Neville's Answer to the Problem of Human Freedom

Neville On Fire

Summary: I’ve encountered recently several challenges to human freedom. But how does Neville answer this conundrum?

Introduction

1. The institutional retraints on freedom and imposed formation of self:

• family
• education
• religion
• work
• popular commercial culture, mass media, social media
• government
• finance
• healthcare system
• military, war, sports, etc.

2. C.G. Jung and Individuation...

• locate yourself within, define yourself rather than letting the world tell you who you are
• don’t try to fix your weak points; focus on your strengths
• establish some connection with the higher (seemingly outside oneself)

3. Political information focusing on individual liberties

E12 - What characterizes programs of institutional mass hypnosis and mass psychosis?

YT channel: Academy of Ideas

• Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism
• The Psychology of Conformity
• The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis - Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?

Counter-attack:

• bring order to our own minds;
• humour and ridicule;
• parallel structures.
• call for courage -- just as this virtue is called for in Neville’s 12 Disciplines of Mind E5

4. Conclusion

By comparison to the above: the fundamental and radical quality of Neville’s idea:

- “tell him who he is” -- this is the one unique and powerful message that is missed by every institution, school of thought, political philosophy, system of virtues, etc...

RESOURCES
Robert S. de Ropp (1989) The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness
Youtube channel: Academy of Ideas
Youtube channel: Philosophies for Life. Carl Jung - How to Realize Your True Potential in Life

Neville Goddard (1948) Out of this World

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