Readers of this blog may recall a post about how the Health Dept of Northwest Michigan (and a couple of commissioners) championed a Buddhist-style ‘mindfulness’ curriculum for elementary school students.
The topic of 'mindfulness' came up, again, in an article titled, UN Pushing New Age Spirituality on School Children by Alex Newman.
Mr. Newman begins the article, thusly: "Weaponizing public schools for sinister purposes, an obscure United Nations institute is quietly working to transform education worldwide to impose radical political and spiritual values and beliefs on children. It is all happening under the guise of 'social-emotional learning,' or SEL, a scheme hatched at a New Age organization whose founder and namesake was a follower of Lucifer Publishing Company chief Alice Bailey."
And this: "One of the disturbing elements that becomes obvious just by scratching the surface is that the same organizations and individuals promoting New Age global spirituality are also those promoting SEL and occult 'mindfulness' schemes in public schools. One critic who has researched this phenomenon told The New American that 'global citizenship education' may be seen by its advocates as a necessary element for global spirituality, 'a means to an end' rather than an objective in and of itself."
Read the whole thing, and ponder the weird machinations involved. It's no wonder that plummeting test scores and disturbing anti-social behavior are rampant in American education/schools, as the three R's become increasingly passé.
Homeschool!
I'm glad others are starting to sit up and take notice! "Mindfulness" sounds pretty nice.... Like a big wooden horse sounded pretty nice to the Trojans!
Interesting that the problem with mindfulness is that it is "Buddhist" in nature - I wonder how it would go over if a local unit of government here refused to support a food pantry, soup kitchen, resale shop, or health care organization because it was started by Christians.
Obama was just in Australia where he delivered a (“million dollar”) speech essentially to shift blame for China’s current “cozying-up” with Russia from the current admin’s policies to TRUMP, but in it he also actually SAID (out loud) that “the world needs to figure out a way to make our children kinder”! Thank you for this “context”, now we know exactly what he/they have “in mind”!