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by Swami Beyondananda
The Cosmic Comic returns with his yearly feature
Well, here it is the true beginning of the New Millennium -- unless, of course, you're Jewish or Chinese and use a different calendar entirely. In fact, I am happy to say that over the past year-and-a-half I have helped thousands and thousands of people release their pre-millennial jitters by having them convert to Judaism or move to China. But for the rest of us, this is an exciting time indeed as we stand on the threshold of a New Age. Yes, I know you have heard this before and I know what you're asking, "Swami, is this New Age gonna get here before old age does?" And my answer is simple: Life is a series of peaks and valleys. Many of us have had a peek at the peak ahead, but to get there we must go through the valley. Now the problem with valleys is shadows -- deep, dark shadows -- and most of us are afraid of our own shadow. So I tell you, the sooner we face the music and dance with our shadow, the more quickly we'll get through the Age of Nefarious and reach the Age of Aquarius. For as that quatrain mistakenly attributed to Nostradamus goes:
When the goon moves into Lincoln's house
And stupider aligns with Mars
Then greed will rule the planet
And fear obscure the stars
So how about it? Is this prediction accurate? Is this the verse that can happen?
Consider the evidence. Take this last Presidential election -- please! First Nader's Crusaders declared that they were no longer willing to settle for the lesser of two evils. But as Confucius once said (or if he didn't say it, he must have at least thought it), "He who refuses to choose lesser of two evils, often must settle for greater one." And then there was the post-election drama where both sides put on a full court press, simultaneously pressing the court -- and courting the press. "I'm being gored!" cried George. "We've been bushwacked!" shouted Al. And finally, the whole thing went up to the Highest Court in the Land, but the Highest Court, as high as it is, still was not able to rise above politics.
Even after the decision the squabbling continued.
"T'ain't fair!" said the Democrats.
"T'is!" cried the Republicans.
"T'aint!"
"T'is!"
"T'aint! T'ain't! T'aint!!" And so there's no escaping that we have a tainted Presidency. Now personally, I have no problem with George W. Bush. I have complete confidence in his ability to give us the best government money can buy. But it's those folks lurking behind the Bush who need to be watched.
Like for example, the mining interests. You know, those who want to grab the public lands and the rest of our natural heritage and say, "Mine, mine, mine!" Or the oil companies whose idea of alternative fuel is fuel that alters the natives -- like the salmon in the northwest who have undergone sex change without an operation. Or the peculiar breed of "right-to-life" folks who will kill to protect the unborn, but want to make sure there are plenty of prisons to house them once they do get here. Or the big campaign contributors who will spend the next four years making sure that George dances with the ones who bought him.
Yes, it is certainly easy to get bogged down in the needy-greedy of petty politics, and that is why it is important for us to look at the big picture -- I mean the really big picture. For as Albert Einstein once said (or was it Confucius or Nostradamus?), a problem cannot be solved at the level it was created. Like the economy, for instance. "Last time I checked, the Universe was still expanding. So how can the economy be contracting? It is like the traveling salesman who arrives at a farmhouse looking for a room for the night. "All right," says the farmer, "but you'll have to share a bed with my son." "Oh, I'm sorry," says the salesman, "I must be in the wrong joke."
Well, if your economy is not expanding, you must be in the wrong joke. Because the true economy is abundance, and to enter that economy you must get off of your buns and start dancing. What do you love to do? What are you good at? What needs doing? Put all those together and you've entered the expanding economy."
Yes, even with the recent electile dysfunction, our body politic -- and our economy -- is still pretty darned vital. But we don't know our own strength because we haven't tested it lately. Consider the recent events in Serbia. I think it was Machiavelli (or was it Nostradamus or Confucius or Einstein?) who said, "The bigger the ass, the harder it is to overthrow from the seat of power." And yet this past year, Serbian citizens were able to unseat Slobodan Milosevich by pulling the seat out from under him. It began with a few young people who decided they were no longer willing to be sat upon, and they took to the streets.
And instead of an "us vs. them" confrontation, the young people in the streets and those in the military simultaneously got struck by enlightening: "You know what? We're all US!" And with no one left to sit on, Milosevich fell.
So what about those of us who don't have some big fat Slobodan on top of us? What if the only ass setting on our assets is our own? I say it's time to get up off our assets and offer our assets to the world. And give up waiting for some Divine Bail Out. The way I read it, our Father turned the Business over to us two millennia ago, and we've been shirking the job ever since. As that Fifth Dimensional message tells us, if we want Aquarius to dawn, we Sons gotta shine. (I say Sons, because the Daughters seem to be ahead of us on this one.)
And to do that, we have to switch to soular power and give up being propelled by the fossilized fuels of fear and limitation. Now even though I eschew making predictions -- I don't want to jeopardize my non-prophet status -- there is one prediction I can make with utter certainty: There will indeed be peace on Earth. Whether we humans are around to enjoy it, that is strictly up to us. Because no matter what we do, the Universe keeps on rolling along, purring in perfection, constantly unfolding. So, I am happy to report that the state of the Universe continues to be everchanging -- same as always.
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