I had conversation with a good friend about his struggle with his two kids.
He made a comment containing something we encounter very often, that is, the lack of obvious guidance in front of life situations.
I find this most acute among those entering adulthood.
After turning 18 it does seem it is time for moaning things of the past and few have a clear path to life and there is not book of "errors and bull-eyes."
I find that after we enter adulthood, there is not much follow-up guidance that relates to people as a part of an evolving society.
We have develop a behavior to be accepted inside one box and individualistic, as if self-drawning is an acceptable behavior.
Most of the education we follow is to ensure is all in one box. Although, the possibilities are there to make this box larger and fuller.
Most information available to us does not portrays these activities as virtues of human interaction.
We are losing the capacity to be responsible to others in the context of group and we are directed to learn in one direction, the ego driven way.
The home alone way of learning. While we continue in this direction we are losing capacity to evolve as humans. We are losing the ability to participate in society in an active way, we have become passive elements in a non-contextual society.
More than 90 per cent of all interaction and decisions of our activities in society are controlled and framed by social rules dictated from policies of interested parties with the only motif been self-promoting.
As this activity continues to grow, it creates apathy. Thus, participation in the social decision process is at its lowest in history.
The base for social harmony is active participation in all institutions. We need to re-build networks of people re-learn to interact with each other and make it part of the natural way of daily life. We need to learn from each other harmonically. We need to invest in each other.
In the context of democracy that is the inclusion of our time putting forward ideas. We must be active in voicing and insistence to those individuals we elect to represent us.
By looking at our life we need to find the harmonic higher interactions with ourselves and society. We cannot provide society with value if we do not educate ourselves, education is a all life process we cannot afford stop educating ourselves, for some silly reason as been adults.
The understanding of human needs must be the first step to practice social interaction and integration. We have put too much emphasis in structures such as corporations and other fictitious organizational systems. We need to explore partnerships, cooperation and other forms of value added capital interactions with solidarity as principia modus operandi.
We need to start value-added activities that enhance human relations in society in ways that break the mold and make the box bigger and better and still satisfy the need for profits.
We are getting surrounded by a poisonous dialectic approach that is dangerous to humans as a species that needs to survive in a limited/finite environment. The influence of one line sound bites has drained the possibility of dialogue and curtailed some of the most fun and enhancing qualities of dialogue as dissent and cynicism.
To make society better we need to start with the basics.
As you open your eyes you see your body and feel your body waking up, we realize we need to understand our bodies, thus we need to learn and become practitioners of body healing. This activity will enhance the life of those who practice healing. Becoming a doctor and healer in our society is one of those activities that demand the qualification of “a higher calling” but it is also an important part to make society a better place for all its members. Part of this healing must include the soul we need to re-introduce soul healing activities in our daily lives and practices. We will not be able to fulfill our social duty if we disregard the soul well being.
As we continue our day, our relation with the accepted structures of behavior become part of “laws” that allow all of us with all our differences to interact in a manner that is respectful. Thus, we must practice the art of “law” this is in the form of training and practice and in the creation of laws, this is in the form of becoming a member of the elected cadre or becoming a versed trained attorney.
As we progress in our activities we encounter the need to exchange our talents, thus, the need to understand finances. Becoming an able financier is part of the qualities we need to enhance the social environment. We must train ourselves to be able to make decisions that are sounds and profitable to our society.
As a binding practice of the above we should practice public debate and presentation, if our ideas cannot be present to the public at large we might lose our efforts to the void. Learning to be a good public speaker is a bidding ability to help society understand new ideas.
Learning logic, mathematics and philosophy are also binding abilities that will need to be practice during the rest of our lives if we want to be able to evolve.
It is said that if you enjoy what you get do and it becomes effortless you have reached satisfaction. By first exploring the above activities one must engage any activity one enjoys without limits.
Practice to the physical limits is the only way to find out satisfaction and sense of accomplishment.
From here all other activities as much important as they are they are supporting roles of the above.
We have some manuals for life all in the form of books and great authors. Being in the twenty first century, I prefer to start with authors that are still alive.
My first choice will be Riane Eisler, specially her dissertation: The Chalice and the Blade. All her books are giving us a new path, therefore groundbreaking ideas.
You can get a glimpse to her thinking at : http://www.partnershipway.org
In the subject of books, some one said that books are the main course for the brain, essays are the
Appetizers, discussions dessert and magazines/newspapers are junk food for the brain.
My second choice will be a reading of distant evolved philosophies starting with someone like Deepak Chopra. www.intentblog.com All his works have ground breaking ideas and its debates are reformatted and evolved ideas that present a very interesting alternative future.
Third will be, read mathematical logic and practice decision making. Here the amount of authors is so large that I will start by reading David Berlinski who has the capacity to present complex ideas in a fun way with ground breaking science.
There is not a book that will teach you how to live but you can make your own if you find a path to practice, practice, practice what you love to the point exhaustion, then you will be exhaling.
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