background appreciate that such evidence is of relatively
low value.
It does appear that people
with an intuitive understanding of the subject matter and
the way in which it is discussed are almost speaking a different
language from the rest of us. I, for one, do not comfortably
speak this language. I find it difficult to accept that I
am capable of multi-dimensional communication in parallel
energy systems. I do not understand how I can choose to co-exchange
ideas with people I've never met or spoken with before and
who live on the other side of the world, using only my innate
capabilities for tuning into differing energy frequencies,
altered states of vibration and changing levels of consciousness.
However, in drawing towards
a close, let's return to the subject of 'awesomeism'. As already
suggested, people labelled 'autistic' are often medicated
in order to suppress what is perceived to be over or hyper-activity.
It may be that such measures are taken because of a lack of
awareness of how to deal with a situation presented to people
who simply know no better. It could be argued that the more
appropriate solution would be to seek to learn how to communicate
with these young people much more effectively. This would
mean that many so-called authority figures would need to acquire
new skills in order to do so.
Although I have had a predominantly
scientific education, I can appreciate that to dismiss the
subject matter of this inaugural conference because I do not
speak the language or understand everything that was discussed,
would be folly. Just because there is little hard evidence
doesn't necessarily mean it is all nonsense. Evidence is generated
from experimentation based upon a hypothesis, or theory. The
theory need not always itself be based upon evidence.
We are faced with and must
deal with various phenomena based upon fact. We are living
in a world we seem intent upon destroying. We are 'enjoying'
a phenomenally rapid pace of global change based upon technological
advancement. We are seeing poverty reach ridiculously unacceptable
levels in a societal context (not that there is such a thing
as an acceptable level of poverty). We are standing by as
we create new diseases because of our exploitation of the
need to satisfy human desires of an addictive nature - be
they based upon foods, drugs and alcohol, gambling and finance,
sex or simply greed. And yet faced with all of this, and more,
we must ask ourselves another fundamental question - are
we learning from our mistakes?
This was an inaugural conference. By definition it is the
first of a series. At this time there is no way of knowing
how many such conferences will follow. We have been introduced
to a phenomenon that will gain momentum and importance from
this point in time. It may eventually find its place in history
as a critical new discipline for harnessing the power of relationships,
and for garnering strength from the knowledge that our young
people have within them. Of one thing we can be certain. There
is a small but growing band of people that have a set of skills
and, dare I say it, powers, that regular folk will find difficult
to appreciate and understand. However we are told that such
qualities are there to be had by all - in fact, we have them
already but simply need to discover how to capitalise upon
them and use them to their full potential. I, for one, would
be interested in discovering more. Perhaps the second conference
in the series will go some greater way towards showing us
just how we can do so.
For further information, please
see www.theenergyalliance.com/conference.htm
About the author, Dr Graham
Taylor MBA
MBBS B.Sc (Hons) MRCGP
Graham Taylor has spent more than 25 years in the Healthcare
environment as a practising physician, international pharmaceutical
industry executive, business consultant and coach. He has
consulted for organisations large and small, and between 2003
and 2004, returned to clinical medical practice to re-skill
and become familiar with the numerous and diverse changes
within UK healthcare.
As well as having a busy Consultancy practice, he is presently
Visiting Fellow/Associate Dean at the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire
Postgraduate Medical School, a collaborative initiative between
Cranfield University and the Universities of Hertfordshire
and Luton. He has also recently completed a book on Prostate
Cancer written for patients and their significant others.
This article reflects the subject
matter of the conference and the opinions of the conference
organisers. It does not necessarily represent the views of
the author whose role was to provide an accurate and independent
report of the event.
© Dr Graham Taylor, Dec 2006
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