From February 2004:
Our sensory exploration and learning is
interrupted, from a very young age, for abstract lessons of language.
We are taught definitions, that what a thing is, is its word
-- kitten, puppy, Mommy. Bizarre learning that has no resonance in the
three million years of instinctive knowledge wired into our DNA. And
then, immediately, we are taught, and taught and taught
what is 'good' and 'bad', what is 'right' and 'wrong', what is
'rational' and 'irrational'. And we are judged on how our behaviour reflects and
reinforces that terrible learning -- on our conformity. For the rest of our lives we will be taught, and told, what
to do, how to do it, and how to behave, learning that is utterly
abstract and disconnected from who we are (or were). We
will, as we have been taught and told, fill our lives with arduous
duties, with fearsome consequences if we 'fail' (poverty, being
labeled and shunned as a 'failure', or the shame and terror of not
having enough). And finally, we become that abstract other that is our strange learnings and behaviours. We learn to live outside our real selves.
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MADE IN CANADA
trust your
instincts 
