You'll be reading this the day before the election October 7th 2016
Today I'm going to write about a theme that I've encountered. That theme is reclaiming Hope. I could go through the entire process where I've seen this over and over again...but that trail doesn't matter. There is a pattern where we bring ourselves to the bring over and over again almost to stare down our mortality...and how that it is possible for us to overcome this self-destructive narrative we have created. The Spiritual Google All of us have a concept of how Karma works...these days it's part of our every day vernacular...strangely it wasn't prior to the 1930's. There was this whole Eastern meets Western Philosophy Spiritual movement that changed how we approach the world...but you can look up those details on your own. The energy we put out into the world is what we get back. What we think becomes our reality. I've explained how this is reflected in the Psychological concept of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Our subconscious works to makes sure that the reality we perceive reflects our beliefs and feelings that we hold in our mind. I have another way to explain this and it's like a Spiritual Google. We are constantly sending out energy with our thoughts and it's like a google search. If we are dreading something happening we sit there and dwell on it but then we are surprised when it does happen. Yet, the energy we are adrift within can't distinguish what we do or do not want to happen. That's why when we resist something it persists. This is like going home and googling every day about the candidate you like least for this presidential election. You dig up all of this dirt on them and you can feel the fear coalescing inside about what might happen if that candidate wins. What you don't do is convey to google the reason you keep looking up this information. That you don't want this to happen. The service then starts suggesting ads and links to websites that only cause your anxiety to grow because politics excites you (which on a basic level it does but it's an undesirable excitement). That's a little how the universe works. Too often we focus on what we don't want to happen. We dwell on the negative things that have happened, perhaps hoping to prevent them, and we inevitably get what we are thinking about. Then we see that as proof that how we were thinking was right and it reinforces a negative cycle of lessons. The important thing is to bring this to the forefront of our conscious. To start to work with this idea and send different signals to the universe. Instead of constantly searching for our greatest fears we start to dream again about our greatest Hope. The Hope of the 1980's There was a lot of Optimism in the 1980's. Back then if you went into Tomorrow Land at Disneyland you could go on a space mission to Mars, or Star Tours, or experience Tron. You would even go on a circular ride called America sings that depicted different groups and time periods singing together in unity. Watch an episode of the Jefferson's you will see that there was an idea of positivism. Our homes would be in the sky, we would have flying cars and robot maids that would make our life a little bit easier by doing all of the chores we don't want to do. When did that Hope fade? The eighties also produced movies like Terminator (which came out in the eighties as well) where creating artificial intelligence triggers the Apocalypse but it was rare back then. Now there are numerous movies and shows out now where people describe humanity as a plague that needs to be washed away...whether through a robotic apocalypse, a virus or some other means that we create ore unleash. Where did we lose Hope? When did a post-apocalyptic future of gloom capture the imagination of humanity? Finding Hope Again Overwhelmingly, it is clear that humanity goes through cycles. The cycles have been acknowledged in Fashion but not so much in history or other areas of human experience. Although, as I pointed out they have been talked about a lot in Spiritual Teachings and many of them have that cycle ending now. Many attributed it to a certain year, 2012, but that's not how humanity works. If everything interesting happened in a year it wouldn't be much of a process. We have been led, consciously or unconsciously, by people to give into these dooms day scenarios. By focusing on the very small fragment of humanity that is vile...we don't feel safe. This leads to people giving up their freedom in exchange for promised security by people with negative selfish agendas. Yet, there are far more people who are honest and good working in the light then those who bow to darkness. I have met a small handful of people who were entirely evil and dark...but I've met several hundreds who are amazingly awesome wonderful people. I cannot help but believe based on my personal experience in my small pocket of reality...that we, the positive ones, overwhelmingly out number the negative. We just have to remember that and how this works. We need to stop focusing on the "Bad Guys" paraded across our television screens. We need to focus on all of the people who are blessings in our lives, they might disappoint from time to time, but they do have good intentions in their hearts. If you were to place four people against a hundred in a fighting ring...I'd say you're safe to say the hundred would win...as long as they tried and were not pacifists. Avoid Group Labels Whenever we give ourselves a label we dehumanize ourselves. When we label someone else we also dehumanize those people. Categorization helps us to comprehend the world but it doesn't capture the diversity and unique nature of each and every person on this planet. No one is more valuable then another. All of us have to work together with our individual truths to create a better world. That means not trying to force a universal truth and vision on everyone. Truth My truth is different then your truth. The set of situations I have overcome and achieved are different from yours. Truth is not necessarily universal in nature and nor should it be. As individual expressions of All-That-IS it is our duty to be unique...to distinguish ourselves from the masses to be greater more interesting companions. Our truths might change and evolve, that's an aspect of this impermeable world...but as we reach each new level of experience we need to give voice to it. We need to start working with those ideas and sharing them with others even if they are in error. Too often in our society we think someone is an "expert" and, consequently, our truth does not matter. We are too afraid to voice opinion for fear of someone tearing it down. That someone might know more than we do and because we don't have a certain education our opinion is not valuable. We need to learn to respect each others truths even if they are different from our own. Accepting that is a very important lesson. Too often in school we were taught that the teachers ideas were the only ones that were valid. Teachers and parents too often set themselves up as these all knowing perfect beings...but when we become adults we learn that they were not. We are taught that our world is one dimensional. Everything has been discovered, experienced, that life is black and white, that there are solid rules that cannot be broken and everything is known. No amount of education makes someone smarter than anyone else. Sure, a surgeon might understand how to do a heart transplant better than me. Yet I bet he would have no clue how to make a Medicine Ball Tea. We all learn about our chosen fields of interests in an evolving manner throughout the course of our lives. We can't give all of our power over to our doctors, our leaders or even our mechanics. Rules are constantly being broken. Boundaries are constantly being pushed. Yet, the common citizen is told that they cannot do this...that only certain groups, that only certain organizations and people are allowed to push those boundaries. Everything we know as rules of society, of how people should act, of how groups are expected to act...have been taught to us. They are not solid, they are not tangible...I can't pick up these social rules and ideas as I can a rock...they are abstract constructs of boxes that we choose to create and remain within. They are infinitely mutable. Our society is built on the skeleton of ideas that worked for past societies. The purpose has always been to create a network that makes it possible for everyone to achieve their desires if they do not harm others. Yet, there are people who have divorced themselves from their compassionate human nature. They think our society consists of predator and prey. They see no issue with snuffing out a life to gain their agenda. They want to "work the system" to benefit them and take from someone else. As an adult you must question everyone's motives. You cannot believe what they say, but must judge others based on their actions. When it comes to ourselves, we are the only expert that exists that truly understands us. Not our spouse, not our doctors, and certainly not some remote president is an expert on us or can provide for us. We can only trust ourselves to know what is best for us on an individual level and work to achieve what we want for ourselves. We cannot expect others to give it to us somehow because that is the definition of powerless. That is an insult to our very nature. We have vast knowledge at our finger tips, yes a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous, but we have the option of educating ourselves very easily these days. Degrees are not the only way to learn and there are plenty of people who are wise beyond their years that have never stepped foot in a college.The human mind can achieve amazing things. People in ages before could never comprehend the power and knowledge that we can access through the internet. Rejoice that you live in an age that we have such possibility. Self-Perception Epiphany Once you realize that you are an immortal multi-dimensional being having a human experience and that a part of you cannot be hurt by what happens here...it's very hard to be scared. The world becomes your playground when you realize that you are drawing to yourself all that you need to fulfill your dreams simply by positive thinking. Of course, to truly manifest what you want you have to take action. That's why I voted for a candidate that is unlikely to win my state...as a prayer request for a better system to be created. Circular logic dictates that it will not matter, I have been told that by so many...but that's a self-perpetuating act of self-defeat. Nor do I believe that the system will have to be changed by Bloody Revolution. I completely reject that in this time where we can so easily organize. Sure, they might not take us seriously at first but if it is the overwhelming percentage of the population it will not be stopped. That's why it doesn't scare me that the Republican Party from this moment will not be able to go forward the same. That's why the idea of a Nuclear War with Russia doesn't frighten me either... The Power of Action I have faith and I know that if a million people out of the billions on this planet are acting on positive hopes and goals it will have a ripple effect. If Chaos Theory is true and a butterfly flapping it's wings can cause a Hurricane in Florida....then think the affect of a million people thinking and acting positively with one another...the harmony that it will create. If each of us gives off an invisible signal and we could perceive it as a musical note...imagine the symphony that would create from a million people working to achieve positive harmony. That will easily be picked out of a discordant symphony. I believe that this critical mass of people who are aware of this has been reached. As long as they work to better the world in whatever method they can...whether it is to do the best at sweeping...or cutting wood and carrying water...the intention is what is not important and not the act. When all of us do what we can in the spirit of Hope miracles can happen....despite all of the curses in the world (Congrats Cubs!). Conclusion I have Hope. The Doom and Gloom people look like nothing but empty ineffective wraiths when you find that little spark within yourself. There are far more people working for a positive world then a negative one. Just one example is the Thousands of Starbucks Barristas who get the Unity Cup that Starbucks put out. They won't be paraded on the news unless they have some sort of disability...but each and every 'normal' person is just as important and their journey as unlikely as anyone that is labeled abnormal. We work within a nexus of energy that seeks to buttress what we want....and once we realize we are the architects of our own world...at a very deep soul level...it becomes clear we have the power to create the future that we want. I know, and I have faith, in my common fellow human beings. That's Hope and I know it can change the world.
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