We live in a world where we have become accustomed to prescription and subscription. Right from birth, there are countless prescriptions for almost everything and even those activities that should be happening naturally.
There is prescription for what we should eat, drink and intervals thereof. There is even prescription of how long we should sleep.
While we do not find this strange and awkward, these are things that should naturally happen. We should eat when we feel hungry, and how long we sleep should depend on how much sleep the body requires at a time.
The body is one most intelligent machine that naturally self regulates if given a chance, and the only wise thing to do is to follow its own prescription.
Just as with prescription, we are also from the onset expected to subscribe to one or many sorts of gangs. We are expected to belong to at least one political or religious gang, not to mention many other societal subgroups.
No one is let off the hook to be their own person and find their own way of life.
This is because it is against the self-proclaimed knowing-it-all institutions, whose principles may even be the most fundamental limitations to humankind.
During all these, there is, however, one prescription which is intentionally disregarded. It is disregarded because it would be the best prescription for the individual but dangerous to the institutions.
This is the prescription of taking a position of being a watcher – someone who observes themselves, their actions, behaviours, and habits first, and then applies the same disposition to everyone and everyone else; someone who listens to all views, meditate on them and form their own conclusion.
From the position of a watcher, there are no other prescriptions other than abiding by the laws of nature and of men, but only those who do not take away their birth right.
There is no subscription to any religious, political, and other societal gangs.
A watcher’s life is guided merely by perpetual receipt of infinite intelligence through intuition, not outdated information from memory.
Of course, past information may only be used as a reference point to substantiate the significance of timely instructions from the ultimate source.
However, as much as the position of a watcher is worth trying, it is not for the fainthearted. It can make one turn from being the most loved to the most wanted and hated.
This is because so much time and resources have been spent in institutions to which almost every member of society subscribes.
For these reasons, society will do anything to defend its stance through its established institutions, even if they may be obsolete.
So, anyone who wishes to be truly free may do so but must first brace themselves for the consequences. This is because, as history has proven, the resistance to this position can be so immense that many who have tried have not made it out alive.
For a watcher’s way is to find his own new path, not for anyone to follow, but to bring the realisation of the true power that lies dormant in all of us.
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Uncommon Sense is published every Friday in the New Era newspaper with contributions from Karlos Naimwhaka.