permeability of truth

we are born into this planet's culture..
 born into a culture that has already established laws, and walls, functional codes of living...  a culture that already has definitions of truth, and "invented" methods of living.     As we grow up, our SELF is filtered through these methods of living - methods whose permanence and establishment preceded us.

We accept life as we see it...  because that is how we have always "seen" it.    Since we did not witness the origin of many ideas,  we do not see them as permeable..  instead, we accept them as fixed, eternal, "truths"..

I think there is a struggle to adapt ourselves to the culture that birthed us..   pressing against our minds and our imaginations in an attempt to "function properly".  
Since we have been born into a world that already has answers..    we assume that we do not get to invent answers anymore..  at least not fundamental ones.     That leaves us in a broken state of being.    

It is time to reconsider ourselves as the authors of our culture.   We do not have to mindlessly accept the principals of previous generations!     This is not a call for rebelliousness,  this is a lament for "awareness", for the pursuit of evolution and clarity.   Life is motion.. all of life..    we cannot assume that simply because principals have been in place for many years, that those principals cannot be challenged, changed, or improved.   We do not have to fear attempting to shape our environment..  rather than ourselves.    Our culture is malleable.  

I have seen faults and severe problems with certain methods of my culture..   the impoverishment of relationships, our lacking perception of well being..  etc.  
But, I believe a person must believe in the permeability of truth before they can reclaim their power of creation.    I am just beginning to comprehend that power...  to believe that I can change fundamentals of my culture,  and the culture of the future.  


Andrew Tipton