Musings
From The Heart
An
Essay A Day For A Year
By
Roe
Day
112 April 21, 2012
World
Travel: A True Education
Part
2
In ideal academia, a truly
educated person should study and embrace and thereby be affected by and ultimately
changed regarding issues of physics, biology, ecology, humanity, history,
gender, race, class, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, society, politics,
economics, spirituality, psychology, emotionality, all the wonderful arts, and
overall, issues and aspects of self and family, children, and Love. The only
educational institutions in the world that begin to approach this model of
self-education and lifelong learning, are institutions which follow the student
interactive Socratic seminar model where the learning is student led, and
student centered. No profess-or from the
past could ever hope to “educate” or “teach” a person of the present, or the
past is passe’ the moment it becomes the past, which is the moment just after
we live it. Professors are meant to be
mere guides that facilitate the exposure to learning for students, and who
mentor the shift towards lifelong “learning” as opposed to teaching or educating
a bunch of useless information, or furthering their own viewpoint, or simply
repeating the same, same, same, blah, blah, blah.
A true education is an
education of the heart. Our human hearts
are already a direct connection to the omniscience and omnipotence inherent in
the universe, and a direct manifestation of God/Goddess, or the actual
manifestation of Nature and Evolution, and or a combination of both. After conception we experience a natural
“fall” from Grace or the potentiality of Perfection in Nature, and we become
results of experience and nurture. Our
true products as selves are combinations of Nature/Nurture, for we have innate
and inherent personalities and identities since conception, while our
personalities and identities are greatly affected by our experiences. An ideal education is an education where our
own limited personal experiences are expanded and challenged, and an ideal
education is where our own personal paradigm is compared and contrasted with
others, and where our own personal lives are interchanged with others. An ideal education is where our womb life and
births and early childhoods, where our youths and families and especially the
histories of and with our Mothers and Fathers are shared and compared and
contrasted with our peers and the world.
An ideal education is about recovering our omniscient and omnipotent
hearts through suffering, and persevering, and healing, with and vis a vis our
peers and the world around us. This is
not truly possible when the world around us is limited by a few miles, and
within one single society or culture or paradigm.
A true education is an
education of the heart, and this requires exposure to and experiences of the
heart. No education could ever be considered an education without studying and
experiencing, and ultimately applying ideas and experiences of the heart. A proper
education, and an education of the heart, requires experiencing all the human
emotions, and this requires feeling all the human emotions as they relate our
core ideas of physics, biology, ecology, humanity, history, gender, race,
class, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, society, politics, economics,
spirituality, psychology, all the wonderful arts, and overall, how they relate
to aspects of self and family, children, and Love. A real education, and
education of the heart, is an education of all the human emotions as they
relate to the 40 or more academic disciplines.
The heart is of emotion, and
heart and emotion precede thoughts historically and anatomically. By the time we have a thought about anything,
we have already had the emotional experience, whether we are aware of it or
not. Our thoughts are mere actions of
our emotions. Our thoughts adapt to and
control our emotions in revelation of them, or suppression of them, or action
upon them, and most of our true emotional experience is unconscious due to the
response of our conscious, rational mind to hide our emotions from ourselves
and others as a result of our negative and unfortunate Life experience that did
not honor and value emotionality.
An education of the thoughts
and mind, and a rational education of thinking and ideas, is a mere after-experience
of self, and a manipulation of and advancement of a partial self, and a partial
self that is post emotion, and post true self. An advanced mental education at
the hands of a wounded and repressed heart is arrogance, and a very dangerous
combination, as opposed to a healthy and loving heart that is expressed through
an ignorant mind, which is expressed in humility.
The human emotions are:
Acceptance, Affection,
Ambivalence, Apathy, Anxiety, Boredom, Compassion, Confusion, Contempt,
Depression, Doubt, Ecstasy, Empathy, Envy, Embarrassment, Euphoria,
Forgiveness, Frustration, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt, Hatred, Hope, Horror, Hostility,
Homesickness, Hunger, Hysteria, Interest, Loneliness, Love, Paranoia, Pity,
Pleasure, Pride, Rage, Regret, Remorse, Shame, Suffering, and Sympathy.
A true education of the
heart and mind together is an education that is worldly and world-wide, and world-like, where we feel
all the human “emotions”, while embracing all the “ideas” of our existence,
through all the academic “disciplines”. The best way to become truly educated
is to travel the world indefinitely, and without money, or with money that we
earn as we travel the world. When we travel the world without money, and when
we earn our subsistence as we travel, we become exposed to everything, we
become exposed to all human emotions, especially universal feelings of
powerlessness and hopelessness, and we become exposed to all paradigms and
belief systems and “ideas” of human existence.
When we travel the world we become one of the local culture, we are exposed
in an experiential way, inside the fish tank with the other fish in our world,
to virtually all the academic disciplines.
Traveling the world as a
traveler, not a tourist, and especially earning our way around the world,
requires learning a true education. When we work our way around the world, we
learn to overcome fear and insecurity, loneliness and isolation. Traveling the
world we must learn to be a self-starter, we automatically learn
self-discipline, and we practice turning planning and dreams into reality on an
hourly basis. Traveling the world without money we learn to work, we learn to
suffer, we learn to overcome, and most importantly we learn to adapt and
survive. When we travel the world, a new world with new ideas is faced every
hour of every day, and our self becomes a comparison and contrast vis a vis the
world around us, and we evolve into a worldly self. We learn to be in constant
open mindedness, in constant preparation, and we learn to be content or happy,
and self-sufficient, despite the constant change around us. Traveling the world for an extended time is a
true, worldly education.
To be continued tomorrow in
part 3.
See you tomorrow.
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