We Built A World For Our Egos Now We Will Build For Our SoulsOver the past seven or eight years, with increasing urgency, people have beenasking me when things will go back to the way they were; when life will return tonormal? We should not seek to once again walk that path that brought us here.That is recovery. We need to forge a new path, let us not recover, let us recyclethe lessons that we learned from that past and create a New World, one that doesnot reach to scrape the sky but to touch the heart of Heaven. Now is our chanceto redefine what it means to be a human, and not an animal.We are at the end of an age, imagine, lets say, one of those plastic bottles ofElmer’s glue that squeezes out. In the beginning, when it comes out it is smooth,tight, solid, dependable, it goes where it’s put, precisely and easily. But as theend draws near it may begin to slow down, requiring more force to get it out, butstill, it comes. Once the end is reached, it comes out in jumps, starts, andsprays, it is almost impossible to direct, control, or depend on.All of us alive today have been born at the end of this era, the Age of Pisces.The twentieth century was a critical century for mankind. The number 19 is akarmic number. It represents the needs of the self (1) versus the needs ofhumanity (9). This was the essence of the century, it highlighted separation fromthe whole, whether separation by race, religion, nationality, or economic status,we dealt with the loss of and the fight for human rights (9) throughout the world.We were forced to face our dark side. It first came to light with the Nazi’s andtheir attempt to annihilate the Jewish people. We have witnessed the Black peopleboth in the United States, South Africa, and other counties being hung, killed,and treated as second-class citizens, we have seen many attempts at racialcleansing throughout this century and watched millions of people being slaughteredin tribal wars, and we have done nothing as Africa dies of AIDS. Nothing has beenmore open and in our faces than the issue of the rights of the few versus therights of the whole.We have been forced to see that there is a gap between the image that we held soproudly of ourselves as civilized beings and the reality of our darkness; we beganto perceive our frailty, this has been our first unconscious inklings thatperhaps, we could not trust ourselves or, for that matter, even life. It was thefirst, microscopic fissure in our façade. We began to speed up the pace of ourlives: to get more life into a day, and more living into a life. Woman, afterworking in plants and doing the jobs that were previously held by men, began tofeel that they could do more, have more, be more.A generation of children was born into this atmosphere of dissatisfaction, andconfusion. These children absorbed the emotions, existing all around them, intotheir souls; they observed the shattered image that man had once held with pride.Hidden in the closets were the skeletons of bigotry, hatred, and hypocrisy, whichscreamed out at them. This was a generation driven by an evolutionary intent tobegin the process of exposing what was hidden by questioning the lies that hadheretofore been accepted as natural. They came in to begin the dismantling of anage. They brought prejudice out into everyone’s faces to deal with; they insistedon civil rights, and woman’s rights. They demanded a world in which their parentshad only pretended to live.Aware that their parent’s generation had stood idly by, while Hitler massacredmillions; made them commit to not just standing by and watching. They fought,peacefully, and violently, they lived hard and many died young: they were driven.Yet, it was also a generation whose strength was its numbers; that Vietnam thinnedout badly, and whose weakness was its youth and its idealism. It made an enormousdifference, but what it didn’t do, what it couldn’t do, was reach its goal; it
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