YGK 7.0 BEGINS Being a philosopher is a constant as it is identical to me with being an authentic human being. Being a (individual and organizational) consultant is a profession. Being a spiritual teacher is also a profession. Through a confluence of events around the turn of the 21st century I fell into being, and then made a conscious choice to be, a spiritual teacher, so called. Being a spiritual teacher is at times brutal because you have to deal directly with the ego in its most raw (and lowest, even though most sophisticated in one sense) manifestations. I never liked being or being called a spiritual teacher, and therefore ended it (YGK 6.0) last year. YGK 7.0 is going to be simply being a philosopher plus consultant and author (on philosophy and cosmology). The greatest joy that you derive from being a spiritual teacher is the experience and privilege of directly partaking in other people’s spiritual awakening and transformation. At the same time it was clear to me that those who became spiritually enlightened/awakened and transformed with me were those who would become awakened and transformed anyway anyhow without me. Further, being compelled to be the center of a concentric configuration while being more fundamentally committed to creating an omnicentric consciousness and world and to endure the contradiction inherent therein became too stressful. A harmony-seeking idealist and rational thinker, who is intensely introverted, is not suited for being a spiritual teacher! Now YGK 7.0 begins. I am going to enjoy my life much more with the world’s greatest Joyologist next to me! To Be a Philosopher Philosophy is not a profession. Being a philosopher is not having a profession called philosophy. Being a philosopher means to engage in the never-ending quest for being fully and authentically human. In the ultimate sense, to be a philosopher is to be an authentic human being. Therefore, teaching philosophy involves exemplification—to be an example of the engagement in the never-ending quest for being authentically human—for being an authentic human being. Authenticity involves authorship, that is, being the author of one’s own life, and therefore thinking, creativity, generativity, and responsibility. Authenticity also involves authority, that is, being the authority of one’s own self and for one’s own life, and therefore integrity, power, commitment, and action. And to develop as a philosopher, to evolve as an authentic human being, one needs to have the attitude disposed toward love of and passion for truth, knowledge, and wisdom. In the process of developing as a philosopher, one becomes an invitation to philosophy—to being an authentic human being. Let us not corrupt the purity of philosophy by turning it into a specialized field or a particular profession.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:35:04 +0000
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