In America, we were all brought up to try and reach a certain dream. For many, the dream was to have a house in a nice neighborhood, a couple of kids playing in the yard, a nice car or two, and maybe even a dog. But the beautiful thing about America is that it is the dream that is important. Be what you want to be. The only thing you need to do is to work hard for what you want. But the dream became tainted with illusions of capital riches and material wealth, so while we all strove for these elusive goals, we all started working harder to reach a target where the bar was always raised higher and higher by the rules of competition. 'Get more to be better!' 'Your status depends on what you can show on the outside!' The American Pie turned sour as we all tried to take the biggest piece that we could before someone better or faster than us reached out and took a piece of it while we were resting. The result was that we lost our souls. We earned less of the true value of life while we were busy filling our garages with things we never had time to use. Worst of all, we lost the most precious thing of all; i.e. the time we needed to spend with our loved ones. Now we are reaping what we have collectively sowed. We are all living in the midst of chaos, trying to make sense of it all.

What the world today needs is a solution. But even though the solution may be as easy as a new way of thinking, the old way of 'getting as much as you can' has been in process for centuries and is implanted in our brains. But the silver lining of current events is that we are all caught up in a time of radical change. We see that the old ways of thinking no longer work. Some of us have seen the end of the road and are trying to collect as much as possible at the expense of others. But some of us have seen the transition taking place and have already tried to start learning to live with fewer things to have a fuller life with the things that we already have. The transition isn't over, but the hidden guiding energies are now in the favor of those who look to share the resources of the earth, rather than with those who still want to instill false hopes and empty dreams.

To help the transition take place, we must be patient with those who still don't get it. Being an example and no longer running so fast in the rat race is one of the most powerful tools we have as individuals. We must be firm in our convictions to see a better world where having fewer things means having more value in the constructive things of life like love, relationships, honesty and forgiveness. And we must be faithful to keep our minds balanced in these chaotic times where it is so easy to decide to try and 'go out with a bang' or 'live life to its fullest'. The forces of change are shifting. Those who don't transition well will get lost in the shuffle. Those who balance their energies will be dealt a new hand filled with peace and sustainable prosperity. Put your investment now in spreading seeds of love, for this type of seed can heal the all the soils of the earth.   Namaste! Keitan   

 Keith A. Gonzalez http://www.keitan.com/ 
Email:moonphase9@yahoo.com