By Sharmin Ahmad
“The One Light Institute” (OLI) is currently engaged in developing an educational curriculum with holistic and cross cultural learning approach for children, youth and community connecting them/us locally, regionally and globally. The Rainbow in a Heart dance drama ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKtHS93w-3Y) has been woven into OLI’s project promoting peace.
A holistic approach to learning by using the multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary, transformative and experiential educational tools can awaken hearts to foster peace; peace within ourselves, our relationships and our surroundings. The root of violence ( active or passive) is ignorance about the scientific as well as the spiritual reality that we all are part of a single whole; that, Light which is the building block of creation, permeates through each of us. Our thoughts either positive or negative has the power to impact our surroundings including ourselves. This knowledge about life’s creative force and our interdependence in life’s web is not new to many but its’ implementation is the most challenging task, specially when we have grown into thinking and behaving otherwise. It’s easier for children and youth who are the harbinger of a new future and leaders of tomorrow to receive the holistic approach to learning and its’ application in life. Women who have been the primary care givers to their children and to generations, when empowered with knowledge ,can be the bridge that will lead our new generation in creating a new paradigm of living with love , peace, beauty and harmony. This may sound like a utopian concept in an era of increased violence, exploitation of earth’s vital resources for the profit and pleasure of the few , structural oppression which breeds and feeds inequality and injustice and war in the Middle East, yet these realities must not stop us from spreading the seeds of hope through our thoughts and actions. Keeping in mind that in the mathematical theory of chaos even the tiniest flutter of the wings of a butterfly can cause a storm; and the small acorn grows in to a mighty Oak tree.
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