Predictions For The Fate of Humanity
In late December 2009, I traveled on U.S. Highway 101 south, from Port Orford, Oregon to the San Francisco Bay. That day, I chased a storm that cleared to the east as I drove through the redwoods of Northern California.
With the 2010-decade then only days away, a foggy future in my mind
mirrored the many fogbanks I observed during my drive. With fear running
rampant on TV cable news and the lips of many people, what might the coming decade bring?
On January 1, 2010, most people who own a working
timepiece and live in contemporary world culture believed that the day
marked the beginning of both a New Year and a new decade. It was time
for predictions, prognostications and perhaps, some new personal
resolutions.
Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, “Now we
are engaged in a great decade, testing whether this Earth, or any Earth,
so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure”. If you wish to know
now how this story ends, we cannot offer you satisfaction. We can
promise, however, that by the end of this decade the fate of humanity
shall be clear.
The outcome need not be apocalyptic, as the End of
Days and 2012 Mayan Calendar doomsters seem to agree. What they missed
in their dire predictions is the big joke that the Mayan placed in their
calendar. Unspoken and unwritten, was knowledge that their calendar
indeed ended, but that the continuum of a time-space reality here on
Earth did not. After their calendar’s eons of noble service, creating a
new and equally accurate one would be easy.
As we embark on the 2010-decade with 20/10 myopia,
can we expect to disembark again in ten years with 20/20 insight and
enlightenment? As we begin the 2010’s, no one knows for sure. The good
news is that human spiritual enlightenment has been gaining ground in our world ever since East met West.
Once a particular issue gains enough momentum in
human culture, it can appear to be unstoppable. Examples include fear of
terrorism, the rapid spread of Islam in the world or the increasing
frequency of terrorist acts. Concentration on any or all of those
subjects will not help America and Europe win the supposed war on
terror. Since the Jihadist mentality has had several decades to fester,
we will continue to feel negative aspects of its momentum for some time
to come.
Whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, or none
of the above, those of us who fall on the side of peace and tranquility
can still change this world for the better.
Our secret weapon in the war for peace is the personal resolution.
Picture a Jihadist, praying to Allah at the close of Ramadan. Pausing to
welcome the New Year, will he yearn both for self-love and for the
death to the infidel, or non-believer? It cannot be. As mutually
exclusive concepts, self-love and other-hatred cannot coexist in the
same human being.
Photographs of human auras and of water molecules
exposed to meditation and loving contemplation reveal brighter and more
coherent vibrational emanations than do control samples. Thus, we might
say that loving thoughts emanate energy that is a quantum level higher than thoughts produced during moments of fear, hatred or self-loathing.
This year, if all lovers-of-life resolve to approach their fellow humans with love and compassion in their hearts, they will create enough positive energy to dampen murderous thoughts in geographically disparate populations. With the strength and purity of its energy, love will trump and void hate every time. Under such a regimen, within ten years’ time, peace could prevail among millions, if not billions of humans who do not currently enjoy it.
It is not whether we humans win or lose our wars; but rather, how we play the game of love and life
that shall decide our fate. No single human can reverse climate change
or put an end to poverty or war. Collectively, humanity has the ability
to do all of those things and more. All it takes is individual desire,
coupled with the resolve to complete the required actions. These acts of
goodness well may distract us from fear, hate and self-loathing. If so,
ten years hence we could wake up to a more peaceful world and a healthy Earth to support us.
On the following day, as I completed my drive, the
energies of the sun surrounded me. From Interstate I-5, four miles north
of Westley, California, I observed cattle grazing on a green hillside.
Whether the visual effect came from sunlight refracting through my
camera lens or something entirely different, I cannot say. What I can
say is that a bubble of new energy
large enough to cover that field shown before me on that day. Smiling, I
remembered that all is well in the universe and in the little 3-D world
that we call our own.
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