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THE CONONAVIRUS PANDEMINIC
HOW LONG WILL IT BE WITH US?

By Bobbie Stevens, Ph. D.

What do you think the purpose of the Coronavirus Pandemic is? 

It has been my experience that everything has a purpose, and when that purpose is accomplished, it goes away.  

Before the pandemic we were going full speed ahead down a road of self-destruction for our entire planet.

  1. We had created a world so stressful people all around the world were losing their ability to reason.  This created violence everywhere, and it got so bad that people were killing other people at the workplace, at large gatherings, even children in school and people in church.
  2. We were polluting our environment, our water, our air – the earth.
  3. This list could go on and on, but we all experienced it. We have clearly been on a path of self-destruction.

To save us from ourselves and to save the planet we had to be stopped.  The coronavirus stopped us!  It gave us some time to think about what we were doing and to start asking some important questions.

What is life really all about?

Is this the kind of life I want? 

What is a better way? 

Some changes started occurring. Some people made different choices, but it has not been enough to see major changes yet.

What if, in addition to stopping us from self-destruction, the Coronavirus came to awaken us to the realization that we are all connected – that what affects any of us affects all of us?  We are ALL experiencing the virus, not just certain countries.

Could it be we have all been taught untrue beliefs about who we are and what is possible for us?

We have been fortunate enough to develop vaccines that are controlling the virus, but we are living in a fear based and motivated society.  In the past, and still today, we do most of what we do out of fear.  Think about it.

Some people got the vaccine because they were afraid of getting the coronavirus and maybe dying. 

Other people were afraid that getting the vaccine could cause something worse than the virus.

Both choices are fear based.  What if we were able to move out of fear, or overcome it?  What if we are now awakening or evolving into a new understanding of who we are? What if we embrace the authentic power we have within ourselves to overcome fear and create a love based and motivated life and world?

This is what I, and many others, believe is happening around the world today.  Scientists have proven many of the things we have been taught are not true, and that we are now evolving from what they are calling the 4th dimension into the 5th dimension. 

As we evolve from one dimension to a higher dimension, our awareness is expanded to a greater understanding of who we are.  To date we have always been living in a fear based society, but what if we are now overcoming fear and moving into love-based lives?   Are we creating a love-based world?

If we were coming from love rather than fear, what would we do about the coronavirus vaccine?  We are pretty sure if enough people got the vaccine that would stop it.

Could it be the coronavirus pandemic will be with us until we care enough about each other that we get the vaccine, not out of fear of any kind, but out of love of each other or all of humanity?

What do you think?

]]> https://unlimitedfutures.org/the-cononavirus-pandemin/feed/ 0 THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM? IT IS ALREADY HERE https://unlimitedfutures.org/the-new-american-dream-it-is-already-here/ https://unlimitedfutures.org/the-new-american-dream-it-is-already-here/#respond Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:45:12 +0000 https://staging.unlimitedfutures.org/?p=790
Massive crises have one great advantage: They show you where you stand. The sight can be distressing and shocking. But it would be wrong to say “Who knew?” We all knew.
 
Originally Published by SF Gate
 
In this country, you’d have to be willfully ignorant to not know about racism, police brutality, income inequality, global warming, the staggering cost of medical care, and the rapacious activity of huge international corporations.
 
A secondary benefit of a massive crisis is that change can occur. People have waked up enough to protest racism and police brutality. COVID-19 deaths have waked up enough people that Medicare for all has a viable chance of happening. We cannot afford to keep recycling the same old story once things get back to normal. As overwhelming as a massive crisis is, the good news is that the solutions are just as well known as the problems.
 
If you stare this crisis in the face without flinching, the solutions stare back at you. They include
·        Social justice. This can be solved with a fair, impartial court system and a police force that isn’t skewed to victimize minorities.
·        Economic justice. This can be solved by guaranteeing a safety net for every citizen of the kind that exists in countries where social democracy already works.
·        Sustainability. This can be solved by removing the pollutants and toxins that everyone knows are causing climate change.
·        Peace and conflict resolution. This can be solved by demilitarizing the world and ending us-versus-them thinking.
·        Epidemic disease. This can be solved by taking public health seriously everywhere it is lagging.
·        Unhappiness and discontent. This can be solved largely by doing everything else on the list.
 
Each of these problems, by general consensus, is moving in the wrong direction. Even though everyone knows what the problems are, and generally speaking the solutions are staring us in the face, the situation isn’t improving. Why?
 
Slavery, child labor, lynching, tainted food, and totalitarianism were changed in the past, and at the time when reformers confronted these horrific problems, the same obstacles were presented by rich, powerful, corrupt, entrenched forces acting in bad faith that we see today.
Something fundamental is as true today as in the distant past: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The axiom came from Edmund Burke, a giant in 18th-century English politics who also happened to be a conservative. Reformers count on good men (and women) to act on what they already know. This is a simple matter of vision. Change your vision, get enough people to agree with you, and good prevails.
 
I think of this as the new American Dream, because the old American Dream no longer inspires the vast majority of us. The Land of Opportunity is the old American Dream, to put it in a nutshell. But where has opportunity gotten us? Rampant materialism, mindless consumerism, the dominance of the rich against the poor, woeful social mobility, unchecked polluters, political apathy that has allowed two generations of reactionaries to advance their agenda. Hollowness and corruption were not supposed to be the legacy of the American Dream, but now we’ve learned to live with them in the hope that the goodies we amass won’t be taken from us.
 
The tragic irony is that every problem can be solved without sacrificing American prosperity. What did polluted air and water, exorbitantly expensive health care, stockpiles of nuclear weapons, trampled minorities, the burgeoning super-rich, the corporate stripping of retirement plans, and venal demagogues in places of power do to make you happier? It’s not a wild surmise to answer “Next to nothing.”
 
The United States has around 4.5% of the world’s population while generating 20% of the global economy, leading the world in greenhouse gas emissions (second only to China), enjoying the world’s most expensive health care with the worst returns from the existing medical system, and standing alone among developed Western nations in not guaranteeing housing, education, and free medical care to its citizens. We do not have to call these things the product of evil, but they are certainly the product of inattention, inertia, social barriers, reactionary political forces, apathy, and a lack of shared vision.
 
Of all the things that keep us from a better life, I think the lack of shared vision is the one we can change right now because no outside power can stifle the mind completely. The mind is free if you wake up to what you already know is right. Such a step isn’t difficult, but another maxim must be heeded: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
 
If you know what the solutions are, you are already part of the new American Dream. You are not a victim of fate, circumstances, or history as long as you are awake instead of asleep. The real opportunities have never been material in the first place but mental. No one has taken that opportunity away from you. Only habit and inertia have caused the sleepiness of the past to remain in place. Being the change you want to see in the world doesn’t require unusual courage or scary action.
 
It only requires that you stop telling yourself that things will change while at the same time recycling the same old attitudes, beliefs, fears, blindness, conditioning, and apathy. Those are the pernicious forces that led us into the current crisis. If American exceptionalism is true, then why are we the worst country in the world to deal with the pandemic, led by reprehensible politicians intent on preventing the common good instead of promoting it? The only shred of exceptionalism left to us is a vision of possibilities. To me, a new American Dream requires nothing more, thank goodness.
 
Deepak Chopra
 
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What lessons can we learn from this crisis?

Satish Kumar

The year 2020 will be remembered as the year of COVID-19. The year of social distancing, lock downs and staying indoors even when the sun was shining, flowers were flourishing, and birds were singing their sweet songs in the spring. I was in the fortunate position to be able to take that time of self-isolation as a blessing, a time for spiritual retreat and a time for reflection. I read Rumi and Hafiz, I read Shakespeare’s Sonnets. I read Rabindranath Tagore. I thought of the word, quarantine, with its association with Lent, I learned that originally the word was referred to the period of forty days which Jesus Christ spent fasting in the desert. So, for me this time of quarantine became a time of inner solitude.

However, I was fully mindful of the effect of the virus across the world and was sad to see so much suffering. Most of humanity was engulfed in an unprecedented crisis. I am 84 and I have never experienced such a drastic and deadly situation in my entire life.

Being in this COVID-19 crisis is worse than being in a state of war. Wars are initiated by humans and can be controlled or ended by humans. But Coronavirus is a show of nature’s power and beyond human control. Many people believe that through science and technology we can conquer nature. But through Coronavirus nature was speaking to us loud and clear that the talk of conquering nature is sheer human arrogance. COVID-19 has reminded us in no uncertain terms about the reality of human vulnerability.

Human desire to conquer nature comes from the belief that humans are separate from nature and have superior powers. This dualistic thinking is at the root of our inability to deal with many of the natural upheavals, such as forest fires, floods and in particular climate change, global heating and pandemics like COVID-19.  We seem to believe that one way or another we will find technological solutions to subjugate nature and make her subservient to human dominance.

Rather than looking at the root causes of Coronavirus, governments, industrialists and scientists are looking for vaccines to avoid the disease. Vaccines maybe a temporary solution but we need to think and act more intelligently and more wisely. Rather than vaccinating against the disease we need to address the causes of the disease.

Laura Spinney, a science writer asks, in the Guardian of the 26th of March, “Why the emergence of human infections of animal origin have accelerated in recent decades?” And answering her own question she says that, “The forces putting those viruses in our path are political and economic. They have to do with the rise of industrial-scale farming and the resulting marginalisation of millions of small holder farmers. They have been forced closer to uncultivable zones such as forests, where bats – reservoirs for coronavirus – lurk”.

If we are to address the causes of coronavirus, we will need to return to ecologically regenerative agriculture; to human-scale, local, low carbon and organic methods of farming. Food is not a commodity. Farming should not be motivated by financial profits. The purpose of farming is to feed people with healthy food. Money is only a means to an end. The end goal of agriculture is to produce nutritious food without depleting the health of the soil. farming for profit, or for making money directly or indirectly causes Coronavirus!

In order to address the causes of COVID-19, we need to learn to live in harmony with nature and within the laws of nature. Humans are as much a part of nature as any other form of life. Therefore, living in harmony with nature is the very first lesson we, humans, collectively, need to learn from this crisis. It is an urgent imperative of our time.

The second lesson is that all human actions have consequences. In the past hundred years human activities have been the cause of diminishing biodiversity, increasing carbon emissions and producing greenhouse gases which is causing climate change. Due to human activities the oceans are polluted by plastic, the soil is poisoned with artificial chemicals and the rainforest are disappearing at an unprecedented speed. All these negative human activities are bound to result in some disastrous consequences. Such as tsunamis, floods, forest fires and now Coronavirus in the short term and global warming or climate change in the long term.

Through the Coronavirus crisis, nature is sending a strong message, it is a wakeup call, a reminder that we cannot go on producing pollution and waste thinking that there are no consequences of our activities. Now we know that there is the force of karma and in this case, it is named Coronavirus.

Modern civilisations have inflicted untold suffering and damage on nature. Now we are harvesting the consequences. We have to change. We have to move on to build a new paradigm. In order to restore health to people, we must restore health to our precious planet Earth. Healing people and healing nature is one and the same. We need to do everything we can to heal the Earth. Only positive actions can bring about positive outcomes. This is the law of ‘Karma’. 

The trinity of Market, Money and Materialism has ruled the modern mind for far too long. Now is the time when we need to slow down and with humility listen to the voice of nature, the voice of the Earth. We need to replace this old trinity with a new trinity, the trinity of Soil, Soul and Society.

Nature is kind and generous, benign and caring. In nature everything passes. So, humanity needs to respond to this crisis positively and use it as an opportunity to redesign our agriculture, our economy, our political systems and our way of life. We need to learn to respect the wilderness. We need to learn to celebrate the abundant beauty and diversity of life. We need to realise that humans are an integral part of nature. So, what we do to nature we do to ourselves. We are totally connected and interconnected with Nature. Coronavirus has shown us that we are interrelated. We depend on each other. We are members of one Earth community and one Earth family.

If this understanding, this world view, becomes an integral part of our consciousness and an organising principle of the mainstream society then we will have different priorities and different values. Instead of economic growth at all costs we will pursue the growth in wellbeing of people and the health of planet earth.

Going back to business as usual, after COVID-19, should not be an option. Before this pandemic society was gripped by the pandemic of greed-virus. And due to greed forests have died, lakes and rivers have died, species have died, children have died, the poor have died, war victims have died, refugees have died. Death and destruction have been the consequence of the greed-virus.

Poet and novelist Ben Okri wrote, in the Guardian of the 27th of March, “The real tragedy would be if we came through this pandemic without changing for the better. It would be as if all those deaths, all that suffering would mean nothing”.

A crisis is an opportunity. In the evolutionary process of nature there have been many crises.  Life has evolved through struggle over a long period of geological time. Who knows, maybe this painful pandemic can give birth to a new consciousness, a consciousness of the unity of life, a consciousness of caring and sharing, a consciousness of love.

We have already seen some wonderful signs of this new consciousness. Doctors, nurses and carers have put themselves in harm’s way. They have given their lives to serve the victims of the virus. They are shining examples of selfless service. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people have volunteered to support the National Health Service. And countless number of helpers in local communities have been caring for the old and the sick. Even the British Government suspended all fiscal rules to help individuals, communities, charities and businesses. There has been an outpouring of solidarity, generosity, mutuality and reciprocity. People have experienced a sense of deep belonging, profound gratitude and unconditional love from many directions.

Simultaneously Russians sent planeloads of medical equipment to Italy. Chinese were doing the same for Serbia. Animosities have been forgotten. Nations have been co-operating, helping and supporting each other, in the spirit of mutual aid, rather than the usual competing and fighting.

If these spiritual qualities could be practiced in abnormal times, then why not in normal times? If we cooperate and collaborate, love and respect in normal times the abnormal conditions are less likely to occur.

In addition to this outpouring of the human spirit we have also seen a reduction of pollution and a partial recovery of the natural environment. Dolphins have been spotted in the canals of Venice and clear blue sky has been experienced over the cities of Bombay and Beijing. Carbon emissions have gone down, people are able to breathe pure air again. If we can have a good environment in abnormal times why not in normal times?

Can we dare to hope that individuals, communities and countries will learn to love each other, look after their environment and create a new world order after this dreadful COVID-19 Crisis has passed?  As the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy says, “Historically pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. COVID-19 is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next “

The lockdown in so many countries, large and small has shown that governments, businesses and ordinary people can come together and take a big economic risk in the interest of greater good, in this case the health of the whole society.

This experience should give us the confidence and courage to take bold actions to safeguard the health of nature and the biosphere. We must remember that we are sitting on the branch of nature. If we cut the branch upon which we are sitting, we are bound to fall. Therefor post COVID-19, let us act together to care for the planet and for the people.

Satish Kumar is the author of Elegant Simplicity, books and audio,

available from www.resurgence.org/shop

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THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDIMIC

I am well aware of the pain and total devastation that many people are experiencing during this pandemic.  I lost my husband to cancer 4 years ago and it was totally devastating.  At the time I couldn’t see how the world could go on without him.  And I certainly didn’t think I could.  But the world went on and so did I.

We have all experienced tragedy and lived through it – no matter how painful.

But one thing I learned is that it doesn’t help to keep focusing on the problem.

Over time I also realized that every experience we have, no matter how painful, provides an opportunity for our growth.

There is a reason for every experience, and an opportunity for growth.  This coronavirus is no exception.

We said Mother Nature called a “time out”.  She sent us to our rooms to consider our behavior.  So let’s do that.

I will use the word “we” to mean the collective we – world consciousness or the ruling majority. I am going to share with you some of what scientists have discovered over the last 20 years.  I am not going to give you specific data on the studies.  I am presuming that you want to know what they discovered rather than how they did it, but at the end I will give you a list of places where you can find that if you want.

Maybe we should start by looking at Mother Nature.  Obviously, she is in charge.

When we think of Nature, we usually think of things like the trees, water, flowers – things that humans can’t create.  We believe that we are separate from Nature and we create everything else all by ourselves.  Are we separate, and do we create anything all by ourselves?

There has been a faction of our society from around the world that has realized that there are many world beliefs that are not serving us well and are not true.  Fortunately some of these people were scientists, and their research totally overturns previous world beliefs about the world and how it works.

Let’s look at what scientists have discovered.  First they discovered that “Everyone and everything in existence is connected”.  That debunks the belief that we are separate from Nature.

That means that there is just one large body that contains all of existence and everyone and everything is a part of it.

I am going to call this larger body “Nature”.  It has been called many different names, like the Universe, the Wholeness of Life or God.  But regardless of what we call it.  It is simply all there is.  So, let’s see what scientists have discovered that Nature or this Wholeness is.

Einstein discovered many years ago that the substance of existence is energy in different forms, vibrating at different frequencies.

Einstein also discovered the Unified Field, and more recent scientists have refined his theory.  Again it is called by different names by different scientists, but what they have all discovered is that there is a field of intelligence that contains all knowledge – everything that is, everything that ever was and everything that ever will be.  This field carries the information that moves and forms energy.

Then there is the power source.  Scientists usually call it the unknown.  I call it Love.

Therefore, everyone and everything in existence is Love, Intelligence and Energy.  That is also who we are.

So, Nature, all there is, is Love, Intelligence and Energy.

Now let’s look at our role in Nature or this wholeness.  As Love, Intelligence and Energy we are also creators.  We create through our thoughts, feelings, attention and actions. Scientists tell us that our thoughts are electromagnetic energy waves.  The thought is the information and it is magnetic and attracts to itself other energy that matches it.  That is how we create.

Therefore, we create our own experiences through our thoughts, feelings, attention and actions. And all of us together create world experiences the same way.

Einstein said “The world is nothing more and nothing less than the collective thoughts of all the people”.

Our beliefs guide our thoughts, feelings, attention and actions.  We now know that many world beliefs are not true and those beliefs have lead us to create things in our own lives that do not fulfilling our desires.

Since these beliefs are world beliefs, they are beliefs that people around the world have been taught and has caused us to behave accordingly.

Even though this research has been made public, the majority of people have just kept moving full speed ahead living their lives guided by the old beliefs, teachings and behavior.

And those beliefs and behavior have created the world we find ourselves in now.  The world where we are experiencing climate change, so much pain, suffering and stress that addiction if running rampant, some people are losing their ability to reason and are killing children in school, people at concerts, work, church and all kind of social gatherings and expressing road rage on the streets.

No wonder Nature called a time out for us.

We are clearly at a cross roads between extension and evolution.  Will we continue down the path that has brought us to this point? Or will this experience of the coronavirus pandemic awaken us to the need to evolve.  Will we let go of the old beliefs and behavior and expand our awareness of who we are? Will we discover our role in creating our experiences and world experiences? And will we discover how the world works?

Atlantis was an ancient civilization that destroyed itself.  The people of that time were highly advanced in their technology, maybe far beyond where we are today.  But they became extinct.  They just disappeared; they were wiped off the face of the earth.

Were we traveling down the road to becoming another Atlantis?

Einstein said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”.

Before the pandemic you could see a family out for dinner with each of them on their phones.  People were really not communicating.  I once even saw a couple on a date on their phones.

I observed people becoming less and less capable of carrying on a conversation, and they were unaware of what was happening to them. Even a phone call or an e mail was becoming too time consuming.  Just send a text.  All real human connections were breaking down.  Life was becoming more and more mechanical.

Our technology has continued to progress, but what about our humanity?  Is it time to focus on our humanity?

I was thrilled to see some of the things that are happening in the world now.

We saw Love being expressed in so many people and so many places.  For example,

1.       All the medical staff around the world that showed up to care for the people that have been infected with the virus.

2.      All the people who were in essential work to make it possible for the rest of us to stay home and not spread the virus.

3.      All the support and recognition these people got from others around the world.

4.      So many people helping others navigate through this challenge.

I hope you saw the program that was carried on all the major TV channels supporting the World Health Organization.  The title was “One World Together At Home”.  Entertainers from around the world, all in their own homes, performed together to entertain all the rest of us that were also confined to our homes.  It was beautiful.

It is clear that many people are waking up to the realization that we are all connected and what affects any of us affects all of us.

A huge shift is taking place moving us from a world ruled by fear to a world ruled by love.  People around the world are becoming aware of the power of Love.

For as long as any of us can remember the world has been ruled by fear.  Governments build up arms so other countries would fear them.  Churches have ruled the masses by promoting the fear of punishment from God.  Many organizations have ruled their employees with fear.  It has been just how things have worked, and we have all accepted it.

When I was in high school many years ago, and I don’t think it has changed much, there were gangs fighting each other simply because they lived in different parts of town or communities.

The world belief was that if other people were not just like us and lived where we did then they must be enemies.

This attitude that was prevalent in high school was taught to the teens from families that were also taught that, and it showed up in businesses, governments and countries.

That belief, of course, originated from the world belief that we are separate, that some of us are better than others.  We were taught that we have to be able to compete with others, somehow be better.  There is us and them, good guys and bad guys, winners and losers.

There are, of course, people who do bad things, but that is not because they are bad people, but because they are not aware of who they are.  All people are Love, Intelligence and Energy.

These beliefs are world beliefs, they are beliefs that people around the world have been taught and has caused us to behave accordingly.

I watch the evening news on TV, and before the coronavirus almost every night we got news about mass murders in our country and around the world.

We had created a world so stressful that we could no longer live in it.  Some people had lost their ability to cope.  They felt helpless, hopeless and angry.  They had lost their ability to reason and they believed that someone else was responsible for their situation – the bad guys, whoever they determined that to be.

These untrue world beliefs lead to our behavior and we have created the world we find ourselves in the world where children were being killed in school, people at concerts, work, church and all kind of social gatherings and even expressing road rage on the streets.

Now even though we are still hearing about deaths every day we are also hearing about love, caring and appreciation.

I want to share with you one of my blessings from our “Time Out” due to the virus.  May 1st was my birthday and I stayed right at home and had a wonderful birthday.

I spent the entire day just answering the phone, e mails and texts from people wishing me a Happy Birthday.  I had some great talks with friends I haven’t talked with lately.  In all my birthdays, I have never had so many people find the time to wish me a Happy Birthday.  One of my friends and a neighbor even baked me a beautiful birthday cake and brought it over with a beautiful dinner she made for me. When you can get this kind of love and attention just home alone, who needs to go out?

I get business news daily from Bob Prichard and he always includes a joke.  One he shared was, “The electricity went out in our community.  My computer was down, none of my devices worked.  Even my cell phone wasn’t working, the golf course was closed.  What to do?  So, I just sat down and talked with my wife.  She seems like a nice person.”

A joke, but that was the direction before the “Time Out”.

The time out and staying home, forced people to talk to family members, and I have heard that some people had a difficult time adjusting to doing that again.  Parents had to talk to their children, and children had to talk to their parents.  They even had to eat together.  That was something that had become uncommon in many families.

Many people had time alone for the first time in a very long time, Time to think about important questions like “What is life really all about?”  “Why am I here?” “What kind of life do I really want?”  We all have lots of questions, but if we stay busy enough we can avoid thinking about them.

We were even forced to think about “death”. On some level we know that we will all experience it at some point.  But it was one of the things we tried to avoid thinking about and for sure “let’s not talk about it” was our attitude.  But we were forced to think about it and  even talk about it.

Another question that came up for me years ago when I was alone and thinking about it, was “Is there more to life than I or anyone I know have experienced?”

When we take the time to ask ourselves these questions we begin to receive knowledge intuitively.  It is the stress in our lives and our limited beliefs that blocks our ability to see and understand the meaning and possibilities of our lives.

When enough of us awaken to the realization that we are not separate from each other or Nature, and realize that what affects any of us affects all of us, we will begin to see everything from a different perspective.

As I mentioned before, we are in the middle of the biggest transformation the world has ever seen.  And as more and more of us awaken to the realization that incorrect world beliefs have created the world, we find ourselves in now, we will take the time to question our beliefs and realize that we can change them and create a much different world for ourselves.

How long will this pandemic last?  How long do you think it will take for enough people to awaken to the realization that what we have focused our attention on is just the outer world?  And begin to become aware of the fact that something created this outer world. And that it is time to focus our attention on our inner world, our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, attention, choices and actions.

I did not get my first understanding of Nature and how the world works from the scientific studies that have been done, though I have read most of them.

Many years ago I had an experience that totally changed my life.  All the things that scientists have discovered over the years were revealed to me, and I have been working with them and sharing them with others for many years.  I share that experience in most of my books. And it has been very interesting for me to watch scientists discovering these things.

There have been some people throughout history that have had this knowledge.  Most of them have been mystics.  I do not consider myself a mystic or a scientist but I have had experiences of both.  And I had no idea “why me” except that I really wanted to know and I just kept asking.

My late husband, Dr. Dean Portinga, had doctorates in theology, psychology and divinity.  He had studied sacred writings throughout history and when, how and with whom all religions were started.  When I met him and shared my experience or revelation with him, he said that what I had discovered is what all sacred writings throughout history have been trying to tell us.

Years before I met him I had completely given up on religion, but he said both religion and science are looking for truth and regardless of the route to get there we will all end up at the same place.

At one point he was the director a research foundation that was doing research on how thought and consciousness affects all aspects of life.  When the Foundation closed he came to work with me at Unlimited Futures.  His division was Spiritual Insights and he felt his purpose was to bridge the gap between religion and science by showing how the things I had discovered related to sacred writings.

As I mentioned earlier, sadly he passed away in January 2016, but we still carry his book on “A New Understanding of the 10 Commandments” and his Home Study Course on the Unlimited Futures web site at www.unlimitedfutures.org

I was very fortunate years ago to be single with no children and a job that gave me lots of free time.  I was very lonely.  I certainly didn’t consider myself fortunate at the time, but now I clearly know that it was a huge blessing.

I had done all the things I was taught to do to make one happy and successful.  I wasn’t unhappy or unsuccessful, but there was something missing.  I felt an emptiness inside that I learned couldn’t be filled with relationships or entertainment. Have you ever felt that?

I had time to think about my life and ask questions.  Why doing what I was told had not produced the promised results?  Why did things just happen without any apparent reason?  What is life really all about?  Why am I here?

All these are important questions that I think we all have from time to time, but they are kind of scary and make us uncomfortable.  So, we just try to ignore them.  If we stay busy enough we won’t have to think about them.

But I was fortunate enough not to be able to get that busy, even though I tried.  I usually had at least a couple of jobs, studies, entertainment, friends and dating, but none of it filled that emptiness and the questions wouldn’t go away.

I finally took the time to stop running and contemplate these questions.  Those questions and more came.  Do things just happen?  Do we have anything to do with creating our experiences?  I really, really wanted know how it all works.

Once I was willing to ask questions and just be quite and listen, I was guided to the process that I discovered allowed me to receive answers to my questions and discover the power that all of us have to consciously create whatever we choose.

The coronavirus pandemic has given you this opportunity to stop and question.  Is it time to think about all the questions that you have usually wanted to avoid?

Is our “time out” over?  Memorial Day week-end just ended, and people were out in droves celebrating.  My condo is right on the Gulf of Mexico and there were droves of boats out celebrating with more people on them than was safe for boating much less safe for protecting against coronavirus.

What will we learn from pretending that the coronavirus has gone away when we know it hasn’t?

Evidently many people have not used their “time out” wisely.  Will we get more time out?  Will we have to start all over?  We shall soon see.

The coronavirus has a purpose and it will not go away until it has fulfilled its purpose.  We know that our previous way of life was not sustainable.  Have we (collective we) changed?  Are we on the right path now?

I am afraid that the answer to that question is “NO”.  So, what’s next?

I want to share another Bob Prichard joke with you.  He said: “We used to think that people were so stupid because they didn’t have enough information.  We now know that that wasn’t it.”

We certainly don’t need more information. What we need is wisdom.

Here is a most interesting quote from the book Thrive by Arianna Huffington’s (co-founder, President, and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post).  She writes, “Wherever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions.  What they are lacking is not IQ, but wisdom.”

What we all need, to be able to create the life we want for ourselves, is “wisdom”.  And we also now know that we can find that right within ourselves.  We now know that we all have right brain abilities that enable us to receive intuitive guidance and wisdom from Universal Intelligence – the part of us that contains all knowledge.

Before we thought that the left brain (the intellect IQ) was all we had and that is what we have developed.  The left brain provides reason and logic, linier thinking and verbal communication, and it is very important, but it is limited.  Now we know that there is a part of us that is unlimited and by developing our right brain abilities we can receive wisdom.

We have created the world we find ourselves in today due to incorrect world beliefs.  All of us have been taught so many things that do not help us create the lives we want for ourselves or the world we want to live in.

We know that our beliefs are the bases of our experiences and that we can change our beliefs and change our experiences.  The first step in changing our beliefs is to become aware of what they are.  About 85% of our beliefs are not on a conscious level.  Even though they ae running our lives we are not aware of what they are.

In order to change our beliefs and expand our awareness of how life really works, the way to start is by questioning our beliefs.  First, what do we believe about all the different things that affect our lives.  Then we need to question those beliefs.  Are they true?  Of course, we believe they are, because they are our beliefs, but if we spend some time with this process, we can see that they are not true and what is true.

Discovering who we are and how we function moves us to a whole new level of understanding and experiences.

Developing our right brain abilities puts us on a path to discovering abilities that each of us have within ourselves far beyond anything we have ever known before.

This is what this global transformation is all about – creating a more advanced species of humanity that can and will create a new way of life and a new way of living.  These fully actualized people will create a world that is very different from the world we are living in today.

At this point we don’t know what will happen with the coronavirus, but what I know is that whatever needs to happen to bring about this transformation will be happening.

I also know that if you practice the Unlimited Futures process on a daily basis it aligns you with the Laws of Nature and regardless of what happens you will be fine.

If you want to expand your awareness of how life really works and develop your ability to consciously create whatever you choose, go to our web site at www.unlimitedfutures.org

There you will find three books I have written to help you better understand this and I have also created a course to develop your right brain abilities.

My books are:

“Unlimited Futures: How to Understand the Life You Have and Create the Life You Want” – This book explains the process for developing abilities you probably never knew you had.

“Making Sense of the Chaos: A Cal to Action” – This is about what is happening in the world today, why it is happening and how we will change it.

“Unlimited: How Ordinary People Accomplish Extraordinary Things” – This shows you what results from developing your unlimited abilities.

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