Freedom or Power Whats Your Will

In our movement toward wholeness and maturity perhaps the most fundamental challenge and our goal is the acceptance and embrace of our freedom. To live as sovereign individuals so that our highest authority is our own sense of what is right and knowing that we hold the wisdom to assess for ourselves the particulars of a situation means that we fully trust ourselves and are willing to stand alone if and when necessary. Since creative people are so often ahead of their time we must really know as an experience deep in our bodies that our assessments of relationships are right and this deep inner knowledge gives us the courage to be harbingers of what may one day also be discovered by the masses. Galileo knew he was right Blake knew Einstein knew Walt Whitman . . . the great ones knew. This type of innate knowledge comes through the experiences of intuition inspiration epiphany and insight. These are spiritual experiences understanding moves through you energetically so that yo! u see something and feel the rightness of it at the same time. This spirituality is fresh and personal it exists apart from any particular theology or ideology. Sadly living without a personal spiritual connection to life and the freedom it supports is the grim lot of most people. Lives lacking a genuine experiential spiritual foundation tend to oscillate between controlling others and being controlled. Without the spiritual ground of experience which is the very will of freedom the prospect of freedom is just too much for people and power is the woeful tether by which they aim to feel secure. Erich Fromm s Escape from Freedom explores the widespread aversion to freedom and persuades us that sadomasochistic tendencies underpin it. It is always the inability to stand the aloneness of one s individual self that leads to the drive to enter into a symbiotic relationship with someone else. It is evident from this why masochistic and sadistic trends are always blended with each o! ther. Although on the surface they seem contradictions they are essentially rooted in the same basic need. People are not sadistic or masochistic but there is a constant oscillation between the active and the passive side of the symbiotic complex so that it is often difficult to determine which side of it is operating at a given moment. In both cases individuality and freedom are lost. Later in his book Fromm relates that these destructive tendencies to escape from freedom result from the thwarting of the individual s sensuous emotional and intellectual expansiveness in childhood. These perversions are the torque our spirits take from the suppression of our exuberance curiosity and creative will in childhood and which can continue all our lives. By continuing to suppress our natural tendencies to explore move and stretch our bodies imagine try things out and invent we perpetuate our pain and give rise to yet another generation of frustrated human beings stuck on a see saw of power relations. Here s the remedy reactivation of our creative and e! xpressive pleasures goes straight to the root of perversions of spirit that we witness in our lives and our societies. Encouraging our children and each other to to spend more time puttering and tinkering with things out of curiosity creativity and imaginative play fostering our spiritual connection to life through observation meditation and the many means that help us to do this and providing ourselves with the conditions for the experience of intuition inspiration epiphany and insight will all feed the hope of a new humanity that has the courage for real freedom. Posted under psychology insight future maturity human potential human development culture wisdom philosophy holistic creativity feeling values vision freedom power This entry was posted on Monday May th at pm and is filed under psychology insight future maturity human potential human development culture wisdom philosophy holistic creativity feeling values vision freedom power a d . You can follow any responses to! this entry through the RSS . feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. Rate it ratings Email it Previous post Leave a Reply Name required Mail will not be published required Website XHTML You can use these tags LIVING HERO is proudly powered by Podbean.com .

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