How do we apply Timeless Education in practice?
What's essential is the development and health of individuals by increasing understanding.
Without that, no healthy social reforms are possible. But society naturally improves itself if its citizens are healthy and developed.
The ideal is to make it as simple and universal as possible,
but the foundation is to establish some combination of education and a new "cultural style" that becomes more and more aware of the principles and tools.
I already perceive the dissemination of Timeless Education information as a form of application, since I still have great faith in that truth will kill bad ideas and delusions
as long as it is comprehensibly conveyed - which I consider to be the primary and greatest challenge.
If this dissemination of information won't happen through direct education by courses or as an additional course for regular studies and our primary school (what I would want),
then other possible forms of communication can be art, entertainment media, and the Internet in general with healthy models that with time will dissolve earlier rigid systems and thinking.
The key to success probably lies in a renewal of how people with the most influence - i.e. educators, teachers, artists, the intelligentsia - are educated.
But also direct transmission from friend to friend in everyday life is important.
One element that may become essential in practice is to draw attention to the connection Timeless Education has with ancient wisdom, modern psychological theories, therapeutic practice,
as well as religions and spirituality, in case people have a need of authorities, experts, and tradition over simply logic and reasoning.
Development is, as we can analyze through the previously mentioned Evaluation Compass: healthy individuals; naturalness; more capacity for personal responsibility;
less tendency to imitate the culture and others automatically; more relational and social competence;
both self-control and freedom from inhibitions; capacity to alleviate the emotional, mental, or spiritual afflictions of others; increased intelligence;
expanded creative abilities; clarity and understanding of the education's theory and system;
ability to transmit the education and system from a realized point of view; understanding of what is essential, and so on.
The culture would get a guiding ideal or value in the form of - not a deity, prophet, political ideology, state, or charismatic leader - but instead our governing principle.
A kind of objective measurements that puts our thoughts in the right channels and which would be difficult to argue against.
Individuals would feel less choked and pressed toward adaptation based on cultural trends, and at the same time the people would feel that they have the power to influence, at least locally.
It means, in concrete terms, a transformation of the inner attitude people have towards themselves, towards others, and towards the world based solely on understanding, insight, and knowledge,
instead of imitation, fear, intimidation, guilt or rebellion in front of rhetorically repeated ideals divorced from reality or focus on wishes.
The goal, result, or "ideal" of the individual can be summarized as follows:
1. Understanding
Primarily self-awareness or self-knowledge, but also universal knowledge through tools such as A-Ö-X-Ö.
Understanding is also supported by simplified knowledge, synthesis of essential knowledge.
2. Naturalness - Practice towards authenticity, honesty, self-appreciation, attainment of substance.
3. Interest - Participation, empathy, love, goodwill, compassion, conscience.
4. Timeless Man - Non-Attached attention, true identity, Reality-synchronization, freedom.
I have placed understanding at A since understanding is related to the intellect; naturalness at Ö since naturalness is related to our vital energies;
interest at X since interest is related to our social nature; and Timeless Man at the second Ö since it also represents the completed whole.
If the individual fully understands what Timeless Education aims to convey, these four qualities should manifest themselves automatically.
And if these qualities are manifested in enough individuals, society will also improve automatically.
Knowledge and understanding is fundamental. Particularly self-awareness: knowledge of our true feelings and energy patterns, our limitations, our cultural adoptations and invention,
our sense of lack that leads us to selfishness, our relationship with others, how we are connected in reciprocal maintenance, our biography in general - how circumstances ruled our choices.
Without understanding nothing else is possible for an individual and they become locked in a limited causal direction, which makes them pose a danger to themselves and others.
The same can be said for society at large.
Understanding derives from timeless principles and parameters conveyed through theory, art and practice.
"To understand" is man's only moral and ethical duty, thus an ethical punishment and justice system is also about getting criminals to understand
since true understanding is punishment enough - the painful insight that one has acted destructively for oneself and others.
People living the right ways are automatically confirmed by understanding while people who live wrongly both lose their hope and feel how evil they are by the same understanding.
Understanding - truth - is the whole purpose of Timeless Education and thus means it will be valued over other cultural aspects and ideologies by the individual who comprehends it.
Thus its value does not need to be enforced, only "awakened" through teaching. Understanding binds everything together.
Resistance towards understanding is ignorance, primarily in the form of erroneous and habitual partial knowledge, as well as avoidances.
Practice is primarily to try to understand Timeless Education and then attempt to explain it to others when you start to comprehend it,
as well as to try to simplify and clarify what is essential in things.
The writing of an autobiography is also useful.
Naturalness and authenticity are the result of self-knowledge that comes from understanding.
Real altruism is also altruism towards yourself, caring about your own needs. Being able to accept, appreciate and feel love for oneself is essential.
This can be facilitated by other people's acceptance, but often that's also ineffective since the individual must be the one to accept and become comfortable with himself/herself.
Knowledge about oneself and others should lead to this sought-after self-acceptance, but also other people's practice of naturalness is always inspiring.
Naturalness is true action that leads to a greater sense of freedom, substance and self-awareness through honest expressions and the cultivation of personal expressiveness
through, for example, the translation of feelings.
Honesty, in turn, also increases the understanding in others.
Resistance to naturalness is social ideals, imitation, threat of punishment, and fear of criticism.
Practice is primarily to try to let go of inhibitions based on fear, translate own feelings in expressions, let go of the need for control and feelings of lack, question your cultural adoptations,
and to experiment with different self-expressions to become more and more acquainted with your own nature with its shortcomings and potential in order to be able to act optimally.
Interest is a sign of love and participation.
The one who've succeeded in liking their natural self (not their "impressive" social mask) is capable of showing interest in others and can participate in others' lives
in a constructive and benevolent manner without making demands and criticism.
They do not avoid other people as often and they are less annoyed by them in their increased understanding.
This understanding instead allows people to help others - for real, instead of manipulating them - in their capacity for compassion, natural action, and the impression they make that they understand.
Nothing is more healing for a person than to meet someone who understands them, as well as who increases their self-knowledge.
Understanding others also makes it harder to be ruthless, since understanding gives rise to increased conscience.
Interest in others and attempts to help also increases one's own understanding. The sense of having substance saturates the soul and prevents the return of too strong feelings of lack.
But also attitudinal practices, guides and purifying expressions are needed to heal old emotional wounds and hatred.
Resistance towards interest in others is a focus on own problems, self-contempt, bias, hatefulness toward others, unrealistic pursuit of independence, and feelings of deficiency.
Practice is primarily to take things less seriously. Try to endure other people's unpleasant manifestations.
To practice presence and find ways to increase interest in reality and in people.
And to cultivate impartiality in order to be more receptive, present and caring.
Timeless man is our true identity that is perceived and expressed through non-attached attention, presence, impartiality, receptiveness, omni-interest, and no goals (not attached to outcomes)
as a result of the satisfaction in what is happening in each moment.
Also called "reality-synchronization."
Those who have become interested in others and in the world no longer feel the need for vain goals or desires that just gets in the way of what brings experience, nourishment and satisfaction among people here and now.
Acceptance has made the individual transparent and so little interested in partial ideals or personal wishes that the individual instead feels fellowship and belonging with everything else
in spite of realization and action according to his or her naturalness.
Ignorance, fear, affectation, wounds and shortcomings led to a sense of isolation and hostility with the world.
But understanding, naturalness, expression, and interest in everything else leads to receptivity, flow, courage, freedom, and a sense of really existing that leaves old quarrels behind.
This openness, in turn, leads to more understanding due to a reduced avoidance of reality.
Resistance to presence and non-attachment is focus on ideals and dreams along the lines of excessive partialness, false culture, and a sense of lacking as a result of the lack of substance.
Ideals and wishful dreams are always focused on time beyond the present - on the past or on the future.
False culture wants to motivate you to become what you are NOT in order to fit a template or ideal.
Practice is primarily practicing non-identification and different attitudinal exercises, developing creative imagination to find meaning and enchantment in the world as it is,
confronting others' ideals that are divorced from reality, as well as expressing yourself and create something to experience a sense of substance.
The tools available or hopefully will be made available can be divided into four groups: tools for naturalness, tools for love, tools for wisdom, and tools for true identity.
However, these tools are connected and should be used in combination as a process of wholeness - body, emotions, intellect, witness.
Some of these tools are A-Ö-X-Ö, the Evaluation Compass, Partialness Psychology regarding Human Types, and analysis of Timeless Man and various Attitudinal Exercises.
I have already addressed a few of these tools in some detail, but will also talk more about the others at some later date.
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