"Go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do," sang the Fifth Dimension many years ago, capturing the heart of the generation, the counterculture of the American Sixties, for whom it was playing its music.  It's a call for freedom, freedom, as those of us who experienced that tumultuous era, of the profoundest kind.
     It's a grand vision, a vision of limits gone.  Oddly enough, however, given the parameters of this existence, we are only as free as our person, abilities, and circumstances allow us to be.  Even if we lived several lifetimes, and even if we had unlimited resources, we would likely not go everywhere we want to go, or do everything we want to do.  Things happen, things change, things become, and things go away, usually in ways that we will never be able to fully control.  Well should we wish to go everywhere we want to go and do everything we want to do, yet well we should realize our place on this planet.
     It is a sense of place that constitutes the ultimate picture of humility.  We understand our person, we understand our limits, we understand our place.  We understand that we walk as contingent beings in a contingent universe.  Though we need not be depressed about this--this is just the way it is--we need equally to recognize that as long as time and space exist, this will not change.
    Real freedom is realizing that there is just not time, and there is just not space, but that there must necessarily be time beyond time, and space beyond space (for how otherwise would anything be?), that over and beyond there is eternity, eternity in which one day freedom will be profoundly and irretrievably complete.
     Thanks, Fifth Dimension, for allowing us to see what freedom can be.