Unlearning review escape routes for autonomy

Unleaing review escape routes for autonomy Reflections on Forgetting   Humanity Escape - Escape to the "ownership" Unleaing "," Deschooling, deculturing, "and even" lea "all have the same   goal, helping people to think outside the box. To help us transcend the belief that   also recognize that we have not, because it is taken for granted in our culture.   In particular, the dominant culture in the Euro these beliefs are   throughout the materialism and the social economy and the measurement of a person with a value of   material ownership.The personal stories in the book, "Paths of Unleaing" are seven young   people who have transcended this cultural model is in word and lifestyle. They   America is a graduate of Harvard, on the eve of a law career $ 100,000   who have chosen to go to India, his ancestral home, to live and to be one of the poor;   privileged upper-class native of Uganda, who have chosen to resign for Success   industry to create its own "vision of reality" by history and culture of their   African tribes and serve the youth of his country, an announcement of America "geek"   snagged on the level of software piracy, with the spread of free software   bringing civilization to the dark secret hole competition for material greed;   a young executive director of the oil company that has seen major Esson / Valdez oil spill and   changed sides to work towards a sustainable world, free from contamination, bo in London   industrial product of the School, which broke the system of "upward" to climb   express their thoughts in writing and with the "Pioneers for Change? and   other authors from around the world and very different backgrounds.Individually together and remind us of the history of Buddha, Gandhi, the Dali   Lama, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Einstein, Lao Tzu, and others who have opted for a   life of service to humanity rather than the material itself dictated by interest   "dominant paradigm". These wise elders and leaders of the seven young   narrators are among the few people who have fled from the requirements of   Dominator paradigm. It may not have everything just unleaed   never leaed the inhumanity of the Euro culture.This culture, rooted in the dominant paradigm has a long history. It is grown by   Myth that the Jewish establishment argued that the earth was created for use in humans. Is   reinforced by Greek philosophy, with its premise that "man is the measure of all   Things. He said that a "chain of being" the man who put on top of a ladder, with only   A few blue above. Here were women, children, other breeds, animals,   The plants and the Earth. Each one of them to serve and be dominated by the above procedure. It   was stamped in Europe for the mind than a thousand years of buing Inquisition   approximately one million people, mainly women at the stake for believing in our Earth   Creator. Perpetua and spread throughout the world with the sword (the technology), the   cross (Christianity), and the flag (nationalism) in the era of "discovery" and   Colonization. It is set in our system of moral acceptance of Adam Smith   economy, which argues that "self interest" should, instead, to give all   Actions. The essence of this abomination of humanity and the world.The customs rules, principles and customs of this culture have been accepted as evidence for our   Values and lifestyles. From our birth, and during most of our years of training in   Our school, competition, materialism, property, money, individualism, and   other principles of the dominant paradigm are drilled into us by example, as cultural   Standard can not be questioned. Somehow the people of wisdom, including our seven story   tellers, escape and are able to transcend the culture that is dominated bo.This unnatural civilization was not always so. Most if not all, other   culture, economic and social systems on the basis of "reciprocity" or "gift". They   held the belief that they were created by Mother Earth. Let each of us "belong" to   Earth and the other. That there are laws of nature dictate that if you do not   live together as one, we die separately. In all of these cultural systems   Leads to the welfare of all. Many cultures, not the words of "ownership".   "exchange" or "self-interest." The purpose of life is to produce, and to help others   produce, so that everyone, including himself, may continue to exist. In a reciprocal   economy of goods and services is with pleasure, without thinking of a prid pro quo '   Exchange. Who gives more honor with abundant gifts of others.   Mutual aid and cooperation are the natural laws that make human existence   Possible. A few still exist cultural norms. But in the main have been   dominated by the dominator paradigmMode science has highlighted the interdependence of this natural law. Chaos   Gaianes and complexity theory have shown that the universe is actually a. There   It evolves as a unit. E holonistic. This means that each entity in the cosmos is a Holon,   a system composed of other systems integrated in the whole range of other   Systems or holons in holons. All holons, including all human beings   interconnected and interdependent with other holons. Gaianes theory of the Earth   shows that life on Earth depends on life on earth. Ie the temperature   on Earth, the percentage of oxygen in the air, the amount of salt in the sea,   radiation reaching the Earth and all other necessary conditions for life are maintained   Biological and physical constants.   Gaia, the name of the Greek goddess of the earth, was taken as a name for this theory. It   It has also been suggested as a name for a new social paradigm. The Gaianes   Paradise "is the replacement of the long" Dominator Paradigm "as a basis   for new emerging culture based on "ownership". Human beings "belong" to Gaia (the Earth and all life on Earth), so very deep   Way.We belong to the sites to be - on Gaia.   Belonging protovalue is that all other values derive.We a physiosphere belong to the biosphere, the noosphere. We   Belong to Gaia. As we are told that ownees of Aboriginal land   Landowners. Chief Seattle said? We can not own land,   We are part of the earth. We belong and are inseparable from our culture - from   Each other - Gaia. We are interdependent with scientific all.Belonging is, in fact, is owned and more than fact.Belonging science is not just membership, but is subject to --   In partnership with - to be held accountable. We belong to - are   responsible for - Web - the universe - of Gaia.   Gaia means belonging to recognize that we are trapped in   networks to be and that our prosperity depends on the welfare of   Gaia. If you destroy Gaia, which involves the destruction ourselves.Belonging cooperation - to work with what is - with Gaia - the   Web of being.   Involves community members. In our face-to-face relations   people in the community - belonging to the community.   Belonging implies responsibility. We are responsible for Gaia. We   Responsible for the other.   Belonging means love. We can not separate the love (agape) of   That belong to Gaia. We love because the love we have to preserve Gaia - a   preserve ourselves - to preserve the being.Cultures network based on different values of accession are doomed to self destruction.   A culture based on domination of land, and all the animals in it, is   Destined to disappear. A culture based on the risk of conflict of interest is required to   Disintegrate. A culture based on competition destroy itself.To be stable and must be sustainable, a culture based on cooperation,   community, responsibility, love, honesty, care, and other values   which are interdependent and involved with each other and with more belonging.We can not separate ourselves from - from Gaia, and remain a   vital culture, one atom of oxygen that can be separated from hydrogen atoms   and preserve water quality .******************************************* *************************------------------------- -------------------- Bill Ellis, of Rangely, ME USA early retirement from their career   as a consultant on science policy bodies such as the USNational   Science Foundation, UNESCO and the World Bank. Over the past   30 years has worked voluntarily to promote the wide range of   social innovations that enable people to grass roots   Promoting self-sufficiency in the community. One is the general   Coordinator of the Coalition for a self-leaing. Which   facilitated the development of an on-line book, "Creating leaing   Community ", and the White Paper," The life through self-leaing "   which promotes the use of the wide range of leaing   In addition to public education - for example, leaing   cooperatives, public schools, private schools, unschooling, charter   Schools. His mantra is "everyone has the right,   freedom, resources and the opportunity to lea what   They want, whenever they want and how they want.