It was lots of hard work. The machine weighed over forty pounds, and Mommy's back was still weak from carrying and lifting the recording machine. She got the wind record in New York, when my uncle and Aunt Dorothy took her along on their trip. So that was easy!

Mommy says, "There isn't any child who can't be reached if one gives him or her spiritual food as well as regular food. Most children are starved for it, and, after this is fed them, they will learn. It's like conquering disease by first strengthening a very ill patient with a blood transfusion, then giving the cure or remedy. So many children can be saved through love and training in spiritual strength and proper studies and guidance."

Mommy uses a "method." She shows them where their thinking starts and how this place makes us walk and talk and make pictures in our minds. Then, after they realize that inside of us, in our brains, is a gift of God, a thinking box of cells and nerves given to us so that we can try to be like Him and please Him. Then the children can start making pictures and images in their minds, first by closing their eyes and really seeing the images. They really know then that they are able to think for themselves, and they know where their thoughts begin and that they have a wonderful tool in their little "noodle heads" to make original thoughts of their own. They "find themselves," Mommy says.

Then, when they realize they have great strength of their own, of which they are the masters, Mommy begins to train them in recognition and memory with phonetics. It really works for reading too.

Showing children how to think for themselves and showing them how beautiful the world that God made can be if we center our thoughts around Him-that's the reason for all Mommy's experiments with the program.

She was trying it out still, before she finally decided how to use it best. She didn't get much time at the Music Academy to work on it because they were more interested in her voice there and the way she sang.

But not long ago, she took the machine into two Baltimore schools to try it out on the children and get the results. The children gathered around, and, as the tape played the recording, they listened and asked questions about the wind and the gong and the familiar poetry, and sang the popular songs with Mommy. They also sang the "Star Spangled Banner", and "The Lord's Prayer."

They were eleven-year-old children. At the end, one boy who never answers in class got up and walked over to Mommy to shake her hand. "Mrs. Wasserman, I want to thank you for the whole class, for bringing something very beautiful to us here today."

Another one got up and said, "I'm going to ask my father, when I go home, to take down those books of Shelley's poetry that no one in our house ever reads and read them with me."

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