Universal theme overview
Freedom is part of the Universal themes series and is part of the Justice theme family. This is a theme overview post.
Freedom means little or no restraints. Lack of restrictions on thought or movement. Choices can be made, but with obligations or consequences.
Big ideas
- Freedom is an absence and a presence, a gift and a burden.
- Structure and discipline are keys to freedom.
- Our opportunities and choices are the greatest privileges most of us have.
- Emptiness is the gift of being able to fill the space however you want.
- We all deserve freedom but are not given it freely.
Freedom key concepts
- An exciting undertaking is an adventure, with at least the suggestion of danger or risk.
- Death is the permanent earthly ending of the life of a person, animal, plant, object or idea.
- Discipline is training that develops self-control, character, or orderliness. Acceptance of the will of authority.
- Discretion is the freedom or authority to make decisions and choices; power to judge or act.
- Emptiness is the feeling of being unoccupied, containing nothing with no sense of worth or purpose. Without any burden.
- An opportunity is a combination of circumstances favorable to a purpose; a good chance or occasion to do something or advance one’s cause or position.
- To release something is to set it free from confinement, duty or obligation. Letting go of control of something, placing its fate in the hands of chance or the public at large.
- Security is feeling free from fear, care, doubt, and anxiety. Not exposed to damage, attack, or other danger.
- Structure is the arrangement of the parts of the whole; the form that organizes the system.
- A taboo is a social prohibition or restriction that results from convention or tradition.
Archetypes
animals: ferret, horse, zebra
birds: catbird
flowers: freesia, heather
foods: celery, fava bean
mythical: Pegasus
roles: fool
settings: wilderness
situations: death
symbols: airplane, balloon, birdcage, feather