We are in the midst of great challenge - many as individuals and business, and most definitely as a whole collective. One need not follow CNN - the Constant Negative News - religiously to recognize these times as the ultimate test of what we're capable of; for while we've been able to bury our heads in the sand and comfort ourselves with the illusion everything has been okay for decades, the Truth is hitting home it is time for transformation. Our old ways have ceased to serve us, and we are faced with both the threat of complete self-destruction and the opportunity for our transcendence from perpetual conflict and struggle into unprecedented prosperity - not only in finances, but more momentously, in harmonious health of body, mind and spirit...
Yesterday's performance standards for our economic progress have been proved inadequate, as we've both witnessed the exposure of our financial-economic models as corrupted, ineffective, limited, and crumbling, and discovered our humans needs to be unfulfillable by the one-dimensional pursuit of endless monetary gain. While the "standard of living," as defined in the terms of our modern economic theories, has risen for mankind worldwide, a steadily-increasing amount of us seem to be experiencing a decline in our quality of life. Huge "economic growth" has come at too many a great expense, with few reaping the benefits and the majority struggling to barely stay afloat. Now - we find our economies collapsing, the environmental pollution left behind from its growth threatening the extinction of life on the planet, and billions of our brothers & sisters suffering the oppression of societal structures suppressing the development and utilization of our vast internal resources. A new order is not only desirable, but inevitable...
Despite the seeming chaos & countless problems we face, the answers & solutions are far closer than we realize. In Truth, they are within...
There is no outer authority we can trust in which is guaranteed to look after our best interests, no external source of security we may turn to in hopes our pains will be quickly and easily relieved without acceptance of personal responsibility. The days of reliance upon artificial governmental and corporate institutions for our well-being are over, with an era of unimaginable transformation underway, in which we are becoming conscious of our own value, potential, and power to co-create our world through the externalization of our consciously-chosen beliefs.
As our old systems crumble, we are being forced to develop new ways of interacting with the world. Huge shifts are underway, with great space emerging for the rise of new economic and business models. The illusion of "job security" has been revealed, with ever-more individuals recognizing the need to claim our independence and develop our inner assets - the only route offering true security, on which we may travel to pass through numerous stations delivering value unique to us.
While the old models may have served to create an accumulation of finance for those at the top of corporate hierarchies and preserve a power structure at cause of our economic collapse, they have blinded us to the human life value within ourselves, with which expansion beyond the narrow borders of failed economic theories and progression towards the recognition and creation of wealth in and for the citizens of our global ecology are possible.
The strides we've made technologically have been nothing short of wondrous, and the complexity of our civilizations' advancements staggering. Whether one would attribute our collective progression as the work of God, man, or nature, it has been through the human ingenuity of our greatest dreamers, visionaries, and creatives that our modern world has taken shape from the seeds of innovative ideas, through the development of industries, institutions & cultures, and into the harvest of a vastly rich diversity of life experience...
In our rapid expansion - most particularly in the last century - we've departed from the sustainable order of a natural ecology, instead writing our own abstract rules for an artificial economy. We built vast, global systems in these games, with a lack of foresight as to the long-term consequences of our action directed at short-term gain. And now, as we face the challenges of cleaning up our past' messes, averting total global disaster, and finding ways to live sustainably and peacefully as a global community, we call forth on our human ingenuity to carry us across the borders from the conditions of our current world into our visions for a better future...
As a global community, we have ALL the resources, knowledge, talent, networks, willpower, and creativity to achieve nearly any objective. We've woken up to the abundance within our universe, and our technologies have provided the means for exchanging both information and goods across borders and oceans. What we need to create the results we want already exists somewhere on this planet - be if financial or material capital, knowledge & talent, the commitment of those sharing our vision, or influential leaders and networks of individuals ready, willing, and able to contribute to our deeply-felt causes. We've embarked upon a never-ending pursuit for "more, bigger, better," continually striving and pushing for the newer, more exciting, and more promising - an initiative which has disconnected us from our natural ecology of sustainable abundance and order. Meanwhile, all we could ask for already exists here in front of and within us, awaiting our recognizing, appreciating, and utilizing it responsibly...
In the face of these greatest crises we've ever seen, we are being called to turn attention to this extraordinary wealth. Having become blinded with our addictions to material accumulation, our true wealth has eluded us. As the illusion of wealth as strictly a financial state has crumbled in the emergence of Truth, playing itself out in the blunt consequences of violated mystical & universal laws, we - as a generalized whole - have reacted fearfully, resistant to let go and embrace the ascension into a higher consciousness. Seen through the eyes of the old world views, we're losing. Yet, seen objectively through the eyes of God, what we're losing is in fact the power of our outdated belief systems that have kept us imprisoned in disconnection from our True nature. Directed by the false ideas, we've been looking outwards for our source of well-being; while now, upon their failed testing, the space has been cleared for us to reconsider the principles having driven our lives - and upon soulful examination, commitment to openness, and humble prayer, we cannot but discover the deeper principles governing our spirit, in which we find far greater riches than we had ever thought possible while trapped in worldly consciousness....