Abstract
This is an article about the ever-deeper descent of the Western world into extreme left-hemisphericity, both through government-controlled state education and the recently revealed double-bind of public schools. Hope of reversing extreme left-hemispheric brain dominance comes from the new style of education in Finland based on a system of paraconscious learning developed by Bulgarian psychiatrist Georgi Lozanov.
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Notes on contributor
Grethe Hooper Hansen left school teaching in search of more effective methods in EFL, English as a Foreign Language, and chose Suggestopedia, the creation of medical doctor Georgi Lozanov. After working in Italy and bringing Dr Lozanov to Florence, she became head of SEAL (the Society for Effective Affective Learning), an international organization founded to explore Lozanov’s work, which is becoming comprehensible only now as the Western world wakes up to the limitations of scientific materialism.
Notes
1. Explained by Dr Peter Fenwick at a Scientific & Medical Network gathering in 2010.
2. In 2015, 15-year-old Jenny Fry complained of increasingly painful reactions to the wifi router in her classroom. This condition had begun in 2012, but the school did not investigate or try to mitigate her suffering. After being given a detention in the classroom, she hanged herself in woodland near her home. There was no investigation of this incident and no compassionate response, even to her parents (Gye, Citation2015).
3. When in 2015 a 10-year-old New Zealand boy, Ethan Wyman, died after an 11-month battle with brain cancer due to sleeping for several months with an iPhone under his pillow switched on, the New Zealand government explicitly addressed wifi in schools (e.g. Waters, Citation2015). Wifi is banned from all education in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Finland and Scandinavia, and from early years education in Germany and France.
4. The rich domain of pre-conscious processing, infinitely more voluminous than that of conscious thinking, was explored by N.F. Dixon in his iconic book of the same name in Citation1981.
5. Intervention began under former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who referred to education of the ‘workforce’. By the end of the subsequent Tony Blair regime, England was shown to have dropped from 3rd to 19th in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which compared 45 countries (as reported in the Times Educational Supplement, 30 November 2007, no. 4765).