The Second Education
By: Elio D'Anna
Tags: Personal Development, Education Reform, Freedom, Leadership, Education

Image courtesy John Mosca

The equation between leadership and “dream”

There is no need to be convinced about something new or to change our true beliefs, nor is it necessary to add new concepts and knowledge to the ones that we already have in order to go ahead along the path traced by our research and comprehend the equation between leadership and “dream”. On the contrary, we have to dig up, exhume and repair the attic of our existence…and listen to ourselves.

In order to do so, you must repel prejudices and put aside oxidised concepts, rejecting second hand ideas and useless emotions. This operation requires abandoning and losing more than adding. It is necessary to diminish the conceptual and emotional accoutrements that increased day after day during life, since we were children; we have been homologated to the world of levity and enlisted in the sad army of the adults by means of that long and painful process called education.

This process can be more correctly defined as first education.

The first education starts from birth.

For this first education man must thank his parents, other adults, educators, teachers and school. But during the development that turns him into an adult, sooner or later, he will conceive the brave and extraordinary envisage of his re-education.

He realises that his education and the decision of what to keep and what to throw away of it has been foisted on him in early childhood and that this task is too important to be assigned to others and that the meaning of life is to take the responsibility and the task of stopping the world and looking at it with new eyes. Thus another life long and endless learning cycle begins. This cycle is called second education.

We needed to know that inside the human being, in the invisibility of existence, algebra works differently from the one of the material world, a type of algebra that is apparently paradoxical and according to which it is necessary to lose something in order to receive more.

This is the main characteristic of the second education, that no additional knowledge or concepts are required, no other devotion or new persuasion, but, on the contrary, their loss.

We are not saying that all that has been taught to us must be rejected. If a man is satisfied with his life he just needs to make sure not to change anything, not even a small mind-set or attitude and he must make sure that in his existence, nothing goes beyond the apparent, superficial changes, so that everything remains static, repetitive and recurring.

In these cases, which concern almost all humanity, it doesn’t even make sense to talk about the future, but only a fake future, a horizontal future.

The material of the past existence gathered on the shoulders is tossed ahead as if it were the future. The events of our existence, disguised in a makeshift manner, with a fake beard, fake nose and enormous eyeglasses, like in a gag in the old days, show up again and mislead us, selling themselves as the future.

Briefly, what has been given to us, who we are and the things we know, are perfect to remain where we are but they are unbearable ballast if we wish to go beyond.

A man who wishes to give an evolutionary turning point to his existence will soon discover that not even a speck of his old life can follow him during the next transition. He must pick up what he understood, heard, thought, perceived, believed, loved and hated everything he was attracted by or that he disliked, that interested him or that he neglected, and abandons it or turns it in the new direction.

Therefore, the possibility of evolving must go through a psychological revolution, a sort of mental disorder. This mind-set shock is called Metanoia. It is a bomb that man throws into his internal shop turning upside down its dusty order and jumbling his old description of the world. The goods start jumping on the shelves mixing up the prices that have been assigned to them, causing the subversion of the internal values.

Even the nations and civilizations, just as man, at a certain point of his history can go through these shocks in order to make this epochal transition, in order to mix up the tiles of the game and face a quantum jump in the future. This is the reason for which in the origin, which is still mysterious, for western beliefs, madness was considered to be the matrix of knowledge and evolution.

Freedom from conventional education

Knowledge, culture or discipline coming from outside will never help you to achieve the highest level of understanding or any possible way to freedom — freedom from descriptions, beliefs, superstitions, from internal and external conditionings, from identification with inner moods and outer events, freedom from mass media and mass-hypnotism, freedom from your own fears, negative emotions and false ideas, freedom from what you wrongly call yourself — freedom from all subjection or dependence — freedom from the conventional first education — freedom from all political and ideological tendencies.

For a man to be completely free he must fight a lifetime of indoctrination!

He must overturn his way of seeing things. Only in this way, and through hard work, can he change his history and destiny, memory and imagination, past and future… A man can never achieve this alone.. He needs a School — a special School — a School that doesn’t teach, that doesn’t add but eliminates.

A School for overturning — where ideas and knowledge are overthrown…. and first and foremost, the idea that death is inevitable….”Nothing has to end unless you dream it so…. not a business and not even your very life. Death is the ultimate resistance to truth, harmony and beauty.”

It is time for the Second Education to appear in all schools and universities, and give new directions to the world about economics and financial power. The Second Education believes that all comes from within — all that you see and touch, right or wrong, good or evil, is just a projection of an invisible, powerful world, although neglected, that abides right inside you.

Beyond any achievement of humanity, be it social or scientific, there is always the dream of a man, only one, an individual who has believed in his dream and has put his life at stake to make it come true. The worst enemy we have is the belief that we are psychologically complete and therefore have nothing else to do in life but to acquire notions and make experiences.