Personal Responsibility
One of the important foundations of the law of mankind is self-responsibility.
Self-responsibility has many levels and I am not claiming knowledge of all levels - I would just like to talk about some of its aspects.
At a very basic level, I ask, how or why would any man or woman ever have loving responsibility over another man or woman?
Much of our society has been taken over by those who would like to delegate personal responsibility to another body or think it necessary to be responsible for another.
A man or woman who has given birth to a son or daughter sometimes takes care of their physical needs and in time the son or daughter is able to take over responsibility for their physical lives. Ideally, I think, the man or woman does not try to take over the soulful responsibility of the son or daughter and is never of the opinion that they know better what the child should do in that realm. They may make a decision to protect the child when necessary but ideally they allow the child to grow up as free as possible from restrictions on their path in life.
If one does think it is necessary to guide their child on a soulful path there would never be a clear point in time to give it up. There is no magical age where a child suddenly becomes able to take over the responsibility from their parent. The only perfectly clear time when a parent should give up responsibility is to never have taken over responsibility in the first place. Physical care, yes, soul path responsibility, no.
I was half responsible for two boys born into the world. These souls lived with me until of an age when they lived on their own. My lack of emotional maturity meant more or less grief for them in their own lives, however, I understand now that it is not beneficial for me to feel responsibility for their spiritual growth then or now.
After my first son was born I started learning about children, education, and medical norms particularly in relation to childbirth and child schooling. From this education the second son was born at home with no medical assistance or intervention. This birth was not without an element of fear in me, however, his mother and I experienced the birth together and have never regretted it.
My education also led me to not having my sons receive vaccines. It also meant that I never sent them to school. You couldn’t call what we did home schooling because there was no schooling going on. I believed and still do that we all learn best by doing things we are interested in. Their mother and I lived our lives and the boys lived theirs.
I didn’t use the language then as I do now, but I can see that I took some responsibility for my and my families lives by not entering into the medical or educational ideologies of the day.
I did have a lot of emotional baggage and of course I passed that down as parents do, but I rarely interfered in what the boys were doing and learning. I didn’t try to control their thinking or beliefs. I did not pass any type of ideology towards them.
They made the choice to enter school in grade nine and they each attended for four years. High school for them was mostly about a social life. They had little difficulty in accomplishing what passed for academics.
The only other schooling they each did was a trade apprenticeship after they had started working. Today they both manage commercial/industrial projects in their fields. They did not advance in their work because of education, they advanced because they were good at it and quite responsible to it. I am not saying this is the be all and end all of what one should accomplish in life, though I am proud of what they have done. I just understand that the accepted educational process has a lot of ideology embedded in it and students are indoctrinated into the mainstream facade, which can be quite harmful to its followers.
The sons born through me have avoided almost all of societies medical procedures as well. As far as I know there have only been two visits for minor physical injury for both of them until now. Because of their work they did succumb to some of the covid inanities.
As for me I made choices for them when they were young based on taking responsibility for our lives. I am very glad to have done that.
I do not speak for ‘The Sovereign Way’; I am just sharing some of my experience that has come about because of TSW course and my relationship to it. https://thesovereignsway.com/law-for-mankind-options/?link=45555