Ready for the next Age of Enlightenment!

I'm setting a goal right here, right now! I will help bring on an Age of Enlightenment.

To work with everyone to produce A time of positive, joyful creation. A future with less suffering and more joy. A new day, not about the drive for a wealth of money and material items. But for the wealth of kindness, creativity, and togetherness. An age that has nothing to do with your gender, race, title, education. But about your service to others, your inner purpose, the joy you create, and the sense of wonder, we can all share! The knowing that we are one.

A massive awakening to the power of our collective energy. An awareness that all we have is this moment. And that this moment is damn good, no matter what you hear on the news or social media. No matter what happened yesterday or what you are afraid might happen tomorrow. We create our own reality.

A recognition that it is our individual and collective fear, greed, hatred and, guilt that is holding humanity back. Delaying the promise of true heaven on earth for all beings. We are only as wealthy as the poorest, and we are only as strong as the weakest and only as smart as the uneducated and uninformed.

So what is an age of enlightenment look like when 7.8 billion humans are sharing this one planet?

A planet where:

• An estimated 150 million people are homeless worldwide.
• Habitat for Humanity estimates that 1.6 billion people around the world live in inadequate shelter.
• An estimated 1.8 billion people (25% of the world’s population) live without access to adequate sanitation.
• An estimated 790 million people (11% of the world’s population) live without clean water access.
• How does it work when:
• 2% of the population now owns 50% of its resources.
• When one family, the Walton's of Walmart, now own more than the lower 40% of Americans combined. That's 151 Billion dollars. 
  Walmart, now the world's largest corporation's has a mission is to sell mass-produced consumer goods for dirt cheap. Made with slave wages.
• When the USA military budget, $934 billion, is larger than the next 10 countries combined. When we have enough nuclear weapons on this earth to blow it up 1000 times over.
  
  

How do we become enlightened when there are now over 50 channels covering the news 24/7 in the US alone. Most of that news is negative. Competing for the most fear-generating headlines, all geared towards a rating war. Thousands of channels allow the largest corporations to spend billions of dollars in advertising things we do not need.

What do we do when:

• About one person in 10,000 dies by suicide every year.
• When 20% of children between 6-15 are obese.
• Our life expectancy went down for the first time.
  
  

These are human-made challenges due to poverty, greed, and lifestyle choices. The food we eat. The pollution we put into the environment, political dialogue, and our own mind and body. And the huge sad fact that unchecked hatred of each other due to systematic racism.

Using and tapping into our collective consciousness, we can overcome and solve these challenges. We can create what Eckhardt Tolle calls A New Earth.  An Earth where people focus on inner purpose to drive their outer purpose. We can start right now with each person participating. A great coming home to the truth of who we are and why we are here.

As individuals, we have the choice every day to:

• Wake up, point our attention to the spirit inside and the wonder outside. Instead of the goal of gaining more money, material things, or the daily drama.
• Embody the ideal of non-harm. Non-harm to ourselves, others, animals, and our earth.
• Service over self. Asking ourselves, what can I teach? What is my gift to share? How can I help? We shine our lights without fear.
• Commune together. Get close to the suffering of your fellow humans and find ways to relieve it. Be compassion.
• Spread Joy. Play.
• Love everyone as if they are your own child.
• Be unafraid, surrender to your inherent greatness.
• Live right here, right now.
  
  

As a community, we need to:

• Rip down our external and internal walls.
• Stop being slaves to money and start allowing money to serve the whole. Not the few.
• Reform Public Education. Create public schools that are a desirable destination for every child. An education focused on the future, not the past. Level the playing field that all children get a private level education.
• Reform our food supply. Grow plants everywhere for the community good. Stop the inhumane and unnecessary slaughter of animals for our consumption.
• Remove dirty money from politics. Move past the two-party system that is built to fight each other. Fight over who has more money, more power, more seats in office. We need to become independents and represent our community, our neighborhoods. Vote for the best person, not some party that feels like the lesser of two evils.
• We need to come together in public spaces, with no Method, no Guru, no Teacher, and share our common gratitude. Share our knowledge, express hope and break bread together. No matter who you follow or what you believe, we can meet at the place of love. Living up to that ideal to love our neighbor, love our enemy. Be peace. Be one.
  
  

This Next Age of Enlightenment is upon us, though it's masked under confusion, hatred, and striving for more. We are at a tipping point, and it is an exciting time to be alive. The best thing we can do to bring it on into full bloom is to believe and start living like it is already so.

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