Overview Part 3

Why do we choose to experience a world and then choose to not interact in truly meaningful or constructive ways? Why is discovering and sharing who we truly are seen to be so dangerous? Why are we becoming more and more risk averse? Why do we aspire to earn an afterlife, which we cannot experience in this life, at the expense of truly living the life we do have right now? Even if this life is just an experience in a larger life/thought process, why should we throw away all the good and wonderful experiences to be shared in the here and now to try and earn a better life in the hereafter? If there is an “afterlife”, then what better proof that we never needed material bodies in the first place. If we are purely spiritual beings, then matter must be a manifestation of thought and therefore subject to the control of the thinkers – us. Thus there is, in truth, no “afterlife” – just a continuation of life from a different viewpoint.

Even physical science seems to be pointing toward the mental creation and control of matter. Physicists have discovered smaller and smaller particles of matter to the point where they have shown that there are particles of matter that seem to only appear when they are actively looking for them, and to not exist otherwise. They go on to state that although these particles are the building blocks of all matter, they cannot explain why they only appear when someone is actively trying to perceive them. The most simple and straightforward answer to this is that mind, thought, spiritual perception – call it what you will – is the creator of matter in its most basic forms and the only cause. By the act of searching, we create – however unconsciously – the material existence, which we currently experience as life. Science also now indicates the possibility – even the probability - of alternate universes where everything that does not seem to happen or exist in this universe does exist and thrive. We are told that although we “know” that matter exists, we cannot yet determine what organizes it into the world we experience, or the bodies and individualities with which we experience this universe. I cannot see any other explanation for the existence and experience of matter than Thought. Therefore, to truly evolve, we must learn to take this creative process from the unconscious to the conscious and unleash the unlimited potential of thought and experience.

Overview Part 2

What would happen if people valued themselves, and others, for what they could give instead of what they could get?  What if people valued each other for who they are instead of what they possessed (be that fame, fortune, possessions etc.).  Unfortunately, this must be a conscious choice for each of us and cannot be imposed on any individual by any outside force.   

The world as we know it is falling apart.  Governments fail to serve the people they are purported to represent, and charge more than the market can bear for their inefficient and greedy non-service.  However, in the current paradigm, humanity would not survive without the pretense of government.  Anarchy, communism, socialism, theocracy, monarchy, democracy – none of these or any other form of government (or lack thereof) can truly work and yet we must, at present, rely on these structures to control, or at least keep order in, our lives.  How can we achieve control of anything external when we cannot even control ourselves as individuals?  How can we govern humanity when we cannot govern our own individuality?

Humanity cannot survive as a species if we continue with our current behavior patterns.  In this climate of unchecked consumption, where we use and discard not only our world, our culture and our environment, but each other as well, there is no chance for long term sustainability.  We see daily, through news and media, how easy it is for people (and they’re getting younger and younger) to kill or abuse others just to gain what we have been told we should want (or just for seeming power over others, or for fun?) – and told so often, from so many different sources, that we think that it’s truly our own desire, not externally imposed.  We have created amazing and wondrous methods of communicating with each other and have made it possible for any individual to communicate with any other individual – globally – without having to leave home, and yet we do not achieve true communication and are becoming more and more isolated and insulated from the world.