Most people are going through existence just as they were programmed to go through it. Their reactions are reactions that were previously made to happen. Their reactions occur due to coming from what was previously formulated, concocted, and structured. They absorbed what was poured into them during their prior so-called “education.” Real education does not instill “what to think” inside you. Real education, rather, encourages people to investigate and understand “how they think.” Real education invites going beyond the realm of mere thinking. Real education doesn’t mold you; it helps you to be flexible, to intelligently question things, and to be individually dynamic in ways that are “out of the run-of-the-mill box.” Unfortunately, most people do not receive a Real education. Most people receive an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, pseudo-education involving conflict, rigid shaping of the mind, competition, obeying of dominance, conformity, fitting in to a rigid pattern, fear, and acceptance of antiquated values and beliefs. Students leave such so-called educational fields not as dynamic, whole, enlightened human beings, but (rather) as what was molded and designed to, without question, fit into the cogs of the antiquated wheel. They weren’t taught to “perceive”; they were taught to label, categorize, and accept. Those who taught them were equally programmed, shaped, molded, and made to react in certain rigid, stagnant ways. Unfortunately, such people lead rather boring, stale, obtuse, and indifferent lives. They became used to being bored, to sitting there surrounded by “sameness,” to sitting there accepting dull routine and endless, stale repetition. And then they end up in slave-like careers full of dull routine, stale repetition, dark conformity, “sameness,” indifference, crude competition, and boring patterns.
It’s tragic, really. If they didn’t mold you, you might be a danger to the lies, pretenses, and hypocrisy; and that just would not do. But to be unalive among those who are equally unalive is not living. Reeducate yourself — it’s never too late — wake up, transform beyond fragmentation, feel for so-called others, transcend beyond rigid (absorbed) beliefs, reexamine all that you have been indoctrinated to accept, look with truly fresh eyes, and go beyond all the crap that was piled into you (as your foundation).
Our fast paced life, with all the technology around us, doesn’t seem to give us the time to think anymore.
We don’t need time to think. We’ve done too much of that already, and look at what has happened in the world due to humans. We need time to feel, perceive, and deeply ponder. There is plenty of that kind of time if we are serious, caring, and passionate enough about everything, but most of us are not.
I still like to think it all through. The pro and contras. I am very sensitive person. I fear I fell too much, so thinking gives me a break from my emotions. If it makes any sense.
Yes, it makes sense. However, be careful please, because a vast amount of our emotions are in the same realm as thinking and vice versa. So it may be that thinking a lot doesn’t solve much at all (psychologically, that is).
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I wholeheartedly agree with all that you wrote. Established findings are useful as a basic foundation, but adding and testing a steady stream of new ideas is essential to actual progression. Creativity isn’t encouraged much in our societies. Being creative is the key to meaningful advancement and collective understanding.
What you wrote prompted me to write this quote :
“Many people around the world are schooled,
but a rich education is only available to those who consciously choose to stay ‘out of the box’.”
~ Unknown
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I would not agree to the concept that a “steady stream of new ideas is essential to actual progression.” But you are right, creativity isn’t encouraged much in our society. We’ve had steady streams of new ideas and ideation for eons, and they haven’t changed society fundamentally. Progression from and through thought/thinking is never real progress. However, we were programmed to cling to “thinking” as the wonderful means to an end. It’s not.
Yes, “out of the box,” but most people are the box and “consciously choosing” is an extension of the box.
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You have to quote what I wrote in the exact words that I used to understand what I meant – I wrote “adding AND TESTING a steady stream of new ideas is essential to actual progression. This is fundamentally true, and it is how we can actually progress to a much more harmonious collective existence in all ways that impact our lives.
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About Consciousness :
As long as we are incarnated on this planet, each of our life stories is written as a series of choices. Hopefully, enough of these stories hold many wise choices.
If there exists the needed amount to enact meaningful change, these choices can and will improve the whole of our collective experience.
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I think that i understand your point of view. However, we are mostly dealing with the psychological realm here. In this realm, we’ve added and tested for eons, and we have not fundamentally changed. Adding and testing are appropriate in other fields of life.
As far as “choices” and “choosing” goes, in actuality, the “chooser” is the choice. Maintaining that a separate ego exists that is “making choices” reinforces separation, conflict, and fragmentation. There is a choiceless awareness that is, fortunately, beyond choices and chosing. Then no separative “I” is reinforced or given credit. The “I” is fundamentally illusory; giving it reinforcement for have chosen properly, and giving it credit for anything, for that matter, is adding fuel to delusion, fallacy, plus it creates self-deception… and it is a waste of energy.
Please keep comments short and simple; please save longer “statements of facts, as you see them” for your own blog.
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Here on Earth, each of us is an Individuation of The Source of our Beingness. All That Is is the ‘choiceless’ Infinite Awareness that you’re referring to. It is an understanding that I remembered many years ago.
Happy trails to you! ✨
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“All That Is” is not the “‘choiceless’ Infinite Awareness” that i am referring to. Please, for God’s sake, don’t be arrogantly putting words in my mouth; please stop misinterpreting.
I liked it better in the “olden days” when we only depended on TV and radio news and the newspapers to stay knowledgeable on current events and could think for ourselves. Now we are bombarded with social media and influencers … people telling us what THEY think we should do. They don’t know us. They don’t stand in our shoes. We have to abide by laws and we must live by social mores, but we don’t have to be swayed by others.
Yes, i understand, but social mores, in the past, were not all that wonderful either, perhaps, and we are (in many ways) transcending beyond them. A lot of people, especially years ago, were way more intolerant of people who were gay, for instance. There was a lot of prejudice going on that was considered good and normal. I am not gay but i have gay friends, and they are some of the nicest people that i’ve ever met. At the same time, i am not involved with social media much at all, because it — unfortunately — is rather mindless (for the most part).
People were so set in their ways, a mindset that likely carried from generation to generation. I did not follow in my father’s footsteps as he was a racist through and through. He was German and I wonder how he could have met and married my mother considering how he felt about every non-German person he encountered. He believed non-Germans were “out to get him” for some perceived notion and that caused him to quit job after job unless the plant where he was employed as a tool-and-diemaker was a German company.
I am not gay either, but, like you, I have had a few gay friends over the years, mostly whom I met through school or work and they all were nice, never a harsh word to say about anyone.
I am on social media to follow parks and venues I visit mostly and I don’t have TV anymore (cancelled my cable in 2010 and you can’t get regular TV as a result – my TV set is from the 1990s anyway), so what news I don’t get from the AM all-news radio station, I get from local TV stations that I stream on my computer, weather included, especially weather as I am a weather worrier. A lot of social media is often cringeworthy.
Oh my, i am sorry that your father was a racist, Linda. My father was also a racist. I figured out, early on, that his ideas were products of a gross, hateful, demented mind. Hopefully, i’m a mutation away from his gene pool offerings. 😉
I watch the news on my computer too, and — my goodness — the world is in such a sorry, sick state. People are losing what little values and integrity they had. It’s tragic, really. Fortunately, there are still a lot of really good people out there.
Social media, on the web, is like a spider web. Often, they “feel you out,” then they move in to take advantage of you.
Very perceptive. The adage of to be alive versus to live comes to mind. I’ve looking into MacKenzie Price’s new take on schooling – basically using AI to tune curriculum to a specific individual that then allows each to grow at the pace they need yet be in the same social construct of an education system. Core education in the morning, exploratory education/social construction/entrepreneur fostering in the afternoon and now interjecting sports conditioning/training for those destined (or at least desired) for that life. More discovery needed, but it is hopeful that individuals are looking into reforming our antiquated education system. Another thought provoking post Tom.