Teach Me

(Story # 1)

Micky’s a bright kid, always looking to learn something new. He sits in a classroom with twenty other kids, and for an hour and a half their award-winning top of the line teacher stands in front of the chalkboard as he blabbers on and on about cellular mitosis, about how amazing cells are, how this part does that, and that part does this, and blah-blah-blah.

When the teacher is finally done with the lecture, those twenty kids could not pass a pop-quiz on the subject matter. They were too busy thinking about what I’m doing after school, that hottie sitting next to me, and who knows what else. They were not paying attention to the teacher. But Micky was, and he could pass a test without a problem.

(Story # 2)

Micky’s a bright kid, always looking to learn something new. He sits in a classroom with twenty other kids, and for an hour and a half on a big screen high-definition TV, an award-winning documentary plays. It goes on and on about cellular mitosis, about how amazing cells are, how this part does that, and that part does this, and blah-blah-blah. It covers the same information as the teacher.

When the documentary is finally finished, those twenty kids could not pass a pop-quiz on the subject matter. They were too busy thinking about what I’m doing after school, that hottie sitting next to me, and who knows what else. They were not paying attention to the documentary. But Micky was, and he could pass a test without a problem.

(Story # 3)

Micky’s a bright kid, always looking to learn something new. He sits in a classroom with twenty other kids, and for an hour and a half they’re each expected to read an award-winning book that summarizes the workings of cells. It goes on and on about cellular mitosis, about how amazing cells are, how this part does that, and that part does this, and blah-blah-blah. It covers the same information the teacher and the documentary did.

When the hour and half is finally over, those twenty kids could not pass a pop-quiz on the subject matter. They were too busy thinking about what I’m doing after school, that hottie sitting next to me, and who knows what else. Even though they appeared to be reading the book, they were not paying attention to the words. But Micky was, and he could pass a test without a problem.

Who was the real teacher in those three stories? Just who was it that ultimately determined whether or not Micky learned about the subject matter? Did the human being in front of the chalkboard determine who learned and who didn’t? Perhaps the documentary on the screen was just so good Micky was forced to pay attention to it? Or maybe the words in the book were so captivating he could not forget them? Than why, out of twenty kids, was Micky the only one to learn anything from them?

Here’s why: it is because he himself chose to pay attention to the information being presented to him, for whatever his reasons, for the full frame of time. The foundation of his learning had nothing to do enforcement by an “authority,” the need to boost Ego through good grades, or whether or not it was a human being, a documentary, or a book presenting the information, no matter how well-presented, award-winning or praised. The foundation of his learning had to do with his paying attention to that information. Micky did not depend on anything to learn except for himself. His desire to learn is what caused him to learn.

Truly paying attention, actually learning something, always requires the individual’s choice. “Paying attention“ under threat of punishment can never lead to learning. For if someone is under a threat of punishment if they don’t “learn” the material, are they actually learning or are they just doing what is needed to not get punished?

Every teacher in the world needs to answer that question if they are serious about calling themselves a teacher. Memory is not intelligence. Are students merely memorizing themselves into a robot, or are they growing up as a human being through learning? Paying attention is not a means of avoiding punishment—paying attention is how a human being grows into an adult and continues to evolve throughout all of life.

Image the following situation: I pull out a gun and fire off a live round into the ground. BAM! Your ears are ringing, I’m in control. Now you know I’m not fucking around. I point it at your head and say, “You will now learn about whatever I tell you to learn about, whether you’re interested in the subjects or not. Or else I will kill you.”

Do you cooperate? Do you obey? But the real question is: do you actually learn anything? Will your actions be guided by your inherent natural human desire to learn, or will your actions be enforced from your desire to not have your brains blown out? Is true learning enforced?

Welcome to the mind of the student sitting in classrooms across the world—fearful, robbed of choice, and waiting for the end. And for the most part, totally accepting of the situation. It’s a little less dramatic, of course, and it’s masterfully subtle and intangible, certainly, but the model still applies. When the system considers the individual’s Free Will, no matter what their age is, it will earn the title of being educational. Until then, it’s nothing but indoctrinational.

If suddenly given complete freedom to go to school or not, how many kids would still choose to pay attention to the information being presented to them in the school system? If they no longer had any pressure on them whatsoever, no parents commanding them, no teachers ordering them to get to class on time, no “get the grade or else” gun pointed at their heads, no principles to obey (at least not the school’s “principles”—hint hint), how many kids would still choose to go to school?

Be honest now, come on. How many kids are currently going into the school system because of their own Free Will choice? Yeah, news flash for those who haven’t heard it yet: kids have Free Will!

And here’s the Ego-bruising part for those who still don’t “get it”: commanding someone to pay attention while they are under threat of punishment, WILL NEVER TEACH THEM A DAMN THING. It is only when someone chooses to pay attention, of their own accord, their own volition, their own effort, their own Free Will choice, that they can ever learn anything. Sure, they can memorize things under the threat of punishment (because they’d rather memorize crap than be punished by their masters), but they will never learn a thing.

Learning and memorizing are two completely different things—hence, two different words. Learning and memorizing are two different words because they symbolize two different elements of reality. Learning has to do with the Conscious mind, that which you are aware of. Memorizing could also be called programming, it has to do with the unconscious mind, that which you do not need to be aware of for it to operate in you life. A human being learns, a robot memorizes. Learning is Consciousness expansion, memorizing is new unconscious programming. Learning is manual awareness, memory is automatic behavior. Learning stretches the Conscious mind to a new dimension that it can never retract from, memorizing merely imprints a new command line into the unconscious mind that will be carried out without delay or question.

And I’m not demonizing memory here, I’m not dogging on programming. We need the automatic mind do everyday simple stuff, like ride a bike, drive a car, or to simply walk. On one level, human beings are like a computer. I did not say we are computers, are said we are like a computer, on one level of our total being. We are composed of many layers, and ONE of those layers works just like a computer. Our nature is neither angelic or demonic, our nature is that we are programmable.

Of course memory is an invaluable, fundamental tool of our humanity and personality. But for crying out loud, there is more to a human being than just the robotic programmed mind, we are also composed of the aware mind, of Consciousness (to whatever degree). And this is a Law of learning that must be understood by all, if we are serious about creating something better for the world. Telling kids they have to memorize what the are told to, like they’re being held captive under some freaking tyrannical regime of “educators,” can never create adults of authentic morality, true love, and profit-free peace. Fearful kids do not grow up into loving adults, not without a lot of work.

There is no need to do what Nature already does. Nobody can ever intervene “on behalf of Natural Law’s failings,” because Natural Law always does its job. There is no such thing as a failure of Natural Law, it is absolute. If that upsets you, so what, tough luck buttercup, you don’t decide Natural Law, your upset doesn’t change reality. There is no such thing as: “I’m here on behalf on the incompetent universe.” Kids have an inherent Natural Law desire to learn, but our sick society is murdering that desire and injecting profitable obedience.

And then it has the nerve to invent “learning disabilities” and shove pharmaceuticals down kid’s throats. If you don’t name that evil, what do you name that? The Schools of today are bullshit, authentic learning is never injected. Arm-and-leg Colleges are crap, authentic learning is always free of man-made money. Although, authentic learning does require the real currencies of reality, you must spend your time and pay your attention.

Ether you completely abandon the “authority” on knowledge, or you completely stick to it. You can’t have your easy cake and not have the tough calories. Fuck the system—YOU are the authority. The Ego-driven system reeks of lies, deceit, and fear, while the authentic Self you actually are is brimming with truth, authenticity, and love.

Human beings are not hive-bound robots who must all conform to the same exact man-made system. Human beings are individuals, who can find their own specialization through Nature’s guidance to become a Sovereign cell in humanity’s healthy body. Someone who loves cars and fixing up machines, who is a born mechanic, does need to know what year Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in order to do what he loves and kickass at it. And someone who loves history doesn’t need to know how to rebuild an engine in order to do what he loves and kickass at it.

Just as cells in the human body specialize for the overall health and well-being of the entire body of cells, so to should individual humans be specializing for the overall health and well-being of the entire body of humanity.

And to say that every single human should know what they want to do with the rest of their life upon turning eighteen, is to speak words of insanity. Everyone has their own true path through life, and that is not determined by any man-made “authority.” However long it takes is however long it takes. Someone discovering the purpose of their life is determined by Nature and that individual’s path. Freedom is grown, chaos is injected.

Fear of not obeying “authority” ensures an environment whereby nothing will be learned. Programming will be going on in a state of fear, of course, but not learning. A sustained “always on” state of fear, to any degree, works against the development of the mind, especially in young minds. Look into the reality of kids failing at tests because they got stressed out, despite a commanding knowledge of the test material, and scale that out into the entire system itself. When someone terribly fears the repercussions of walking out of a classroom and leaving behind them the dull, boring, worthless system they’ve been FORCED into against their Free Will, that is not a classroom, that is not a place of learning, life, and growth. That is a prison for the mind.

This is an oversimplification, that I’ll fully tackle at another time, but the answer is love. When love radiates throughout a space it guarantees that learning will organically ensue, with no need for a “get the grade or else gun.” Love is a requirement for learning, and it’s especially a requirement for the proper development of young minds. When teachers are bringing their own guns into the classroom, I think that maybe there might be something wrong with the system? I mean come on, at what point is humanity going to read the writing on the walls of reality?

I could start discussing specifics and details about transforming the current system of education into something better, but everything I’d have to say is already being said with this website. There are absent subjects in today’s school system: Natural Laws, Free Will, learning itself, and the irreplaceable value of organic morality. Yes, organic morality. Human beings are not all vicious murderer-psychopath-rapists at birth, we actually deeply desire peace, love, and life for all. We don’t need to be “taught” what we already have within us, the system needs to step out of the way of Nature, and out of the way of our developing hearts—not just minds.

The problem is the people who put their faith in man-made systems more than in Nature. The problem is that a sick society and its diseased ways have taken over. The problem is that a profitable and inconsiderate masterful media has infested young minds with glorification of stupidity as fun, worship of violence as the answer, and degradation of sexuality as the norm.

Fun isn’t stupid, the answer isn’t violence, and sexuality isn’t degrading. Fun can be silly without being stupid and it can also be smart, the answer is fearless love even in the face of evil, and sexuality is wonderful, and dare I even say it, sex is fucking awesome. Our sacred sexuality as a loving-celebration of our humanity has degraded into an Ego-boosting distraction from the fact our societies, our lifestyles, and our minds have gone into the gutters. And that is one of the many reasons why I do what I do beyond this website—to reverse the madness by bringing love to where there is little or none. Appreciating what I do is different from only enjoying what I do. Is your sexuality a celebration of your true humanity or a distraction from it?

The problem is that a virus called profit has infested the channels where heart should flow. The problem is not with humanity itself, the problem is with humanity’s programming. But the point I’m making here is we all need to understand who the only real teacher can ever be. And that’s you.

It is long past the time that we, as a human race, understand what the word “teacher” objectively implies, that we all understand the actual reality behind the word “teacher.” It is quite simple: a teacher is an information presenter. Whether that presentation takes the form of a human being physically before you, a documentary on a screen, a book in your hands, or what Nature has to say, or your own Self and your own senses, whether that presentation uses words, images, sounds, feelings, or any other sort of medium—a teacher is simply that which presents information.

Your brain, body and heart are presenting information to you within every moment of life. The question is: Are you allowing those presentations into yourself, are you paying attention to them, or are you ignoring them? A teacher is not some high and mighty figure up there on the pedestals of the intellectual who’s better than you, and you’d better kneel before their almighty decrees because they’ve got that degree and your dumbass don’t. A teacher simply presents information—it’s that simple.

There is no “authority” on knowledge. You yourself are the only authority-on knowledge. What did the physical human being in front of that chalkboard do with his voice, words, drawings, and presence? He presented information. What did the documentary on the screen do with prerecorded images, words, and sounds? It presented information. What did the book do with its words? It presented information.

When you’re surrounded by trees, soaked in Sunlight, and soothed by the sounds of a roaring river, information is being presented to you. Whether or not that information will be paid attention to until it’s understood, whether or not time will be spent on that information until it’s understood, whether or not that information is worth a damn, is always determined by the individual’s choice.

You yourself are the only real authority on knowledge. Everyone has their own reasons for making their choices, but if it’s a choice made in fear it’s not a choice made for learning. Personally, I say choose to defy the tyrants and disarm their “get the grade or else guns” inside your own mind, and learn because that’s part of your true humanity. Paying attention is not a means of avoiding punishment—paying attention is how we learn and grow as human beings!

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to the various different ways in which information can be presented. I am not saying a documentary or a book is replacement for a human teacher—nothing can ever replace a human teacher. A knowledgeable human being in front of you can be asked questions and answers can be given in real time, they are presenting information on many levels at once with their voice, body language, and with their energy, or vibe. There are countless ways in which a living and loving human being in your life is superior to any other teacher.

But different people learn in different ways, through visual, audio, doing it yourself, books, documentaries, and whatever else, and that’s all fine. The point I’m making here is that all those things can only ever present information to you, and you are the one who has to absorb and understand that information. You can close your eyes to the truth, but you can’t close your ears.

You are the ultimate teacher. It is you who decides whether or not you learn. It is you who knows whether or not you are learning something valuable. It is you, and only you, that has ever been, and will ever be, the real teacher. So stop looking outside yourself for the answers that can only be found within. It is time you remember who you are.

Take down the high and mighty professors from off their pedestals, inside your own mind. Tear up the diplomas of dogmatic repetition into shreds, for they are worth nothing more than a piece of paper anyway. Intelligence does not exist in reputation, Ego, or status, it exists within the individual human being. What good are the people who are “smarter than you” doing you? If you think they’re smarter than you, pay attention to them, and learn!

And remember that learning is about direct experience. Every bit of information before you is a teacher, not just the “smart people.” Especially Nature’s information.

Unless the mind is willing to “go there” and see things from another angle, unless the mind is willing to investigate uncomfortable data, it will remain “stalemated” and unable to grow. Learning isn’t a matter of sticking to comfortable information and ignoring uncomfortable information, it’s a matter of Consciously tasting that uncomfortable information, and getting used to it. One major roadblock on the lifelong path of learning, is when someone refuses to try a new flavor of tea…

Lesson 3
“Like Some Tea?”