Will the upheaval in which the world finds itself ever come to an end? The answer is Yes!, as youll see in these continuing excerpts from The Storm Before the Calm, in which youll discover the role you can play in the times just ahead.... All it will take to rewrite our Cultural Story is the reaching of critical mass in the energies around the idea. We have to reach a certain level in the number of people who are sufficiently interested in their own lives and in humanity’s future to spend time exploring what we all believe, and then proposing what we might believe that could yield different results, given that we don’t like the results we’ve produced so far. I’m impressed with the words of the late Robert Kennedy: “And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity,” he said. “It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly... “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask, Why?...I dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?” “Instead of “exploring what we all believe,” shouldn’t we be living what we believe?” No. The problem is not that people have not been living what they believe. The problem is that they have been. “That’s a pretty strong statement.” People hold some pretty strong beliefs. Chief among them…the belief that we are separate from God, that we are separate from each other, that there is “not enough” of what we need to be happy, that we have to compete with each other in order to get enough, or grow, grow, grow the economy in order to produce enough, and that there is something we all have to do to “earn” our right just to take up space on the planet, to speak our mind, to have our share, to give our gift—and most of all, to be with God in heaven. And it all stems from those first two thoughts: that God is separate from us and that we are separate from each other. “Of course God is separate from us. What do you think, that God is the same as we are? Sorry, but it’s that kind of muddled thinking that creates what you call the “problems in the world today.” (I had this actual conversation on talk radio recently. I responded…) We seem to have a different view of who and what God is, you and I. “I’m sure that we do.” You think God is something outside of yourself, and I’m saying that God and you—God and all of us—are One. And I’m saying that the idea that God is separate from us is at the top of the list of Beliefs That Cause Humanity’s Misery. “How? How does the belief that God is great, God is good, cause humanity misery?” I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to suggest that God is not great or God is not good. I simply said God is not separate from us, or “other” than us. “But that’s the same as saying that God is not great, because if the way we are is the way God is, that doesn’t sound very great to me. So are you telling me that this is as “great” and as “good” as God gets…is that it? God is not “other” than us, so WE are the “God” that we supposed to worship? That’s a tough one. I don’t think I can go there.” I believe that humans could experience themselves as being as great and as good as God is, if they only stopped telling themselves that they cannot. “We cannot be as great and as good as God is. We simply cannot. That’s just plain hubris.” I know you believe this, and I respect what you believe, but I’m wondering if it might not just be a matter of scale. “I’m not following that. You lost me on that last turn.” Well, I understand that we cannot be as large as God; that would be impossible. A drop of the ocean is not the ocean. “That’s right.” But it is the same as the ocean, simply in a smaller portion. So the drop and the ocean are the same stuff. And proportionate to its size, the drop can be as great as the ocean. To a microscopic life form, the drop may as well be the ocean. So we’re talking here about nothing more than proportion. But let me ask you a question. What do you think this world would be like if we did “worship” other people as if they were God? Do you think we’d have more wars, or less? Do you think we’d have more arguments, more fights, more terror, more violence, or less? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check out the website that has been specially created to allow the conversation that has been started here to continue. Go to TheGlobalConversation and see what you think.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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