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My weblog and website is not only committed to the truth but the dissemination of the truth ~ as I see it.
But that's also what I do as a psychotherapist and it is precisely what my clients seek in working with me.
I get paid to tell the truth and it is the fodder which people use to empower themselves and find more life enhancing choices of behavior.
But I would also argue that we as a nation are also starved for the truth and we must continually seek it out and share it with our friends and acquaintances .
We must stop waiting for the leaders and be the leader by sharing our truth ~ regardless of the consequences.
It is also the most critical step for a needed shift in social consciousness .
Howard Zinn, The progressive, answers the question of many Americans who ask WHAT CAN I DO ?
Excerpt: " What does it take to bring a turnaround in social consciousness - from being a racist to being in favor of racial equality, from being in favor of Bush's tax program to being against it, from being in favor of the war in Iraq to being against it ? ..... This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.... The answer then is as obvious and profound as the Buddhist mantra that says: "Look for the truth exactly on the spot where you stand."
Allen L Roland
HOWARD ZINN: WHAT CAN I DO?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021205Y.shtml
HOWARD ZINN, THE PROGRESSIVE - What does it take to bring a turnaround in social consciousness - from being a racist to being in favor of racial equality, from being in favor of Bush's tax program to being against it, from being in favor of the war in Iraq to being against it?
We desperately want an answer, because we know that the future of the human race depends on a radical change in social consciousness.
It seems to me that we need not engage in some fancy psychological experiment to learn the answer, but rather to look at ourselves and to talk to our friends. We then see, though it is unsettling, that we were not born critical of existing society.
There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness - embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television.
This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.
It is so simple a thought that it is easily overlooked as we search, desperate in the face of war and apparently immovable power in ruthless hands, for some magical formula, some secret strategy to bring peace and justice to the land and to the world.
"What can I do?" The question is thrust at me again and again as if I possessed some mysterious solution unknown to others.
The odd thing is that the question may be posed by someone sitting in an audience of a thousand people, whose very presence there is an instance of information being imparted which, if passed on, could have dramatic consequences.
The answer then is as obvious and profound as the Buddhist mantra that says: "Look for the truth exactly on the spot where you stand."
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