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MONEY! This is a topic that evokes a wide variety of thoughts and emotions. This site will contain a lot of information and discussion about money as time goes by. There is a lot to know and understand about it. A survey shows that most people are not very informed about money. There are many books available about it ranging from history to the future, and despite the immediacy of and the profound influence of money in the lives of the people, the vast majority of the people have invested little time in its study. We know what it looks like, in its many forms, and we know what we can do with it, but this is not enough. Something that has become the overwhelming driving force of the world warrants more. The people would help themselves greatly by taking the time to study the literature available about money. The information found there is indispensable, but there are some things about money that seem to be missing from the literature, vital things.

A fundamental fact about money that demands understanding seems obvious, but is mostly overlooked is the fact that money is what we use to access the products of society, and regardless of the form, money is a means to limit your access to the products of society. If there were no limits to your access, there would be no reason to have money at all. If you think this sounds like everything would be free in such a case, you are simply making a mistake, an understandable one, but still a profound mistake.

“Free,” like “freedom,“is something that has little or no meaning when analyzed deeply. There is no such thing as “free,” nor, as has already been written about on this site, “freedom.” These are just words that represent no physical object and as mental abstracts have only relative meaning within certain contexts. Nothing is all that is free. No object of human production is truly free since it must be “paid for” with time and energy/effort. The air you breathe in comes at the cost of time and effort inhaling. When the universe is considered, devoid of life, everything in it is a product of time and energy, and, therefore, not free. This train of thought has no end. The products of society that we currently buy with some form of money are certainly never free. They all require time and effort to produce. So, even if there were no limit to your access to the products, nothing would be free. The amount of time and energy required to produce the products and to gain unlimited access would be the cost, but money would have no place. You invest time and effort; in return you get access to all the products of society. You will not be given anything. You will have to purchase what you get by contributing to society. What makes this so desirable is the fact that your pay for your effort is everything you want as long as you live. That is pretty good pay, don’t you think?

Yes, your money will disappear. You will have to give up money entirely. There will be no money and there will be no need for money. There will be no savings, no stock market or stock, no banks, no financial institutions, no artificial value, and there will be virtually no need for lawyers. All these things exist only because we use money to conduct the operations of our society. Of course, such a system serves some, and very well.

In terms of everything that is produced in the USA, including services, the financial industry (a name it does not deserve) comprises nearly half. Things that are being done in the management and manipulation of money have become a huge portion of the total work people do. It also pays very well. In fact, it appears that the financial jobs are among the top paying in the country.

Banking is something that we all see. But do you realize that every penny that goes into the banking system is a needless expense for society. It is like paying someone to follow you around holding your money and taking care of your payments, but much worse. It is simply an unnecessary expense, and it is an expense that has taken the top tier in the pay scale. Can you see that if everyone worked in the financial sector there would be nothing to eat? Can you see that the more we spend dealing with the onerous burden of money the poorer we become? It is imperative that society use its time and effort wisely. Our work must help us as much as it possibly can, and the cost of money is too high and totally unnecessary.

Nothing we need and want requires money. We have just become so inured to it that we don’t understand what is happening. If you want to build a house or a factory, you can’t build it out of money. You build it out of tangible building materials. Money doesn’t fertilize crops. It doesn’t fix your leaky pipes. When you need building materials, go get them. In a society that pays you unlimited access to the products of society as compensation for your work, that is all you have to do; just go get the stuff you need. It seems insane to first have to convince someone that you are worthy of the money required to get the stuff you need. How did this happen? Open minded study easily answers that question, if you can get to that condition. It is not easy, perhaps even unlikely. Try it after reading this article. You may find it more likely.

There is a lot to fathom about money and how it has transformed the very essence of life in society. Consider crime. Money is the motive nearly every time. Show a hungry animal food and them put it out of reach. You will see the animal behave in ways similar to the way people behave after they become aware of what is available in the world that they are unable to obtain. Food is a prime example even amongst humans. Just look at the starvation statistics. The food is out there, but many cannot gain access to it; they don’t have the money. Who can be confused now about the frequency of crime? It is a natural occurrence in a society that limits access to it products.

It has already been suggested that there is not enough for unlimited access for everyone. This is an old response and it has no substance. It comes from the psychology created by the system that has dominated life on Earth as long as history is available. This system cannot abide abundance. This system requires for its very existence shortage, scarcity, and deprivation. We have been subjected to this so long we have unconsciously accepted it as a natural condition of life. Nothing could be further from the truth. The waste that goes on in the world today is essential to this inhumane inane system.

Here is the next fundamental fact about money that beats you down every day all the time and still goes unnoticed. Somehow, at some point in time, it became accepted by the people that their time and effort does not deserve as much as that of another. You get paid more or less than someone else. The people have accepted the judgments that value their contributions to society at different levels. These value judgments and their enforcement have become such that the most essential work of society are the least valued. The people who work to build and maintain everything are granted the least access to the products of the society they build, while those who contribute things that we could easily do without are granted the most access; movie stars, high end athletes, and those who deal in money and laws, though the list is longer still. Only a very few, percentage wise, have unlimited access and, guess what, those few have virtually unlimited access to you as well.

If you and I get stranded on a deserted tropical island and I quickly gather all the coconuts and put them where you cannot get them, I can get you to do things for me that you might not otherwise be willing to do in exchange for coconuts. I would have access to you. The hungrier you become the greater my power over you becomes. My behavior in that case would certainly be subject to criticism, but such things are going on every day all over the world while the people idly accept it. You see it all around you, but you may be unaware of it.

Society is overflowing with products and services. Production is a staggering abundance. Even food has become a commodity that is bought and sold, rather than something personally grown, hunted, or gathered. It is a product of society and to get access to it money must be obtained. Again, the person with the money has power over you. If you want something besides food, the same situation exists. In the world today, your desires for things other than food are being created by some of the greatest human effort ever done, which is another topic, but you will see what I mean by considering advertising, marketing, and invention, the last of which creates desires that previously did not exist, like laptop computers. Then there is medical care.

Medical care has become big business. You can get your heart replaced. Well, you can get it replaced if you have the money; otherwise you are likely to just perish. Medical services are not provided to those who have no money. Sure there are charities and some medical service provided to those who have no money, but people are suffering and dying all over the world, even in the USA, because they don’t have enough money to get available medical help. Now, how does this compare to the coconut story above? You might do many things for someone to relieve your hunger, but when you are in the grips of excruciating pain, or your body is badly broken, you are likely to be even more motivated. What a wonderful way to make money! Just refuse to grant access to a product of society known as “medical care” unless money is provided. In a system that bases price on the strength of demand, how could you ask for a better means to set prices high? “Does it hurt bad? We can fix it for the right price.” It sounds very much like the story of coconuts. All this is going on today, and worse, while the least amount of notice and effort reveals that medical care as we have it today is only because so many have contributed to society so long.

The cost of education is not just books and tuition. What university exists solely as an island in society? They all use the roads and every other system that society provides. Without the vast amounts of time and effort supplied by the people, there would be no hospital or medical equipment, and no university. People would not be able to devote their time to the study necessary to become medical professionals. No doctor acquired the requisite knowledge to be a doctor without vast help from society. What would a person eat while spending the necessary time in study if there were no people making food available? The more one goes to school, the more one owes society. Ah, but that is backwards. The more one goes to school the more one deserves more money. This current attitude is devoid of reason, and absolutely oozing the worst form of discrimination.

Somehow you have accepted that you are not worth as much as someone else. That is the cold hard fact of the matter. You have accepted this lie, this delusion. If this is not your attitude, why then do you accept the limited access you have to the products of society? Even the highest paid doctors are getting less than some. Even they have accepted that they are worth less than someone else, if not consciously then by behavior. We have, nearly every one of us, accepted the delusion that some are worth more than others. The proof is in your pay, your profit, your returns. While you work away, even contentedly, you accept that you are not going to get full access to the products of society when there is no physical organic reason for it. It is discrimination.

You are being judged. Your value is being determined. The quality of your life is being set upon you through the instrument of money. You contribute to society and your contribution is compensated with some amount of money, which is, again, simply your access to the products of society. You are granted some level of access, but limited access, as represented by your money. Your value is being set for you.

You live on a planet that has had humans working incredibly hard on it for centuries. Humans have been very busy. The amount of work that has been done is beyond comprehension. We see remnants from thousands of years ago in the form of pyramids and such of the work that has been going on continuously for all these thousands of years. Everyone alive has inherited the products of the work done by the ancestors. In the USA there are few roads left to build. Lakes have been created. The list goes on and on. Surely you can understand this. A lot has already been done. We have inherited a lot of stuff, and the new born even more. Yet the work must go on. We must be ever productive, more and more all the time. It gets harder and harder to do enough work to satisfy our survival needs. Many perish because they cannot keep up the pace, or they cannot get back into the pace after the system has let them fall out of sync. Where does it all go? When is it enough?

In the USA, and the world at large for the most part, the people are required to work all their lives to provide for themselves. You must have a job and work at it to get money to buy the things you want and need, because you are not going to get access to the products of society unless you have money. There is retirement, sure there is. For most of you it is after you are so old and worn out that you don’t even have long left to live, and your retirement is an austerity demonstration. The exceptions to this are too few to make the situation acceptable. The exceptions, of course, are the wealthy, and in truth they only have it a little better than the rest of the people. In fact, there are ample reasons to claim that they do not have it any better, but worse. They only have access to the products of society and to the people. They don’t have greater access to peace, happiness, fulfillment, or any of the products that humans can create in a better world. The wealthy also have the burden of responsibility for the prevention of the fulfillment of Life on Earth.

When I get all the coconuts and prevent you from gaining access to them on the desert island, I am holding you down, back, and out. Money is no different. If I get all the money and prevent you from accessing it, I hold you down in much the same way. One source stated that corporations in the USA are sitting on nearly two trillion dollars, the exact number being unnecessary, and the the exact form being equally unnecessary. This number is above and beyond what they call “illiquid assets,” like buildings, real estate, machinery, and such. It also does not include the inherited work already done by humans. Those corporations use the roads, the utilities, and everything else. They hold enough money to eliminate hunger here, to provide medical care to those without access, and so much more. But they have no intention of any such actions. They hold their money while they claim they need more confidence that any use they apply the money to will result in even more money coming back to them, a return. They are held in high esteem. They are successful. They are seen as paradigms of the hope we all have. There is no hint, other than from this writer that they are hording the coconuts.

There is only so much money. If money is a “store of value,” as they put it, it must represent tangible products or services. People who have wealth are keeping you from getting better access to the products of society and they are using you to do their bidding, which is all the essential work and the work of increasing and protecting their wealth. They know that people desire better access to the products of society, so they must be ever vigilant against the people. You may have noticed the law enforcement and military expense in today’s world. If you think they are there to protect you, consider the nuclear bomb. The wealthy have plenty of protection against the nuclear threat. Do you? Do you think the military of another country would invade to get more people? In this densely populated world more people means more mouths to feed. Invaders are after land and wealth, usually. Furthermore, would you require a military if everyone had unlimited access to the products of society? A society that successful would be the inspiration of rapid duplication around the globe. The kicker is; such a society is not only possible, but great effort is being applied to prevent its inevitable manifestation by completely natural organic means.

There was a man named Thomas Robert Malthus who wrote some books in the late seventeen hundreds that spun a bit of sophistry about over-population and scarcity that have been invaluable tools in the suppression of the human spirit ever since. Today the world is in apoplexy over the growing population and the depleting resources. Malthus was a reverend in the Christian faith and a philosopher economist. He studied societies both present and past, and then postulated their extensions. He went against many well know persons who postulated quite the opposite of his views believing that humans could and would perfect society even unto utopia. The fact that Malthus worked solely within the parameters of society that operates in the usual manner was a great flaw in his thinking. His views assumed that there would always be money regulating access to the products of society. He saw how prosperity caused more births until there was less prosperity that slowed the birth rate. It was a fine bit of sophistry, ingenious. It was totally devoid of any true vision and comprehensive comprehension of society. It appears to be just a way to protect the wealth of the wealthy and to continue the perpetration of a terrible social system, the one that has a king at the top and peasants below.

People began to dislike the idea of Kings and Queens and the social system was modified so that those royals could have their positions without causing the people to revolt again. It was a clever move, and it has everything to do with your money. They merely stepped out of the spot light and temporarily increased the people’s access to the products of society while they devised ways to control the people. For the people was their only threat.

A person was no threat to the wealthy. Killing a person was easy. Killing or imprisoning a lot of people, though more difficult, was easy enough. The real threat has always been The People. Large numbers of people united in a cause stormed the palaces and executed the royals many times in history. This fact was not lost on the wealthy or the royals and they have been at great endeavors to use their wealth to get people to devise ways to prevent such things. Yes, they got the people they wanted to control to devise the means to do so.

Today the people are so outgunned it is ridiculous. The wealthy can bring to bear the unimaginable force of the world’s military might in defense of their wealth. Or maybe you think the military is not at the disposal of the wealthy, like they want you to think. Are those in power wealthy? I rest my case. If you are unable to see that the wealthy can bring to bear the might of the armed, just try to do anything against their wishes. You can end up in prison even if you have lots of money if you go against the greater wealth, or you can end up dead. It has happened many times, whether you are aware of it or not.

It stands as fact that money can get people to do things that a sentient being would find unimaginably horrible. We all know this. There is only one reason this condition exists; access to the products of society is limited. Discrimination is being done that shows the people that there are some who get more and this keeps a false hope alive in the hearts of the people, the hope to rise up to a similar level. The wealthy realized early that hope was essential to the maintenance of a strong and peaceful population of servants, though now they feel crowded by too many servants; yet another topic for later.

People who can get everything they want and need are difficult to manage into doing horrible things. Theft is a rare occurrence in a society that provides unlimited access to the products of society in return for a short term of service. The very character of the people in such a society is something altogether different than that of people in society as it is today, worldwide. When basic needs are met and access to the means of attaining personal fulfillment are readily available, beautiful people occur. In such a society the products of society become beautiful things, works of art, utility, and durability. People become productive in pursuit of their own personal dreams, health, well-being, and community/family desires. A society that is that successful generates generations of ever greater quality and beauty. Vistas become visible that have been shrouded in darkness, invisible to the minds that struggle for survival. The vastness of outer space becomes a beckoning frontier, and that frontier is likely limitless, as are its resources.

On Earth today, resources are being used to operate society. The world over societies, together comprising the super family of our species, operate in such a state of inefficiency that people like Reverend Malthus seem lucid. But the availability of resources and space are only a concern within the systems that operate society as it is today, and there is no reason to continue to operate society as it is today. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence that the super family of man is headed to its own destruction if the current systems are allowed to continue. Now, do you think you might like to break your mind free of its limits and at least try to envision a better way? Perhaps you could just consider the one you are reading about right now with a mind free of brainwashing that life has done to you since you came into this life.

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This article is testing the waters, so to speak. I have quite a bit of fear around presenting it to the world. Change frightens some. Some would like to see thing continue as they are. So, if I suddenly commit suicide, I really didn’t. Some things are worth dying for, as some things are worth living for. I fear those who oppose egalitarian altruism. I fear those who argue against utopia. The psychology of those people is hard to fathom. The “it can’t be done” crowd, don’t remember Edison and many others. That something doesn’t seem possible to you is not proof of your opinion. Opinions are limited to the scope of the consciousness of the opinion holder. They see reasons why something can’t be done instead of the obstacles that must be surmounted to reach the goal, or they have darker more sinister psychology. I fear there are those who have very sinister desires and who do such things. That is a subject for another time. I do fear that though. I do not fear to fear. Fear is a good thing. It helps me survive.

Anyway, I debated this article for some time. I wrote it quite a while back. The fact that you are reading it tells you what I finally decided. I want world peace, but I want even more. I want everyone to be fulfilled, provided their fulfillment doesn’t require sinister stuff. I want to live in a world of people who love everyone and everything, of happy people who are enjoying the adventure. I want to live in a world of people united in Truth. I am sick of the multitude of arguments on every subject of any importance. I want to live in a world of infinite diversity and possibilities. I do, actually. It just needs to be unfettered.

The Power Of The People

The Power Of The People

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How To Find The Answer In Love

How To Find The Answer In Love

What is love? When they say love is the answer, what do they mean? Is it possible to love everyone, even the bad people? How can I love someone who has treated me badly? What is meant by unconditional love? What would the world be like if everyone loved everyone? Good questions! Let me try to answer them, since I have been over forty years a recipient of the rewards of giving life to Love.

Love is a word we use in the English language to describe a way we can feel. A very beautiful lady asked me once, “What is love?” When I answered that it is a feeling, she became very upset and denied the answer. I asked why she would ask a question and then refuse to give any credence to the answer. She was too upset to continue the conversation. I have come to think that she was seeking a more romantic answer. I do still believe that love is a feeling. A simple answer, to be sure. I would have expounded upon my statement had this lady given me a chance, for I have volumes to present; as I intend to take a stab at here. Love is a feeling. A powerful feeling with limitless complexity, history, beauty, and effects.

I have doubt that there is a subject more expounded than love. It pervades all forms of communication that can be preserved and when it comes to verbal communication, it is unimaginably vast, but spoken words are short lived vibrations of the air that can linger only as memories in the mind. Can something else beautiful be said of love? I think it can.

Love probably has as many different manifestations as there are people and even as many as all the people that have ever been. Such is but an aspect of its beauty. I think animals manifest love in their way. As astonishing as it may seem to you, I think the plants manifest love too. Now, consider love as manifest by the Angles, spirits, God, and even aliens. Getting pretty complex, right? Can we discover what love is by all the possible expressions and manifestations it does and has had throughout history and in all aspects of reality? I think so.

Gravity is like love. It is everywhere and manifests itself in countless ways. Light is like love. The light of the sun shines upon the Earth and its inhabitants as one thing but becomes unique for every recipient. Sunlight seems to have no discriminatory ability, or maybe I should say “desire.” Who knows, maybe the sun knows what it is doing. Still, it seems to shine unconditionally on all, even if it hurts. Gravity and light are parts of the reality that we live on Earth that are there for our discovery. They do not require our belief. They do not require our acknowledgment or approval. They just are. As we gain greater consciousness, we improve our understanding of the reality that we must face and our understanding has improved to a point that we know gravity well enough to makes it possible to land spacecraft on comets and to analyze light that started its journey billions of years ago. Love is like these things. It is something that we can understand in greater depth and detail. It could, after all, be something that just is and that we can discover, or not.

Love is unique to you. You love as you love and no two can love the same. This is just something I think likely, but it matters not. The similarity is what counts. We all feel love in very similar ways and it affects our behavior in similar ways. We manifest love for our offspring that compels our behavior more than the compulsions of survival. We even suffer great heartbreak and pain in order to survive for our offspring in the conviction that we must so that we may better serve our offspring. A man would jump in front of a bullet to save his child. A mother would leap to her death to protect her child. Here love is something that makes the loved one more important to the one loving than one’s self. There are exceptions to these things and no two people seem to do it the same, but the similarity is astonishing. It begins to appear to be something that is definable and understandable. It appears to be something that exists on its own.

I am willing to think that love is a part of the universe, the creation, or what you wish to call it; reality, if you will. I am willing. I am not knowing. I think it possible, too, that only life forms can give life to love, can make it part of the universe, are the only source of its existence in the physical universe. I entertain even the notion that inanimate objects love. The non-universe, if you will, the universe that is not physical, if you will, could be the source of love, making the assessment difficult. It is an area of exploration luring us on tantalizingly. It has been said (by Carl Sagan, I think) that we are the eyes of the universe looking at itself. I say that we could be the universe’s way of bringing love into existence. Again, I am not knowing. I am proposing ideas. I lean a bit to the notion that love exists independently of life, much as gravity seems to. I fear that our understanding of the universe is far from comprehensive. We may be incredibly ignorant still. Can you entertain the thought that feelings are something that exists independently, like gravity and light; and how about feelings having their own consciousness?  Can you visualize the universe as something that is inclusive of the physical and the non-physical? The division may be a simple product of ignorance. These questions make me feel ignorant. So many questions! So few answers! Someday, maybe, we will know.

We can love. That much I know. I do it all the time. I think that love is the answer to all the problems we face as a species and as individuals of the species at this time. That love is the answer has been said by many for a very long time. To say that love is the answer puts one into the company of some of history’s most wonderful characters. These characters have appeared throughout history and in countless variations. Jesus said that we should love one another. It is said in the Ten Commandments. It is said in any religion I have been able to examine. It has been said outside any religious or spiritual setting. That love is the answer is a thread woven throughout the tapestry we call “life.” So, how is love the answer?

You have probably heard it said many times in your life that love is the answer. Has it ever made sense to you? Have you doubted the veracity of the statement? If it is the answer, why has it not solved our problems? I discovered the answer for myself through love in the spring of 1971. It is the answer. Of this I am certain. But you have to do it right.

In light of the fact that we feel love in so many different ways, we can see that there is a love that is different. You may have never felt the kind of love that is the answer. Maybe we can consider the strength of love; one being more or less strong than another. Maybe we can look at love as something we feel in various qualities. There seems to be complexity here that challenges consciousness and language; especially when considered as something that exists independently of humans and even in the non-physical universe. What comes into relevance quickly here is that there is a love that is the answer and the others are not.

Far be it from me to say, but I will. You have to reach the point where your love is the kind that will work; as the answer, that is.  It surely must be unconditional love. It must be immortal and invincible. It must be of a certain nature, quality, strength, or something. It seems that some people do not know love that is the love that is the answer. I do not say this with any certainty, and I fear that what I am writing here is true. I hope I am wrong. I hope that the love that anyone fells is the right love to be the love that is the answer. I can only base my understanding upon my own experience.

I found the answer in love in 1971. It transformed me in an instant. Since it happened I have been attempting to understand it better and to explain it to others. I feel that I have never actually gotten it across via communication. Maybe it is beyond me. I do not seem to tire of the effort. I can tell you that I had been through a long and difficult experience with the love I felt for a girl and that when I decided to try to love everyone I chose the love I felt for her as the love I wanted to feel for everyone. I did this simply because it seemed to me to be the strongest love I knew, and I must say here that I was obsessed and overwhelmed by it for many years. She broke up with me and took me back six times, and each time my love increased. The story is one I intend to write someday. The thing to understand here is that I felt a strong, deep love for this girl and I wanted to feel the same for everyone. My effort resulted in my re-birth.

I began to live my life with the strongest degree of honor that I am able to conceive, and my conception keeps growing. I became happy beyond my wildest imagination. I have been happy ever since. The changes that come over me are something for another book. It was transformative. I know of no other experience that even seems to be the same. I read about Buddha, Krishna, Mohamed, Moses, Jesus, and others seeing similarity but not what I can take to be the same. This could just be me; I don’t know. Of this I am certain, I experienced “love as the answer.”

In very little time I felt that I had found The Answer. I was and still am convinced that what I experienced can solve all the problems we currently face and probably relegate any we may come to later to mere adventure; fun, challenge. By merely deciding that I wanted to try to love everyone as I loved that girl and pursuing that objective in my heart and mind, it happened. I had discovered the answer in love.

I had little difficulty attaining my goal. I pursued it with my logical mind overcoming every obstacle I encountered along the way until I realized there was nothing stopping me. Once that was accomplished the rest just happened. I was taken by it. I think you can do it too.

The logical process I went through may or may not be necessary for you. I had to figure out how to love people I didn’t know, people who were bad, people who had done painful things to me, and people who would not love me back. Ultimately, I reached a place where it didn’t matter who or what they did. I just love without condition. I don’t love someone to be loved in return. I don’t love someone because of what I can get from them. I don’t even love someone for what I can get by feeling it. I don’t love someone because they are wonderful or beautiful. I love someone because my love is like sunshine. It does not discriminate. I am shinning love on everyone and everything all the time.

I do not need a policeman to make me treat people right. I don’t need laws to keep my behavior peaceful and benevolent. Money does not make me unkind. None can make me honest. Love makes me honest. My desire to be healthy and live long does not make me refrain from eating any kind of meat or root. I simply cannot kill something I love any more than you could kill your baby because you like the taste of its flesh, or even because you are starving. The way you might treat your child, if you love your child, is the way I treat everything. My love is unconditional. My associations are completely conditional.

I do not love everyone the same, though I love all those I know not of the same. The slightest knowledge or experience of a person forms my love into a love that is unique for that person. I do not have to like the person’s behavior, looks, status, or anything. I decide who I will associate with based strictly on my judgment. It is strictly conditional. My love is not. I wish I could associate closely with everyone, but people do not behave in ways that I approve and I have to be responsible for my actions, and association is an action.  People who do not have love guiding them, tend to do things that I would like to see never done again. I have lots of friends, but I do not put my stamp of approval on everything they do. Since I love them, I am pretty easy with them.

If you are a killer of humans, I do not want to know you or be around you. If you hurt children, I am a danger to you. If you kill the animals I love so that you can eat them or put their body parts on display, I might be willing to associate with you, but I will not approve. I am conscious enough to know that your path is one you must take and that the path is the right one to take, I just don’t want to be beside you if you are doing things that cause me too much grief. I grieve over the things you kill. I love the animals, the fish, the birds, the crustaceans, and all living things. I do not approve the predator/prey relationship of Earth. I never will. It must change. Someday, I think it will. In the meantime, I accept the things I cannot change and work as hard as I can to change things within my power; as limited as it is. I am content knowing I am doing what I can. The words you are reading are part of my effort. I will love you forever no matter what. If you will join me in loving everyone, we can associate a lot. We can even manifest a paradise on Earth.

You have to apply the answer to your life first. When everyone does this the problems we have will evanesce like vapor from a dew drop. I was re-born through love. I became someone different, better. I was inexorably compelled to make myself into the best person I could conceive. As my conception of the best person grows, I grow. If enough of us do this, our troubles will be over. More than that, our lives will become something unimagined.

I can visualize the world I was born into as it would be if everyone loved everyone. It is beyond beautiful. We will have to come up with new words to describe it. Then, I can see an evolution of consciousness that holds wonders inconceivable to the minds of people today. Maybe you believe in God. Consider God communing with us in two way association. Imagine being held in God’s arms. Are you starting to get the picture? If you believe there is no God, consider the way society would change when everyone was conducting themselves in ways that would make most of what we spend our time and energy on today unnecessary. No prisons or jails. No military. No laws. No borders. No police. No crime. This list can go on for quite a while. Society would be a lot more fun and lot less dangerous. What we have and what we can do today is so limited by the nature of our society and the characters of the people composing it. That it is hard for some to visualize the way it could be.

If you want to consider technology, consider it without the constraints of finance and conducted by people who love everyone. We will discover things that cannot be discovered today. We will bring about things that have been discovered already but cannot be implemented due to social restraints. For example, we cannot distribute a little box to everyone today that will transport the person that has it anywhere desired. It would topple the economy. In the U.S.A. we must have the jobs related to our current system of transportation. Too much unemployment would cause a depression that would be disastrous, ecologically and personally. In a society populated by people guided at every moment by love, most of our systems would vanish harmlessly. People would do things because they enjoy doing it. Waste would be minimized. Today, waste is part of the economy. We make things wear out so we can keep production going. We overdo bureaucracy because people need jobs. Technology born of love will make our current state seen as barbaric. We are creatures of the universe. The stars beckon. The other galaxies seem impossible to us today, but will come within our reach. The wonders are only just beginning.  Now, art is something that has only just begun, too.

A person’s artistic talent finds trouble expressing in this society. The struggle for survival is still paramount in the lives of most Americans. It gets harder and harder every day to make ends meet. We have to work constantly just to stay afloat. The few who have the time are restrained by the condition of the world around them. Inspiration has trouble getting through all the anguish, pain, depression, and death that pervades life on Earth. It even seems that much of our art is born of these things. That is too limited. People who live in the world of people who love everyone will find within themselves the art that will set new levels. We will produce everything as art. Utility will take a back seat in production yet it will reach unheard of levels of expression. Our art will find new mediums. Even the Earth will be a canvas.

Earth is already beyond beauty. Imagine it nurtured and cared for by billions of loving individuals. Cleaning it up will be gigantic task, but a vital part of the requirements of the transition to the new world. We can’t just stop everything. We have to go to work with a new meaning. We will move steadily into the new world, not crash into it. For you, each of you, it will be a “crashing into,” but for the world to come it  take place with wisdom and knowledge. All that will come naturally to a loving heart.

So, try to love everyone. Try to find the answer in love. You can do it. I know you can. You may need to develop a higher level of love, a stronger love, a better love, whatever relative word you want. But you can start by simply trying. I think an earnest desire is really all that is required. Just evaluate the love that you feel and select what you think is the strongest and best love that you know, and then try to feel that way for everyone. When you find something preventing it, find a way to go ahead through, around, under, or over it. Overcome all obstacles. Realize that everyone lives in the subjective reality that they only can live. It is theirs and they can only deal with it with only what they bring to the table, so to speak. No one is smarter than they are. No one is more capable than they are. No one does anything they cannot do. No one ever does less than the best they can do at the time under all the circumstances they face, and yet few ever do as well as we think they should have. We change with every moment. What we couldn’t do a moment ago, we may be able to do in the next. What seemed the thing to do at the time may never be the thing to do again. How can you not love someone when you understand them and the circumstances thoroughly? They are mostly just like you. The differences are minute. The circumstances are never the same. It doesn’t matter what they do or who they are. You can love them because you want to love them. Doing so in sincerity will yield rewards beyond this author’s capacity to communicate.

I am waiting here for you. I wait in my private little paradise “that makes me think of two,” as Neil Young put it. I think of everyone though. I am here. Join me. It is the lonely thing left for me to want.