Teaching Children Freedom

 https://www.corbettreport.com/teaching-children-about-liberty-solutionswatch/#comment-113679 

Of all the qualifiers to this topic, i add that what we truly teach is always by example. Where thought word and deed align, we model freedom of aligned purpose.

Where what we say conflicts with what we are seen to do, we teach dissociation of a split allegiance.

Children are free, just as we are free, but are already in a learned world of mostly tacit masking agreements or rules by which to 'survive; inner and outer conflicts.

I mentioned Marshal Rosenberg in comments already as an example of uncovering broken communication to a freedom of real relationship.

the 'abused' do not always know they reiterate their own patterns - even in the attempt to make sure that they dont! Children can be used to justify or validate our own sense of lack or deprivation AND buy into it as a love that has yet to identify clearly in human responsibility.

Liberty is set against slavery, but freedom is a gift of our being.

That we can override or deny our being is itself part a freedom to choose rather than mechanically and mindlessly obey. Hence even at personal level a freedom to recognise and align rather than be tooled blind.

Polarities seen as separate and exclusive will reinforce each other as two sides of one (hidden) thing.

The tension and release of a charged condition can be and is used to drive the engine of lack-driven sense of control that cannot exist as a monopole because there is no singularity at the level of the body/world.

We learn by teaching. Not by modelling in search of funding for applications that turn out to be unworkable but so invested in as to be 'protected narratives'.

The current time is taking the experience of reversal or inversion to it tipping point. The unworkable in truth cannot be 'sustainable' or offer a foundation for future development. No matter how much the invested identity is masked in 'sustainability' as a code word for sacrifice to its blind god.

Joy in being is not 'selfish' but shine of itself - unselfconsciously - through our doings. Others are touched or reminded as they are open to receive. Again this can be unselfconscious. Likewise honesty in the way we seek to resolve conflicts. 

Spirituality does not wait on any conceptual 'understanding and application' relative to problem-solving, and often comes in when we forget to struggle or force answer in our terms.

#2

Artifice to Art is a modelling or copy that lacks qualities of being or perhaps adulterates and dilutes to a degraded derivative substitute for being set in  image and form. Ergo : ego.

Art as "To Be'.

Thou Art that That!

Our creative expression as being is then masked and filtered to a mindset of levels of self-definition - from which are our 'results'.

Self defined in lack generates an abundance of lack, because that which goes forth to multiply is based in and expressive of its foundation.

A split mind seems then to split our foundation, or source, to the experience of a driven destiny that reiterates or resets itself in the very attempt to 'complete'.

But WHO told you you were naked? (or lacking or susceptible to fear and threat).

The masking mind is set in concepts that are derivative to a currency of symbol that is derivative to an original association beneath a complex of what has become 'dead' structure.

Living relationship is the art of being, but not without patterns that serve and embody or express that shared worth, value or appreciation.

The substitution of artifice is where the mind interjects a masking in virtue or alignment to a social ideal or acceptance and becomes accepted currency. Hence the ideal of cooperative must recognise the patterns that 'use' others to take leadership roles and then 'use' them as scapegoats or blameworthy for failing to support our ego of expectations.

However I recognise spontaneous order as the Natural underlying Fact or Synchronicity, that we are all adept in masking as a broken and displaced self and world, in which misalignments or imbalance and dissonance may seem to frame and drive existence as some kind of machine of death (if looked at beneath the bonnet).

I was originally going to recommend a perhaps unusual source of succinct wisdom that in my view addresses your worthy questions and observations.

You know when you are operating free willingly or under a coercive sense of struggle. But there are times when you choose not to know, such as if your freedom to persist in an invested identification is 'threatened' by change that has associations in pain of loss.

Regardless 'most people' you are your own field of responsibility as your part within a greater whole that is far more than any quantum of parts. My sense is that neglected responsibility generates crisis, that can be 'parked out' in time and space, temporarily, but as increasing burden of death and taxes.

That which is truly First has been put off to last, as result of exploring experience of limitation, division, and rules given priority.

Breakdown of structure can be seen as death and destruction from identity in form, but as a spiritual expression of being, releases old habits to allow seeding renewal. You may say how do we do that, and I say how can you do anything else and truly live? For what we do is not the driver of reality but our own integration of what we have lived and learned or accepted as being (true of us).

#3

I highly recommend looking at Marshal Rosenberg on a video of him at work as an exemplar of a way of enabling (real) communication.

That he founded the NVC (nonviolent communication) movement is not in itself the point nor should be pigeonholed as any kind of conflict-evasion masking (which is the old wine paradigm of masked and coded avoidance). I got one of his pamphlets called Raising Children Compassionately to find it was mostly transcripts of workshops I had seen.

Language, Word and Result in perceptual responses is at the very heart of the complex conflicts that play out as be-lived broken ‘realities’.

#4

A57 says:

My smartass teenage neighbor was here as I was watching this video and said if it was a comic book I’d buy it, food for thought.

You can run it through a filter and play with the voices.

The tiny and diminishing attention span is a lock down against the vibrational qualities of living.

My sense is that where there is a willingness, there will be a way of finding and being found that meets us where we are, including comic books.

Those who are attracted to explore comic as vehicle for metacommunications (wonder and expanded appreciation for existence) are fulfilled and in a sense attracted by the need met.