In brief, wisdom is the power our brains acquires by learning the lessons of our history. From the infancy meanings stage of history we learn from the gods and parents who governed our infancy the the management of our basic needs for food and shelter, the values of love and caring and the terrors of their absence, and the manifold wonders of the world we live in. From the childhood security stage we learn how strong parental power can deal with the dangers and forces that threaten those needs and values, our beliefs and very existence. From the adolescent togetherness stage we learn how to join in relationships, laws and institutions that begin to provide those needs, values and security and struggle to end the governance of parental power. From the adulthood esteem stage we learn how to transfer those relationships, laws and institutions and that struggle to a fresh location and exploit the need for esteem to seize the wealth and possessions that replaced parental power And in the maturity self-actualization stage in same location of those gods and parents we learn from their regressions to the gods and parental abuses how to use those relationships to build new laws and institutions that replace the need for esteem with the need for self-actualization to replace those parental powers..
The result iof internalization of all those lessons of history is to free us from the constraining powers of all those stages of history and enable us to make pragmatic decisions that promote our full potential.
About Me
- Rovion
- After many years of living, I can confirm Emerson & amp; #39''s saying: & quote; All life is an experiment. The more the better & amp; quote;. My experiments began in 1918 on my father’s farm in the mountains of British Columbia. Chemistry and civil law degrees from universities of British Columbia and McGill. Stage and lighting manager in college and community theaters and in Vancouver’s Theatre in the Park for tuition money. Infantry instructor, battle training and dispatch rider as Lieutenant in the Canadian Army. International patent attorney in Delaware, Toronto and New York for DuPont, Johnson & Johnson and Hercules Incorporated. Was member of Bars of Quebec and Ontario, Council of Episcopal Diocese of New York Inter-parish Council of Midtown Manhattan, and World Future Society. Survived 60s in Greenwich Village. Scuba diver. Instructor, Academy of Lifelong Learning, University of Delaware.