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Were You Part Of The "Mentally Gifted Minds" Program In California Scools back in the 70's?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 12411641:MV85NjMyNjNfMzM5Njg3NzlfMzBGQzYzNTc=] The road to hell may be paved with good intentions. http://www.csun.edu/edpsy/Gowan/chpt6.0p.html In this part of Gowan's writings, he discusses, more fully, the idea of positive disintegration or developmental forcing. He lists off the various techniques that are used to attempt developmental forcing and states that biofeedback has the most neutral effect when it comes to developmental forcing. Thankfully, he does consider developmental forcing to be unnatural and suggests meditation instead. However, and this is a big however, biofeedback was used. A search on biofeedback and gifted children gets a number of hits on google scholar. I heavily suggest running a search for yourself as it is rather eye opening to simply look at the little snippets provided. Ie. Article about usage of EMG frontalis biofeedback on gifted children (1985). http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.1985.61.1.179 Basically, their perception of what biofeedback was doing was that it was decreasing anxiety and promoting relaxation in gifted children. This would totally explain the memories that some of us have reported of something being strapped onto their heads. Here's the logic flaw in what they were doing though. Just like Menny's mom may have undergone a nerve conduction study, something that is run on people everyday for a variety of reasons, the memory of the study was [b]traumatic[/b]. What happens is that you basically have a child's view of what is occurring and that thing is painful, quite probably violating, and a "scary" event, doubly made so because her parents were not around to monitor or control what was occurring (as opposed to have a parent with them at a doctor's office to reassure). So whereas the test itself may have been perceived as relatively harmless, the view from the child's perspective was vastly different. With biofeedback, the outcome would most likely be the same if not worse. From what I could glean from the short snippets is that emg frontalis biofeedback was being used to trigger alpha states in gifted children so that they would feel relaxed. On the surface that sounds very nicey nicey but that disregards the "what after?" issue. From a child's (or even an adult's perspective), having something placed onto one's head that completely alters how they feel could very much have the potential effect of "dissolving" one's sense of ego. A machine made you feel something that you were not before. Toss in the scary aspects of the thing actually being done, as in the experience of Menny's mom, through the perspective of a child and the outcome would be traumatic. The temporary effect of relaxation, instead of promoting a feeling of well being in the child, could instead create a much greater sense of anxiety. People are very possessive of their sense of their own free will. It's very obvious when you bring up the subjects of hypnosis or subliminal messaging that the prospect of being made to think something other than what they would normally is terrifying or rejected utterly. Now imagine a child being strapped to a machine that MAKES them feel something that they weren't previously. How is that any different? I also stumbled across another article in regards to meditation being used in the gifted program. Couldn't find it again but basically, the teacher used meditation for relaxation using visual imagery. I found that kind of peculiar as I have taken jiu jitsu and one of the things that we had to do before each class was meditation. Quite simply, assuming a specific sitting position and regulating breathing to focus on emptying the mind at one's own pace and guidance. That's the Eastern view of what is meditation. According to the gifted program, it was "guided" with visual imagery. More like hypnosis than meditation. Overall, the combo of these things may have been what they were calling "positive disintegration" or the forced dissolution of the sense of self in the hopes of the individual becoming greater for it. More like disintegration if you ask me. [/quote]
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Were you ever removed, many times, from your regular class for "testing"?
Were you shown a series of high speed images on a television, not once, but many times?
Was the school psychologist selectively interested in you?
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