Most people have no usable knowledge, knowledge that would take them from A to B.
The kind of knowledge that is useful everywhere, that acts like the foundation, so they can have an experience of standing on two feet. Two feet to feel grounded, to feel powerful, to feel that they can do anything.
Religion used to give that, the sense of who I am. Something you are certain. And nothing can change that. Nothing can dislodge that.
And then, to that foundation, one can attach other things. It is like a life-raft, you can grow it...
Mine was that I was a Jew.
I was never taught religion, god, or anything. No prayers, no synagogue, no Jewish food even. No candles, no fasts. And yet. I knew it and that was my rock. Or to stay with the picture I painted above, my life-raft. It was like having a home. Having a mother whose skirt I could cling to. Having an identity. Knowing who I am.
In more advanced terms: It was my context. The context of my life.
I learned the alphabet as a Jew. And I learned reading as a Jew. I did everything as a Jew. And not for the grades, not for accolades, not for anything other than that I was a Jew.
I moved countries as a Jew. I took homelessness, starving, abuse, bravely as a Jew.
And as a Jew I was, of course, going to be the best at everything I do... because context is decisive.
So because I had my rock, because I had my life-raft, it's been difficult to impossible to teach people who have nothing.
People who have not an identity, not a steady context, other than their racket... their complaint about life. Not a good life-raft. Seeking one, but not finding.
Yesterday I looked at it again, while I was leading the Soul correction Workshop, and saw that I can help people, however old they are, to decide on a life-raft... inside my programs.
Instead of each concept, each idea, each distinction coming at them as a different storm, one is Ian, the other is Bertha... and each managing to cause untold misery, because without a life-raft, without a context each is unexpected, each is separate and unrelated, each can destroy you.
If I taught simply good living, I would, for example, set as a context to:
the best life-raft to have is to have 'foresight'.
Attain mastery in that, and all of life will become organized around that core concept, and you'll be safe and prosperous, and maybe even happy.
Why? Because everything done with foresight is due to be successful, and everything done without is due to cause misery. Like filling swamps with dirt and building entire neighborhood, entire cities on top, like it happened in Florida.
Those are the cities that were destroyed.
Foresight would have prevented all that.
But foresight is not something today's humanity, feeling so smug and secure, will think they need...
So they don't have it, they don't practice it.
If you look at what is happening in the world, Putin and his megalomania, Trump and the republican horde, the mousy democrats, the ad hoc decisions... and that is just the area of life we can all see through the media...
But as it is in the macro so it is in the micro. As it is above so it is below.
No foresight, no effective action, no possible happiness.
So yesterday, in the Soul correction workshop I explained every participant that their best bet is to pick a distinction (mine is Jew) and become masterful at it. And have it as their context for life. For their life, for politics, for everything.
We looked, I muscletested, and that was that.
Is it a life-purpose?
Everyone says you should have a purpose to your life. But purpose sounds daunting... so people look in their soul correction for purpose,