SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Uncle Tom's Classroom and its new cosmic curriculum may be one of the most thought provoking, insightful, inspiring and truly American books of this brave new millennium.
Uncle Tom's Classroom - How One Public School Teacher Awakened His Students to the Cosmic Super Self Within is a true story that takes an unvarnished look at the limitations of the old public school system and then offers an extraordinary, practical and proven series of extraordinary solutions. UTC chronicles how Thomas Alan Berg created a new, totally "out of the box" approach to education, based on synthesizing the educational ideals of the American Constitution, the latest discoveries of Quantum Physics, the esoteric theories of metaphysics, the thrilling epiphanies of spiritual revelation, the highest values of ethics, the healing breakthroughs of transpersonal depth psychology and the mounting evidence of multidimensionality and "systems theory," into what he calls the Cosmic Curriculum of the Super Self.
UTC reveals all facets of Tom's thirty-year educational adventure as he discovered and developed cutting-edge techniques to release the "imprisoned splendor", natural greatness and Cosmic Super Powers from within thousands of public school students. UTC's groundbreaking strategies grew out of Joseph Campbell's idea of giving youngsters the freedom to co-create their own self-directed "Projects of Bliss" and allowing them to search for the real meaning of their existence. Berg opened up the classroom conversation to give his students the freedom to actually discuss and debate the purpose and meaning of life and his students loved it. Berg discovered that when young people are allowed -- even encouraged -- to discuss, research, study and debate the many philosophical, scientific, religious, economic, political and metaphysical theories about the meaning of their lives -- IN the classroom -- they begin to wake up from the propaganda of the materialistic, overly competitive mind-set that dominates the school system. Once kids are allowed to compare the many belief systems that control the world today -- with the vast super intelligent depths of their own Inner Selfhood -- it's not long before they come to realize they are Cosmic Citizens with unlimited Super Powers of self-expression.
Tom's successes with his new Language of the Super Self in his beloved "Bergland by the Sea" at A.P. Giannini Middle School in San Francisco, are well chronicled in this book. Tom bravely incorporated the ancient, classical ideals of free speech, self-exploration, self-realization and full self-actualization BACK into the educational equation and his students' test scores, happiness and personal achievement levels soared! UTC offers a fresh vision by liberating our children's minds and hearts from ALL the conceptual prisons of the past. UTC comes at just the right time in our history, with a multidimensional message that is optimistic and hopeful enough to offer America the courageous insight it needs to return to the destined greatness for which it was created! UTC empowers kids to find out for themselves, who they really are and why they have been born on Planet Earth at this pivotal point in history!
"Sometimes a wonderful teacher appears. Occasionally amazing students
come forth. When amazing teachers and amazing students come together,
amazing things happen. Bergland, Room 207 is a perfect example
of that".
Esther and Jerry Hicks, "The Secret," "The Law of Attraction."
About the Author
Thomas Alan Berg (M.A., Political Science and Multicultural Education) has devoted forty years of his life to the public schools. Tom discovered his innate love for education while serving the American Government as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Venezuela and Teacher Corps Volunteer in San Francisco's Mission District. He was hired by the San Francisco Public Unified School System in 1971 and taught every grade from K through 8, up until 2005, when he retired from "active duty" in 2005, to complete his opus, Uncle Tom's Classroom.
Uncle Tom's Classroom * by Thomas Alan Berg
HOW ONE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER AWAKENED HIS STUDENTS
TO THE COSMIC SUPER SELF WITHIN
Publication Date: Mar 12, 2007
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