Freedom Movement
Freedom movements are the complete opposite of mass movements—social, political, or revolutionary mass movements.
All mass movements enforce irrationality on people to shut out the intellect in order to turn them into predictable mindless machines—human robots. In contrast, freedom movements call for the awakening of intelligence and rationality and the elevation of the intellect and the imagination in order to empower people to become freethinking rational sovereign individuals. For this reason, freedom movements do not become nor ever have been mass movements.
A freedom movements ensouls humans individually, whereas a mass movement desouls them collectively.
To some people, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do. To most, freedom means not to do what they do not want to do. It is only those who continually grow and evolve that are free under any condition. Whereas plants need roots in order to grow, human beings, only when they grow and evolve, do they have roots and feel at home in the world and in the universe.
What does it take to continue to grow and evolve? One must remain perpetually young. There are only two kinds of people who remain perpetually young: the revolutionaries (political/social activists) and the creative individuals. They never grow up. The reason that the revolutionaries do not grow up is because they are unable to grow. The reason that the creative individuals do not grow up is because they never cease to grow—they continue to learn and evolve, the process of which has no upmost end.
The creative individuals exist and unceasingly grow within the last “Child” stage of the three-stage “Metamorphosis” in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In truth, it is not the revolutionaries or activists but the creative individuals who bring forth a true revolution. A true revolution implies and requires a “turning around (revolution)” of consciousness in consciousness and therefore it actually occurs only internally.
A true revolution is an act of creation. It is an act of creating a new thought, of thinking a new thought into being, of imagining a new vision into existence. A true revolution is a ‘re-evolution’ of consciousness, because in and through the creative act of thinking a new thought into being, consciousness evolves anew (re-evolves) to a new level and to a new state.
Further a true revolution involves an act of forgiveness, for to forgive implies that we give up the old or the past for the new or the future. Thus, forgiveness is indissolubly linked to freedom, because not to forgive is to perpetually bind ourselves to the past and be at war with our own evolutionary aspirations. We are free in accordance with and in proportion to our capacity to forgive.
Therefore, to continue to grow and to be free requires that you be a creative individual, a true revolutionary—a revolutionary of your own consciousness, who is able to forgive and think a new thought. A free creative individual is an authentic freethinking rational sovereign individual. To be a free creative individual means to be a freedom movement unto yourself, and your freedom movement takes place exactly as the path of your self-realization.
You will then realize that nothing that happens in the world or the universe is external to you. The world as such, the universe as such, is experienced-imperienced as internal to you. All of the external events of the past, the present, and the future exist internally as the actual, potential, and possible contents of your consciousness, while the reality of the external world that you experience simultaneously reflects and reinforces the state of your consciousness. You are the world and the world is you, verily.
The revolutionaries are almost entirely focused on the “external” because they usually become political or social revolutionaries and activists in order to avoid looking at and dealing with their own internal psychological problems and issues. We all have private ailments but the revolutionaries (or rather “troublemakers”) want or need public cures for their private ailments which they project onto the external world in various ways.
The ”spiritual” people, the ‘spirituals’, are the other half of the revolutionaries. By using lofty spiritual philosophical excuses, they avoid looking into and dealing with what ails the world without that is in truth within. The revolutionaries hate themselves, while the spirituals hate the world, but they don’t know that they hate the same object.
The world is not to be saved but to be loved. You are not to be saved but to be loved.
In and through love you become transformed and your world becomes transformed. Love is the source of courage and courage is the fundamental moral virtue from which develop ethical and intellectual integrity and honesty. With moral courage, and with intellectual honesty and integrity, you look at and into everything in you who are the world and everything in the world that is you. Then, you can see in your imagination a new possibility, a new future, for yourself and for the world. In your imagination, you can see what isn’t in actuality that is what is in reality, which will be transformed into what is in actual reality.
Humanity has entered the age of ‘hyper novelty’ that is happening in both the external and the internal worlds. This is a real unprecedented potent opportunity for a freedom movement, individually and collectively.
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura. ©2024. All Rights Reserved.