IDEAS: APHORISMS
NATURAL-RIGHTS: BASIC (this page) ■ ROMANTICIZED ■ FLOW
DIRECTION: ■ TOUGHMINDEDNEWSS ■ JEFFERSON
INDIVIDUALISM: LIBERTY QUOTES ■ FAVORITE QUOTES
WILD & FREE: WESTERN SPIRIT ■ PIRATE CODE
ANALYTICAL: ARISTEIA ■ JUNG'S POLITICS ■ SELF-ACTUALIZATION
TWILIGHT: VISIONARY FICTION ■ ESOTERIC JOURNEYS
QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS ■ METAPHYSICAL ■ ANALYSIS: POWER & EVIL
BASIC INDIVIDUALISM
NATURAL RIGHTS: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
"CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW
respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
— First Amendment
“The great events of world history, are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch.” – Carl Jung
“Individuation is not that you become an ego—
you would then become an individualist.
“You know, an individualist is a man who did not succeed in individuating; he is a philosophically distilled egotist.”
– Carl Jung, The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, Pages 39-40.
Natural rights / FREE individualist...
/ Persuasion trumps power...
POWER, distrust it… let ideas, individuality flourish —
free-minds & free-speech ("natural rights") …
POLITICS, redirect it… toward systems of strong individuals providing service to the community, encouraging self-determination, self-reliance, self expression, and self-knowledge (e.g., supporting economic ideas of “spontaneous order”, “creative destruction” etc.)…
PERSUASION, pursue it… via self-learning:
thoughtful listening, questioning, understanding …
POSITIVE, build on it… tapping strengths to overcome weaknesses; cultivating a genuine sense of gratitude; disregarding small-minded, short-term trifles to always favor long-term (big) true-self picture.
True self trumping ego's facade...
Enlightened & empowered self's THREE objective meaningful strides.. OBJECTIVE SELF: Looks toward horizon, rising above stifling desires and feelings to find real happiness in absorbing new ideas and the “playfulness” of creative Thinking. A. Positive communications/ focus: active, open questioning; two way: teaching and learning simultaneously. Thriving on networking through Others. B. Exploring experience with... strong curiosity brings excitement of discovery, creating a sense of wonder, feelings of hope, and intensified quest for learning and understanding. Always contributing, growing, and building on strengths. C. Life viewed as amazing gift...for which to be thankful and appreciative by embracing it as a total go-giver, freely uncovering encouragement in each and every experience, and thus, having real fun! Easily detached from "things." It is an extreme a rarity that he or she is forceful in actions, and then only in a very defensive mode based on principle. | Ego's and power's THREE subjective fatal mis-steps… SUBJECTIVE EGO: Looks short-sighted, indulged in satisfying own moods, which leads to a static unimaginative, uninspired and unproductive existence. (Why all tyrants are ultimately miserable! A. Negative communications/ focus: controlled, closed situations; insisting on providing direction only. Creating dependency in others. B. Tries to affect experience through simple coveting, which creates ego-centered fears (of loss of control or inferiority), bringing on tensions and feelings of anger. Always accumulating, taking, and preoccupied with weakness. C. Life viewed as a great responsibility... which churns internal anxiety and frustration, thrusting one into an aggressive go-getter role, driven by a sense of urgency and necessity. Always attached to "things." Possibly forceful in actions. |
THE GREATEST INDIVIDUALISTS
1. Lord Acton
2. Samuel Adams
8. Edward Coke
13. Milton Friedman
17. Francisco Goya
18. Hugo Grotius
19. F.A. Hayek
21. Victor Hugo
22. Thomas Jefferson
24. Lafayette
25. Louis l’amour
26. Rose Wilder Lane
27. John Lilburne
28. John Locke
30. James Madison
31. H.L. Mencken
32. Ludwig Von Mises
34. Maria Montessori
35. Albert Jay Nock
36. Daniel O’Connell
37. William Penn
39. Ayn Rand
40. Leonard E. Read
41. Anthony Fisher
43. Ronald Reagan
46. Algernon Sidney
47. Adam Smith
48. Herbert Spencer
52. Thomas Szasz
56. Jacques Turgot
57. Mark Twain
58. Raoul Wallenberg
60. Roger Williams