A Strong Unifying Cultural Image, Why?
Adapting to Varied Media and Educational Levels
The MetaSelf model, in its specific wall-mounted box-frame version, could be illustrated with charts that get printed up, but fairly crude blackboard sketches could serve quite well. Students could make simple classroom models of the box-frame, perhaps assembling the bottom inch of a milk carton as the backboard (body) and some cut acetate that has been folded into the five-sided cover (mind). Alternatively, the Teaching Kits give very open-ended instructions that will encourage students to come up with their own models using the spatial metaphors found in English. (We are eager for your feedback on these untested kits. Please email us about your thoughts and experiences.)
A more durable and elaborate educational kit might be created and sold -- a rigid plastic box-frame (serving as both packaging and product) could contain fold-out charts diagramming the various significances of the body's axes, the inside/outside contrast, etc.
Or imagine a CD-ROM that allowed interaction within a 3-D environment that modeled going into an exhibition room with frames on the wall! One could position one's point of view (consciousness) at any of the different volumes or planes of the model. "Windows" for each of these could prompt the visitor to answer questions along the lines of the Psycho/spiritual Tool.
Simply because it uses very concrete aspects of the body, along with simple metaphors in common English usage, the basics of the MetaSelf model should be understandable by students as young as twelve or even younger. At the same time, the range of instructional products mentioned above suggests that the model can take us into the sophisticated conceptual realms of psychology and spirituality.
As always, if you can refine or develop any of these ideas, don't hesitate to use the feedback form by clicking at the bottom of any page. Share your brainstorms.
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