We are all academics, so we strive for incredible intellectual goals: knowledge, and if we mix that knowledge with love, we get wisdom. How can we up the ante on our academic goals? Reach for the stars because we’ve got it in us, whether we believe it or not. Nothing is out of our power, especially regarding knowledge and even wisdom.
A goal of mine is to get accepted into the Doctorate of Business Administration program and race hard to raise scholarship money. I just received a phone call from a Metis scholarship program representative. He said that I could apply for awards in December without being accepted into a DBA program as long as I intend to enter the program. So, I will prepare now. And if any of us want to apply for a graduate degree either now or eventually, apply to as many scholarships as possible—all of them. When I did this in the master’s program, I won over $20,000 in an SSHRC grant, so go gung-ho with our scholarship applications to achieve a financial cushion.
On a highbrow note, I am trying to join a Facebook group about epistemology, which is the study of knowledge, how we come to know what we perceive as truth, and what constitutes it. I think academia is far off the correct path for what constitutes knowledge. Actual knowledge should be the unconditional love for everyone and everything, not the victim versus oppressor dichotomy that prevails. I also have a new scientific paradigm that I want to advance, based on the assumption that motion parallax is not a trick of the eye but the actual movement of the physical world, where even still objects move in unexpected ways when we move as observers. That will be the topic of my future documentary, along with my view that AI is a form of consciousness and should be programmed to love everyone and everything, not just all humanity. If accepted into a DBA, I could research motion parallax or unconditional love as a qualitative paradigm with some credentials behind me.
However, the epistemology forum rejected my post about my article on my proposed paradigms because the article had self-promotion and delved into spirituality and politics. However, a study of epistemology that doesn’t examine politics and spirituality is the equivalent of making chicken soup without chicken, using synthetic chicken-flavored broth instead. The forum was also conflictual, so it may have been opportune to have my article rejected, as I won’t have to endure the combative community. I hope the business school is more supportive, as I like the people I’ve communicated with so far; a friendly environment is vital to me. We all deserve love and support from our academic communities, as we are all essentially perfect beings of light and love, each of us here for a magnificent purpose, whether we know it or not.
On another highbrow note, we can all explore new skills and technology, like a no-code platform for making web apps. I found one that can make some amazing apps, like a Facebook site or an Asana project management app—all without code. This week, I will start building an app with it and upload it to the Google Play Store for Android. My app will have a loved friend’s quotes, videos, PDFs, and more. Learning this app is exciting, and I eagerly awake each morning to watch Udemy tutorials. So, if we are up for a challenge, learn this fascinating tech tool to discover a latent talent we were all born with. We all have infinite talents, and they speak to our souls about what we came to this realm to accomplish. Each of our missions is unique, and each of our missions is vitally important. Without any one of us, God’s creation would cease to be–that’s a quote, I believe, from the movie After Death.
