Where are our heroes?
2012/10/22 1 Comment
Says Sara Hunter:
Where have our great heroes gone?
Do people do not dream enough these days? Where are those leaders of men and women who can lead the world into a new vision?
My answer:
Society as it is today doesn´t allow the arising of heroes. There is this book I have – Spiritual Emergency and one of the co-authors poses the same question. I will try to find this particular fragment if I manage. The gist of his words is:
Why are we short of heroes today, where are all the great people? He goes on giving a blatant answer:
Our greatest poets, prophets, visionaries, great artists and musicians are to be found in the madhouse. Their message seemed so strikingly different,
far-fetched and outlandish so by the fact that no one took them seriously, not having a fair chance to express their specific gift, – in short – this huge power being locked inside of them not finding a natural course to be unleashed, turned them into misfits…and eventually insanity was the only option.
Also the great heroes are amidst all the “normal people” we know, who at some point decided to keep their mouth shut in order to survive. They have given up on their inner voice, as nobody was disposed to listen to them and take them seriously. So no wonder, in order to protect themselves they keep a low profile.
So really – I nominate you a hero taking up this so incredibly overarching and essential question.
If I am allowed to take a break from false modesty, I want to tell you that I had the guts to go against and put up with all academic and societal prejudice, demeaning ridicule and humiliation, and I have won over them all.
The fruits of my courage are beginning to effloresce.
https://julienmatei.com/2012/08/31/the-most-unusual-piano-lesson/