By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
November 14, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
Dr Dennis Cuddy on Radio Liberty, discussing the article below . . .
What Dr. Shirley McCune was saying at the end of Part 3 is a fulfillment of what Arthur Calhoun wrote in the third volume of his 1919 book, A Social History of the American Family, in which he proclaimed: “The modern individual is a world citizen, served by the world, and home interests can no longer be supreme…. As familism weakens, society has to assume a larger parenthood. The school begins to assume responsibility for the functions thrust upon it…. The kindergarten grows downward toward the cradle and there arises talk of neighborhood nurseries…. Social centers replace the old time home chimney…. The child passes more and more into the custody of community experts…. It seems clear that at least in its early stages, socialism will mean an increased amount of social control…. We may expect in the socialist commonwealth a system of public educational agencies that will begin with the nursery and follow the individual through life…. Those persons that experience alarm at the thought of intrinsic changes in family institutions should remember that in the light of social evolution, nothing is right or valuable in itself.”
At
about the same time, McCune delivered the main speech at an Aurora,
Colorado “in-service” teachers session, and according to
a teacher there, McCune proclaimed: “Radical change is necessary
now; you cannot escape it…. Strategies and behaviors must be changed
because the dawning of this new age is far more significant than the
transformation of the national and world economics which is taking place….
The [new] Information Society will touch every aspect of our lives.
It will shape a new social character or person who views the world in
very different ways…. The schools will become the training institutions
whose function it is to affect all other sectors of society—economic,
social, and political.”
And
what kind of radically changed, restructured New Age society and education
did Dr. McCune have in mind? In her co-authored The Light Shall
Set You Free (1996), she talked about a “point of light,”
and stated: “Only the souls who are ready to receive the new curriculum
will elect to raise their vibrations to match those required to enter
the New Age…. Did you know that the animals’ souls are the
souls of our future children?... We are entering the Age of Aquarius….
The goal for all of humanity who will enter the new millennium is to
become androgynous…. Educational systems, businesses, political
structures and governments all built on self-serving principals, for
example, are crumbling, only to be reborn through tremendous pain into
higher forms.” At about the same time Dr. McCune co-authored this
book she was a research assistant in School-to-Work at Arizona State
University, and then she became an administrative assistant to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction for the State of Washington.
Much
of the information in her book is alleged to have been channeled through
the authors by “Ascended Masters,” including one called
“El Morya, Master.” And this is where there is an international
connection.
For
decades, the U.S. has poured millions of U.S. tax dollars into the U.N.,
and for decades while Secretary-Generals came and went, Robert Muller
remained an Assistant-Secretary-General. While at the U.N., he began
the Robert Muller School in Arlington, Texas, and his schools are in
over 25 nations and are members of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project.
A description of Muller’s school from its own document states
that: “The underlying philosophy upon which the Robert Muller
School is based will be found in the teachings set forth in the books
of Alice A. Bailey by the… teachings of M. Morya….”
This is the “El Morya, Master” mentioned in Dr. McCune’s
book, and Alice Bailey was the leading occultist of the first half of
the 20th century. Bailey wrote often about a coming “new world
order” and “points of light” connected to service.
Her first works were published by Lucifer Publishing Company, which
became Lucis Trust, now located at 120 Wall Street in New York City.
That
Dr. McCune is a New Age proponent who on November 2, 1989 had used the
term “human resource development” more than once is perhaps
significant in that earlier in that year, New Age networking Sen. Claiborne
Pell had introduced Senate Joint Resolution 135, the “National
Commission on Human Resource Development Act,” co-sponsored by
Senators Al Gore and Nancy Kassebaum. The resolution was to establish
the Center for Human Resource Development and spoke of the “normal
aspiration of all citizens to more fully achieve their potential in
body, mind and spirit…. [and] there is a role for government to
assist in research and education on techniques that promote the…
fuller realization of human potential.” Testifying for the measure
was Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School, who explained the
“relaxation response” as experienced by those who practice
Zen, Yoga and Transcendental Meditation. The resolution probably would
have passed the Senate except that Senator Dan Coates put a “hold”
on it and it died.
Before
continuing with the subject of education, I will digress briefly to
describe the effect of the New Age upon the presidency. Not only did
Newsweek refer to Bill Clinton as the first “New Age
President,” but the “Renaissance Weekend” he had attended
for years was referred to by The New York Times as a “New
Age Retreat.” Then, in a front page article in The Washington
Post (June 23, 1996), Bob Woodward wrote that Hillary Clinton “seemed
jerked around by the muddled role of first lady, as she swung between
New Age feminist and national housewife.” Woodward was excerpting
from his new book, The Choice, and recounted that at Camp David
on the weekend of December 30, 1994, Bill and Hillary Clinton invited
people to dissect the first 2 years of his presidency and search for
a way back from the Democrats’ Congressional defeat in November
of that year. Woodward related that Jean Houston “played a significant
role over the weekend and the year that followed…. Hillary and
Houston clicked, especially during a discussion of how to use the office
[of the presidency] for the betterment of society.”
Houston
is a New Age researcher in psychic experiences and altered consciousness,
who has visited and worked in 36 countries under the auspices of UNESCO,
and who spoke on “The Rise of the New Right” at the National
Education Association convention in 1979. She has been a Director of
the syncretistic Temple of Understanding, and has spoken to the National
Catholic Educational Association annual convention several times. On
March 14, 1989 she spoke on “Whole System Transition: The Birth
of the Planetary Society” to the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development (ASCD) annual conference (the day after New Age
former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller spoke to the ASCD
on “Educating the Global Citizen: Illuminating the Issues,”
which was the conference theme). Houston along with John Naisbitt (remember
Shirley McCune’s connection to him, and McCune also participated
in the 1989 ASCD conference) and Elsa Porter (President Jimmy Carter’s
Assistant Secretary of Commerce) founded “The Possible Society,”
which in 1985 sponsored a seminar in Denver re-creating The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz, with Houston employing trances, etc., and saying
“You are simply God in hiding. You must achieve your potential
Godhood.” This same year Newsweek published “The Megatrends
Man” (September 23, 1985) about John Naisbitt, and in the article
referred to “the crowd of 200 or so mostly New Age enthusiasts….
Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, a friend of the Naisbitts and one
of the invited speakers, got into the swing of things by submitting
that it was time to ‘re-think the nation-state system’”
(In Gore’s book Earth in the Balance, he says: “Nature
in its fullest is God.”) In Jennifer Donovan’s article “Creating
Mythos of the Modern World” (San Francisco Chronicle,
March 19, 1985) about Jean Houston, Donovan wrote that Houston was “A
showman and shaman… calling what she does ‘priestcraft’.”
In
Bob Woodward’s Washington Post article mentioned above,
he also wrote: “Houston and her work were controversial because
she believed in spirits and other worlds, put people into trances and
used hypnosis, and because in the 1960s she had conducted experiments
with LSD…. [Houston] conducted extensive dialogues with Athena
[pagan Greek deity] on her computer.” Woodward then indicated
that while Houston did not use any of these aforementioned techniques
on Bill and Hillary Clinton, Houston at the White House in April 1995
did put Hillary through a visualization exercise, asking Hillary to
shut her eyes and visualize meeting Eleanor Roosevelt. Woodward wrote,
“Houston regarded it as a classic technique, practiced by Machiavelli,
who used to talk to ancient men.” Hillary was then asked by Houston
to play the part of and speak as Mrs. Roosevelt, and then Houston asked
Hillary to visualize speaking to Mahatma Gandhi. Woodward revealed that
in October and November 1995, “Houston virtually moved into the
White House residence for several days at a time to help” with
Hillary’s book It Takes A Village. And Woodward concluded
the article by writing “Houston wondered what might happen if
her role as advisor and friend to the first couple became public. ‘If
I ever get caught,’ Houston asked Hillary, ‘what should
I say?’ ‘Just tell the truth,’ Hillary replied, ‘Just
tell them you’re my friend.’”
According
to the Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, Houston
and her sexologist husband, Robert Masters, developed something known
as “the Witches’ Cradle.” In March 1968, the NTL Institute
(mentioned earlier in this article), presented a week-long seminar by
Jean Houston and her staff titled “The Myth and Mystery of Isis
and Osiris: A Journey of Transformation.” And in 1995, Houston
authored The Passion of Isis and Osiris: A Union of Two Souls.
Given that Bob Woodward felt it important to show Hillary’s connection
to Houston and Houston’s “dialogues with Athena,”
one must wonder why the press did not explore Bob Dole’s being
a Shriner “noble” of Isis Temple (Isis was a pagan Egyptian
deity) for some 40 years in Salina, Kansas. And given that Athena is
important to Jean Houston, it is relevant that The Encyclopedia
of Mythology indicates Athena “played a predominant role
in the construction of the Trojan Horse, which she was said to have
dreamed up.” Could it be that Jean Houston introduced the “Trojan
Horse” of New Age spirituality into the White House and society
at large to change the nation’s consciousness away from Judeo-Christian
moral absolutes? Remember, New Ager Dr. Shirley McCune said: “What
we’re into is the total restructuring of society.”
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