During my son's first year at primary school we became aware of a number of issues that badly affected him because of a program the parent of a child in his class was permitted to run. She was studying to become a teacher and the Education Dept. had introduced 'visualization' techniques as a way of managing behaviour. Around the dinner table one night under the cover of conversation happening I heard my son say, "We did that thing again today Mummy" (5yrs old) and when I asked "What thing?" he told me about what was happening. We had been for weeks going through terrible nightmares with him involving a man holding a big sword who came into his room and systematically cut pieces off him. He was describing a Samuri (sp?) Warrior and had never seen one in his life before. He used to try to claw his way through the wall in an effort to get away. The visualisation stuff explained the nightmares and I began taking hold of the Word and praying for a solution. In the end I asked to see the teacher and explained our problem with Eastern Mysticism as Christians and when she said no-one else was affected I said it would only affect you if the E.M. spirit came up against the Spirit in a believer. She then told me she couldn't accomodate one student as she used the 'dot' time to work and couldn't look after him. So I volunteered to come to the school and sit and read with my son if she would let me know when it was to happen again. She agreed but know what? The poor lady doing the teacher training became so ill she had to abandon training and the program.

I'm convinced God heard not just on behalf of my son but for all the little minds being influenced and the main teacher heard about the difference between God's lovely Holy Spirit and eastern religion spirit. God went on to do something else about another school for my kids but I'll leave that for another time. Bottom line, good to listen to that soft little voice of a 5 yr old when unexplained behaviour pops up.