Justice Energy Spirituality Truth Empowerment Ritual

The Jester is the ancient voice of protest and social reflection in the courts of power. In these times of economic rationalism and social pragmatism the Jester assists groups and individuals to critique and challenge the systems and structures that alienate people from decisions and power. The Jester's rituals and workshops that focus on methods of reclaiming community and collaborative living through processes of analysis and celebration In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. J S Mill On Liberty 1859(Chapter 3) Dario Fo – Nobel Lecture  Contra Jogulatores Obloquentes ["Against jesters who defame and insult"] "Against jesters who defame and insult". Law issued by Emperor Frederick II (Messina 1221), declaring that anyone may commit violence against jesters without incurring punishment or sanction.

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