Everything is energy…and energy is everything.
Writers must write. Doctors must heal. Lawyers must fight for justice. Architects must bring beautiful forms into this world. Each of us has our calling.
Some of us fear failure. Others of us fear success.
The quantum universe is full of possibilities. An infinite number of possibilities. Some are benign, others malignant, most in-between. We are trained by factors in our environment to view those possibilities one way or another. It is that training which causes us to greet success with great joy or with even greater trepidation.
There is an innate sense within us, a sense of hope that we achieve what we’re looking for. Some hope for success. Some — many? — hope for, or at least expect, failure.
Everything has its momentum, whether in matters of physics or in human affairs. In our workaday worlds the momentum of what we have been doing makes us believe that more of the same will happen. The successes we achieve have come about precisely because we were innovative. We deviated from the norm. We did the unexpected.
Sometimes, this innovation was purely accidental. Oftentimes, it was the result of an intent — a concentration of mental, emotional, and spiritual energy — to make a change, to transfer to a different reality.
Our world — this minute part of the Universe — is at an inflection point. We, as a species, have choices to consider, decisions to make. Do we continue doing what we’ve been doing, salting the air, water and soil with poisons, dooming us to being the procreators of the Sixth Mass Extinction? Or do we lance the boil of our cupidity and recognize that “if we don’t hang together, we’ll hang separately,” joining forces to clean up our social, political, economic, and environmental messes?
The warrior mentality — testosterone-driven, emanating from the basal ganglia, the so-called “reptilian brain” — has led us to this point. Pakistan versus India; Israel versus the Palestinians; North Korea versus the United States; all of these, and so many more, derive from the primitive, aggressive, fear-based parts of our brains, the ones that divide the world into “Us” versus “Them,” that allow us to dehumanize The Other and treat them with savage cruelty.
The reptilian brain has led us to commit genocide, racial and sexist barbarism, view anyone not like “Us” as suspect, at best, and a threat to be exterminated, at worst.
Or, contrariwise, maybe, just maybe, there may be a point where the Millennials and the Gen Z-ers have reached a critical mass of indignation and revulsion at what has been wrought by previous generations. Maybe, just maybe, they would like to live in a world where there is opportunity for the better parts of people to be realized, without fighting for the biggest house, the most expensive car, the fanciest “toys” to play with. Maybe they would like to raise families without living under the existential threat of an environmental catastrophe, or the threat of a nuclear war, or of being subjected to the absurdities of religious diktats.
These are their dreams. And it seems now, even though it’s darkest before the dawn, that there is an increasing momentum to achieve their dreams. The March for Women, the countless activities here in the U.S. and around the world for economic and social and racial justice, are just the beginning. And the activities are increasing to help achieve The Dream.
The energy of the Millennials and Gen Z-ers is positive. It is everything they have, and everything they bring to the table.
Their vision?
Dare to dream. Become the dream.
