Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of people is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide. The depths of feelings can be buried so deeply in an individual that they may be totally unknown to that person. One important element which keeps people locked in their loneliness is the conviction that their real self—the inner self, the self that is hidden from others—is one which no one could love. It is easy enough to trace the origin of this feeling. The spontaneous feelings of a child, one’s real attitudes, have so often been disapproved of by parents and others that one has come to introject this same attitude oneself, and to feel that one’s spontaneous reactions and the self one truly is constitutes a person whom no one could love. This can lead a person to even question one’s religious faith, question some of one’s own values, and cause one to feel very uncertain as to the answers to these questions, which will lead to one experiencing a certain element of despair. Although one knows these answers must be inside of oneself, because they do not seem to be coming, it can leave one feeling frightened. #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

Many people seek the help of a psychologist, but it also leaves them wondering, “How are you going to stop the charlatans who exploit persons psychologically, often for great financial gain?” I respect this question, but I would point out that the person whose purpose is to exploit others can do so without calling oneself a psychologist. This is because few persons are sufficiently nonmaterialistic to look beyond the physical appearance for the mental reality of the person interviewed. Most come carrying a preconceived picture of some rich, perfectly wonderful, perfectly attractive, perfectly saintlike Perfect Friend. This idea is not realized. They leave the meeting disillusioned. The real teacher is hard to behold. For one can be seen partly with the heart, partly with the mind, but rarely with the eye of flesh. The duty of a leader is to attract people by example. Indeed, it can be a dilemma. Some may feel like, “I do not know if our two Worlds can ever meet—because our World has feelings in it.” I could not agree with him more. Many overstress on the conscious and the rational and the underestimation of the wisdom of our total reacting organism that prevents us from living as unified, whole human beings. #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

However, it is necessary to understand that the love is really felt for the divine presence which is using the teacher. Even if the symbol were a person devoid of spiritual power and light, its effect would still appear beneficially within one’s life. This is because one has imagined it to be powerful and enlightening and the creative power of one’s own thought produces some benefit. All this time, it is your own high self which is guiding you, even when it is using the mental image of the guide you may have selected for a purpose. Your soul is your own real saviour. There are hands in every country, among every people, outstretched to God for inward help. The responsibility to answer these prayers rests therefore primarily with God. Any person who apparently gives the needed help is only an intermediary. Neither the power nor the wisdom which one manifests is one’s own. If one perceives that fact, one will be humbled by it. People generally have been led by society, including their parents, to adopt and follow one of the major prophets of their time. This is done partly in the belief that one is still in touch with them from a Heaven-World, partly out of unquestioning acceptance of one’s revelation, and partly out of the social necessity of belonging to the membership of some organized church. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

However, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth. Could we accept ourselves as total organisms, with wisdom in every pore—if we would hear and be aware of that wisdom? There is a genuine inner relationship between each and every individual and God. When one comes to that understanding, one will feel the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost never left them. People need to learn in an open environment. They learn about the excitement and important of discovery, about their capabilities, their limits, self-discipline, and responsibility. They also learn facts. How many? Who knows? I just know that they learn some facts. They know this, too. It makes me feel good to really know something and to know down deep that we are learning. Openness…You have got to experience it, live it, do it! This is how one succeeds at becoming a whole human, but more importantly, in understanding what one is. What I discovered is that a whole human is comprised of mind, heart, soul, and body. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

However, many of us have been denying a most important part of ourselves, and the awful split is one result. Another result is that the excitement has, in large measure, gone out of education—even though no one can take the excitement out of real learning. Supposed every educational institution, from kindergarten through the most prestigious Ph.D. program, were to close tomorrow. What a delightful situation that would be! Parents and children and adolescents and young people—even a few faculty members, perhaps—would begin to devise situations in which they could learn! Can you imagine anything more uplifting to the spirit of our people? It would be sad and it would be utterly marvelous at the same time. Millions of people would be asking the same question: “Is there anything I want to learn?” They would find that there are such things, and they would invent means by which they could learn them. A number of studies did show that self-learning does promote change. Youth, most people really, have a need to love people and they readily give it away and all they need is someone to be receptive to this love. And this should be one of the functions of the teacher, that is, one should be able to accept their students and show concern for them. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

A teacher cannot stand aloof from one’s students. It pays to be humane in the classroom. A humane atmosphere is not only more pleasant for all concerned; it also promotes more—and more significant—learning. When attitudes of realness respect for the individual, understanding of the student’s private World are present, exciting things happen. The payoff is not only in such things as grades and reading achievement, but also in more elusive qualities such as greater self-confidence, increased creativity, and more liking for others. In short, such a classroom leads to a more optimistic, unified learning by the whole person. However, many graduate students have failed to receive their degrees because they have refused to obey, or to conform to every wish of, their major professor. Their position is analogous to that of a slave, subject to the life-and-death power of the master. While being taught that freedom and responsibility are the glorious features of our democracy, the students are experiencing themselves as powerless, as having little freedom, and as having almost no opportunity to exercise choice or carry responsibility. #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

It is believed that there is knowledge that exists separate and apart from how a person feels…and that accumulated knowledge of humankind if cognitive. It can be transmitted, it can be taught and learned, and the pursuit of that kind of knowledge is academic research. It appears that some would like to abandon cognitive learning, or at least reduce its importance to a level unacceptable to scholars. However, the affective, the emotional component is terribly important. For the greater expectations of the more favoured presumably cover the costs of training and encourage better performance thereby contributing to the general advantage. While nothing guarantees that inequalities will not be significant, there is a persistent tendency for them to be leveled down by the increasing availability of educated talent and ever widening opportunities. The conditions established by the other principles insure that the disparities likely to result will be much less than the differences that humans have often tolerated in the past. The utilitarian tends to meet objections by holding that the laws of society and of human nature rule out the cases offensive to our considered judgment. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

Justice as fairness, by contrast, embeds the ideals of justice, as ordinarily understood, more directly into its principles and atmosphere. It insures this fit over a wider range of possible cases. Now this view makes moral philosophy the study of the ethics of creation: an examination of the reflections of an omnipotent deity might entertain in determining which is the best of all possible Worlds. Yet, who is attempting to gain control over whom? The students are in the process of gaining control over the course of their own learnings and their own lives. Giving away power seems terrifying to some. One person-centered teacher in a school constitutes a threat to every other teacher. That is not surprising when one considers that utilitarianism, while it has many great aspects, may allow for slavery and serfdom, and for other infractions of liberty. Whether these institutions are justified is made to depend upon whether actuarial calculations show that they yield a higher balance of happiness. I know a teacher, a fine facilitator of learning, who was selected by the students as one of the two or three best teachers in the college. She was finally dropped from the faculty because she repeatedly and resolutely refused to agree to grade on a curve. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

In other words, she refused to promise in advance that she would fail a certain percentage of her students no matter what the quality of their work. This was taken as evidence that she did not believe in standards, since in the circuitous logic of the conventional school “standards” means, in practice, failing students. She was not only undermining “standards,” but she was undermining the punitive power of the faculty. It was such an uncomfortable threat that they had to get rid of her, although they were embarrassed to do so. This is far from being an isolated incident. It shows how even one individual can threaten a whole faculty. Nonetheless, many students who loudly demand more freedom come to a complete and confused stop when they are allowed responsible freedom. Nothing in their background has prepared them to make choices, to make mistakes and live with the consequences, to endure the chaos of uncertainty as they try to selection directions in which they wish to move. They need understanding companionship from the facilitator as they all search for new ways. They need a supporting atmosphere so they can fail and still accept themselves, and can succeed without feeling competitive. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

I hope that innovative education moves forward in learning. There is a growing body of evidence, which is hard to ignore, that shows capacities and potentials within the psyche that seem almost limitless, and that fall almost entirely outside the field of science as we have known it. The person in whom intuition is well-developed or who is able to practise prayer sufficiently to hear the voice of God, can manage without a guru. From a chaotic beginning, an order can develop; the energy of emotional expression and acceptance will find its direction, much like in the book of Genesis. The insoluble problems of our civilization, and the necessary transfiguration of human beings, their motives, and their values are necessary, if we are to survive. Very compelling is the evidence that our most serious problems are not brought about by the failures of our society, but by its success. Hence, our past and current paradigms cannot possibly deal with our present problems by extending the old principles. What is most likely to happen is called the destruction of civilization, in which our institutions will gradually collapse of their own weight and complexity. Impossible? That is what the Romans thought. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

However, even though they thought they were invincible, the structure of the Roman empire fell apart, partly from a barbarian attack, even more from the empire’s own flaws and bureaucratic overcomplexity. In similar fashion, this may happen to us. Perhaps the blackouts and riots in our great urban centers, the bankruptcy of our largest cities, the feverish panic at the time of this COVID-19 crises, are but the faintest whisperings of such a future collapse. What is needed to help us meet this new Dark Age with its turbulences, its combinations of somber and exciting possibilities? What will assist us in brining about this coming transfiguration? What characteristics will lead to survival? The inner life, a higher awareness, a recognition that enormous resources for the creation of the good life within the person, is one of the characteristics needed for this coming age. People will increasingly demand to take part in choices that affect their lives, in policy planning, in the operation of governmental and industrial organizations. These organizations are likely to become smaller as the great bureaucracies fall apart, thus making possible more and more participatory choice. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

An organization will tend to become “our organization,” in which “we” make the decisions, rather than “their organization.” There is also agreement that one of the most essential elements for survival is the development of a greater sense of cooperation, of community, of ability to work together for the common good, not simply for personal aggrandizement. Our new slogan in Western Civilization should be, “Be Yourself—Build Community.” It seems clear that is we are to live though the coming turbulence in a constructive way, the situation demands drastic changes in the purposes, values, the behaviour, the guiding principles of our lives. Perhaps most important, is to have an incredible shift away from looking for answers and values and standards outside of the self. Very perceptibly, persons must seek within for that they are experiencing as valuable, instead of looking for what they are told is valuable. Without question, we are beginning to meet the first condition for living in the new age. We are discovering the sources of the good life within ourselves, not in someone else. Large groups of people can begin to learn to live in ways more appropriate for our uncertain future. #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

We can develop a participatory mode of decision making that is adaptable to almost any situation and contains its own self-correcting gyroscopic mechanism, as error free as any decision-making process known. We can develop a sense of community in which respect for others, and cooperation rather than competition, are the keynotes. We can develop a new confidence in ourselves, discovering the source of values within ourselves, coming to an awareness that the good life is within, not dependent on outside sources. These changes, so appropriate of living in a disintegrating culture, can be initiated in a short space of time and in a very large group of people, if we ourselves are able to be, in a fashion suitable to that changing World. These learnings indicate that we have the educational strategy for making these human changes possible, and this approach is feasible here and now. All in all, our experiences give a challenging hint of what an education for the next century might become. I have long had a keen interest in the future. This is a World of change, and I take pleasure in trying to discern the directions in which we are moving, or will move. I am convinced that at this point we are going through a transformational crisis, from which we are our World cannot emerge unchanged. #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

Why does not God just force us to do the things He knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which He has intended in our creation: freely chosen character. The centrality of will to personhood is what makes it immediately and strongly precious and gives the person dignity. There are many people who now make it their business to try to predict our future, but all of such work is, at best, informed speculation. Scientists can predict, with almost absolute accuracy, the date and hour of arrival of a comet, but what the human World will be like on that future date, no one knows. Dignity is a worth so great that it disallows exchanging a person for anything else. The great worth of the person explains why Jesus Christ would die for the sake of individual human beings and be satisfied with the outcome. “After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquiites,” reports Isaiah 53.11. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author of perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,” reports Hebrews 12.2. When we believe in Christ, the sensitive will feel that some sort of inner benefit was got by our relationship with him. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

 We treasure the will or choice in ourselves and in others spontaneously without having to learn it. Wil has obvious, intrinsic, and supreme value. The small child, without learning to do so, values its capacity to act on its own, which it quickly identifies and stubbornly defends. The sense of things flowing from itself it unmistakable and joyous and irrepressible. And adults delight to see the children’s will emerge— “Look at what she did!” and “Did you hear what he said?!” In the child and in the adult, this sense of creativity is basic to health and well-being. Choice, the exercise of will and spirit, is valued and carefully guarded throughout life; and at the end of life we want to think we uniquely have made a difference—always for good, of course. However, such an outcome is not automatically so—and certainly not so to the degree it could be and should be. For the human will in the individual is not only precious, it is a problem. From the strictly human point of view it is a devastating and unsolvable problem. Everyone has the experience of willing in a way that is contrary to other choices they have already made or ones that should be made. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

Human life in its usual forms is characterized by conflict within the will and between wills. However, such a statement does not do justice to the facts. What we call “civilization” is a smoldering heap of violence constantly on the verge of bursting into flame. That is the true picture of the fallen human will. “And now it came to pass that when Jesus had ended these sayings he cast his eyes round about on the multitude, and said unto them: Behold, ye have heard the things which I taught before I ascended to my Father; therefore, whoso remembered these sayings of mine and doeth them, one will I raise up at the last day. And it came to pass that when Jesus had said these words he perceived that there were some among them who marveled, and wondered what he would concerning the law of Moses; for they understood not the saying that old things had passed away, and that all things had become new. And he said unto them: Marvel not that I said unto you that old things had passed away, and that all things had become new. Behold I say unto you that the law is fulfilled that was given unto Moses. Behold, I am he that gave the law, and I am he who covenanted with my people Israel; therefore, the law in me is fulfilled, for I have come to fulfill the law; therefore it hath an end. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

“Behold, I do not destroy the prophets, for as many as have not been fulfilled in me, verily I say unto you, shall all be fulfilled. And because I said unto you that old things have passed away, I do not destroy that which hath been spoken concerning things which are to come. For behold, the covenant which I have made with my people is not all fulfilled; but the law which was given unto Moses hath an end in me. Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end and ye shall live; for unto one that endure to the end will I give eternal life. Behold, I have given unto you the commandments; therefore keep my commandments. And this the law and the prophets, for they truly testified of me. And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words, he said unto those twelve whom he had chosen: ye are my disciples; and ye are a light unto this people, who are remnant of the house of Joseph. And behold, this is the land of your inheritance; and the Father hath given it unto you. And no at any time hath the Father given me commandment that I should tell it unto your brethren at Jerusalem. Neither at any time hath the Father given men commandment that I should tell unto you them concerning the other tribes of the house of Israel, whom the Father hath led away out of the land. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

“This much the Father commanded me, that I should tell unto them: That other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. And now, because of stiffneckedness and unbelief they understood not my word; therefore I was commanded to say no more of the Father concerning this thing unto them. However, verily, I say unto you that the Father hat commanded me, and I tell it unto you, that ye were separated from among them because of their iniquity; therefore it is because of their iniquity that they know not of you. And verily, I say unto you again that the other tribes hath the Father separated from them; and it is because of their iniquity that they know not of them. And verily I say unto you, that ye are they of whom I said: Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall be one fold, and one shepherd. And they understood me not, for they supposed it had been the Gentiles; for they understood not that the Gentiles should be converted through their preaching. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

“And they understood me not that I said they shall hear my voice; and they understood me not that the Gentiles should not at any time hear my voice—that I should not manifest myself unto them save it were by the Holy Ghost. However, behold, ye have both heard my voice, and seen me; and ye are my seep, and ye are numbered among those whom the Father hath given me,” reports 3 Nephi 15.1-24. From high above, the Sun looks down, the witness of all deeds done by people. Lord of Truth, please guide me in my actions, so that all that I do might be worthy of your gaze. “The Heaven and the Earth were finished, and all their host. And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because He rested thereon from all His work which God created and made,” reports Genesis 2.1-3. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God and God of our Fathers, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the great, mighty, revered and most high God, Master of Heaven and Earth. Magnified and sanctified be the name of God throughout the World which He hath created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom during the days of your life and during the life of all the house of Israel, speedily, yea, soon; and say ye, Amen. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

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