Progetto Alice, psicosintesi e pedagogia del conoscere

"Educating to self-consciousness" is the aim of educational experimentation proposed by the founders of the "Alice Project". Any child should be considered as a thinking being and made of emotions and beliefs. Nevertheless, living in a society where superficiality and pragmatism are predominant has leaded to not consider these aspects in child education. Indeed, in scholar environment any individual is trained to be socially realized, but unable to nurture higher levels of consciousness because the formal knowledge in schools is disconnected from interior experience and awareness. The Alice model aims to train human beings able to explicate their potentials beyond the phenomenal world: move from an anthropocentric view to a biocentric one in which the human being is a part of the Universe and not above it. Interior life of any individual is not disconnected from the real world, but an integral part of it, as it is well known in quantum physics. To achieve this goal, the traditional school program should be integrated with special activities such as mediation, yoga, visualisation techniques useful to get the ability to visualise and memorise, higher mindfulness, decreasing in aggressive behaviour and development in emotional intelligence. All these aims are successfully reached in the experimentation in India. It would be interesting that the traditional education opens up to the principles placed by the "Alice Project".

“自我觉知培育”（Educating to self-consciousness）是“爱丽丝项目”（Alice Project）创始者所提出的教育实验目标。任何儿童都应被视作兼具情感与信念的思考个体。然而，我们身处一个肤浅之风与实用主义盛行的社会，这导致儿童教育中未能顾及这些内在层面。诚然，在学校教育场景中，个体被培养为契合社会期许的成员，却无法培育更高层次的觉知——因为学校中的制式知识与内在体验及自我觉察相互脱节。爱丽丝项目模式旨在培育能够超越现象世界、发掘自身潜能的个体：从人类中心主义视角转向生命中心主义视角，在该视角下人类是宇宙的组成部分而非凌驾于万物之上。正如量子物理学所揭示的，个体的内在生命并非与现实世界割裂，而是其不可分割的有机组成部分。为达成这一目标，传统学校课程应融入各类特色活动：如冥想（mediation）、瑜伽、有助于提升可视化能力与记忆力的可视化训练技术、高阶正念觉知训练、攻击性行为的减少干预，以及情感智能的培育。上述目标已在印度开展的教育实验中得到成功验证。若传统教育能够接纳“爱丽丝项目”所提出的教育理念，将极具探索价值。