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Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy: The Awakening Generation
The Age of the Individual
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by Ann Marie Judge |
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This is the age of the individual. It's taken us a long time, but we are finally waking up to the fact that we can't look to leaders to make the changes for us. It's up to no one but us to feel and pursue our passions and look after our lives and the lives of our children.
I will give the human race enough credit to say that never before have we had access to the information at such a fast rate. In the past, it was necessary to look to the educated to lead, as they were the only ones with enough resources to move above the daily struggle for the basic needs of life. Like my history professor once said, it was not the “rabble,” the poor, who rose up during the American revolution to emancipate themselves from Britain. It was the rich politicians, simply because they had something to gain by separating from Britain who was making business and governance hard for the rich men of the new world to make money and run themselves. The lower classes could care less who gave them their food, they just knew they were hungry.
As a whole, many countries in this age are reaching a level where the general populous is concerning themselves with comforts and conveniences, rather than simple daily needs. Instead of looking at this as a culture growing fat and hedonistic, we should put on different glasses and see that it is precisely the situation that will allow us to move out of our mental comfort zones, now that our bodies are safe and satisfied. It's true that getting too entrenched in physical comforts has always been a bad thing, but electricity and running water alone free us up to pursue passions and soul desires like nothing has ever before.
I'm no politician, but there is a good example of my point in the idea of the electoral college. When this nation was first growing, it took months for communications to go relatively short distances. The postal service itself was always at the mercy of weather, wars, and politics. The farmers and merchants and shopkeepers of the common classes were simply not privy to information; news of attacks or changes in government, among other things, would have taken weeks and months to reach these people.
Given their situation, the idea of democracy had to be slightly altered to fit the reality of their world. People simply could not receive enough information for them to be fully educated in order to vote or have opinions on politics. Thus, the electoral college was the control group, if you will, for the masses who could not possibly have all the facts at their disposal.
With the creation of the Internet, we've been given a great gift. And coincidentally, along with this gift comes a great responsibility. People are still constantly looking to the government and to various organizations to provide censoring for themselves and their children. All schools have various filters that keep out any and all material that could be remotely considered offensive, controversial, or that simply counters mainstream social belief.
The Internet drives into society the truth that will guide us into the future: as abovementioned, this is the age of the individual. We have been given all the information we need to be such individuals, and now we are in a situation that is more or less making it inevitable to become as such.
The more children are taught that they are each individually representative of this truth, the healthier and smoother this transition will be: from the age of authority and “dictates from above”, to the age off personal responsibility in a very deep and spiritual sense.
All the information is finally there, and the situation is perfect for the shift. As I have mentioned in previous columns, the thing to do is to simply allow it to happen. The less resistance you put up, the more beauty awaits you as the changes are made. Allow the information to come to you, allow yourself to develop into the whole individual that you already are. Everything exists within; you deserve to take it for your own.
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Ann Marie Judge
Crystal Child, Student of Life, Spirituality, & Writer
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Ann Marie graduated from high school in 2005 and is currently an eighteen year old freshman at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. She is majoring in English and religious studies.
Not yet old enough for acronyms at the end of her name, she considers herself a student of life, and has been deeply involved in the spiritual community since her first awakening at the age of twelve. Since then, she has had much education in the metaphysical and spiritual arts by a wide variety of teachers and healers. She was very quickly recognized as a Crystal and Indigo child, as well as a clairvoyant and intuitive.
Because she was able to began living for the spiritual at a young age, her dream is to reach out through her writing to other young people that are experiencing similar awakenings while still being within the educational system and a society that often does not recognize or nurture young, spiritually-gifted ones. Her vision is to form a community of spiritually-minded young people so that the younger generations will be prepared to be guides and teachers as the spiritual consciousness of the world continues to rise.
Though much of her life is still largely potential, she feels this time in her life is the first step in fulfilling her dream of becoming a published writer so as to serve the children and young people of the world that feel the spiritual stirring within. As well, she hopes to educate parents on how to nurture and understand what is going on in their children's minds from a young person's perspective.
Visit her website at
www.RandomActsof
Literacy.com
to read her works, view
her art, and gain insight into the spiritual experiences of an Awakened young person."
This Month at Random Acts of Literacy
This month at Random Acts of Literacy:
We finally have forums! Come and discuss all things spiritual, thoughtful, or just life experiences you are looking for alternate viewpoints on.
Young people are especially encouraged to join the community, but all ages are very welcome.
Find the forums at www.RandomActsof
Literacy.com/forums, as well as a link to it on the navigation of the RAOL homepage.
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