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Existential knowledge foundation has been set up to understand the connection between knowledge and This could be for re imagining the so called higher studies.

Existential knowledge foundation is an attempt to understand the existential quality of knowledge- the eternal, the universal and the immediate. This is a space for de-schooling and re connecting with the existential aspects of knowing and being. This will be like the re imagining schools initiative where we began to deeply question everything that was taken for granted. Integrating the arts/ scie

nce/ humanities etc (I don't know). But the focus will be on recovering the biologically rooted cognitive system (tools, process and structure) and existential qualities of humility, innocence, openness etc. Naturally there will be Deep study on cognition, Cognitive space, Study on the formation of beingness in human, Cognition and communication, beauty etc.

29/09/2024

All the crises that we are facing today emanate from the fundamental cognitive crisis. The root of this cognitive crisis is distancing ourselves from nature - be it healing, learning, or farming! Thus, modern man has become anti-nature and anti-life.
If we are to meet this crisis, we must reclaim the inherent in us and ensure the awakening of inherent, right from childhood.

Friends,

We are happy to announce our upcoming event " Awakening the Nature in us" which is an attempt to carve a road back to nature by exploring natural learning, natural parenting, natural healing, natural farming and natural birthing.

The brochure and poster for the event is attached. Kindly help us spread the word and do join us if possible.

In case you are unable to be at the event, In the registration page, you'll find the link to support the event too. Please support the cause if you find it meaningful.

visit : https://ekfoundation.in/awakening-the-nature-in-us/

26/09/2024

Milestones in Drawing?

Similar to all other activities like walking, talking etc. drawing also has stages or milestones. As in play (cognitive activity), drawing also has implicit rules. We have never taken note of this only because we have seen drawing as art, self expression, skills etc.
For children drawing is a means for enhancing observation and developing imagination.

PHASE 1
29th September 11 AM IST
Register https://lnkd.in/gbDd-7EH

Introduction to the topic.

Sharing the research of 3 years research on drawings done by children.
Drawing is the ‘playing’ that children do in two-dimensional space. Drawing is a cognitive activity for children, if we don’t interfere. Like all children ‘play’, all children draw. Drawing is not to be artists, nor a skill but to enable them to make sense of the 3-D world in terms of 2D.

Cognitive Importance of Drawing
https://lnkd.in/gsE2JB5p
https://lnkd.in/gSC5V_hn

PHASE 2

Starts on October 5th. 7 30 PM IST

Participants are expected to create conditions for children to draw without interferences, document, and share in the group. It is important NOT to draw conclusions immediately. Please spend some time watching what children draw and from that let understanding arise.

HIGHLIGHTS: - WEEKLY FEEDBACK through WhatsApp, ONLINE discussion & feedback sessions twice a month.
Registration details: Contribution: INR 7500/ $125
Gpay 9447121544 or jinankb@oksbi & send details of payment to +91 7592013231

Do-nothing Parenting Channel:
https://lnkd.in/gawg_zm9

23/09/2024

6 months online program
UNDERSTANDING THE COGNITIVE IMPORTANCE OF DRAWING

Enable the potential of drawing as a cognitive process in children by freeing them from adult-made rules.

" If children draw autonomously before they learn to write, they will understand the relation between the real world and its description"
Drawing as a tool for observation, abstraction, articulation, description, reflection, and imagination and as a means to root oneself in the real world as well as to make the connection between the real world and the two-dimensional space of books and screens

PHASE 1
29th September 11 AM IST
Register https://lnkd.in/gbDd-7EH

Introduction to the topic.
Sharing the research of 3 years research on drawings done by children.
Drawing is the ‘playing’ that children do in two-dimensional space. Drawing is a cognitive activity for children, if we don’t interfere. Like all children ‘play’, all children draw. Drawing is not to be artists, nor a skill but to enable them to make sense of the 3-D world in terms of 2D.
Cognitive Importance of Drawing
https://lnkd.in/gsE2JB5p
https://lnkd.in/gSC5V_hn

PHASE 2
Starts on October 5th. 7 30 PM IST

Participants are expected to create conditions for children to draw without interferences, document, and share in the group. It is important NOT to draw conclusions immediately. Please spend some time watching what children draw and from that let understanding arise.

HIGHLIGHTS: - WEEKLY FEEDBACK through WhatsApp, ONLINE discussion & feedback sessions twice a month.

Registration details: Contribution: INR 7500/ $125
Gpay 9447121544 or jinankb@oksbi & send details of payment to +91 7592013231
Do-nothing Parenting Channel:
https://lnkd.in/gawg_zm9

Natural Play for Children Aam Aadmi Party Bhoomi Network

01/07/2024

Explore with us online
NATURAL LEARNING PROCESS AND THE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN.

DATE 14TH JULY 11 AM TO 12 PM
Register https://bit.ly/schoolsdamage

Children and knowledge are the most misunderstood aspects in the modern world.

Natural learning is about creation of knowledge, autonomously, of our contexts. Learning, like breathing, is a choiceless activity as learning is the very nature of LIFE. Life dictates what to learn and has endowed us with ‘how to learn’. Children’s natural system gets developed only if we respect their autonomy. The world awakens their senses, retains their sense of process, and playfulness and ‘instils’ knowledge. This enables them to develop their cognitive foundation meant for creation of knowledge.

Only in existential freedom children can function naturally and spontaneously.

Please check out the following you-tube video links.
How do Children Create knowledge? How teaching is detrimental to a child's learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3A-8iI4Py4

What is Knowledge? Implicit and explicit knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhVFs4b8wA

How schools and toys are damaging children? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z72rbcSpi7o

Storytelling and Reading are damaging for children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4ZVLDpfzLI

Word and the World form two different Cognitive systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHZNIEwio8&t=1s
The way our cognitive system forms depends on what we engage with. If we engage mainly with words, reading, reasoning, analysis - we are formed in one way.

18/05/2024

Workshop for parents and teachers to understand the ‘cognitive science’ of children’s development.

The 4 modules for the workshop

MODULE 1...

9th June, Sunday 10 am to 12

UNDERSTANDING THE DAMAGES OF BEING SCHOOLED –

Preparation for understanding how schooling has damaged us, how children create knowledge and why is it difficult for the so-called educated to understand this simple fact.

How insensitive parents impose their mediocrity and slave mentality on children.

Impact of literacy, impact of dealing with readymade knowledge on natural instinct for creating knowledge, impact of teaching on the development of the natural learning process and how all this rewires the natural cognitive development

MODULE 2.

9th June, Sunday 2 30 pm to 4 pm

KNOWLEDGE CREATION- THE FORGOTTEN DIMENSION IN MODERN SCHOOLING

All living beings create knowledge except the so-called educated who are trained in memory and analysis of information. We will What is knowledge? How is knowledge created? Why do we need knowledge?

Development of cognitive foundation, the importance of senses

intuitive implicit knowledge, explicit knowledge, Cognition to Metacognition

MODULE 3.

10th June, Monday 10 am to 12 30 pm

UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN

Why do we create knowledge? What is the content of knowledge?

How do children create knowledge? How do values, qualities, abilities and skills get developed?

Play as cognition, playfulness as quality, Toy as a means to create knowledge,

Integral nature of children; wholistic nature of the world.

Natural cognition, natural INTELLIGENCE, Natural learning process (why what how), innate Values.

MODULE 4.

10th June, Monday 2 30 pm to 4 pm

CREATING CONDUCIVE CONDITIONS- From Conditioning to Awakening

Retaining non-duality, Existential freedom, Innate Trust, Being in Truth, a Sense of Abundance, and Being Spiritual, Original and Authentic.

How to reorganize modern spaces? Reducing the damages of the present conditions and a search for long-term solutions.

Checkout few videos about the content and the facilitator

How do Children Create knowledge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3A-8iI4Py4

Cognitive Damages of Reading and Reasoning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aovTtoJiW4I&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7L21ZjpuJs

Do-nothing Parenting Channel: https://tinyurl.com/4nhw8mpy

WhatsApp group link for those who are interested to join the BANGALORE Program: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DoslYAnGpyE3YjuWJaeWfs

WhatsApp group link for those who are interested to join the CHENNAI program: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IFilmUk4iNHCd1riKELN2V

Contact WhatsApp no +91 7592013231

22/04/2024

AGAINST METHODS
– ONLINE SESSION ON 27 28 APRIL, 7 to 8 pm IST

On the first day,
we will explore the natural way in which children make sense of the world autonomously, based on the NATURE GIVEN SYSTEM. (Natural Play for Children) In such a case children are totally free and autonomously develop their cognitive system.
We will explore the formation of the COGNITIVE FOUNDATION (Journal of Cognition and Culture)which ensures authentic knowledge creation.

On the second day,
We will explore how external interventions of all kinds destroy the natural unfolding of the life-given system which by default is 'creative', 'systematic', and pro-life. (let the children play)
The very act of teaching is detrimental to children as it interferes with natural learning.
We will take up a few salient points of some of the popular educational ‘methods’ and explore what is wrong with them followed by questions and answers.

Let us come together on April 27-28 to explore this further.
Registration fees – Rs 1000
jinankb@oksbi or Gpay to 9447121544
Please share the screenshot/ details to https://wa.me/917592013231

20/04/2024

Being in Beauty
Reimagining Art
Dates: MAY 1st to 7th, Venue: Thanal, Kiraloor, Velur, Thrissur
https://maps.app.goo.gl/thkfVRZVt3EHPExh6
Retreat Contribution: Rs. 15000 (non-Indians $250) For children between 5 to 11 Rs 7,500 (Non-Indians $100) (Inclusive of simple vegetarian food and shared accommodation.)
The Retreat is to awaken SENSE OF BEAUTY and to re-establish our communion with the world around us. The retreat offers an opportunity for re-examining how notions of art have been misleading us from this real connection.
Art is a mental construct whereas beauty is part and parcel of our biological makeup. It is the organizing principle of life that ensures the economy of energy- aptness in action.
Beauty is a dynamic configuration of appropriateness inherent in nature. We are born aligned to this configuration and people in indigenous communities where there is no ‘teaching’ keep up this alignment as they grow up. So naturally what they do turns out to be beautiful.
This is an opportunity to integrate the sense of beauty and learning as a holistic process.
Register: https://rb.gy/7ys50t

16/02/2024

Nature as TEACHER; Nature as CONTENT

The workshop is inspired by the retreat on beauty conducted for parents, recently. This realization prompted the idea of creating a workshop to help parents understand and learn from the inherent potential in children.
We found children were exploring things openly and freely exhibiting unhindered creativity. This became an important aspect for us, adults to understand children and to learn from children.
So, the workshop is being planned in such a manner that parents get the opportunity to understand the real potential in children. From the age of 7, children begin to create ‘implicit’ knowledge, if they are left alone to explore the real world.

Provide parents with an opportunity to understand the true potential in their children.
Highlight the shift in cognitive processes between children and educated adults.
Encourage parents to reconnect with their senses, embrace openness, and regain a process-oriented mindset.

The difference between educated adults and children is the following.
Children are using their senses as the cognitive tool, they are developing their ‘process-orientation’ by playfully exploring their respective contexts, they are in discovery mode, open, creative, and daring…..They are learning from the adults around them but educated adults have very different cognitive systems which is for analyzing information which is what they experience during their educational process, their senses are almost dysfunctional, no more openness and exploration.

The workshop is meant for adults to start using their senses, learn to be open, regain process-orientation, etc which they can learn from children.
Venue THRISSUR, KERALA, INDIA
Dates - MARCH 21 22 23 24 25 (10 AM 21st to 3 pm 25th )
Contribution: Adults Rs. 10000 (Non-Indians $180) Children 7 to 14yrs - Rs 7500, Btw 3 to 7 years - Rs 5000. (Fees include stay, food, and materials required for the workshop)
Feel free to reach out for queries via WhatsApp/call: 7592013231.
REGISTRATION LINK: http://tinyurl.com/4zkhe4vt
Nature as TEACHER; Nature as CONTENT

Background:

The workshop is inspired by the retreat on beauty conducted for parents, recently. This realization prompted the idea of creating a workshop to help parents understand and learn from the inherent potential in children.
We found children were exploring things openly and freely exhibiting unhindered creativity. This became an important aspect for us, adults to understand children and to learn from children.

So, the workshop is being planned in such a manner that parents get the opportunity to understand the real potential in children. From the age of 7, children begin to create ‘implicit’ knowledge, if they are left alone to explore the real world.

Target Audience:
Children above 7 years and parents.

Objectives:

Provide parents with an opportunity to understand the true potential in their children.
Highlight the shift in cognitive processes between children and educated adults.
Encourage parents to reconnect with their senses, embrace openness, and regain a process-oriented mindset.

The difference between educated adults and children is the following.
Children are using their senses as the cognitive tool, they are developing their ‘process-orientation’ by playfully exploring their respective contexts, they are in discovery mode, open, creative, and daring…..They are learning from the adults around them but educated adults have very different cognitive systems which is for analyzing information which is what they experience during their educational process, their senses are almost dysfunctional, no more openness and exploration.

The workshop is meant for adults to start using their senses, learn to be open, regain process-orientation, etc which they can learn from children.
Venue THRISSUR, KERALA, INDIA
Dates - MARCH 21 22 23 24 25 (10 AM 21st to 3 pm 25th )
Contribution: Adults Rs. 10000 (Non-Indians $180) Children 7 to 14yrs - Rs 7500, Btw 3 to 7 years - Rs 5000. (Fees include stay, food, and materials required for the workshop)
Feel free to reach out for queries via WhatsApp/call: 7592013231.
REGISTRATION LINK: http://tinyurl.com/4zkhe4vt

14/02/2024

INVITATION for a retreat to explore the damages inflicted by Modernity.

It may be worthwhile to explore the cognitive system of illiterate indigenous communities which by default is sustainable. They have been able to sustain life for centuries. How is their system different from the modern one that does not create unsustainable knowledge by default and then as an afterthought think about sustainability?

How is their 'beingness' gets shaped?

How indigenous knowledge has been diverse in terms of content but 'modern' knowledge homogenous?

TOPICS

NATURAL COGNITION – the illiterates' cognition
Cognition as effortless and choiceless- the way one imbibes one’s mother tongue or how learning takes place in indigenous communities- traditional artisans, farmers, healers, musicians, etc.

UNNATURAL COGNITION – the literate cognition
‘Cognition’ with effort, as a result of being taught, read, and making conclusions using reason.

METACOGNITION among indigenous/illiterate cultures.
How intuitive IMPLICIT knowledge creation becomes EXPLICIT knowledge.
Integral nature of ‘why’ ‘what’ ‘how’- value, knowledge & beauty

Check out the site to learn more about the retreat
https://jinankb5.wixsite.com/naturalcognition

Register
http://tinyurl.com/2bxuvk4m

Contact me directly
https://wa.me/917592013231

09/02/2024

Nature as Teacher;
Nature as Content

An experiential workshop to awaken the senses – the cognitive tool, sense of process – the grammar of learning, and aesthetic sense – the organizing principle in nature.

The focus of the work with adults is to initiate the process of reclaiming their cognitive system which has been numbed and damaged due to education..

But the space or condition will be provided for children to awaken what is inherent in them by engaging with nature- its form, process, etc

The workshop provides the opportunity
1. For parents to understand the cognitive process in children
2. To initiate the process of recovering their natural cognitive system.
3. For children to explore nature
4. To awaken their sense of beauty and develop sense of PROCESS

Venue THRISSUR, KERALA, INDIA
Dates - MARCH 21 22 23 24 25 (10 AM 21st to 3 pm 25th )
REGISTRATION LINK: http://tinyurl.com/4zkhe4vt
Contribution: Adults Rs. 10000 (Non-Indians $180) Children 7 to 14yrs Rs 7500, Btw 3 to 7 years Rs 5000
Materials- Will be provided

07/02/2024

The retreat is for exploring the damages inflicted by Modernity.

The senses speak to the understanding:

”Poor understanding, from us you took the pieces of evidence and with them, you want to throw us down? This down-throwing will be your fall.”
Democritus

Exploring the difference between Being level knowing vs Ego level knowing.

No hypothesis, No tests, No labs, No machines, No reasoning, No conclusions

Be with the questions, awaken the senses, be in choiceless awareness

Knowing is the nature of life.

Why one learns, is to sustain life.

What is learned, is species-dependent.

What each species learns, is context dependent.

Where and when, is the context.

The context dictates what to learn.

Content dictates how to learn.

Life itself ensures the continuation of life.

Exploring the Formation of Beingness in Humans--

All living beings are ‘creative’ and ‘intelligent’ beings as the context dictates what to learn. Without the context, there is no existence. Can we imagine the live fish without water? Without the context, there is no human existence. But unlike other living beings human beings need sensitivity and wisdom more than intelligence as our formation is very precarious and vulnerable. Their formation is far more dictated by their respective contexts than other beings. They are born with potentials and it is the context that awakens their possibilities. Life needs to be learned from the living and we are shaped by what we experience.
TOPICS

NATURAL COGNITION – the illiterates' cognition

Cognition as effortless and choiceless- the way one imbibes one’s mother tongue or how learning takes place in indigenous communities- traditional artisans, farmers, healers, musicians, etc.

UNNATURAL COGNITION – the literate cognition

‘Cognition’ with effort, as a result of being taught, read, and by using reason.

METACOGNITION among indigenous/illiterate cultures.

Integral nature of ‘why’ ‘what’ ‘how’- value, knowledge & beauty

IMPLICIT knowledge creation to EXPLICIT knowledge

“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir,
to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to
try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms
and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,

live along, some distant day, into the answer”.

Rainer Maria Rilke

https://jinankb5.wixsite.com/naturalcognition

16/05/2022

DO NOTHING PARENTING
How MAKING toys for children changed the whole cognitive system.
How you created cognitive dependence.
How the transient nature of the product transformed into a rigid one.
How process disappeared from cognition……
Like knowledge is a by-product, the product itself is a ‘by-product’ in the way children’s process-oriented engagement with the world. There is no permanence to any product. It can be used in any way and can become anything in their imagination……
How ‘DOING’ is what caused the problem
Join us to explore deeply…….
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