Our country is at a crossroads. Many are hoping that we will return to the "old days" but the old days never happen; the old days are never relived. It always changes.
What our future holds will be quite different from just about anything that we can envision, and anyone counting on things to get "back to normal" will be sorely disillusioned.
Big shifts already are occurring all over the world. Can you see them? We have a tendency to ignore things that are uncomfortable, hoping that they will somehow go away - until they smack us aside the head and we wonder why we never saw the train wreck coming.
All customary religious organizations are registering a loss of interest according to the Pew Report. Borders are becoming impossible to control with illegal immigrants flooding all industrialized countries. There is a huge shift in economic wealth taking place in the world. Health care is becoming too expensive for almost anyone... and the list goes on. These things will not revert to what they were. These things will all evolve into something quite different from what we expect.
Economic, political, religious, and basic human consciousness is all shifting right under our noses. Until someone points it out to us, however, we can't see it. It has always been this way; seldom has there been a single-line advance in consciousness in the world. We seem to go one step forward and one step backward.
The period of 600 BC to 500 AD was a time of incredible spiritual advancement; Plato, Aristotle, The Buddha, Christ, and many others. This was unfortunately followed by the Middle Ages which dates from the fall of the Roman empire until the 1700s; a period of darkness and torture of body and soul as the enlightenment of the previous period became institutionalized, religiousized, and organized by unenlightened people. This led to competition, hatred, mass murder and wars. The 18th century ushered in the "Age of Enlightenment" where all the technological advances in human society today had its roots.
And now we are at the threshold of a new age. What will it be?
Part of our problems were that we hang on to that which we are accustomed to far too long, way past the point of material or psychological returns. Instead of grasping the moment, we live in our pasts and subsequently perish in them as well. We don't seem to have that clear vision that acts intuitively and straightforwardly, and cuts through all the old and dead emotion and memory.
Things will never be as they were, meaning not just a few years ago before the recession or during the 70's, or the turn of the century, but they will not be like anything ever in the history of the world.
(Anyone who tends toward queasiness should stop reading here, because what follows may destroy all of your conclusions and ideals!)
Okay, for the few of you who may be still reading, here is what I envision for the future of America:
After a period of intense conflict amongst ourselves (picture it as an American "Middle Ages" where unenlightened leaders attempt to control things and keep them unchanged), we will finally coalesce into an adoption of change instead of warring with inevitable change.
This will be the turning point of many things, such as governing in a manner where we no longer attempt to control but instead apply leverage and use an adversary's momentum to our advantage. The Jiu Jitsu of governing so to speak.
If we can't control our borders, we open them and use the additional manpower to create the natural industry that is destined to take us into the future, agriculture; the only industry that we have a leg-up on; we stop trying to compete where we cannot compete in the world and instead use that innate agricultural power. Our vast fields and near perfect climate ensure that we will eventually become the breadbasket of the world, and it will be done mostly by manual labor.
The technological world that we now find ourselves in will eventually peter out. All the information out there... for what purpose? Our values will change to the point that non essential information will become nothing more than a burden, a pox on our minds that are finally becoming clear and content.
The value of material things will be relegated to necessities, and as such there will be no shortages. Nonsensical industries that produce goods and services which now seem to be necessities but are merely frivolous articles to salve and entertain tortured minds will fade away, replaced by goods and services that enhance the truly spiritual human experience.
Religion as we know it today will be seen for what it is; a number of different, contentious beliefs based on nothing but speculation which causes stress and conflict amongst each other. This will be replaced by a universal quest for experiential truth within oneself without doctrine, tired principles, or authority to get in the way. This will be the beginning of true spiritual freedom for the individual.
As we revert to an agricultural society, health care will change as families stay together and take care of each other with grandma and grandpa watching the kids while mom and dad work. No nursing homes at $6,000 a month.
With the new consciousness that derives from our personal, internal experiences of truth, the fear of death and becoming impoverished, which is the basis of conflict in the world today, will subside, and medical care will become less technological and more humane as we accept the fact that medicines and doctors never save lives, only continue them for a short time. Our truth will tell us that all lives pass as quickly as a flash of lightening, regardless of what we do, and therefore our emphasis will change from accumulation of material goods to the perfection of humanity.
In other words, we will get to the point of no medical emergencies, because death will not have the depressing connotation and importance that it currently enjoys.
Our advanced consciousnesses will enable us to see clearly that death is never an ending, just a trip through the swinging doors.
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