Time for change

Education isn't about earning potential, it's about freedom - freedom of thought, freedom of action.

Now is a time for the educated classes to take charge. Rather than simply stepping into the shoes of old 'masters' and doing things the same way, now is the time to use the collected power of free thought and inventiveness to come up with new ways of doing things.

Religions are on the decline because we do not have the need for controlling dogma and simplistic lessons by fear any more. Yet the values that are woven within all religious still hold true:

• Respect for others.
• Caring for others.
• Not doing harm to others.
• Not doing harm to self.
• Accepting things we cannot change.
• Striving for good over evil.
• Forming bonds of family and community and honouring these bonds.
• Understanding our insignificance in the big picture and yet seeing that the chain linking the past to the future is connected by single links that can hold or break.

Human beings have multi skills and I believe where we go wrong is too much specialisation and wedging ourselves into labelled boxes, the most significant being that of what we 'do' for a living. Instead in my world of greater balance, I think everyone should have 2 'works'. Half of time doing paid work which makes a contribution to society, the economy, etc, and the other half doing their creative vocation. The first half concept is easier to understand much the same as now with some tweaks, but the second half I need to expand on. I see it as each person has their 'work' as described by this.

It could be expanding one's mind, or developing ones skills. It could be gardening, making, creating. Things we think of as hobbies. Things we think of as Arts. Things we think of as craft, but also building, making cars, furniture, decorating, or research, science or anything.

Coincidences and energies

I've been sorting some boxes. I found a notebook with the title book reviews, in which I'd written four reviews from December 1998 and January 1999. Of the 4 books, I only have any memory of reading one of them. "The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure" by James Redfield (1993) Warner Books www.celestinevision.com. The following is what I wrote in 1999.

Story a bit silly, but some interesting concepts. Like the idea of a quest for knowledge.

1. Everyone and everything has an energy field.
2. We can gain energy from our surroundings or other people, or lose it to them.
3. Many interactions between people are power struggles fighting for dominance over the other person's energy.
4. Relationships between men and women that are attracted to each other start out as both freely giving and then can develop into a battle of taking.
5. We are the product of 2 parents and can only evolve if we can go back and understand what was going on with our parents and what we are supposed to learn from it.
6. Things don't happen by chance. If we have a coincidental encounter with someone we should be aware of why that encounter happened. Particularly if you meet someone who reminds you of someone you already know or who seems familiar to you.