TIME TO GET TOGETHER

Underneath the facade that everything is normal, our institutions are crumbling. Our financial system is teetering on the brink of collapse.

Is it time for folks to get together and dream about the future? There is so much work to do, but timing is everything. Coming together to create a new world cannot begin until people feel in their hearts that the time is now. Sometimes I feel like shouting, "It is time to get together" then I think, maybe we need to wait a little longer.

However the conversation can begin. At some point soon folks in every community will need to get together to revamp their social systems.

EDUCATION
We need to teach our children differently. We need to insure that they know they are deserving of love, they are worthy beings filled with light. Each child most be allowed to learn at her/his own pace. School should be a joy, a love filled place. We must end drudgery, failure, measurement against another etc. I certainly don't have the answers. I think most of us agree that we don't want what we presently have.  Education needs to be an entitlement up and through a PhD.

FINANCE
The only purpose of money is to serve us. Never are we to serve it. In our present world, money is our deity and banks are our temples. That needs to be over. We will need some medium of exchange that we will be comfortable with. This will be a huge change.

MEDICINE
The worship of money has corrupted everything. Nowhere is it more obvious than in the sacred and precious art of healing. Doctors are limited to allopathic medicine which has been reduced to using, mostly, remedies that can be profitable. If a healing drug is natural, but cannot be synthesized and patented it falls by the wayside. The bottom line controls everything. We don't know what healing drugs may occur in the plants growing in our vacant lots, much less our woodlands. We need to stop looking at the body only as a machine. We need to see that the mind, body and spirit are one. Healing is something we are entitled to in the same way we are entitled to education.

RELIGION
With religion we need to start completely over. I can't begin to describe all that is wrong with it. Yet, I think the idea of community and the getting together once a week for a good purpose has value. How do we rescue it? We need to end the idea of belief. Religion must be based on the search for the truth. No person or organization can say "I have the truth and you must get it from me." One person's truth is not someone else's  truth. We all have an equal connection with source. No person can set them self up as closer to the creator than the rest. If we start with the idea that, All is Love, perhaps we can see what role religion can have. There certainly is value in learning and teaching about our spirituality.

AGRICULTURE
This part of our society is probably just as corrupted by money as Medicine. The people dedicated to making a profit have the same strangle hold on Agriculture as they do on Medicine. The solution seems simpler, we need only to grow our own food at a community level. We can all take turns tending the organic gardens surrounding our community. Much food can be grown right in the city, vacant lots can be converted to gardens. This revolution is already taking place. Many of us no longer wish to support corporate agriculture.

I have said all this before, haven't I. Is it it time to begin a conversation in earnest? Should we be coming together to talk about what we want our institutions to look like? How are we going to help all the folks who have been going along thinking nothing was going to change?

I can imagine groups coming together to form Healing Centers to help people make the transition to the new world. Peoples minds and bodies have been sickened by our present world. We need to develop ways of restoring ourselves to health.

At some point those who have been dreaming of paradise must come together for implementation. Is it now? I don't know. We must know the timing in our hearts. Let us begin the conversation. What do we want to do? How can our dreams become reality?

Happy Friday.

Love and Peace,  Gregg