What has happened to tolerance…

It is time to start listening to our inner wisdom Some of my earliest memories and experiences are of a sense of not belonging. I had this strange feeling that I did not belong in my family of origin; maybe I had been adopted? I had a similar experience at school. I simply did not relate to the curriculum or what was being called “education”. And this experience of being in a foreign world persisted into my early adulthood and beyond. I simply felt that I did not fit in. My response was to rebel and become the black sheep of the family. I rebelled against authority and so-called experts. I became an alcoholic and was lost. In fact, I was far more lost than I realised at the time. It took me several decades to fully appreciate that this sense of being born in to the “wrong” family, of being put through the “wrong” education to prepare me to live in a world gone “wrong” – as it relentlessly pursues a path of self-destruction – was a healthy response to an unhealthy environment. In Western culture (as with many other cultures) we have been conditioned to rely upon the external world for a sense of identity. In the process, we have given away an enormous amount of personal power and responsibility. My family of origin, as with most other families around us, was more interested in what other people thought and external values. We were not taught to rely … Read More