*Shows how the heart is connected to our prefrontal cortex and offers a balancing counterweight to the calculating intellect of the lower brain*Explains how we are stuck in reactive behaviour loops resulting from the loss of the nurturing culture of our ancestors*Reveals how the Heart-Mind Matrix co[...]
Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questioned the current thinking on childbirth pratices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and oruselves, ring truer than ever. From the very inst[...]
The sum total of our notions of what the world is - and what we perceive its full potential to be - form a shell of rational thought in which we reside. This logical universe creates a vicious circle of reasoning that robs our minds of power and prevents us from reaching our true potential. To step [...]
Something is supposed to happen during the adolescent years - something greater than MTV, video games and the Internet. Joseph Pearce describes this something as the natural mandate for post-biological development - the development of the sexual and spiritual senses and expansion of our growth proce[...]
This parenting guide presents seven principles for guiding and teaching children in today's turbulent learning environment. It replaces traditional adult-child formulas, rewards, and punishments with playful interaction, creative intelligence, and insight. With the goal of raising happy, healthy, in[...]
We are all too aware of the endless variety of cruel and violent behaviour reported to us in our media-saturated world. We are reminded daily that in every corner of the world someone is suffering or dying at the hands of another. We have to ask: Is this violence and cruelty endemic to our nature? A[...]
Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why dont they apply this kind of intensity to their school work? In their most penetrating and important work in years, these two leaders in the field of brain-based education build a bridge to the futur[...]