Empowerment & Responsibility

New Earth Institute of Creative Living is about empowerment: individual and group empowerment. Empowerment engenders self-reliance, harmonious, cooperative problem solving, self-knowledge, and honest, non-violent and compassionate expression of feelings and intuitions.

Integral to the process of full empowerment is an inspired view of mankind that sees all people as intrinsically good, intelligent, and sacred. All people, when released from dogma and unconscious, negative conditioning, demonstrate genius. Such a view recognizes that each of us is dual in nature like a packet of energy or photon that exhibits both wave and particle behaviors. Each person has, having both a specific personality (a consistent, organized, habitual pattern of energy which attempts to deal with life’s external problems), and a more subtle, immortal soul (with a highly developed sense of natural, universal morality, justice, and decency). The soul is fully capable of steering our path through life in creative, constructive, fruitful directions if we would but initiate conversations with it and heed its advice.

Our soul, freed from the constraints of our numbing beliefs, is able to directly cull truth from illusion out of the thoughts that flow involuntarily through our minds. Without the force of feeling, soul remains a stranger.

When adults hold this inspired view of students, they naturally give them awesome responsibility: to come up with answers to life’s most difficult questions on their own, rather than rely on authorities and dogmatic teachings. Teachers and adults at New Earth Institute expect each student to be powerful and proactive, to develop and use her or his clear and powerful voice, to help design and implement the school’s environment, the nature of its subculture, and its procedures for learning and living.