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| The Universal Social Contract |
Every society is essentially an average of its individual members. Experience has taught us if we improve the education of our selves and our children, we improve the education of our society. Societies everywhere emphasize education if they possibly can. (With some very notable exceptions.) If through care less ness, we create anger and resentment in ourselves and others, we create a criminal society. Wise people avoid this. Fools encourage it. We can observe this playing out on the global stage today. We can also see it in our neighborhoods. To make social progress, the wise must effectively counter and reverse foolishness. To do so requires knowing the difference, which is seldom a function of formal education.
We have been deceived by professional educators who decide what we should learn and what is non essential. The crush for knowledge has eclipsed the need for understanding. The most essential tools for understanding are dismissed by professionals as drivel and the truth of the matter remains hidden to the members of society. Just as professionals discount whatever they have been taught to discount by other professionals, we must now learn to discount the professionals. They have huge gaps in their understanding, they only pass along.
Too soon old. Too late smart. This cliché sums up our over reliance on experts and professionals. We leave social business to them for which they have few or no qualifications. Traditional and folk wisdom that brought society to the education age, is swept aside as meaningless. Generations of accumulated knowledge and understanding is labeled regressive and ignored by experts. The future has no place for the past or its lessons, say the experts. Then society repeats the errors of the past again and again because they have believed a lie. An expert lie. A professional lie.
Professional astronomers study the heavens and declare to society that planets create tides, day, night, months, years and seasons. But to believe they have any other influence, is ignorant superstition. Therefore, there is no value in an ancient tradition, derived from thousands of years of observation and experience. The science of astrology is portrayed as ignorant foolishness by the \"wise\" professional. The truth is the reverse.
Numerology, which has little to do with mathematics, is an old science like astrology and astronomy, which are still in development. Any open mind, not only finds these old traditions fascinating but when studied and applied, tremendously useful in the pursuit of human understanding and personal growth. The professionals have ridiculed these things by pointing to the simple forecasts printed in newspapers as amusements. A reasonable mind looks at these amusements and says, how can a simple forecast apply to one twelfth of humankind? It is not possible. Therefore there is no value in a horoscope. Never do they look far enough to see that the newspaper forecast is to a complete personal horoscope, as the newspaper comic strip is to the History of civilization. An invaluable tool is lost to the individual and the society of which she is a member. Professional fools advise us to be like them. We agree and so we are.
Anger and resentment are the twin children of fear and uncertainty. Astrology and numerology abate fear to the point uncertainty becomes adventure. Which would you prefer? Professionals prefer the fear and peddle it wherever a profit might result. The most fearful among us know fear so intimately, they use it to manipulate and control every other fearful creature. What they fear most is losing that control. That makes them exceedingly dangerous. See it and keep a safe distance, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Had I learned to use such tools as astrology, numerology, creative visualization, meditation, affirmation, yoga and others in my youth, I would have had such direction and purpose in my life as to already have achieved what experts declare impossible. Whatever is declared impossible IS impossible - for the one who declares. Why would anyone waste time attempting the impossible? No attempt, no achievement. Some of the lessons we learn in a formal education are totally self defeating. Once we see this, we can deal with it effectively.
Were I forming a business partnership or a social reform group, I would much prefer to study the astrological natal charts and personal numerology of potential partners, than a work or educational history. It is all about values right down to the information we seek.
If my parents knew these things when I was born, our entire relationship would have been positively transformed. Had I known these things when my son was born, our relationship would be so very different now. What is the advantage in not understanding others and those closest to us? There is none at all. We must end the global, professional boycott of understanding.
Every society intuitively desires to improve the world for their children because most individuals have this same desire. My dad said he wanted a better life for me than he had. He provided exactly that and I did the same for my son. Society is better off for me and dad. That is the essential social contract. We improve conditions most effectively by improving our selves. When we coast or regress, by choice or circumstance, we offend the contract and our global neighbors.
The self made man is a myth. He was born dependent and will remain so except someone plants a seed of possibility in his mind or heart. Those who sow seeds are far fewer than those who hide them and that retards social progress. Two centuries of material progress in the West, have seriously outstripped the social and spiritual progress. There is undeniable evidence of regression in these spheres. Why don\'t we choose the possibility of progress everywhere and reject the idea that we must choose one thing over another.
To obtain the understanding that makes quantum progress possible we must self educate. We must close the gaps the professionals have created. Once we accept that everything is possible, we are faced with additional questions that must be answered. If I can do anything I desire, what do I desire? Will the fulfillment of my desire support the social contract? How do I begin?
Most of us have experienced the disheartening failure to achieve an important desire. Few of us investigate the matter very thoroughly. The failure is invariably a result of the failure to properly plan. The plan is the rudder that steers the ship of desire. Family planning is not about how many children we want. Family planning is about what kind of adults we will produce. It is not about the career we will pursue, the city where we will live, the house we will buy or the car we will drive. It is about how we will relate to and support each other. The very things you never learn in school and very few teach. Before you know what hit you, your family is divided, the house, career and car are gone and the fault was in your plan. More likely, the lack of one. Your rudderless ship was blown upon the rocks and all you could do was swim to shore, if luck was with you. Many drown in the depths of depression and obsession. Look around!
What is the plan for Twenty First Century America? There is none. Can you see the rocks? What is the global plan? What is your plan? What do you love to do? Why don\'t you plan to do that? Planning is not difficult. It is just ignored. Plans go wrong and some say because they do, why bother? I say no plan makes everything go wrong more often than not.
When each of us follows a plan to fulfill a desire, society has a plan to support all desire and the road becomes smooth to the traveler\'s foot. The most useful guide to planning I know about, is The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra. A small book that can be read in a few hours, it is what you should have learned before you ever went to school. Since you did not, now is the best time to close that gap. More than a book of ideas, it is a process that shows us how we can transform the world and fulfill the social contract day by day.
Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com or do an author search here at Webraydian. Readers grow: wiser, better, faster.
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