Living Freedom Archive

Like Moses carrying a staff, through clear cloth hangs tights an emblem United blue. A season for change, a journey for triumph, though, this regime takes no names. We challenge our bodies, the universal mind, the existence of hunger, a dangerous time. When monks are taken down by force or by frown, there’s no stopping [...]

I would like to say that I have some world changing statement to make concerning freedom. Perhaps to say that I had crossed the very ethers of time and space and glimpsed a daring look at freedom. Maybe even to have the audacity to say that I and I alone know the true meaning of [...]

In the eloquent book, “The Unconquerable World,” author Jonathan Schell traces the grim and brutal history of warfare. A core notion of the book is that war has become non-winnable in the settling of disputes. Due to the evolution of nuclear weapons and the mutual annihilation inherent in their use, the reliance of politics on [...]

The world is arse-backwards”, Dr. Francis Israel Regardie In what context do we put freedom? Do we need a social context, a historical one, some background of political ideologies that shape a culture, or indeed do we need a cultural context? Does freedom differ in theory and practice between peoples, does it take on a [...]

“Freedom” has very different meanings for women than men in most parts of the world. For women, freedom constitutes a reprieve (always temporary) from being a target of male violence. Whether directly or indirectly, anti woman violence affects all women. In Elizabeth Stanko’s words, “To walk the streets warily at night is how we actually [...]

when we say freedom we are children forming a word out of our desire, our instinct shaping something we can’t yet embrace, may never our meaning gathers so many layers and nuances in time we are speechless when we say freedom we are human what other creature needs the concept, the comfort when we say [...]

The history of war in both the ancient and modern world makes one wonder if war is an irresistible compulsion for man. Perhaps the pull toward violence or at least occasional bloodletting is a deep need in the human psyche, an evolutionary adaptation we struggle to understand. What is this love of war, of violence, [...]