Self-education is an expansive journey of discovery — a path that demands both curiosity and courage. It’s the act of questioning, exploring, and applying knowledge beyond the confines of formal institutions and accepted norms. In a world where information is abundant but wisdom seems increasingly rare, self-education becomes not only a tool for personal growth but an act of liberation — a way to reclaim autonomy over how we learn, think, and understand the world around us.
Tag: discernment
The headlines are again parroting the end times, as the wildfires of the world apparently burn “out of control”. I’d again like to remind you that a significant number of these fires are caused by people, whether by arson and intent, or by accident. It all echoes events of 2018, drowned out in stories by the specious “human-induced climate change” rubbish.
The stories we live by in a society, and as a civilization, are a cross-pollination of narratives, derived from age-old belief systems, traditions, rituals, religions and literature, tempered and adapted organically by modern epistemology, pedagogy, philosophy, cultural context and the purely experiential. There’s an inherent, and perhaps predictable narrowing, or reduction, of the “allowable” within these structures. And because of an inevitable tendency toward identity and ideology, our struggles individually and socially arise as and when this unconscious mechanism is either unwittingly or deliberately used against us.
The dissident voice, or truther community, has always been heavily scrutinized, ridiculed, and considered to be the lesser, ignorant, extremist element of society, where fringe believers of a vast sea of conspiracy theories, and seemingly outrageous claims about our reality gravitate toward and propagate. And because of a persistent smear campaign — meticulously maintained across all mass, centralized media sources since time immemorial — that keeps these curious, questioning, researching, investigative minds segmented and ostracized from the mainstream narrative, it’s only too easy to cast anything and anyone who dares to challenge orthodoxy, doctrine, and established paradigm into the same bin.
I’ve been feeling the impulse this past week or so to change my approach, to be of better service to my fellow co-creators in the collective. It’s been an intense process of upheaval and integration this past year, and many of us have powered through, elevated our game, and grown up in ways we didn’t even know we needed to. So how do we keep that momentum building toward greater awareness, greater healing, greater empowerment, and greater resilience?