To Find Out What Freedom Is You Must Have Tremendous Energy

Freedom from authority is an extraordinary thing. It is called Spiritual Anarchism.

Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he wants peace

In philosophy as an art of life an investigation of dualism will be an investigation of, whether there exists a way of life without any division between living and dying, conscious and subconscious, business and social life, individual life and family life.

The divisions between nations, religions, classes, etc., originate from the contradiction-filled limitations in yourself.

The question of the Philosophical Globetrotter is therefore, why human beings live in this way?

The inner conflicts grow confusion, division and war; they develop actual insecurity, inwards as well as outwards. We see this division in so many ways – in God and Devil, in good and evil, in what you are and what you ought to be.

Why has Man always created a conflict in himself, and in the relationship with others, and consequently violence, and the hope about achieving something through violence?

Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he at the same time wants peace and freedom; but it is peace and freedom exclusively as an idea, an ideology.

And at the same time Man is historical limited by everything he does.

Unless you are free from anxiety you can´t see and feel clearly

Anxiety is the trap in which you are caught.

Unless you are free from anxiety and everything anxiety implies, you can´t see and feel clearly and deeply.

It is obvious that where there is anxiety there is a closed attitude, and therefore no freedom and love.

The cause of the inner emptiness is the desire after becoming something

The more emphasis which is being put on the outer greatness, the greater is the inner guilt over unlived life.

But freedom from this guilt is not asceticism.

The cause of this inner emptiness is the desire after becoming something; and no matter what you do, then this emptiness can never be filled out.

You can escape from it, whether it happens in a clumsy way, or in a more cunning way; but you can´t move further away from it than from your own shadow.

You perhaps don´t want to look into this emptiness, but it is there nevertheless.

Neither those ornaments things can give you, nor the suit of penance, which the soul can dress in, can conceal this inner poverty.

Meaning is an utterance of freedom

As despair has a relationship with loss, then meaning has a relationship with fullness.

The meaning in what you do is filling, lifting up and expanding.

Meaning owns a freedom which does that it can´t be emptied out; it is so to speak inexhaustible.

Meaning is therefore also an utterance of freedom.

Meaning opens your existence, or it is an opening of your existence towards the present, the now.

You must see your images of life as relative, and thereby disentangle from them

In order to find out whether it is possible for the mind completely to disentangle itself from its historical limitation, you must have the freedom to inquire and discover.

That will say that you must see your images of life as relative, and thereby disentangle from them.

And this also means freedom from romantic possibility-images, which are just as relative as the necessity-images. 

Philosophical counseling offers an alternative way to freedom

Philosophical counseling offers an option to a path to freedom: the art of life, the existential training of the mind the heart, where Man as a Life Artist begins to experiment, to investigate, to discover his existence as a whole.

If you from the start claim that it is impossible, you have of course no chance of breaking through.

That you claim this can be due to, that your experience is very small or very large, or it can just be a faith, which you are accepting.

But when you claim this, then it means you deny that you at all can seek anything, that you at all can investigate, inquire or discover anything.

You deny the actual possibility of philosophy.

The difference between loneliness and alonebeing

The unhappy loneliness, with its anxiety and pain, is isolation, the Ego´s inevitable act.

This isolationprocess develops, whether it is extensive or narrow, confusion, conflicts and sorrow.

Isolation can never give rise to alonebeing: the one condition must give way for the other.

The unhappy loneliness is isolation, whereas the happy alonebeing is complete self-forgetful openness for, and absorption in life itself.

Only this is freedom.

We have solved almost all technical problems, but at the same time human problems still flourish

We today have a peculiar situation.

We have solved almost all technical problems, a number of countries have democracy with large political freedom, but at the same time the human problems still flourish, and the attempt to solve them technically, seems to have brought about a condition of total confusion, of fragmentation, decay of values, consumerism.

A condition, which is spreading globally.

The thought is never completely free because it has its roots in the past

The thought is never completely free because it has its roots in the past, which again is based on both personal and collective images.

The thought is therefore never new.

Freedom of choice is therefore impossible, because it is the thinking, which is active when you are choosing.

The freedom, which exists when you make true discoveries, is not freedom to do what you want, or freedom to unfold, to become something, choosing, or freedom to think what you want, or act after your wishes.

As a Life Artist you must start with freedom

Where shall you start as a Life Artist?

You must start with freedom.

When there is freedom there is love, devotion, where you in presence give yourself away with the whole of your identity, where you are self-forgetful engaged in the situation.

This freedom and love will show you when you shall co-operate and when you shall not co-operate.

It is not a choice you make, because the choice is a product of confusion and irrationality.

Love and freedom is therefore an expression of clarity and reason.

If you deny the possibility of complete freedom, you deny that you at all can investigate, inquire or discover

Far most humans only know two answers to the question about whether the mind can be completely free. Either they say that it is impossible; they say, that the human mind under any circumstance must let ifself be limited historical. Or else they begin to dream from one or the other romantic image. In both cases it is the thought, which is the answer.

Philosophical counseling offers a third option, the art of life, the existential training of the mind and the heart, where Man as a Life Artist begins to experiment, to investigate, to discover his existence as a whole.

If you from the start claim that it is impossible, you have of course not any chance of breaking through.

That you claim this can be due to, that your experience is very small or very large, or it can just be a faith, which you are accepting. But when you claim this, then it means that you deny that you at all can seek anything, that you at all can investigate, inquire or discover anything.

You deny the actual possibility of philosophy.

Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence

There is first freedom when the whole of the human nature, the obvious as well as the hidden, becomes refined from the past.

The will is desire; and as long as there is an act of the will, any striving after becoming free, or after laying bare the Ego, there can never be freedom; then this complete refinement and emptying of the whole of the person can never take place.

Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence and self-forgetfulness, and then the immense is there, the happiness that not is of time, the renewal of creation.