It's not Easy...

To bring about a shift in our lives and the world we live in we will need to change some attitudes and ideas.  The old way was based on what I can get out of you and the planet.   It was competition that becomes so extreme that it turns into exploitation.  I know a man that runs his dogs in a protected growth area.  It is a forest within the city that is protected to provide animal and bird habitat and plant life.  This is convenient for him so he either doesn’t realize what those large dogs can do to the area or he knows and doesn’t care.   This is the kind of thinking that has governed what the large corporations have done to our planet and the people.  If it is the easiest way to make money then they will not worry about the effect it has on people and the environment.   
Thankfully there are individuals now and some companies who are starting to realize that the old way of thinking is not sustainable and people are starting to see through what they are doing.   I think it is interesting that these programs of starting to think sustainably are called green.   I know that is the color of plants and trees, but it is also the color of the American dollar.   Thinking ahead, realizing ones true motivations, and trying to change the competitive exploitation of the past are the things we need to teach our children.    I’m afraid in some cases they will be teaching us before we can get a grasp on an economy of sharing and collaboration.    Until the ideas become so common and people start using common sense it will probably be as Kermit the frog has said:  ‘It’s not easy being green’.

Children who can Call in the Dragon...

Imagine my delight when I found a fourth book of what was supposed to be a trilogy by a favorite author.  The series of books are called the EARTHSEA series by Ursula K. Le Guin.  In this ‘last’ book of Earthsea two main characters are reunited and a child character that had been badly abused and deformed as a result of that abuse was introduced.  Tenar took the child under her wing and taught her of love and how to live with her deformity. She taught her that her deformity does not diminish her as so many wanted her to think.  At the culmination of the story Tenar and Sparrowhawk are about to be murdered.   The child having only once heard the dragon’s name, calls the in dragon who saves Tenar and Sparrowhawk.  This is a fantasy story, of course, and I have to admit I was first drawn to it because a main character, a mage, is named Sparrowhawk.  But It occurred to me that the child we see in this story is doing what I believe will happen and, indeed, is happening even now to children being born.   I believe that children now will bring with them a lot of instinctual knowledge about what to do in life.  They are being called Indigo children, Crystal children and other names but they are showing high levels of psychic ability, music ability, lots of common sense.   They can call in the dragon with little more than knowing its name.   If you see a child like this, even your own child that shows high levels of interest in music, science, metaphysics, spirituality, nature...encourage it.   And it doesn’t have to be a child that has been abused, although a lot of children these days seem to be going through a lot, including diagnoses of autism and attention deficit disorder.   A lot of the ‘gifts’ seem to be showing up in music, but that may be the ones I notice.  Watch for children with gifts in all areas, they are the ones that will solve our energy needs and help bring about peace on earth.    Keep your eyes open for these children who can call in the dragon. 

Choose to do unto others....

Were you aware that most of the major religions of the world have in their sacred scriptures a version of the Golden Rule that is so similar that it reads almost the same?  The Golden Rule is a very logical statement about treating people the way you want to be treated.  It is so logical that not following it does not make sense.  Check out the comparisons:
http://www.unification.net/ws/theme015.htm
and  http://www.teachingvalues.com/goldenrule.html
So why are religions always fighting each other?  Could it be a human factor in there somewhere?  And don’t say “the devil made me do it” because the only devil is the evil that humans are capable of.