THIS FORUM IS A PLACE TO EXPRESS THE SPIRIT OF OUR INNER YOUTHOOD

This forum is here to give voice to young people and those who seek to keep the spark of youthfulness alive.

We believe that ALL PEOPLE are inherently precious beings, just like they were from the day they were born.

We seek to see the goodness that underlies all people’s actions, though, if they are misguided, we seek to set boundaries and express what is our experience, how our passion is moving through us and how there can be a better world for us and our children.

There are people, institutions, and social systems that try to channel our creative spirit towards being numbed down, to where we become just workers and consumers, helping to make the people at the top richer and richer. Only if we allow this though.

We believe that Youth represents the desire to live lives of unlimited joy, excitement and love, in harmony with this beautiful planet and we are not afraid to stand up for how we can better make it through this incredibly challenging time here on earth.

Dan at 24

About Dan who writes this webpage

Dan Craig Morse graduated from Northampton High School in Massachusetts in 1978.  In his senior year, he and a friend started the alternative student newspaper, The Student Outlook where they wrote about youth empowerment and critiques of the educational system in general.  When the principal of the school refused to allow them to distribute the paper on school grounds, the ACLU took up their case and brought the school board to court to uphold the students constitutional rights to free self expression.  This action was made possible by the Tinker vs. Des Moines School Board case of 1960 which declared that students do not “shed their constitutional right to the freedom of expression at the school house gate.”

After high school, Dan briefly attended Hampshire College where he wrote a paper for his philosophy of education class called “Youth Oppression and Liberation”, which he considered at the time to be like a personal manifesto of maintaining a direct connection to inner sourcing rather than being more and more at the mercy of what is called an “external locus of control”.  His studies in the philosophy of education were instrumental in helping him to develop the broader theories of Age Dialectics, beyond mere politics of youth rights.

When he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1984, he did have a brief stint in politics where he started The Young People’s Party, that sought to represent youth in politics, with organizing actions, circulating a petition to lower the voting age to 16 and publishing a newspaper, The Party Times.  Dan worked with Rites of Passage theory at the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, and eventually moved into the fields of psychology and spirituality as doorways into addressing issues of age dialectics.  He became a Marriage and Family Therapist and has a private practice in the Bay Area where he specializes in helping people to shift out of old internalized self control systems to allow for their truer nature that is connected to the child seed self to grow with much greater ease. Dan was married for 22 years and has two thriving adult daughters.

Dan more recently