Begin the Journey

This is a series of posts to guide you to understanding the world, and yourself, in a perspective to bring personal freedom — to put more power in your actions. It is free. It is voluntary.

But you must make a decision to change. To change the eyes you see the world with.

The truth in this world, they say, is so hidden that you can only find it by yourself. Across all fields of life — in education, in medicine, in politics, in religion, in entertainment (surprisingly), et al — people are searching for the truth.

It is for this reason everyone is looking for freedom. No one is free. Each will have a definition of the freedom they are searching for: financial freedom, social freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association.

It is only when we find truth — truth that defines why what is how, and how our capacity to define what to be how we want was taken away — that we will feel free, and powerful again.

Religion claims to bring freedom and comfort in a world of evil by telling you what you want to hear, to boost your hope for tomorrow. In this series of posts, I want to share my thoughts with you, to take us closer to the truth — if not to it.

The world is so well defined to absorb every newborn child into its systems — education, religion, government, et al — that we all subscribe to them, generation to the next, so religiously that we only think within the systems to answer our questions about them.

Nothing is 'right', and nothing is 'wrong'.

It is us who decide what is right and what is wrong. Society has over time aggregated what seems to be right and what seems to be wrong, and created the norms and taboos taught to you once you start understanding your parents as a young child.

They call them Rules, Laws, and the more personalized: BELIEFS. Beliefs are where your freedom, my freedom, the truth, vanishes.

Look at a child, 2 or 3 years old — the kid does what s/he wants, without fear, without shame. When you approach the kid with love, the kid responds with love overwhelmingly. When you approach the kid harshly, the kid reacts with fear. This is a human being who is free, who has not lost his/her freedom to the world, to domestication.

As parents domesticate the kid with the reward/punishment technique — just like any other animal — they also engrave beliefs that deny this kid of their freedom for the whole of their life, and enrol them into the illusion of humanity. The kid grows developing an unconscious "book of law" that s/he will adhere to for all his/her life, and pass it on to everyone who listens.