Fireworks Over Philly

Greetings from PA, where I’m attending the International Cultic Studies Association Conference and celebrating my freedom! In 2012, I celebrated with ICSA in Washington DC. Seems right somehow, right blog monitor?

Nothing makes you appreciate the meaning of democracy than leaving a cult. I hope that the rest of you are celebrating your freedom, too. And, blog monitor, I hope that, someday, you, too, taste the sweetness of a “school”-free life. 

2 thoughts on “Fireworks Over Philly

  1. Butterflies Don't Need School says:

    Reminds me when I finally left. (Yes, I, My Real I, Imagine the audacity of stripping the power of I from someone, telling them they are ‘many I’s!  That alone is criminal isn’t it!)
    Anyway, when I left, I said to another woman who stayed, that I was tired of watching her being berated in ‘class”.
    She responded saying ‘I needed to hear that!’ 
    No ! I bemoaned, You Dont Need to Be Berated, No One Does!
    Freedom is being one’s whole self, one simple me,myself, and I, and knowing in my deepest self that I don’t Need or Want nor do I Have to, just sit there and be berated and disempowered, manipulated, and abused.
    I Can Leave!
    Freedom is deciding that enough is enough and making up one’s own mind. . . about everything to do with one’s own life. . . How else to be accountable?

    • The Gentle Souls Revolution says:

      ” … Imagine the audacity of stripping the power of I from someone, telling them they are ‘many I’s! That alone is criminal isn’t it!”

      Yep. Coercion. And we lived it — we don’t have to imagine, because we can remember. I raise my coffee mug to your Independence and Freedom!

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