Freedom: What it is & how to acheive it: Volume 2: Freedom & the Ecology of Relationship - Couverture souple

Bradshaw, Dr. Richard Ellard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1089409524 ISBN 13 : 9781089409526

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

In Volume 1 of this two-volume series we examined the relationships between personal and societal freedoms and various aspects of the human experience. We looked at some of the philosophical meanderings of teleological theorists who believe that consciousness and its material vehicles evolve together. We learned that as the physical bodies ‘housing consciousness evolve into more complexity, from the most primitive to the sophisticated bodies of humans and other advanced creatures presently on Earth, the consciousness within these bodies expand toward higher insight and capability. We examined the ‘self’, how it develops and what, moment by moment, perpetuates the sense of selfhood within an individual. We also took a look at relationship, of the nuances of relational interaction arising from differing attitudes, belief systems and emotional expressions. Change, uncertainty and safety were examined in relation to the need of, or aversion to freedom. We delved into the natures of beauty, truth and love, of how these three are paths on the way to greater freedom, and of how freedom itself is not only the instinctual drive behind self-actualization, but one of the primary characteristics of higher states of awareness and elevated consciousness. In light of the above, the assumption was also made that we as spirit are on this Earth to engage in creative self-transformation. That self-transformation finds its reflection in the slowly evolving creation of a possible ‘utopia on Earth, a utopia that begins in the minds and hearts of every living being moment by moment and expresses itself outward upon society and the living ecological niche in which we are nurtured. We argued that ‘utopia is not a static thing but something that needs to be renewed every moment, within our hearts and minds, our actions and behaviors, in loving, open, perceptive relationship to all life around us. Thus, the first book of this two-volume series examined who we are, what our capabilities might be, and what possible potential lies ahead of us. On a very basic level, it’s concluded that we are ‘spiritual beings having a human experience’, and that the only limits on consciousness are self-imposed; that we create and perpetuate our own realities, our own experiences, moment by moment. As a result, each of us is totally responsible for what fills our awareness and of what fills our ‘experience within each moment.In Volume 2, Freedom and the Ecology of Relationship, we expand this enquiry to what the developing ‘complexity’ of our ‘vehicles’, our human selves, and of the consciousness that inhabits these vehicles have created in the social and ecological milieu surrounding us at our present moment in evolution. From there we will look at how the ever-increasing change in this complexity is currently guiding us in new and unexpected directions toward a future we can only now catch a glimpse of through the yet unrevealed potential of humanity and its creations. These future changes will, as always be driven by the search for both inner and outer freedom, the freedom to expand and evolve, to self-actualize, not only personally in our beliefs, attitudes and behaviors but in our institutions, which reflect the collective character of those the institutions serve. As past beliefs, levels of knowledge and the institutions grown from them are seen in the light of future creativity, discovery and innovation, their frailties and weaknesses will become apparent. Though once useful, they now must go the way of all outdated ‘tools of humanity, tools that have given us so much but now are only holding us back from further advancement. We are at another crucial crossroads of change now, one made even more crucial than those which have gone before simply because of the incredible rate of change and potential, both humanistically and scientifically. This new crossroads is being created by new ways of thinking about who we are and where we fit in this complex world...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1089409524
• ISBN 13: 9781089409526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg