Each step of the Journey is made by following the Heart, instead of following the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth though social conditioning They begin sensing that something is amiss and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to and so begins their journey of awakening
Henri Bergson On Intuition Vs Intellect 1907

Fortunately, I am more than happy to report that my  b.s. meter is working fine.    I am one of the lucky ones,  I  have one of these aptly named spiritual  immune systems
It isn't easy being different to the crowd, and don't I know it.   Being like this as I am and playing their stupid games.  I have done this for the eternity of my life to date.  I remember being the odd one out in institutional care ( State Ward) as well.  Everyone else hated school and it was considered very uncool to like school when you lived where I lived, in a children's home.   We were the naughty kids!  I was feeling in the wrong place again and I wondered then what was it I would learn from this?

It was a difficult journey learning and not learning at the same time to keep everyone happy.  I had to live where I lived for some years and I was not about to make this any harder than it already was.  I pretended I was uneducated at times because it was easier for me and others because we were Home Children  It wasn't easy living under those  harsh unforgiving government institution circumstances.

Underneath all of that though, I soon learned that it was important to draw my own serious correlations about the truths as I like to call these.  The real truth of what is going on around us and up in the universe for instance. 

How many stop to even give it a thought?  I had to continually look at all sides living in the binary I was in so it became like second nature to me very early in my teenage life if not even earlier as I would have to check the things out that I was taught because not all I learned that some of what I was taught was not being taught in schools.   My education was varied because of experience indeed.
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