Something amiss While lecturing at certain colleges and universities on communication subjects, I felt there was something amiss in what I was teaching. I noticed how the world was changing so fast and things were not the same anymore in terms of technology, lifestyle, education and, especially, our social and spiritual lives. I learned most of these changes were a result of how and what we communicated to ourselves and to each other. I began searching for some answers and became interested in subjects such as psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, neuroscience, theology, history and political science. Eventually, I found out that there was power in how and what we communicated. In a summer workshop I conducted for people involved in community development, I observed that the participants had difficulty in teaching and effecting the change they wanted to take root in their respective communities. Their problem was that what they taught came from the same level of thinking and beliefs as that of the groups they wanted to help. I realized this was basically one of the main reasons we have not experienced the development we wished our country could attain. We have communicators who themselves are not able to get past their own defective cultural mindsets. -Tato Malay, excerpt from my book Lessons I Never Learned In School
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:31:59 +0000