College Writing 2023
University Essay by Rosa
I want to be a lighthouse. I want to be
the person that stops people from crashing into the night. I will be the full
moon on a trail with no light. I will be the person in Plato’s cave that turns
around and face the puppet masters creating shadows on the wall I’ve been
staring at for centuries. I will take a torch a find a way out of Plato’s cave
not just for myself but for all the people still in Plato’s cave worrying if
they’ll ever feel the sun. I will be the marine biologist that rehabilitates a
captive orca, born to entertain. I will beat the odds. When everyone says an
orca born in captivity will never be able to join the wild. I will say to those
people, “I will be the evolutionary necessity. I will be the reimagined potential."
I
am transferring to University of… because I want to connect with my Cherokee
heritage. I have been on a journey of remembering my indigenous essence and I
want to help people get back into harmony with their body, mind and Earth
through Native American sacred teachings. I have participated in many Native
American cultural experiences and have learned a lot thus far. I plan to attend
Native American studies with Spanish and English literature classes to become
the best teacher to a generation needing renaissance. I want to make Alan
Watts, Nikola Tesla, Carl Sagan, Steven Hawkins, Dr. Suess and Mr. Rogers proud
of my creative offering to humankind. I hope my mestiza, Native American,
Spanish and African American as well as German European perspective can bring
evolutionary brilliance to the university.
Like
Plato's Cave, I am finding my way through limitations and restrictions by
trusting my inner knowing that humans are capable of greatness given the
creative courage to find a way forward. My five years of training at Rama
Institute for Applied Yogic Science and Technology under Guru Jagat has given
me strength, determination and immense grace towards helping humankind find
conflict resolution and evolve further into total excellence. I am thankful to
have been a full scholar at Rama Institute for Applied Yogic Science and
Technology because that ancient school of thought similar to the fathers of
university, Greek philosophers like Socrates, has offered me expansive and
creative perspective on humankind and Earth. I believe a glorious new
civilization, interstellar yet Earth spiritual the Native American elders say,
is coming and we are being tested to see if we’ll make the mistakes of our past
or evolve beyond them and reinvent, rebirth, reprogram, rewrite, repattern,
rehabilitate, revolutionize, remember, reform, repair, recover, rewire, redeem,
restructure, renaissance ourselves into a future that understands consciousness
the way Upanishads and Buddhists do. The world is a product of the mind. The
mind is trapped to a world when the mind forgets and does not practice human
excellence. The mind is a victim to interference, distortions and obstructions
from forces wanting to take advantage of those without connective
consciousness. There are so many great empires dynastic Egyptians, Persians,
Romans, going to the medieval age of kings but there has also been so much
tampering with human’s discernment for control.
I
want to help heal this land of pains from the Trail of Tears many forget. I
used to wonder why Jews and blacks always understood each other. I didn’t grow
up Jew but my mother has spent over twenty years working with successful Jews.
I now understand. Jews and Blacks just like Native American people have been
the target for removal by a system that is now collapsing and transforming by
the will of the people and not government. Without healing the past, we never
learn our future. Without visionary guides to lead our future, we never learn
from our past. Native American sacred teachings are needed now more than ever
because humankind is ready to have a greater dream, bigger than Romans and
Egyptians. Humans are wanting to awaken consciousness. The next frontier might
be going to Mars, terraforming Mars, colonizing Mars, but I see the greatest
accomplishment is remembering how awesome it is to be on an Earth with humpback
whales, tigers, giraffes, rhinos, kala bears, humming birds, robins, jaguars,
wild horses, sea horses, giant jelly fish, eagles, elk, deer, rabbits, daddy
long legs, beavers, hawks, raccoons, elephants, moose, reindeer, wolves, lions,
buffalo, ant eaters, pigs, cows, goats that climb trees, rams. There is so much
wonder and yet our past full of interference telling us to be black is to be
less, to be women is to be low intelligence, to be white is to be racist, to be
Jews is to be hidden, to be a teacher is to be poor. All ways of dividing the
people through religion, nationality and ideology are breaking down because We
the People have a Dream and our dream is in the dream catcher crafted by our
ancestors. Without the strains of connectivity, we cannot know our cohesion and
cannot master the mandala of radiant exuberance. We think we’re out of Plato’s
cave but then we realize not everyone is out. Therefore, we go back into Plato’s
cave to make sure everyone is out of the mass psychosis that once kept
humankind like a bird in a cage or an orca in captivity, thinking we’re free
because we’re feed, given water and some space but then when an orca is
rehabilitated in the wild, an orca realizes its true potential is the wild.
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