11. A Child of our Times
The connection between our senses and our activities of
Thinking, Feeling and Willing.
The connection between memory and
our different body systems.
Observing a special relationship between the
physical body, memory and idea formation.
Developing our „Gift of Remembrance‟.
16. (review)
Modern science associates memory and
understanding of sense impressions only with
the brain and nervous system.
All our being is involved in memory and
understanding. The nerve-sense system
works into our movement system of
metabolic organs and glands, digestion
and limbs…
…through and into our body rhythms,
like breathing and circulation…
…and permeating our non-physical
body streams.
17. We see a picture with our eye and sight
sense related to…
our Feeling life and Rhythmic system
(Unit 5) which helps us understand
and then Think about it with our Nerve
system…
and, if truly „heart felt‟, the Will, allied to
our Metabolic-Limb system, to remember.
We hear music with our ear and hearing The limbs - tiny bones
sense related to… called ossicles - of the ear
our Willing life and Metabolic-Limb
system (Unit 5) which helps us remember..
…as it flows through our Feeling life and
Rhythmic system helping understanding
and to our Thinking with our Nerve-sense
system.
19. Transformations and metamorphoses
Our spiritual, Enduring “I” harvests from our
soul in one earthly life what is required for us
to grow and develop in a subsequent earthly life.
20. When we are young young …
…and our permeating
Formative and
Inspirational Bodies are
still enfolded in our
physical body …
…our Enduring “I” still
gradually incarnating…
…the dominant force is our physical body
stream - we are one big sense organ….
we form „ideas‟ of the world by experiencing
the world with our senses…
…closely, but not entirely, associated with
our head and brain.
21. Our head comes first, often quite
literally!
We can see in our earliest years
that our head (and brain) are,
relatively, more fully formed than
the rest of our body.
„Our head is a metamorphosis of that which,
through the Feeling „heart‟ of our Inspirational Body,
has been impressed with deep Willing
upon the Formative forces of our metabolic system,
in an earlier earthly life.‟
In our early years, we form ideas with our senses and
remember them through imitation and repetition -
we grow into them.
22. Is it possible to observe a special relationship between
physical body, memory and idea formation?
To observe contrasting features and qualities of a child who
inclines more towards a capacity and capability
for recognising ideas
or
for remembering?
♣ Play - The Child of our Times Game
Object of the Game: To see if there‟s a relationship between
physical body form and learning in
young children.
23. This child responds to an This child is good at
idea, why something does observing things. They notice
something, quite easily. details of what’s around them,
They find it quite easy to what they see, touch, hear
grasp an idea here and now and they remember them
but are not so good at later. They seem to have a
remembering it. good memory.
Children tend towards a Children tend towards a
‘chunkier’ or shorter build. leaner, taller build but not
Their heads tend to appear necessarily skinny, in
bigger in relation to their relation to their overall size.
overall size, more rounded in They tend to have more
shape with a less pronounced prominent features and a
chin. They tend to only like clearly defined chin. They
certain foods, are more are well coordinated and
‘picky’ with a relatively poor generally have a a healthy
appetite appetite.
24. Resembling Resembling
Louis, age 4 Felicity, age 4
These tendencies persist
but as our Formative and Inspirational
Bodies unfold and other tendencies emerge,
our development takes on more of our individual character.
25. We RE-cognise an idea in our We remember because we
Thinking because we have have a capability and more or
already experienced it. less conscious Willing for
But if we only think with our noticing the qualities of things.
brain, we become blind to the But our everyday memory will
inner quality of things. not enable us to remember our
inner, karmic Willing for
purpose, clarity of purpose.
Our „memory‟ varies in the degree of
conscious Willing involved and so Learning to
walk & some
inhibits our Thinking. Learning to „knee-jerk‟
speak; reactions
Crossing the
gesture
road safely;
Rituals e.g.- Driving;
locking doors times-tables Intuitive
remembrance
(sometimes Associating –
compulsive) „tea bag &
tea pot‟ – to
stereotyping
Recognising of an
a memory
that just experience.
„pops up‟.
26. Intuitive …is a capability
remembrance that flows in with
of an the stream of our
“Enduring “I”
experience.
The capacity all children have to remember is connected with
the forces of growth and our “willing to be” – a Willing we
can harness in developing our capability for remembrance.
27. Intuitive …is a capability
remembrance enduring that flows in with
“I” the stream of our
of an
“Enduring “I”
experience.
intuition
judging
soul
soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
future
deep
yearning
To harness our
senses remembrance is the
way to perceive the
karmic thread being
physical woven by our enduring
body “I”.
28. To ponder on…
If the head is a physical metamorphosis of what
our soul and organism experienced in an earlier life,
where does our “I” fit in?
What are the implications if we only think with our head?
Are we free to „think with our heart‟, why should we and
what does that mean?
What resonance of the two tendencies in early childhood can
be observed in adult life?
Why should we foster imagination in childhood?
