Who am I? What is the purpose of life? How can true happiness be found?

Since becoming involved with the school I have written several articles. I have deliberated on some of the questions that have been asked of me over many years. Questions about mortality, inner peace, personal ethics, emotional maturity, and personal growth. There is no doubt in my mind that there is and has been for a long while, a need for a sane, practical living philosophy.

As you read what is written below, you may find that you too find that you have the same types of questions and probably many more. If you are interested enough to want to enquire as to the answers you are qualifies to become a student of Education For Living. The only other requirement is that you have an open mind.

All of these questions and more will be answered as the school unfolds the knowledge to you. As a student you are invited to participate with the teachers of the school along with other students. We will listen carefully to your queries in seeking clarity of knowledge. You will experience profound and cognitive change, which will change your attitudes and your whole vision of life. This in turn will bless you to grow emotionally and spiritually and in this I have no doubt.

QUESTIONS

What does it mean to be a moral person, a person of conscience, to have a value for inner peace and to basically achieve this through aligning ones thoughts words and actions?

What does it mean to live up to ones personal ethics regarding work and family?

Who am I? Am I secure in my self-identity? Is there something more, and where do I find it?

What is the value of a universal value like non-injury and how can I own it up without making it into a rigid rule that causes me guilt?

Sex. Am I in touch with the sacredness of all life? Every facet of my body-mind is given; I didn't create it and all the energies, capacities for creating new life given. All this vast creation is a wonder! So simple and yet so profound! How can I discover the sanctity of it all and free myself from the profane for in truth there is no such thing as profane .

How can I free myself from all forms of prejudice, judgmental of others and myself?

Violence, destructive force, is as valid as it's opposite. How do I assimilate violence? The violence of an exploding star the same violence in me imploding and exploding emotions and how can I manage them, process them, express them in an appropriate way? What is healthy and unhealthy violence and what are its effects in my psychology and the psychology of my children?

What does it really mean to be human? How do I own up my humanity and become basically sane?

How can I get in touch with empathy and learn to act upon it?

How can I participate in a meaningful way in society without compulsivity? What really is compulsion what is its cause and how can I free myself from it?

Do I not have a value for a completely deliberate awareness of my words and actions? How can I achieve this?

We grow up physically but we are basically children inside how can I raise my emotional child to became a complete adult? Is this not becoming a successful person? What really is success? Is it money power, recognition by others?

How can I nurture my self-image so I can dissolve my wall with the big ego and remain content to be me without the need of others exalted image of me? How can I ever accept myself as I am with all my limitations? Is it ever possible?

Sibling rivalries. What are they? What are there causes and how do they affect me today? How can I come to terms with these emotions and energies and manage them in a healthy way.

Understanding emotions and their causes. How I am not in control and I need not be in control how trying to control chokes me to death! I can learn to manage with non-resistance and express all feelings and needs appropriately, to convert a potentially destructive force into a dynamic expression of creativity.

Being in touch with history, how is it important to my emotional maturity and the maturity of my children and children's children.

Finding healthy role models through myth and freeing myself from conditioning of unhealthy myths and heroes gathered through TV. Video games and Sports.

Whomever one admires so one is transformed to be. And how can you admire a quality in another unless you already enjoy it in yourself? How to own it up here and now and grow out of ideal actual splits?

Birth and survival, exploring my past all the way to the womb and maybe even before As a survivor I am ever in offence-defence posturing. Can I ever relax by freeing myself from this constant offence-defensive posturing caused by a lack of trust caused by childhood traumas and how my hero-gods mom and dad failed to be infallible? Am I bold enough to really look into these facts and find a meaningful place to place trust in a trustworthy infallible person? Is there such a person?

What is duty and what is sacred duty and how do I discover it while a society of right surrounds me.

What is emotional-spiritual environmentalism? How will it affect our mother earth?

What is a healthy archetype and how does it help me to contemplate them and have an on going relationship with them in my heart?

What I do and say to others I am doing and saying to myself. How can I be totally aware of this fact and continue to transact with family and participate in society sharing my given gifts and honoring my incarnation.

What is free will and destiny, what is the karmic model and how can I understand it thoroughly and how will this understanding help me?

What is abuse of free will? How can I avoid it in myself and understand it in others especially significant others in my past?