Freedom of the mind.
How do you free the mind?
Answer one question….who am I?
Is there one original thought in your answer?
What is an original thought?
Your truth, not someone else’s.
A truth is something you’ve lived, experienced, earned through great pain & suffering –
the tearing down of ego/personality [conditioned & influenced thought].

Where do you begin…where mind control began.
Religion.

Did you willingly join a man-made religion because it was your thought, or were you born into it?
Or did society pressure you by guilt into it because there they have numbers of sleep walkers?
How many thoughts are really yours?
Or are they thought-implants?
But because you’ve known them since birth, they appear as truth.
Or whole nations believe them to be true, so they must be?
Must be is not good enough! QUESTION EVERYTHING!!
Feel the fear of an original thought. How many do you repress?
Influenced thought is intellect.

Original thought is earned, usually painfully through FEELING & emotional reactions,
which are triggers to get you into your ocean, your unconscious.
But what is this pain?

A stripping of a false sense of security – the ego. A false sense of self. A packaged & sold reality.
Conditioned, influenced, infected, polluted, corrupted – where is the pure stream of thought? Your thought?

Buried, twisted and distorted so out of shape that you don\’t know it anymore, denied deep in
your polluted ocean – your unconscious; which drives everything personally and collectively.

To free the mind go to where society says is taboo. Where fear is conditioned over the doorway.
Go seek! Who am I?
How does the Universe work?
Go back to the pure stream….of the hidden waters within.

FEEL DON’T THINK!!! Know the difference!

To be concerned with man in his universal or cosmic aspect – one has to strip the conditioned and polluted field
of the unconscious – and this my friend is the initial and the hardest task of the “work”, the Great Work
[the unification of ego/personality with soul's pure voice, soul consciousness], which most only touch the surface
due to fear of letting go of the glamor of materialism which holds up the very insecure pillars of society these days
because conditioned man has led us all to be believe as worthy!

There is no greater farce in the Universe I tell you now, which is to the detriment of human evolvement.

Who are you again?

Karen McManus
Melbourne, Australia

If we do whatever it takes to give them a childhood of unparalleled freedom, they will know themselves and naturally progress on the freedom track. They won’t be bogged down with asinine rules and regulations created to ensure docile obedient adults…adults who have no understanding of freedom.

My freedom lay in raising a free child, in ignoring the remarks of others telling me that I was ruining her life by giving her freedom. I felt freedom radiate through me as I sat, year after year, quietly watching my daughter grow and make decisions according to what she really felt and believed. Her choices came from her heart and were not influenced by what she thought a teacher, controlling parent or even a peer wanted.

Raising my unprocessed child was more freeing than anything I’ve ever done – before or since. And now she soars.

School is the antithesis of freedom. Remove that burden from your child’s life and they will experience true freedom, naturally entering the adult world with a strength that is lacking in today’s leaders.

by Valerie Fitzenreiter, author
The Unprocessed Child: Living without School
www.ubpub.com

Let me don my clown wig and big shoes, and tell you a little bit about the wisdom of the fool. In the tarot there is always a dog biting at the heels of the fool. That dog represents the constraints of society. The fool does not notice-she continues merrily on her way, with a grin that says, ‘If I can’t laugh in your spiritual revolution, then count me out.’

The fool is the trickster, the crow, the dervish, the changeling, shapeshifting, adapting, aware of the impermanence of the so-called person. True to the diamond self, indestructible. The fool was the only one in the court who could question the king, who could mock the pompous dogma of the day.

Back in the eighties, punk rock was all about tearing down the structures of hierarchy, the ways of power over. “God Save the Queen – she ain’t no human being,” the Sex Pistols sang, laughing in the face of dogma.

Of course there were some severe limitations to this tearing down – nothing was really raised up in its place. This is why spiritual activism is so key. What was missing from punk rock, to a large extent, was compassion.

Aleister Crowely wrote “Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law – under Love.” Too many people leave out the Love part. Keep that in, and you can step off the precipice safely, into the realm of the Present.

The fool is unmediated, unconditioned, free from pattern thinking. Spontaneous combustion. Breaking out of pattern thinking is liberation.

Terrence Mckenna used to say that we take tiles, and write the names of things on them. We write ‘Beautiful Sky’ on a tile, and then stick it up, cover the sky, tile the sky, until the sky itself can no longer be seen. Un-tile the sky is the fools call. The call at the core of all the mystic traditions.

As we become adults, our habitual mind begins to see everything as a repetition of the past. Not this particular tree, just a tree, the tree we’ve seen before, we’ll see again: generic tree. We do need a certain level of filtration to survive. That is the purpose of pattern recognition-it allows us to focus on other matters. And it’s fast.

Sometimes we need that function to survive. “Danger tiger. Safety-cave. Run!” No time for contemplation of the beauty of the tiger, or the metaphoric significance of the cave. To see things as generalized repetitions of previous experiences means instantaneous response patterns.

But it precludes actual seeing. All we’re doing is responding with a tired old mental image, or ‘Kuntak’ as Tibetan Buddhists say, a construct. Likely one not even devised by us. Instead, created by society.

To break that down, to see things with fresh eyes, this is the role of the fool. Every day is a new adventure. Fresh, alive, full. And unattached. It comes, it goes. Around the corner, new offerings will come. And new tests. Which are also offerings.

This spirit represented is represented by the fool. The great sages know the importance of laughter, the smile that says, ‘all is empty.’ Life demands a constant treading of the line between Samsara and Nirvana, between the absolute and the relative, between the divine and the human, between the freedom of the fool and the wisdom of the sage.

Aldous Huxley claimed he could move into the clear light at will. The temptation to stay was great, but he always chose to come back. There were things to do right here, right now, for this planet. This is the compassion of the Bodhisattva. The deeply sane madness of the Holy Fool.

by Velcrow Ripper
Documentary Filmmaker
Toronto, Canada
www.fiercelight.org

Such meditation has been known for millennia to be THE way, not just to freedom, but also to personal discovery, personality integration, inner peace, balance and the eventual release of fear, the root of all evil.

Sitting in silence is the sine qua non for anyone interested in their psycho-spiritual growth.

The voice inside is the voice of the One Source and Center that gave us life and created each of us as unique individuals. The aim of this sacred voice is to bring us into harmony with our infinitely loving, forgiving and caring Creator, a harmony that provides for our health and well being while we mature as human beings. We all know this “harmony as being in the flow.”

And we know the sense of satisfaction, of ease, that accompanies the feeling of being in the flow, the flow of divine energy or grace.

We members of the human race have recently arrived at a turning point in our psycho-spiritual evolution — a juncture that leads to the next “Copernican” shift in our consciousness. We are now beginning to evolve exponentially to the startling awareness that first, we are spiritual beings, and secondly, material.

Accordingly, we are also recognizing that as spiritual beings, our time here in mortal form is simply a learning and training period to prepare us for an eternal adventure of spiritual growth toward divine perfection. It sounds like a tall order but we are all equipped with a free will, an individual personality, and a soul — all we need for an infinite journey Godward.

This awareness includes the understanding that we are all brothers and sisters and all beloved children of our Heavenly Creator, the One characterized by Absolute Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Peace, Creativity, Energy and Love. Consistent sitting and listening to this loving voice leads to personal freedom, tranquility and a balanced, fulfilling life among our brethren in this material realm.

by John Otranto
Munich, Germany

1- Freedom doesn’t exist as an exterior phenomena to me, it exists when I feel it as an interior to myself.

2- So no one can give me my Freedom, until I discover it in my inner self.

3- Freedom is a complex concept. It’s complexity exists before the presence of “the other”.

4- I fasten myself in my habits. I fasten myself in my believes. I fasten myself in my desires and my intents. I’m a prisoner of myself.

5- I’m a prisoner of myself, a prisoner of my language, the language which bears the weight of history, the shadow of “the other”.

6- The complexity grows when I feel “the other”, whatever as a present or absent. I fasten him/her with all my intents, with all my believes. Also with my language.

7- I’m not free about my desires toward you. You too. It’s the authority, the certainty of our presence. The reality is another prison. A prison with the shadows of impossibles. The bitterness of possibles. We live in monologues. We lives in monolife. We are isles.

8- The complexity grows when I feel “the other”. “The other” as concepts and Ideas. “The other” as mankind. Concepts like governments, society, and history. Also mankind like lovers, beloveds… .

9- Concepts are the abstracts of us. The abstracts which reflect the light and the darkness of us who are its Concretion.

Now let’s talk about freedom.

You are right when you say: Without your freedom, there is no true freedom in this world. But it’s too difficult for mankind.
When you shake your hands, something in the history changes. I think it has no meaning when we say: try to free the others.

As a poetical and philosophical concept, I don’t believe that you can help me. No one can help me but myself. No one can help you but yourself.

But our shadows live in concepts, the concept of society, the concept of government. And you are right in this cosmos, the non-existent cosmos.

It was forbidden for my Master too, for about 15 years, no books of him could be appeared. A forbidden meaning.

There’s friends who published his works abroad.

It is not possible for me to publish my works in my land, because I write in the crystal of Despair. I write in the madness of Eros…

There are friends who publish my works abroad.

Yes, but they are my shadow, they are our shadows. I try to clear my shadow.

Freedom is a complex meaning.

by Mohsen Emadi
Poet/translator
Tehran, Iran