Bringing up children - Addenda

• One further reason for the mental blight of people consists in the production of terrible movies. Men commit acts of crimes against women in many forceful scenes. This tends to make their behaviourism the order of the day. One is not a real man unless one acts as rabid as the role models in the movie. The behaviourism also includes the relationship with older people. One can observe that youth, boys and girls, have no feelings of respect whatsoever for older people. • Youth has been robbed of almost all its spiritual ideals. All that is left behind is materialism and it seems to be the only tangible thing for this generation. Those working in departments responsible for education are terrible psychologists. They ignore important phenomena that effectively destroy the world’s morals. People admittedly have different tasks to fulfil in the future, but the ethical decorum should always demanded and remain the same. • Terrible psychology is the bane of this world. Psychology may not become a casualty of democracy. * * * * * * * Questions and answers April 1964 Question : Does education have an influence on the human soul? ELIAS : Yes, absolutely. But the soul has the opportunity to differentiate between the good or evil of its education. It depends to which side it is drawn towards. Education is not always positive ; it can also be very negative . • When the human soul only hears the truth right from the start, it will develop in a positive direction. But it does however depend on how people receive the truth. Terrible or untruthful education produces a terrible generation. The inheritance of a terrible education has a chain-reaction effect. The same applies to positive education. It also has a chain- reaction effect. But the weakest link in the chain will make it snap. Question : What role does heredity play in this? ELIAS : Let’s assume that an evil terrestrial man copulates with a SANTINER woman. The result can be twofold: The descendants are either good or evil, whilst the possibility that the SANTINER would produce evil descendants between themselves is very remote . Question : What is being inherited? ELIAS : We are mainly dealing with physical elements. If one takes the brain into