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The decisive aspect of people's learning throughout a person's life is neither economic nor professional nor career aspect, but it is Development: Spirit - Soul - Body of a person. It follows for a person that it is not necessary to learn, but one must learn, from the cradle to the grave. Even in the last second of earthly life, a person must learn and humbly, obediently fulfill the main task of a person's life on Earth: to become a mature person and to be a mature person within the limits of his own gifts from God - expertly expressed, within the framework of his Genotype and the Inheritance of his ancestors for ages and ages.

That's why we never ask why we need to learn throughout our life, that is, both in childhood and youth, as well as in adulthood, or in old age and also in old age. It is always necessary to learn - just as we are constantly breathing, we are also constantly learning. We learn not only to the grave, but beyond the grave. After all, who is supposed to handle the transition from material existence to existence after earthly life?

The knowledge of each person, which is transformed into a person's intellectual, emotional, moral experience, is original, unique and therefore absolutely non-transferable. But knowledge must be internalized, that is, a person must internalize what he knows. By internalizing what a person recognizes, he realizes it, understands it, knows it. Knowing is a higher level of human functioning. To know means to transform knowledge into living through: Reason and Heart, because Man is a complete Being: Knows - Knows - Acts and at the same time Feels and Evaluates.

A person should reach his own wisdom, which he can also express authentically. One can reach wisdom only and only through one's own feelings, one's own thinking, one's own behavior and one's own actions.

Why educate people? To the systemic ability to live - that is, to raise and educate so that a person is fully aware that he is a spiritual being in his essence and lives accordingly - that means behaves and acts. Only then does a person have a chance to positively develop intellectually, emotionally and morally and thus become a mature person. Humans are essentially a Spirit expressed by their own unique Soul, or Psyche. The soul is essentially an individualized manifestation of the Spirit.

Let's imagine that man is a "Computer," in which the Program is essential: and thus is the Soul: it can be imagined as the Divine software gifted to Man. The human body system can be thought of as the Divine hardware gifted to man.

I am fully aware that I am presenting thoughts to you, dear readers, which may seem to be nothing more than speculation. But at the same time, I wonder where these "speculations" in my head and in my heart came from? If we know that nothing that happens in life, and nothing that happens in a person, is no coincidence! Everything that happens is legal. Because, figuratively speaking, "God never plays dice."

We all suspect, and even know, that the quality of life in the entire society depends in many ways on the efforts of educated and pro-socially acting people. From experts with a high motivation to do good and for the benefit of many people, a good life in a given society also results. The question is to what extent a person in the particular society in which he lives - as an individual person - is responsible for his development and life.

Allow me to make a few comments on the topic of a person's responsibility for his life. I will express myself simply as follows: the nature of a person's social life is formed by the values ​​he professes, by which he is guided, on the basis of which he behaves and acts.

But what does a person prefer today? What material, mental, spiritual values ​​does it profess? Is it true that what values ​​we profess are what we are? The internalized values ​​of a particular person can be guessed from his attitudes and interests. However, his values ​​become fully visible in his actions, in his actions and deeds.

But what is happening to the values ​​of contemporary people in our geo-social space? It can be said that we live in "the age of the great crisis of human values." Do today's people live in accordance with the spiritual, mental and physical genotype of a person? The questions and answers are related to what meaning and significance is attributed to human life. People today seem to be adopting destructive ways of living. From the actions of many, it can be concluded that people today increasingly lack common sense in their approach to their own lives. In relative prosperity, people have completely forgotten the childlike, virginal approach to life, the true living with an open mind and heart. They are often influenced and distorted by the speculative way of life, which is applied in society as a monetary concept, meaning that money has replaced law, morality and God. They are affected by the pernicious influence of information. People cannot detect manipulative practices with their awareness from the mass media or the Internet - today the main bearers of public opinion, which is built not on pure truth, but on half-truths and lies.

Except, a cultured person essentially needs to develop the spiritual side of his personality and longs for truth, freedom and self-development. Nowadays, the species called cultural man is disappearing. Today's society consists primarily of civilized people. However, it makes a difference whether a person is cultured or civilized. As we have already mentioned, self-development and the spiritual side of life are essential for a cultured person. For a civilized person, material well-being and personal profit are essential. It expands socially and is itself both a manager of success and a manager of failure. The culture of nations, especially spirituality, order and discipline have been replaced by the civilizational trends of the masses of people, mainly consumerism, chaos and mindless entertainment.

It seems that the unique concept of the development of the human being, neither the humanistic self-realization of the person, nor the spiritual refinement of the people has been anchored in the epicenter of the main concern of world management. However, people themselves have a choice, because they have two ways of acting: reaction and response. (Osho, 2007.)

  • If a person responds with a reaction, then he acts unconsciously. Because he only mechanically reacts to external stimuli. Such an ignorant person is predictable and easy to manipulate. He acts irresponsibly, usually out of ignorance and psychological immaturity.
  • If a person responds with a response, then he acts consciously. Because he is aware of external stimuli. Such a conscious person is unpredictable and cannot be manipulated. Acts responsibly, as a rule, based on knowledge and psychological maturity.

The responsibility of a specific person for his life depends on his own life wisdom, which he can reach:

  • By gaining life insight and perspective by knowing, experiencing, acting.
  • Realizing one's own life path by learning the skills necessary for life.
  • By working on your own spiritual, psychological and social development by learning and educating yourself.

Man is a child of Heaven and lives on Earth. If we want to understand him, we must skillfully know and respect his spiritual, mental and physical properties.

In our opinion, the social education of a person is an important way of developing people's consciousness, which becomes, as S.Grof put it, probably "a critical condition for the preservation of life on this planet". (S.Grof – H.Z. Bennett, 1992, p.201.) We ask, to what extent is the present man as a person responsible for his life? The answer may also arise from the life experiences of all of you, our precious readers.

Words of encouragement from the world-famous Russian writer Boris Pasternak: "Life is not just walking through a field."

Author: Prof. PhDr. Mária Machalová, CSc. Literature GROF, S. - BENNET, H.Z. 1992. Holotropic consciousness. (Three levels of human consciousness, shaping our lives). Prague: GEMMA Publishers. 225 p. ISBN 85206-18-8. OSHO, 2007. Book of knowledge. (Discover the way to inner freedom.) Prague: Pragma, 2007. 270 p. ISBN 978-80-7349-082-9.