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©Olivier Tryba
As we aspire to freedom at the deepest levels, we are challenged to grasp that which binds us. We begin to perceive our programming, our posture, our stance and proceed to “change ourselves,” embarking on what is promoted and sold to us, from bookstores to retreat centers, as “spirituality.”
Why do we do that?
Why this continual search to “improve,” and what is it that we are actually “improving”? How do we do that? With whom?
So often, in our so-called “spiritual” enthusiasms, we fail or are embarrassed to ask these very simple questions. They somehow seem impertinent, disqualifying.
At www.DeepFreedomNow.com, we venture into these impertinent questions and don’t content ourselves with pat answers because, even here, in our relationship to questions, we are profoundly conditioned to nullify the question with an answer rather than to take the invitation of the question into a deeper connection with the living textures, the felt sensations, the connective qualities of our living experience.
Deep Freedom Now is the invitation into the actual experience we are having, into our Connective Intelligence and into the acculturated reflexes of rejecting our own knowing, and reconnecting with it.
It is an adventure into our Natural & Wise Knowing, the kind that inspired the latin species name of homo sapiens sapiens, that of gorgeous hominids endowed with the capacity to know wisely, connectively, naturally, cellularly, and to know that we are knowing wisely.
We are increasingly called to question how much that latin name reflects the reality of our species today, and many people speak almost contemptuously of our “human nature” requiring almost an endless series of fixes and remedies to maintain some semblance of decency. It is easy to fall into pessimism on our own account. In so doing we confuse our human nature with the cultures we have adapted to which are socio-linguistic constructs and neuro-muscular patterning largely rooted in repeated trauma and frustration of even the most basic mammalian requirements for healthy development, much less that of realizing our promise as hominids endowed with a tremendous capacity, if awakened, for harmonic creativity with and profound enjoyment of life.
How this acculturation into our own frustration came to be, historically, and how it comes to be in our personal experiences is something we venture into gently and deeply in www.DeepFreedomNow.com, discovering and reconnecting with our capacities for knowing with our entire bodies, sumptuously and wisely.
After years of sharing the discoveries of Deep Freedom Now through workshops, teleconferences, long-term, one-on-one coursework it is clear that the journey of venturing beyond culture is for the few, not the many. Culture is not simply “out there,” in “the system,” as people in the 60’s talked about it. Culture is profoundly in here, embodied in a neurological, postural, tonal patterning which we identify as our “selves,” as “what I believe,” “what I think,” “what I value,” etc.
To begin to look at this “self” that is almost entirely cultural and quite divorced from the natural, breathing, living organism who is reflected in your mirror is something that almost ALL of our cultural conditioning forbids us to do. We may very well question our beliefs and even trade them for other mythologies, religious, “scientific,” or otherwise. But we are often reluctant to look at the relationships of power, not just with respect to others, but with regard to those aspects of our life, sensibility and capacity for knowing, enjoying, engaging and creating which we have learned to disqualify.
A people who are descendant from people who underwent cultural, military, linguistic, geographic, religious and sexual conquest, and who remain subjected to a continually-”evolving,” continually-”reforming,” continually-”improving” way of being human under subjection eventually normalize, soften and “civilize” these mechanisms of conquest. Subjection transforms from something that is imposed upon a people by their conquerors, to a “culture” wherein every member, from the first days of life, is trained to conquer herself and himself and with an increasingly diverse, even “open” array of methods for so doing. As the culture pretends to “evolve,” there is a greater array of “ideologies” and “methodologies” proposed. One is free, for example, to go from being a catholic to being a buddhist, or an atheist, or a practitioner of the latest 3-weekend certification course in becoming a so-called “shaman.”
One is free to chant, find one’s power animals, learn the scientific method and banish any discomforts as best as one can.
The portal into one’s authentic experience, however, including those discomforts, remains closed.
In Deep Freedom Now we walk through that portal; the impolite portal, the portal beyond the cultural charade and costuming we have learned to adopt. We FEEL with our senses, THINK connectively and logically, and return to the splendor of this intelligent and sensual ALIVENESS experiencing itself through our connective, breathing, organismic humanity.
Welcome.
September 12th, 2010 at 5:58 am
O,
Thank you for creating this blog! It is something I have been looking for, John Gardner just linked it on his facebook page. I look forward to diving deeper into this.
I am Love, Jeff