This Fulcrum Insight highlights the balance between freedom and subjection in the context of human thought and behaviour.
Everything we observe in the natural worlds is part of a multitude. Trees, microbes, sand, galaxies, seeds, water, animal packs… and human beings… Each one of us is part of or belonging to something – social structures, cultures, creeds, networks – that attach to us an identity by which we are known and recognised.
What is your experience in being part of a something. The most prolific natural form of collectivity is the family unit. How does your family influence the nature of your lifestyle and alignment to living?
Let us step outside of the family ring, into the tribal, creed, and cultural dimensions. What is the degree of conformity that has come to live in you, that is a product of environmental proximities and influences?
Now consider your position in relation to a wide range of rolling events: Headline news; politics; world events and conflicts; political correctness; being seen to be right…
Are you feeling able to truly be your own person, able to engage in processes that give birth to original perceptions and perspectives, and to impartially express them with no fear or favour?
Mass persuasion is in the air. What the 21st century needs us to think about, how it needs us to be, is in the air, with different world locations clouded by local influences that they give birth to over time. Many are semi-conscious to the degree to which the currents and crosscurrents of mass persuasion are present in their lives, shaping how and what they think about.
This is a big and complex subject, nuanced by how the Internet is increasingly being used by insidiously clever agendas and technologies to persuade us into thinking and doing things that make little to no sense when scrutinized by close examination.
Leading us to the crux of the matter in this Fulcrum Insight, which is the developmental journey towards being one’s own person.
21st century education has little to no interest in teaching its people to be their own person, because doing this properly may mean the end of the world as we know it. Because being one’s own person in a way that harmonises with the search for meaning – what does it mean to be human? – connects the searcher with universal truths that offer states, understandings, feelings, and perceptions that would make it impossible for humans to engage in acts of deception and destructive practices.
Granted, many of us are already on this challenging, yet thrilling evolutionary journey that has many levels and practices. Let’s focus on one of a multitude of probing process pathways that magnify the impact of mass persuasion.
What is your current view of God? How do you think about God? How does the actuality of God live in you?
Now the self-honesty exercise is: How much of the answer is a product of how you are conditioned to think – or not think – about God? How much of it is a product of your own adding up?
Because how we think about God shapes our attitude to the fact of life and process of living.
This is a little anecdotal exercise, drawn from an ocean of possibilities, reflecting on the actuality of being one’s own person.
Being one’s own person translates to learning to use the human system in ways that integrate the whole of oneself into the process of perceiving, connecting, feeling, sensing, reading the runes, detecting subtle signals at many levels…
The more a person is their own person, the deeper the love of the truth, and especially the uncompromising, persistent, insistent search for truth.
One of the great skills of being one’s own person is the ability to be whatever a situation needs you to be, which is touched upon in previous Fulcrum Insights.
There are parts of the world where a bold outplay of being one’s own person can mean a brutal outcome, as the possessing entity sees this as a direct challenge to its dominion.
Life is a one-on-one connection between the human and the reason why we have been created. Being a pone in a rolling mass persuasion event was never meant to be part of the deal.
With best wishes,
David
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