THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

teacher who confessed that the phenomenon of students calling one another racist names and
scribbling obscenities on school walls was a direct result of this new education: "The
impression we got was that we were free to do our own thing and that the kids should be free
to do their own thing. When the kids heard that, they were off."
As a representative sample of OBE's heritage, Coulson quotes "a passage by a best-selling
author in the Studies of the Person textbook series", whom he refuses to identify except as "a
high-ranking official of the U.S. Department of Education." Coulson relates: "Later he went
to jail for sex crimes, a result that was not unrelated to his beliefs, for in 1974 he'd written of
his own personal growth as a kind of religious imperative: 'I have grown to the place where I
now have what might be called "a religion of the self." I believe that most of the answers are
within myself and that learning to tap the love and beauty and strength within myself is really
a worshiping of the inner self. In essence, I believe in God. God is within each of us. We are
all God.... I now meditate to the God within my own inner self; and each time I meditate, I
discover new resources of boundless love and beauty within myself.'" [Bailey never said it
better.] Coulson competently traces other OBE precepts back to this "self-worship".
The only blind spot in Coulson's well-reasoned piece is his position that OBE "is so contrary
to common sense and the protective instincts of parents that it demanded cosmic justification.
Enter the New Age movement." The New Age movement, as we have seen, is not the tail on
the OBE dog, but the driving force which gives OBE its vision, goals and methodology. Not
only has OBE changed "brand names" repeatedly in American history, as Coulson shows;
OBE under all its labels is only one of a hundred "brand names" disguising the infinitely older
NA "Wisdom".
3. Infiltration of NA Education into Public Schools - Easy Does It.
Due to natural resistance in traditional educational institutions, introduction would have to be
subtle and incremental. "The schools will make but small beginnings and will be launched in
a way that will appear at first as too unimportant to be noticeable." (_Letters on Occult
Meditation_, p.309. Quote attributed not to Alice Bailey but to "the Tibetan Master", in _The
Journal of Esoteric Psychology_, Spring-Summer 1997.) [The success of the penetration is
easily demonstrated: I will wager that virtually no reader of these pages has a clear idea of
when New Age teachings first infiltrated into his/her school system.]
Taking the cue from his spiritual mentor, Robert Muller was careful to introduce the "ageless
wisdom" gradually into the U.S., the country which he called "the most powerful and
stubborn obstacle to the further evolution of this planet." ("2000 Ideas for a Better World",
Idea No. 1968. His "2000 Ideas" are easily found on the Internet.) The patience of Muller and
other change agents was rewarded: Bailey's educational Plan was openly implemented in the
"Outcome Based Education" (OBE) plan of the American educational project "Goals 2000",
later renamed "Project Global 2000". Its "small beginnings, too unimportant to be noticeable"
in the U.S. can be variously traced to 1974 (the first "School of Ageless Wisdom"), or 1980
(the pilot "Robert Muller School" in Arlington, VA with 16 students, operating quietly for
five years before receiving full academic accreditation), or perhaps to 1979, when then-
Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton introduced a prototype of the WCC in his prestigious
Governor's School. By 1986, Muller's WCC was openly hailed as "a useful model" for Goals
2000 (George Cawelti, "Toward a World Core Curriculum", _Education Leadership_, Dec.
86/Jan. 87). Certainly 1989 was a beginning (the first inclusion of the "Ageless Wisdom" in
an experimental "Goals 2000" curriculum in Eugene, OR School District 4J), as was 1991
(the crafting of "America 2000" under the Bush administration) and 1992 (an experiment with
"Outcome Based Education" launched in Cottage Grove High School, South Lane School