Rebel
Do Not Conform Blindly
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Key Assertions That Help To Summarize This Article:
Conformity to a sick society is a sickness.
When working on reform, prepare to be vilified, especially if you make trouble.
Give other nonconformists and reformers words of encouragement, for they are likely to be experiencing the social burdens of being living agitators.
Conformity to a sick society is a sickness. By killing morals and replacing them with science, the pathway to the Absolute Spirit becomes a blind alley. The Heartwood Path seeks to re-illuminate the path to the Absolute Spirit, without loosing the benefits of science.
The Heartwood Path ought to be viewed as an ally to both religion and science. There can be no integrity without both.
By furthering the purpose of the Heartwood Path—which is “the development of integrity”—pilgrims on the path can perhaps avoid some of the errors previous reformers of Modernity have made by learning from their mistakes. Learn from yours too.
When working on reform, prepare to be vilified, especially if you make trouble. Society seeks to put limits on personal liberty.
Do not concern yourself with fitting in to the expectations of others. Prepare yourself for the misunderstanding and wrath that will likely come your way if you are making trouble while seeking needed reforms. There is genius in everyone. Give other nonconformists and reformers words of encouragement. They too are likely to be experiencing the social burdens of being living agitators. By answering the questions in the following activity you will determine, by implication, ways to become a nonconformist.
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HumaNatureConnect Activity
Being A Nonconformist
For this activity, imagine that you have become an original, a free spirit, a rebel, a dissenter, an unorthodox person, or an eccentric. Being such a nonconformist will be helpful to you as you work to shed the shackles of the domineering culture, shackles that are likely keeping you to be an underpaid worker and an over-spending consumer. Answering the following questions in your journal will provide some ideas for how to become a nonconformist.
What were the circumstances of a time, if you have one, when you stopped caring about what people think and set about on your own course?
What were the circumstances of a time, if you have one, when you were accepted for who you are?
In your attempts to be a nonconformist, if at all, how would you describe your boundaries?
How are you natural and not contrived when you demonstrate, if at all, you nonconformity?
As a nonconformist, how would you describe your “less beaten” path, if you have one?
What can you say about a time when you demonstrated that you value opinions that are different from your own?
How would you describe your passion, the thing that makes you an individualist, if at all?
Many nonconformists are mostly takers. What would you say about your pattern of giving as well as taking, if at all?
What would you write down in your journal about aiming high, beyond where others think you can go, if at all?
What plans, if any, do you have now that demonstrate that you are a bit of a loose cannon?
What plans would you like to make?
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