People struggle with this!
Some of us believe human life needs to be controlled.
Others are happiest being free, and believe in the Freedom of others as well.
What sets up this ambivalence?
Infancy!
Our feelings regarding freedom are set in infancy!
We have an inner life!
This is a very active world!
Our Identity is set in stone. That happened at conception.
If we get through infancy undamaged, and can still feel our identity, we remain non-destructive and we not only love freedom, but crave it with a passion!
WHO ARE WE?
Our awareness is supposed to find a way to satisfy our needs, each in its own unique way!
To do that, it has to coordinate our abilities with our identities and instincts, along with whatever we have managed to learn so far.
Our inner world is a happy and very active place!
Just look at the face of an infant!
INNER LIFE
What does this have to do with freedom?
If anything interferes with our full inner communication, our identities cannot work properly!
Right away, we become aware of this!
In this world, unintentionally, and unknowingly, we do interfere with the inner communication of our infants!
It has become part of our child care!
That’s what destroyed loving community!
Our awareness is supposed to use our identities and needs to guide us!
Life comes from within!
Our inner world tries to take care of us, but as infants in the present world, we are aren’t allowed to follow our own natural path.
We aren’t permitted much independence at all, if any!
For some reason, humans have no way to survive this intrusion into our normal internal functioning.
Perhaps this is true for all life!
It’s only us humans that take over the lives of our children. All other live supports self-drive and independence!
DAMAGE
As our identities get dethroned and punished for disobedience, damage happens! Our awareness causes our feelings to Hurt so much, we find ourselves disconnecting from those feelings!
This is the source of evil. Once this happens, we are no longer non-destructive!
Our natural moral and social conscience has been banished from active inner life!
Once we can’t feel our own feelings, we can’t feel our needs either!
From this point on, we will make never-ending mistakes.
Each mistake hurts.
We can’t feel the hurt very much, but we can sure feel the despair, as we spiral ourselves into less and less satisfying situations.
Our only options are to carry on, going the wrong way to ever satisfy our needs, or to try and repair our cohesiveness!
If we carry on, we are going to hurt ourselves over and over, never satisfying our own needs because we don’t know what they are!
That’s where most of us are now!
FIXING DISCONNECTION
If we choose to try and repair our inner damage, we must face the original trauma that caused disconnection, as well as all the hurt that happened afterwards.
Once we disconnect, our hurts can no longer heal! They get stored!
FREEDOM
Undamaged people want freedom. It’s the way of all life.
With our inner world working as it should, we trust others to be responsible, simply because we are! And that works!
Undamaged people are absolutely responsible!
Trust is critical to people. We have it, or we hurt! We are that highly social.
Being accepted and encouraged to express our full identity, with no holding back, is required for our own health!
Of course, as you may have noticed, we don’t get to have that any more!
CONTROL
Those of us who can no longer feel our feelings know we can’t be fully trusted.
Our conscience is gone. We can’t feel our instincts. We make poor choices. We feel no inner strength.
Not being able to fully trust ourselves, we assume others to be the same.
Therefore we believe in control!
We know it doesn’t work! We are unable to recognize and choose those who really can be trusted!
Being unable to connect with our feelings instincts or identities, we are easily fooled by other people. Many of these become our leaders!
Many of us in this condition are dangerous.
A way must be found to limit the destruction!
Naturally, we revert to rules! Rules and punishment!
This takes us further into the rabbit hole! Inch by inch, trust and cooperation throughout society steadily declines.
The rules and punishment we invented are adding more hurt to a population already overwhelmed by excessive hurt!
Trust disappears completely!
Untrusting people no longer believe in freedom!
They don’t trust other people!
This is a one way street! A highway into conflict and violence!
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
There is no way to turn around!
Those without trust can only be returned to their own conscience through reconnecting their inner world!
We can’t keep up! We are causing damage faster than we can repair it!
We need to stop causing hurt in our infants!
We have to grant them rights!
The right to be, and to live their own identity!
If that is too much to ask, what does that make us?
FREEDOM
It’s healthy life!
We need to grant all others the natural right to live their own identity.
I have a suspicion that Alzheimer’s might be one of the long-term physical results of not allowing another human the right to live their own identity. Time will tell!
If we don’t grant our infants the freedom to live their own identity, all the freedom in the world is doomed.
This is the pivot point for not only freedom, but health, non-destructive life, community life, trust, and love!
Damage freedom in infants, and civilization suffers!
Those are the stakes!
Every one of us can ignore the mistakes of our culture, and respect the identities of our offspring.
The reward is powerful and conscientious children.
Every one of these children will be a serious adult. These will not be victims!
There will not be defiance or rebellion! There will not be gangs, evil, rape, or even greed.
Those with intact inner communication are not wallflowers!
They understand trust, and those who can’t be trusted.
They have inner strength and tools! They will have instincts and reflexes. They can see others for what they are!
Most importantly they will know their own needs, making them infinitely kind and gentle, but only to those who deserve it!
You sure don’t want such a person as an enemy!
Thanks for listening.
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Good luck on your own journey,
Take care!
Norm Cormier
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