Freedom
November 29, 2010
The preservation of elite power and the constriction of economic freedom are motives now firmly connected to the mechanisms and exercise of education. Educational systems are designed to generate human widgets, human cogs for big machines, cogs that do not think or judge or create beyond some tiny groove. Development of the human, spiritual side of your being is, astonishingly, becoming an extracurricular activity.
Stand up and say that this is not the way it is going to be with you.
It is your privilege to choose freedom, to develop who you are, and to encourage everybody you influence to do the same. You will be a vibrantly whole, living student that seeks to connect and enliven and develop in deep ways that rejects the control of a corporate driven society, that rejects the electronic hallucinations that are offered as anesthetic to the cultural death this corporate society promotes. You will be a student that takes the road less traveled.
You will be free.
Because you are free, you will discover an abundance that begs, even demands to be shared. And so you will be a free student leading others on journeys into the universe that keeps opening more deeply to your gaze.
Because you are free and so many are not, you will seek out those who are not, those who are poor and downtrodden, so that they too can begin to see what you see. For if you are truly awake, if you are indeed a deep student, then you are because you love. And love, in the face of need, acts.