*SYNERGY-NET on
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RE: It's a matter of choice:
How much of our time, our lives is spent on activities of our own
determination, doing what we determined to do, actions selected
with our own purposes and goals in mind, time and effort spent
with a firmness, perseverance, sense of mission, based on our own
volition and choice. Not much !
The question is how to expand the
area where we govern ourselves, where we have control, where we
have a real free choice.
We are controlled by socialization. We filter our world with many
screens. We understand only the information, propaganda, greed,
desires, passions, needs, loves, hates, fears, false ideas,
demands and expectations of others; by their prejudice and
limited perceptions, by the limits of our knowledge and skills,
by events, the environment, biology, mortgages, car payments, and
the boss and society's demands. It's not so easy to gain command
of our selves and our lives. We are in a waking dream, sleep
walking, unaware of whole ranges of choices and possibilities.
For the 35,000 years of human culture, people knew the forces
that controlled their lives and went with the flow.
They knew in
their glands and in their entrails that they were part of a
larger force field, one element of the life force, a part of a
tradition going before and coming after. It would be crazy to
think you could force your will on nature and the gods, on the
spirits that surround you.
The `spirit man' taps into a flow of
the universe, he does not make personal choices. If he uses `the
force' for himself it doesn't work and he loses `the power'.
The industrial, political, social, scientific revolution of
modern times is based on a false, too thin idea of freedom,
choice, power and control.
The more we try to force our petty
needs and desires as THE be all and end all of social and
ecological existence the less power and less control we have and
the system breaks down. Most of our problems, crime, poor
schools, un-wed mothers, dysfunctional families, stupid politics,
dumb media, decline in the meaning of language, thought and
action; all this is do to the breaking of the bands of biology.
We have tried over reaching evolution for temporal and false
hopes. We all know that.
Power comes from integration, from mobilization of focus, of
facing ourselves as we are, from finding true self beyond self,
from sounds, from music, from being rock, water, air, sky, stars,
plants, reptile, hunter, mixed bag of biology that we are. We all
know we get jerked around, get our strings pulled, put up a false
front, pretend, avoid, become angry, lose control. For 35,000
years culture has built systems of integration of the human
spirit into larger wholes. That is the power of Japan, that is
the force field of good schools, communities, and larger spirits.
Freedom comes for within the bands but not of the bands. Tribal
limitations need to be integrated not ignored. That's not easy
but has been done a 1000 times in a 1000 ways.
Go to directory, categories, education, page 5, synergy:
Since we will maybe here only a month or so, I would really
really like it if you would use the ForumForum. Go in and set up
conference, documents, newspaper, mess around. We will only learn
by doing. You can find out what this conference program has to
offer and we can see how people can use it.
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