Learning is Life

Each day stimulus from our environment comes into our consciousness. This happens from the time we are born until the time we die. It even happens at night when we sleep to some degree.

Despite being unconscious and sleeping, the unconscious can revive conscious states. Loud sounds can wake us up. Pain can wake us up. The unconscious is always processing even when the conscious mind is not actively doing so.

There is a lot of data being stimulated into our senses. The conscious part of ourselves is only aware of a fraction of the data we gather from our senses. Most of it is processed at a subconscious or unconscious level.

Everything that goes on in our environment from birth to death can influence us. We learn from all our senses, but all the things we hear and see affect us the most. We hear parents, teachers, peers and voices on TV, on the radio or in music. We see people doing things, we watch TV and movies. We read books and look at magazines. We are constantly learning in life.

The word learn means to get knowledge, study, read, think about. Everything we experience as sensory stimulus is automatically knowledge that is input into our consciousness.

Learning is part of life. Life is learning.

Much of it is passive, automatic, intuitive, unconscious, involuntary and doesn't involve much willful effort or evaluation on our part. We pick up the language of our parents. We pick up gestures and behaviors. We mimic others without thinking. We are copycats and shape-shifters to a large degree. That's the "lower" form of learning.

A higher form of learning comes when we actively choose to learn. Instead of being passive, it's active. Instead of being automatic, it's willed. Instead of being involuntary, it's voluntary. Instead of being unconscious, it's conscious. Instead of blindly consuming knowledge that gets incorporated into ourselves -- as part of our being, as part of our self-view and worldview -- it's critically evaluated, judged, diagnoses and discerned for validity and worth of being incorporated into ourselves.

We can also be pressured into learning, such is the case with mandatory schooling. In that case, we are not always critically thinking in order to be influences by knowledge and accept it. From the time we are born, this is also what happens as we passively, automatically, intuitively and unconsciously consume data from existence into our consciousness.

This is how collectivism worms its way into our lives, uncritically, unthinkingly because we are easily influenced by everything that people say and do. We are repeatedly exposed and influenced by the standard norms of acceptability in society which shapes and forms us into who we are or become.

To be a more self-directed, self-controlled, self-governed, self-responsible, self-sufficient and self-mastered individual human being, we need to employ more higher learning thinking and processing. We can develop skills like critical thinking.

This is the basis for strong individualism that doesn't bend to the external impositions of the collective. This is how we can strengthen ourselves and learn to be more free in mind/consciousness. This is how we can eventually be free from tyranny and the centralized external governance and control of others who try to rule over us.

We can create real freedom from masters and rulers, to live in anarchy. Learning about morality is pivotal. Morality is about how to behave with respect to the existence of others who also exist as we do. For anarchy to exist as an ideal way of life, it must be done through moral individualism that recognizes the objective difference between what is right and what is wrong, not the collectivism of imposed influences and accepting what we are told is right or wrong.

Learning is life. Morality is life. Learning to live more morally is the path and way to the higher, realer and truer life potential that can exist for all to be free.

This is active learning. This is higher learning. This is conscious learning. This is the higher conscious life path of learning, instead of the lower unconscious "dead" way to go about learning. Caring for truth activates a desire to want to learn and "resurrects" us from being "dead" in a coffin or tomb of unconsciousness.

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