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Hi, this is Jack (of All Free Trades) in Beijing, China It is my inten<on to startup an Educa<onal Eutopia (Good Place) I call wherever wanted on this planet—hopefully, Chile, Columbia or Uruguay.

This will be a Montessori-‐oriented Community Homeschool provided in English by Jack

and his Digital Library (10,000+ books, videos, etc.) with Internet links to Anarcho-‐Libertarian Resources. 1

Education Not Indoctrination Freedom Not Control

Home Not Prison Individual Not Collective

Utopia Nowhere to Eutopia Now Here

The SOURCE

The SOURCE


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Moral Right Versus Physical Might

•  No MORAL RIGHT to make a person obey you •  Only the PHYSICAL MIGHT

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Linkage For Life Power - Control Versus Freedom -

•  Explore if you are Responsibly Free and what that means

•  How you act towards your Child is how you allow others to act towards you

•  If you force your Child to obey you then you will accept obeying others in same way

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“Freedom is the preven<on of control by others. This requires self-‐control…

educa<on, knowledge, well-‐being.” Lord Acton


Linkage For Life Individual Freedom – Moral Right Versus Collective Control – Forceful Might

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Linkage For Life Parent = Kind Dictator or True Enabler?

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Linkage For Life Every Adult Must Choose for their Child: To Be Dictator or Enabler

1. Your Child is “Misbehaving” and “Out of Order”…or 2. Your Child is “Ac<ng” to “Meet its Needs” •  Which you Choose will Decide Both your Fates •  Do you say to your spouse “You misbehaved!” •  You only say this to your child…why? •  It has to do with POWER & CONTROL •  You have POWER OVER your Child…how will YOU USE IT? •  Only 2 Choices:

1.  Use my Power to Control my Child 2.  Use my Power to give my Child Power to Control Herself

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Linkage For Life Parent & Child— Government & CiCzen—

Power to Control…or Free?

POWER is usually used to CONTROL But…POWER should be used to FREE

Only two kinds of CONTROL obtained by POWER: 1.   Control over others 2.   Control over yourself

To the degree you try to use Power to Control Others (your Child or any other Person), you will be depriving them of the

Power to Control Themselves—and be turning your RelaConship into one of Master/Slave. 7

The Love of Power vs The Power of Love


Linkage For Life School is Prison, Forced Obedience Is THIS what you Want for your Child?

•  Consider Montessori Method as Personally Responsible Freedom

•  Children should be FREE to LEARN – only Way to truly Learn

•  You can FORCE your child to obey •  This will Damage your rela<onship

rather than Manage it •  Understand you should NEVER USE

YOUR POWER TO CONTROL •  Use your POWER to give POWER to

your Child to CONTROL himself

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Linkage For Life You Do NOT Need to Teach Your Child to Learn!

“Children are biologically designed to educate themselves.. through play and explora<on.. we don’t need to educate them.. we need to provide the condi<ons to allow them to educate themselves…” Peter Gay Your Child is its OWN SOURCE– be its RESOURCE!

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The SOURCE


Linkage For Life “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Goethe, German Philosopher-‐Poet

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FreeEaching is not Teaching or Preaching There is no freedom for un<l you are free from. I help you locate – and then, if you choose, help you break – those links of your gene<c and cultural condiConing that control you. Then you can control yourself and choose to create new linkages with other individuals living Responsible Personal Freedom.

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What is FreeEach ? (rhymes with “Teach”)


Linkage For Life What Does Offer? Wealth? Power? SalvaCon? Enlightenment

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No, to all of the above…“And the truth will set you free?” No, but it will show you the prison you are in. 1. All is Natural Law: maher moved by chance 2. No Supernatural: God is projected need for Parental care 3. You will Die: death’s necessary, therefore life’s sufficient 4. You Desperately Need Others: in<macy is happiness 5. Freedom is Fearful Responsibility: takes courage to be free 6. Right replaces Might: ini<a<on of force is immoral 7. Governments are Criminal: do not overthrow—abandon 8. Grow Up: become Responsible for your Freedom


Linkage For Life FreeEach ��4 Principles of Personal Existence

1. NO iniCaCng physical aggression (or condoning) for ANY reason. 2. You can't control another person, only yourself. 3. You are always trying to control yourself and your world even when you choose to harm yourself or others to do it. 4. Every freely entered into relaConship is an exchange of services/goods—the trading of personal values.


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Personal Prefer Truth, Refer to Reality

“The founda<on of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repea<ng unintelligible proposi<ons about things beyond the possibili<es of knowledge.” Thomas Henry Huxley

“We have tried so many things, when shall we try the simplest of all – freedom?” Frederick Bas<at

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GOV’T GOD


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FreeEachSapere Aude - Dare to Know

Freedom : Who Controls You? is ? “To the degree you do not control yourself,

someone or something else will.”

Your life is the answer to these two ques<ons:

1. WHO is this “You” ac<ng itself out moment by moment? 2. WHO is in control of whatever is ac<ng out as You?

“You are only as free as you take the responsibility to be.”

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Linkage For Life YOU! Are a Black Box

Black Box “Anything that works without its inner processes being accessible or understood by its user.” It’s about understanding and managing your Self…

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Linkage For Life Open Your Black Box—Discover YOU Sequence of Understanding 1. Bogom = Family •  Genes & Memes: Parents, Siblings 2. Back = Peers •  Memes: Same age, Genera<on 3. Top = Ideology •  Memes: Religion, Poli<cs 4. Right = Nation •  Genes & Memes: Culture,

Ethnicity, Race 5. Lei = Learning •  Memes: School, Workplace 6. Front = •  Memes = Internet, TV, News

3.TOP Ideology (Religion, Politics)

5.LEFT Learning (School,

Workplace)

4.RIGHT Nation

(Culture, Ethnicity)

6.FRONT

(Internet, TV, News)

2.BACK Peers

(Same age, Generation)

1.BOTTOM Family

(Parents, Siblings)

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Linkage For Life WHO Are YOU? Self-‐Understanding & Self-‐Control Responsible Personal Freedom

“Many adults lack freedom not so much because someone has stolen it from them as because they have thrown it away.” Thomas Szasz

WHO, at any moment, are YOU and WHO is CONTROLLING YOU? • Personal problems come from inability to understand and control our Self—to be Responsible for our Freedom. • My philosophy is Responsible Personal Freedom. • In order to CONTROL yourself you must UNDERSTAND yourself. • To understand yourself is to discover: Who are YOU? Then you can discover: Who or What CONTROLS this YOU.

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FREEDOM = CONTROL & RESPONSIBILITY Do YOU Need to Be In Control?

•  FREEDOM best examined by the word CONTROL •  IN CONTROL (of yourself, someone, something)

is what we all want… •  OUT OF CONTROL is what we all fear! •  What does it mean to “control” somebody or

something? •  Core of control is FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY •  Who controls YOU? •  Who is RESPONSIBLE for your FREEDOM?


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Two Who’s or What’s Controlling You

•  There are only two possible YOU’s that can be “Controller” or “Controlled”

1. You as an individual composed of various “parts” in conflict with themselves or working harmoniously as a non-‐conflic<ng whole.

2. Someone or something other than “You”.

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Linkage For Life Who are YOU? Thinking is Talking to Yourself

•  Who Are YOU? •  How answer this most important

of all ques<ons we can ask ourselves?

•  Only way possible: by talking to our self. Thinking is “autologue”: talking to one’s self.

•  You have more than one person talking in your head/mind.

•  Thinking is more than a monologue—it’s dialogue—many different and compe<ng, VOICES.

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Are YOU Free!? •  Use Reason to evaluate your Voices •  Understand your Self •  How CONDITIONED by your Genes and

Memes (GM Master) •  Discover, acknowledge, and accept

you are NOT FREE. •  Begin the lifelong learning to

“UNLEARN” or de-‐condi<on your Self •  Understand how your Gene-‐Meme

Master has programmed you •  CHOOSE…to live a life of Responsible

Personal Freedom

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Owning Your Voices

“When you talk to God you are praying; when God talks to you, you are insane or a Saint/Savior.”

•  Consider all Voices as belonging to “you”. •  Own them—take responsibility for them. •  Doesn’t mean you should do what any voice

tells you to do •  You can agree or disagree with it.

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Which Voices Should You Listen To? How? Why?

•  Peeled the onion to its center to find? •  VOID and s<nging eyes! •  No one here… •  No Gods, Saviors, Leaders, Parents… •  This is…NO WHERE? •  Just CONSCIOUSNESS (YOU) facing its <me… •  CRIME of I’ME (I AM ME…responsible for myself) •  You are your own God-‐Parent…Grow UP! •  This is NOW HERE! Where •  YOU discover, understand, value, enact REASON.

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Linkage For Life Reason—What You Use to Judge Your Voices

Aristotle’s three laws of thought: •  1) En<ty is Iden<ty or A is A—whatever en<ty exists, it exists

as itself en<rely and exclusively •  2) No Contradic<on or A cannot be both A and not-‐A—

whatever is cannot both be and not be at the same <me •  3) No Middle or A is either A or not-‐A—whatever a thing is it

must be either itself or something else •  Reason leads to Science to decide what is Reality or not. •  Reality happens to real things including persons independent

of their projec<ve wishes. •  Reason refers and defers to Reality. •  Reason only reliable means to decide truth of your Voices.

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Linkage For Life Truth, Courage, Maturity, Responsibility, Freedom

•  “The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” Ayn Rand

•  “Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” Thomas Szasz

•  “Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-‐imposed immaturity….its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own understanding!’-‐-‐that is the moHo of enlightenment.” Immanuel Kant

•  "Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves." Friedrich Nietzsche

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Linkage For Life The Courage to Be an Individual •  “Meaning and morality of your life come from within

yourself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-‐expansion by experimenPng and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibiliPes and the healthy person explores as many of them as possible. Religions that teach pity, self-‐contempt, humility, self-‐restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creaPve and risky.” Friedrich Nietzsche

•  “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely oSen, and somePmes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Rudyard Kipling 27


Linkage For Life Responsible Personal Freedom— CharacterisCcs of the Mature Adult

1. Truth, rather than dishonesty. 2. Goodness, rather than evil. 3. Beauty, not ugliness or vulgarity. 4. Unity, wholeness, and transcendence of opposites, not arbitrariness or forced choices. 5. Aliveness, not deadness or the mechanization of life. 6. Uniqueness, not bland uniformity. 7. Perfection and necessity, not sloppiness, inconsistency, or accident. 8. Completion, rather than incompleteness. 9. Justice and order, not injustice and lawlessness.

10. Simplicity, not unnecessary complexity. 11. Richness, not environmental impoverishment. 12. Effortlessness, not strain. 13. Playfulness, not grim, humorless, drudgery. 14. Self-sufficiency, not dependency. 15. Meaningfulness, rather than senselessness. 16. Gentleness and kindness, caring for the vulnerable in all. 17. Gratitude as grace and elegance. 18. Inter-dependence, incorporating dependence and independence. 19. Self-control not Other-control. 28


Linkage For Life Model of Maturing: Ahributes of Adulthood The Person Symbolization Other-Centeredness

Integration Stabilization Autonomy Successful Effects

Cognitive skills

-Imaginative -Precise control of words & numbers -Comprehends oral & written word -Speaks & writes articulately -Reflective -Inductive & deductive

-Multiple perspectives -Analyzes well -Realistic & objective in judgment

-Relational, synthetic, organizational skills -Developed hypothetical-deductive & logical reasoning skills

-Knowledge is accurate, precise, broad, organized, readily accessible, resistant to interference -Skills resist disruptions; if not, can recover resiliently

-Judgment is independent, critical, appropriate -Knowledge & skills are mobile, readily transferable, & available for self-educating & creative purposes

-Increased mastery, competence & sense of power

Interpersonal skills

-Sensitive to & perceptive of others -Cares about understanding others & being understood

-Empathetically feels or, cares about, respects, & enjoys persons who are different from self

-Not defensive but genuinely open & spontaneous in relationships -Able to create cooperative work & intimate bonds

-Faithful to friends & chosen groups -Works to sustain & always improve relationships

-Can be independent, self-reliant, tolerate aloneness -Selectively forms interdependent relationships

-Increased ability to create intimate relationships even if not reciprocated

Values -Aware of & articulates biases, values, & assumptions

-Accepts & appreciates diverse viewpoints -Values each person as end not just means

-Sets clear priorities among values -Values do not contradict or conflict

-Same values endure -Persists in achieving values across time

-Motivated by considered principle not impulse wish or social pressures

-Continual energy for new interests, enthusiastic, resilient coping

Metavalues -Honesty, Truth -Attentive Care, Sympathy

-Integrity, Serenity -Commitment, Strength

-Courage, Freedom -Humor, Observer

Self -Accurate self-insight & understanding

-Accurate understanding of how others view self

-Unifies all parts of self: private & public--Trusts self to act with integrity as whole person

-Sense of self is strong & stable, identity firm but flexible--Tested self-confidence

-Discriminatingly accepts & rejects others’ views of self--Affirms own worth outside norm

-Self as spiral of growth up & out--Faces Fear & Void as Truth


Linkage For Life My Brain Is Full, May I be Excused?

Look Up & Out The Spiral of Growth

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