The Mystical Carl Blog

That’s the only way I can collaborate with myself across time and all the phases of my life that work together. I look back on great chapters and works and memories. I can feel sad that I can’t do it now, but then I can’t do then what I’m doing now. I have to be all of me in symphony, discovering how well it all fits together: the intuitively sincerely lived past supporting the honest service-oriented present looking for the opportunities to the best futures that answer my hopes and dreams.

I can say that quite literally. Follow your Dreams to New Opportunities.

In the past month, my long brewing but somewhat shy desire to find a good dream group led a writer aquaintance with mediumship talents to say that my lucid dream partner, my non-physical best friend forever (npbff), wants me to get out more and do what I've been thinking of doing. She's been able to pick up on this friend before.

So I looked around on the internet and found that a very nice guy, an aquaintance of some physical classmates (a class on psychic development), just started a dreams support group for the Boston area. So I'm very grateful to the universe for a good match and fruition for my desire.

In a matter of weeks, I got the group a new monthly home at my church in Cambridge, which is on my commute so very convenient for me. We had a good meeting, and I'm giving my first public talk on non-physical planes and dreaming at the next meeting, which is getting lots of signups. This is awesome!

The topic of the talk is material for a book that my npbff and I are working on. I know because we had a dream of drawing a relevant map together.

The book's working title is "Developing Your Transcendent Relationships: The Importance of Understanding Who Loves You, In This And Other Worlds." Sounds great, doesn't it? Assuming you're into that sort of thing, of course. Who reads this blog anyway? :)

So I'm hopeful and expectant that everyone is being offered paths to their highest and deepest needs and desires at this time.

I've also been delighted to be able to use my own film research website to put together a list of films about dreams in a slideshow for the dream group, see here:
http://www.bostondreamers.com/photos/508166/

Best Wishes to All,
Carl

Here's my review that I posted incrementally on Amazon, but the footnotes I've last added probably won't get accepted for being too long so only here will you read it all.

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"A bridge to higher learning or pitfall, your choice as ever"
by Carl Schroeder


I'm enjoying Bruce Moen's books out of order, which is not recommended for the newcomer. So maybe I'm not the best reviewer, but as someone who is also a self-styled explorer of non-physical realms I think I see Moen's strengths and weaknesses pretty clearly. His strengths are awesome. Though often sounding like just another jargony worshipful student of Robert Monroe and the new confessional tradition of out-of-body exploration that Monroe started (Moen's back-story of Curiosity seems totally patterned after Monroe's loosh parable), Moen the pragmatic engineer went ahead with his own meditative techniques and isn't afraid to be different. He doesn't just mimic the classic experiences (necessarily so, since like many people he couldn't trigger the full-blown astral body separation), he's self-confident without being arrogant, he's conversational and approachable with lots of friendly metaphors. He covers a lot of ground, and when he's right he's gloriously correct; chapters on Hells, Hollow Heavens, and spiritual hierarchies brim with priceless observations.

The weaknesses come from clearly pumping out these books in short order to jumpstart a new, however admirable, career. Moen converts his personal growth journals and interactions with friends (physical and non-physical) into long fluffy dialogues and book chapters, with no particular research, structure, or perspective beyond chronology and his Monroe Institute connections. This is in high contrast to an author like Kurt Leland whose non-physical exploration books are reader serving distillations of decades of his own experiences with channeling, dream interpretation, and exhaustive comparison with the classic source materials of the New Age (Seth), NDE/OBE, Tibetan, Egyptian, Theosophical, and other esoteric traditions.

Consequently, some of Moen's lengthy insights are far more basic than you might expect, such as that in "Voyage to Curiosity's Father" physical life is made of sequences of events which intersect other people's events, all guided by higher planning beings, so it helps to ask clearly for what you want. Yes, and?

Without studying symbolism or history (you'd think he'd enjoy reading his predecessor Swedenborg, the seminal engineer turned afterlife explorer after all), Moen with his intellectual insistence on fleshing out objective narratives to literally illustrate his every meditative insight can get downright pathological. By putting his words in the mouths of spirit teachers, Moen sets up authorities that he never questions. His fake it til you make approach to non-physical exploration (imagine it until you feel it) is fine as long as you keep evaluating and verifying. But while Moen espouses group meditating for verifications, most of what he tells was only in his head, and his biases for paternalism, Christianity, and moral simplicity remain unexamined. Moen is clearly a sensitive guy, but does he ever wonder what happened to Curiosity's mother?

Self-satisfied on higher bliss levels but without Goddess empathy to align his thinking, Moen's rush to non-judgment leads to detestable implications such as that (1) reformed mass murderers make the best angels, (2) souls sometimes create serial killers on purpose just to collect the experience, (3) sadists who laugh at their dying victims get more love from the universe because laughter opens everyone to self-acceptance, and (4) even God for a long time didn't know that love was any better than hate for creating children. Huh? Not my angels, not my soul, not my universe, not my God, no thank you. (see footnotes for details)

Obviously there remain worlds of subjective motivation, belief, and self-reflection that Moen skipped to reach full speed ahead the first attainable top-level conclusions (male ego impatience, certainly). Just don't expect his to be the last books you'll ever need, and you'll enjoy Moen's confessions to a mystical lifestyle, warts and all. Seriously, there's so much to Bruce Moen to appreciate, I've only outlined the rare flaws as I struggled with them so you can step around more gracefully.

But if you do get impatient, try skipping to Moen's "Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook" where, in the next phase of his budding career, he took the time to better organize and summarize his experiences along with those of his new students. That final book from Moen can then serve as good preparation for Kurt Leland's first afterlife book "Otherwhere", which after all these years still remains ahead of the curve in teaching a total wisdom of dreams, altered states, and higher realities. After that, try Leland's "Unanswered Question", and his forthcoming "Multidimensional Human".

(1) "hard cases" who leave Hells are "worth their weight in gold". Never mind that the jargon "hard case" is referring to the worst of humanity, let’s assume total forgivability and redemption. Why would ex-Hitlers be so valuable, assuming that’s what the gold metaphor means? Moen is told it’s because the bad-ass angels know their way around Hells so well, enabling them to reach others. Now, I think if a sinner prefers a comparable sinner to save them, that’s fine, then they’re available. But you don’t have to do something to understand it, and God/Goddess/All-That-Is can see and guide everyone through any hell, because by definition a piece of the divine is suffering in there along with any sinner. Understand, this is not religious talk, and Moen knows it though he could acknowledge his culture more. Hells are basically dream states, as real as the reality we are in now, places where criminals and bad people gather in groups of similars. Swedenborg described Hells extensively, in the tradition of Dante and others, plus Swedenborg had a sophisticated multi-level understanding of symbols which he called the correspondances, and this Moen could learn from.

(2) Moen gets to this point by describing with some horror what others like Leland have seen, which is a lowest pit of any Hell into which the worst acting people are cast and destroyed forever. Don’t worry, if you’re contemplating these words at all then you’re not going there, you’d have to be a totally stubborn monster of a person to get eternal damnation (there are uptight Hollow Heavens for people who worry about Hell more than do Hell, so you can go there if you like). The whole pit of Hell thing could be said less provocatively: there are lowest levels of lifeforce which are reached by acting against the harmony of the universe, and at the bottom you hit your own non-existence, returning to the background raw material of consciousness. What a difference a little jargon can make! Anyway, Moen calls the losers the lost souls. Later he hears that one’s Disk – and your Disk is the soul family of all your lifetimes, although oddly Moen doesn’t say much about reincarnation, but at least he doesn’t disown it like Swedenborg - one’s Disk can send out lost souls on purpose, just to get the experience. Moen says cooly it’s no big deal, just like Earth sending a probe to explore Venus and send back data as it burns up in the atmosphere. What!? A lost soul is by definition a Hitler type, so Moen’s saying there are souls – high spiritual beings – who make Hitlers on purpose. Did you think this one through at all Bruce? I believe that each consciousness gets choices which the soul respects profoundly, but souls don’t plan to destroy lives and wreak havoc and pain on the universe with evil personalities. Souls are injured and mourn and need forgiveness when this happens.

(3) This disturbing conclusion about humor is pretty literal. Moen was told that all laughter is self-acceptance which lets in a burst of Pure Unconditional Love, that being the food of the universe. Moen saw the moral dilemma of politically incorrect jokes, and his guide said that it’s wonderful to accept a self who finds cruelty funny. So it’s not a stretch is to say that killers who laugh as they torture (and there are people who do this, on more than one level) will be supported and loved by the universe to live longer healthier lives, so they can keep on doing what they do. I say what’s missing here, Moen is totally not getting the direction and importance of intention, to be positive or negative. Laughing is some kind of energy yes, and intention can apply any energy toward a harmonic building with the universe, or a plundering and destroying of the universe, of which they are a part. Negativity laughing may give itself a boost, but only from its own depleting reserves, because it is disconnected from the universe and destroying its life.

(4) Moen’s fourth book culminates in his personal creation myth for God, but he doesn’t present it as anything less than the highest truth. To suggest there was a time when God was totally ignorant and callous is fine I would suppose, as long as you own the conception. God grows and changes, but always as God, serving the God function. Of course God has always known the difference between love and hate, and always created with love (love is the only energy which really creates anyway). What evolves are Mankind’s conceptions of God, in ways that are very telling of the storyteller. Kant (interestingly a great critic of Swedenborg) said we don’t see the world as it is, but as we are. Moen has implied throughout the book that he came from some rough experiences. His creation myth sounds like the kernel of himself that learned to unfold and grow as a consciousness of God. Too bad Moen couldn’t psychoanalyse himself more, it’s not a reader exercise but it would be instructive to watch.

POSTSCRIPT: following excerpted from email with Kurt Leland

> KURT: I think both Moen and you are struggling to figure out the question of good and evil.

I agree that good/evil philosophy seems to be a major step for spiritual growth (it's a cornerstone of most religions), and the answers looks different at different levels. Moen actually talks about his journeying partner asking the same questions as he did of their guides but got more horror images and was very upset by Moen's pat answers. In the book Moen tries to smooth over the differences between their reports but i think they're very significant. She's a woman and had more dream-like symbolic imagery that seemed at the astral level, while Moen was being this effficient impersonal intellectual at the mental level.

I've always chafed at Moen's kind of impersonal mental conceptualizing, it seems to be liberating for some people but to me it implies the uncaringness of God and soul. Yes the soul has superhuman priorities that can lead one into hard lessons (such as attraction to difficult karmic relationships) but this comes from caring more not less. I suppose the bigger long-term picture that I see, of consequences for evolution and love and such, makes sense as being causal level. I got a lot of my perspective from Lazaris back in late 80's early 90's, so I think he set me on the right track early thankfully. I don't actually struggle with the question of good and evil much personally, more just that I react with strong opinions to people like Moen with whom I disagree. Moen felt worth debating, I usually just walk away from popular limiting beliefs. My movie review site is full of hitting those points again and again while discussing stereotype plots (part of the reason that site's in hiatus).

I read that people in Mexico City are feeling like it’s the end of the world. That’s understandable, since Mexico is already suffering economic downturn and drug wars, and now swine flu has shut down the capital causing further trauma and losses, plus they felt a magnitude 6 earthquake just the other day.

And just a week ago, "viral" referred to that catchy Susan Boyle video that was making millions cry tears of joy. Now it looks like she was the doctor with a booster shot of soul that we would be needing to keep our hearts open through the harder times dead ahead.

In the whole world it’s not a good time for a flu epidemic. People are down, finanicially and emotionally. Healthcare and nutrition have already been suffering in many countries, as budgets are slashed and people lose their jobs.

It’s a tough time for tough choices, and people have got to make the right ones. I admire Barack Obama for example, for pushing for more regulation and funding for sustainable industries. So far that has meant renewable energy on top of financial system overhaul, but I think we continue to see how deep the problem really goes.

I heard that the US Republicans stripped from the stimulus bill last month the flu prevention funding which now has to be restored for the current emergency. We know what 8 years of Bush and Republican majority led to already, from wars to abandoning New Orleans to enabling the over-borrowing that crashed the fortunes of millions. Who you gonna trust now?

Sorry, trick question. Actually President Bush is to be thanked for stockpiling anti-viral medicine and developing a pandemic flu plan back in 2005. Which serves to remind that no side is all right or all wrong. We need to move forward together, appreciating the best that each has to offer.

Swine flu appears to have started in industrial pig farms in Vera Cruz, Mexico. These are places with thousands of pigs crammed in cages so small they can’t turn around, out of the sunlight which would act as a natural disinfectant, pumped full of antibiotics to try to keep them from getting too sick. Huge systems of fans blow air and fecal dust out of these animal prisons, down onto neighboring towns like La Gloria, where the stench attracts so many flies that the government sprayed to kill them.

In La Gloria, hundreds of people got sick suddenly as far back as February, most recovering though two infants died. People commuted to Mexico City from there, so now you know the rest of the story. Officials wanted us to believe they did everything possible, but really it took two months to alert that a deadly flu was spreading, and now it’s too late to stop it from rocketing around the world.

Fortunately the flu's been pretty mild so far, despite a number of deaths in Mexico. We’ve come a long way in 90 years since the 1918 Spanish flu that killed 50 million. 50 million! Today no one expects that many to die, because we’ve got anti-viral medicines stockpiled and people know to wash their hands. In the wealthier countries, anyway.

What we still don’t have is the laws and enforcement to stop the kinds of environmental and economic abuses that breed disasters in the world today. And you know who suffers the most: the poor, those who can't speak for themselves, the children, the old, the middle class. 99.9% of the world.

Hmanity will advance when the real crimes are outlawed.

The greed and manipulation that destroyed global capitalism in 2008 wasn’t just another forgivable mistake. Americans have been too tolerant for too long, hoping to get their slice of the pie. Most saw the meltdown coming for years, but the ones benefitting didn’t want the party to stop.

The abuses of nature that we call modern farming are creating breeding zones for diseases at unprecedented rates. The world has been lucky so far, recall that SARS and avian flu had kill rates of 50 percent or more. They didn’t spread like the swine flu which is mild in comparison. So far. The 1918 flu started as a mild flu in the spring, but became deadly by fall.

Hopefully our current health crisis will fizzle out, it's entirely possible. But the effects will be with us for years in economic and psychological damage, along with the other crises we’re simultaneously suffering.

The global recession isn’t going to be over anytime soon. People who want you to start shopping again like to say things are looking up, but they are lying to you and themselves.

The biggest man-made avoidable crisis of all, this global warming thing which is going to raise sea levels, spread disease and hunger, and exterminate species, will shape and limit our children's children's futures and beyond.

All for what, yesterday's jobs? Aren’t we ready to legislate into oblivion yet, these people who say we must not change the system because it might cost them too much? How much more can we pay? Let’s face it, a business that rapes the environment, bankrupts customers, and destroys our children's lives, isn’t a business at all. It’s a crime.

If a business can’t survive much less thrive within the rules of decency, including fairness to consumers, fiscal responsibility, and health to the environment, then it doesn’t deserve to exist. It’s us or them, let's face it now. Nature is incredibly successful and synergistic within strict parameters of health and sustainability, why can't these titans of industry and science be held to the same standards?

Because it'll cost them money, that's why. Things might turn over. It's a lot of change to deal with all at once.

Change comes either way. We should have made sure the changes would be more positive, long ago.

There are too many people in this world who will kill us all just so they can keep making a buck. Or a yen. Let's not forget the toxic products from China in recent years. Now there was a business model for you. Melamine as a cheap toxic protein substitute killed thousands of pets around the world, wasn't stopped, then reappeared the next year to kill infants drinking their formula. That's what one system allowed. And tragically, many saw those deaths of pets and children as just the cost of another emerging economy. Call them collateral damage, in the accounting practices of economic war.

China is a country that routinely sacrifices the individual for supposed collective good. Last year, deaths were under-reported in the patriotic rush to build Olympic stadiums, parents who lost children to earthquake-collapsed shoddy schools were bullied and bribed to keep quiet, and ethnic Mongolians and Tibetans were further persecuted and destroyed to spread Chinese rule.

But China wasn't alone in its system of crimes against humanity. The US led the current world economic collapse with predatory lending and phony investment deals rigged at the highest levels. Modern industrial practices which so abuse the planet were pioneered long ago by the United States, which became so full of fat bloated over-consumers pathologically scouting for cheaper deals that we've outsourced our own jobs and manufacturing to the cheapest bidders overseas with the fewest regulatory impediments to exploiting their workers and fouling their environments more than we would allow anymore here. Only there are no borders anymore, NIMBY isn't allowed. Global warming, economic ruin, and swine flu aren't stopping for anyone's door.

Now the system is broken, in so many ways. Is that apocalyptic? Sure, and the apocalypse was preventable, unnecessary, and allowed. Man-made practices of greed took deadly shortcuts to material wealth. Spiritual bankruptcy manifested fatally on so many levels.

Can we stop the downward spiral in time? Sure, I believe so. Humanity has such miraculous potential to work with nature, and nature has repeatedly shown itself to be fantastically resilient for the right owner.

Just don’t mistake the symptoms for causes, be shallow and wimpy no longer. I wish us all the best in economic and environmental recoveries, for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual evolution. Let's not be afraid to take the opportunities to do it all better and right this time. Apocalypse stops here, demand back our tomorrows.

Yes, the whole world is changing, more everyday. Don’t be afraid. Face yourself and others with love and care, do what has to be done. And see a little bit further. Make the changes that are happening be for the better, and we’ll get through this together. We just need to remind ourselves that so much more is possible than what a few greedy bastards have thus far invented for the rest of us to live on.

Bastards is a harsh word I know. But it expresses my anger at humanity's past mistakes, and can be further deconstructed as follows. A bastard is someone who doesn't know their own father. Psychologically speaking, the mother is the parent of belonging and sustenance, while the father is the parent of achievements and consequences.

Every one of us who couldn't or wouldn't admit to where our choices were taking us has been a bastard who faces now the most terrible of truths. Fatherless and futureless, we find our mother Earth is literally dying to introduce us to our real parentage. We are not nature's thinkers for nothing.

We were evolved for this pivotal time, to live or die by the planet that we too long each exploited for unsustainable personal gains. What we didn't do, we allowed. We each had our emotionally self-serving niches in the dysfunctional world order. We ran our homeworld into the ground, now we need to run it back up again.

So we do need to think about and expect massive change, but it doesn't have to end badly after all. The end of the old world, the beginning of the new. Apocalyptic for those who cling to the past, salvation for those who reach for tomorrow. I believe that humanity is up to the task of solving planetary crises, it just won't be business as usual.

On Saturday April 11 on "Britain's Got Talent", a British talent show comparable American Idol, there debuted an overweight, unemployed, solitary, never-been-kissed 47 year old woman named Susan Boyle. With her caterpillar eyebrows, triple chin, and guileless learning-disabled personality, she shocked the audience and jaded celebrity judges by saucily claiming to be ready for unprecedented fame. They laughed at her, until she started singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables about how life had stolen her dreams, and then she changed their world forever.

This excessively plain spinster from Blackburn Scotland unleashed a voice of heaven that made the people stand cheering and crying, and over a week later the cheering and crying has not stopped. She is by far the biggest internet sensation ever, with her youtube video watched in a matter of days millions more times than the most famous clips of the most famous people have been watched in years. Her name simply is the top searches of Google, both locally and worldwide. No news media in their right mind can resist the fairy tale charm of this unlikely new hero, as fansites spring up across the web, and demand grows for her new career as singer of the human soul. Fortunately, all indications are that Susan is the real deal, and she's eager to begin her new life with every one of us. She promised her dying mother two years before that she would audition for the show, and she's been singing mostly to herself since the age of 12.

I got the youtube link in an email on Monday April 13, and I have been profoundly moved ever since. There is an energy here of the perfect divine storm, with everywhere people proud to admit that Susan made them feel a tear or even cry a gusher. It's not even just Susan that did the trick, but everything around her, including the way she was found, the song she sang, the shock and bliss of the hardest judges, and the state of our world today. Like a character from the epic social commentary of Les Miserables itself, Susan broke all the rules, and made people believe in something more pure, original, and ordinary than they thought was possible.

I love the characterization of Rev. James Martin that we're seeing Susan Boyle through the eyes of God, experiencing the soul and worth inside a plain old human being. That's good, but I think it goes further too, for this unique time in history. In record numbers people around the world are watching Susan sing over and over, and crying cathartically as never before, because Susan is the timely projection for the survival of humanity. The entire world is past a point of no return, and people know it too. Judged by the values of yesterday for superficial beauty and success and promise, our dreams are dead, just like in the song that Susan chose to sing, in which Fantine lies penniless, jobless, unloved and abandoned in the gutter. This is humanity's story now, because we will never live the lives we thought we would, of beautiful people and endless consumption.

The global environment and economy are in tatters, we are all in the gutter of Les Miserables, millions of precious lives are being lost. Our only hope is in the spiritual rebirth that Susan embodies, for the direct experience of innate beauty and talent which go so much deeper than the surfaces which never really mattered. We can hold our heads high and live triumphantly for just being ourselves. By letting go the past and treasuring what we truly are, this is how the planet will be saved. Susan Boyle is a gift from God to reignite the hope in every human being that what was always most valuable has not yet been lost, and is in fact the easiest thing to recognize and reclaim after all. Pure love of dream, talent, soul, a world in which we still belong. Humanity is rising to the song of Susan Boyle, millions more can feel it now.

PS- for the skeptics who say Susan is good but not that good, on pitch but just loud, well that's the showtune style. Here's an amateur recording she did for charity in 1999 that shows much more skill and nuance, singing "Cry me a River", a jazz standard written for Ella Fitzgerald in 1953. If you want to collect Susan's original CD, be prepared to ebay thousands of dollars now!

"And it’s a thrill to reread my essay, it’s so good and I can learn from it. I felt very guided when I put it together to be very compact.

http://www.soulstirring.org/cosmicdocent/

But I mean, this is tricky stuff. I’m playing with projections, personal reality, symbolism, going into a kind of higher alternate world with feelings of love and realness and relationships that I can’t fully explain or even see yet. If done in a grounded experimental way until something fits and takes me a ways, then that’s how realities are lived anyway, people just have gotten into habits of dialogue with their beliefs and personality reactions, and these dialogues are the basis of reality. So personal mythology is digging into these levels of reality behind the reality, and perhaps even using them to transcend to something higher and more real in clarity beyond question. That’s one early goal of spiritual growth after all, to know beyond doubt, such things as I and many do however piecemeal, such things as does god exist, will I live forever, is there a place I belong, do I have talents and gifts to practice joyfully which will feed the universe in a way that feeds me at all levels including the physical, am I loved, am I able to love in a way that is wanted, are all my greatest dreams, desires, and hope grounded in realities that are truly wonderful and secure and real? Yes on all accounts and more."

You know you’re getting things right when you can start turning yesterday’s weaknesses and pains into tomorrow's joys and opportunities today.

For example, I used to wonder with the common perspective how can I stand to commute daily for two hours. But I have since discovered a world of carls on tape, that is, making and listening to audio journals in the car.

I used to wonder with many people why I couldn’t just stay up late, sleep seemed like a waste of time. Increasingly I’m discovering the joys of exploring higher worlds and meeting spirit teachers and friends in my dreams.

I used to wonder why I had problem people in my life, but then I developed more compassionate considerations for how they got that way, and how i got to be with them. That led to my learning how to help myself out of their conditions, and being available to help them too if they let me.

That’s what is called the wounded healer, it turns out to be a major trick for incarnating on Earth. It involves going through a trial in order to force yourself to learn how to transcend it, then becoming available to help others in similar situations. Thereby we can meet new friends and improve the planet for everyone, especially future generations among which we can reincarnate.

Is it possible that every cloud has astounding, life-changing, silver linings?

This is one of the lessons to learn during the current economic global crisis. Or change, or reset as I’ve heard it called. Obama’s team has the attitude of never waste a crisis, use it as opportunity to make great improvements in the whole system. Same thing with global climate change and other global challenges. It’s a dangerous, serious, history-making, leader-calling time we’re in.

God bless and guide us all, to love and provide for one another more than we ever have before, now that the vain pursuits of wealth on credit are behind us.

I figured out what the spiritual basis of credit is, by the way. This is the way credit is supposed to work, it is the true meaning that if you stray too far from then you end up in trouble.

True credit is when you promise to become your future self or your higher self, and gain the benefit of starting to draw their strength and wisdom to fix your reality now.

You do have to keep making the payments though, and the more strength you take the higher the payments.

The universe will let you know, with challenging situations, what payments to make. You will have to let go your emotional addictions, your prejudices, your habits of thinking that hurt you and others.

The payments are worth paying to enter real heavens of sustainable living, of course. But it’s a lot of change to get used to, this giving up of treasured self-images and long-held greeds for example.

So a lot of people would rather using a credit card to get stuff now. But that will only be stuff, and if you forget your ideals, if you act only for yourself, you will fall out of alignment with anything really good in your life, and you’ll soon become scared and miserable and lost and insecure.

Let’s help each other to not be scared and miserable and lost and insecure at this time in history of global changes, okay?

Our 20 month old boy is starting to say “I love you” now. Kids make people soften. If we remember our love, we’ll remember our values, and we’ll find our way home with each other.