A post on Freedom – why is this so difficult?
Essentially, because we make it so.
Lester Levenson discovered that Freedom is always present and native to any and every individual — back in 1954. And it had such a profound effect on him that he had to spend the next 18 years studying various Western and Eastern philosophic, spiritual, and religious texts to figure out what he had found and how to teach others what he had found.
His conclusion: the reason Freedom is so difficult a subject is due to the thoughts, opinions, rationales, and internal commentary that we heap on top of it in our own minds.
The only thing that really keeps you from being Free is you.
And once you start looking down that datum, you’ll find all manner and types of well-known philosophers, playwrights, and self-help guru’s, as well as ancient prophets and visionaries, who have long said the same thing. They told all about it in their bestseller books, plays, movies, songs, and parables. While they each observed this fact, they also told their own recipes and steps people could take to get their own Freedom.
That is what this book is all about.
The reason I’m writing it in this manner is to help you find your own “path up the mountain” by being able to choose those steps which agree with your own concept of life and Freedom. Because no one can do it for you, and no two paths are the same.
There is no “one route out” that fits everyone. Just as no two people are the same, even “identical” twins, no two paths are going to be exactly the same. You have to match the tools you need to use against your own background and experiences and lessons.
I’m here to point out common ideas and to try to give understanding of these key authors’ concepts in ways that are easy to digest. And so you’ll see that even my explanations can fail for any given situation, depending on what you take away from what I give here.
There is this disclaimer and caveat from the outset: Don’t believe anything I say. It won’t do you any good to swallow this wholesale as a gospel. You can “take it for checking” and see if it works out for you. But what I say here is only taken from my own view of things, my own half-century of living showing through. It’s really a reflection of the path I’ve found for myself. It’s not your path – though you might like and use parts of it.
Your path is entirely your own – and you’ll have to test every single step you take, building it one step at a time. :You have to prove each datum as true and then use that datum to find others. This is what you’ve been doing this entire lifetime. Nothing new.
This book, this post, my blogs – these are all just to tell you that you are doing this, that you can take control over this process, that you can and will achieve your own personal Freedom to the exact degree that you believe in yourself and cast off those beliefs you’ve swallowed over the years which don’t help you toward that Freedom goal.
It’s true, though – you are already Free. The following pages in this book are simply designed to help you get rid of any limiting thoughts (like those which just passed in front of you) – that are telling you that this isn’t so.
And once you start seeing that you can achieve complete Freedom in the remainder of the lifetime you have in front of you, then you’ll probably also see that you want to help others attain their Freedom – and that this is also one of the steps on your path.
But don’t, please don’t take my word for it.
Do read on. Do find your own path. Do find your own Freedom.
Good Hunting!
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