Reality ReALized.
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:24 am
What really is Reality? Can we change or create it at all?
“It is done unto you as you believe” (Mathew 9:19).
In our everyday life at home, at work, or socializing with friends, most of us talk without much awareness. For instance, who really thinks about the true sense of the words they use? We use the word Reality, as an example, without much thought and without considering its deeper meaning. This is true about many words and the way we use them. If, however, you dare to dip into the ocean of words more consciously you may "come up" with a lot of new and amazing choices which could impact your entire life.
For instance, what really is Reality? From all-knowing Wikipedia, we learn that Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". But how do we know indeed that any of the things to which Wikipedia refers “actually exist”? Scientists tell us it is with the help of our sense organs that we gain the knowledge of “actual existence” of things and that we, therewith, "perceive" reality. So it appears that the only way we begin to perceive reality is through Sensation, which is a very personal experience I would think, considering how different us people are from each other.
If we took liberties with the etymology of the word Reality, we can use such unsavory, quasi-scientific activity as an example for creating reality as we go along - in the image of our own vision for the future, NOT what we are told to do, to expect, want or need. For instance, the word, we are told, is derived from the Latin Res/realis (matter; from matter). But if we clear our mind and wipe our eyes, we might also find that it consists of two important syllabae, namely RE and AL. RE, we know, can contribute a meaning of renewal and transformation. And AL can represent anything from the utalitarian use as an article (such as our English "the") to the most sacred of all, at least for some people: Allah. Allah is probably one of the most well-known words starting with AL. So, from the profane use as an article such as "the", it is also the first syllaba in the Arabic name for God, the Most High, the Supreme Being - the ALL (!!). There are also other words containing AL and bearing similar meaning, such as Altar, a sacred place in a Christian church, in service to God. Another similar word comes from the Russian mythology tradition, namely an Alatyr-stone, which is a sacred stone meant to make connection with God.
Now, if we were to agree that everything around us is "made of God", as it says in the Bible, and considering our musings above, what might we say is Reality in a deeper sense? And what does it mean to be real? Might we not say that Reality is God, as experienced by our sense organs? But ever so quickly, we usually interpret what our sense-organs have sensed, which turns it into our personal perception. It now has been acted upon by us - so it has been changed. Or, in other words: Our own Reality is not the prime, original existence of things. It is something secondary, changed and transformed by our perceptions. While our sensory organs might be able to pick up sensation rather neutrally, we would never know so, because our minds are ever busy interpreting sensory information in accordance with their own "background of experience", or stored historical data. This means that what we in time perceive is not the original experience but a distorted copy which went through the filter of our opinions and mental concepts of the world - we receive a reflection of the mirror of our own concept of the Universe. And this reflection is also formed by our mind, or by our intellect, to be precise. For a better understanding, we might differentiate these terms further. Mind is a part of our personality and its main function is thinking and reasoning whereas intellect is nothing else but a tool like computer that mind uses when necessary. So our mind, which is under our direct control, hand-in-hand with our intellect, which can also be developed by our own activities, take a very large part in creating and interpreting the data which becomes our Reality.
The human mind is perhaps the most powerful tool in the Universe. It is a tool which we can use when we need it or which we can "put aside" when we don’t need it, for instance during meditation. Our mind and intellect are greatly affected by programming - often indiscriminate - from our earliest childhood, a programming which usually continues on - unchallenged - throughout the course of our entire life. This programming is what we might describe as our "habitual picture of the world", which is in fact the filter which we use when receiving any new information from the outer world. Different theorists and philosophers have described this phenomenon in various ways. Let's see if we can make better sense of this idea. We do see things in accordance with our background of experience, the way we were "taught" and we continue on with these frames of reference and beliefs. Rarely does anyone challenge their own habitual ways of perceiving, which act like small windows which allow us only to see a very small part of what might be "outside the house", so to speak. Moreover, modern science has not exactly made it easier to challenge these rigid ways of approaching what we call Reality, as if there was only one, in this case, OURS. A good example for this is how traditional scientists have decided that logico-mathematical thinking, namely that of the "straightforward intellect" is more real, and more valuable than other modes of perception. Likewise, if something completely new to us is occurring in our environment, we usually simply screen it out or interpret it as something else for ourselves - more in keeping with what we are used to seeing and thinking, namely in keeping with OUR Reality.
Remember, for instance, the stories about the Australian aborigines when they first saw European sailing ships: they just ignored them and went right on fishing. And the South-American Indians thought their God was returning when the saw the white sails of ships, which made it so easy to conquer them. Because ships were so far beyond their comprehension, they couldn't even imagine anything like that, so that their intellect, based on their habitual pictures of the world, didn't even register the ships for what they were. Their intellect “refused” to let them "see" these un-known forms as ships, because they were not part of their "background of experience", even though we might assume that their sensory organs did perceive them.
We have all heard it said, more or less non-chalantly: Reality is nothing but the result of a mutual consent between people who just agreed to consider certain experiences and perceptions Reality. But we seldom consider how profound this statement really is. And the other carelessly shared statement is more profound yet, if we really let it sink in: Our world is nothing more but the result of collective agreements. No news to most of us. But if we ask ourselves what that really means today, right now - especially in a world such as ours - we realize the tremendous power of choice we have, and the participation in the way we see, experience and create our world.
Even our well-respected scientists, for instance physicists, did nothing more than agree amongst themselves to put names to certain things they thought they perceived, although none of them ever saw those so-called quarks, protons, electrons, neutrons. So the theories they construct and logical conclusions they make are still only based on assumptions, postulates and agreements. Certainly, we do not need to challenge their activities here. They are helpful in many ways. But without remembering that we are really only working within - and discovering things in the context of - our own intellectual constructs, we could easily forget who we truly are and become imprisoned in just one or another habitual picture of the world. The danger of this can be quickly understood when we look at the habitual pictures of the world which Western medicine has created for us (and we colluded right along with it) and then compare them with the pictures that, for instance, Chinese medicine created. We can see how these habitual pictures in and around us can cause quite a bit of suffering and even death, or a sense of wellness and power.
Unless a person becomes quite disciplined and consistently challenges the logic of their habitual pictures of the world, this filtering system will be busy trying to keep things unchanged, carefully filtering new information and rejecting everything that is not consistent with its own habitual perceptions. An interesting and fun way to understand and share these concepts is the film “What the Bleep do we know!?” (2004-2006, Director William Arntz). The film can be a great source of information about how Reality shifts in accordance with our perceptions. It can also be a lovely thing to watch with family or friends and then enjoy a discussion around these discoveries, so we can "wake up" more and more people to these choices and powers. Remember Margaret Meade's statement, which we cannot quote too much: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Our readers know better than most people about these conditioned, programmed patterns at work inside and all around us. "Vladimir, be logical", was Anastasia's way of making Vladimir Megre are of his own unchallenged assumptions. People drawn to the Ringing Cedars books, and to our publication, know how everything new which challenges our habitual concepts has to literally break its way into our awareness with enormous effort and difficulty. Even in the face of irrefutable facts to support the new idea, it might nevertheless be rejected, ignored or even destroyed for a long time. But a moment usually comes when the number of such facts becomes so great that they cannot continue to be ignored, and so our intellect strains to find logical explanations to what is happening. It does this below our awareness and with great success - after all, this is part of its work.
How many times, we might wonder, has a very concrete idea of the world, a planet-size habitual picture, in which the vast majority of people believed, been changed by just one, or a handful of people? We know that it oftentimes began with an un-ordinary person - a "thinking" person. We can call him the Thinker, who takes the liberty (or impudence) to doubt his own habitual way of perceiving and interpreting things, because, maybe he is not quite as asleep as his contemporaries. Maybe he read about a woman called Anastasia, who opened up the "doors of perception" to him. Meanwhile, our Thinker creates a beautiful and, to him, absolutely coherent new image of the world, something unfamiliar to the majority of people around him. When he goes to share his ideas with others, if they challenge consensus reality too much, they will be taken as complete nonsense and foolishness, and called "unscientific and unproven". The Thinker himself is often jeered and mocked. But if the Thinker is consistent and persistent long enough, he may succeed in convincing a few supporters and followers and so his ideas, along with his support-group, will keep growing. Maybe he has read what Albert Einstein said, and feels encouraged to persist nevertheless: "If at first, the idea is not absurd...then there is no hope for it." So he, or she, oppose the vast majority and challenge the official habitual picture of the world and one day they prevail and so the new construct, or vision, is adopted by the majority. The Thinker is treated as a genius and his ideas might be recognized as some or other turning point in human history.
But what we might also be aware of is how our mind and intellect are able to logically explain almost anything, even the things that seemed to be absolute nonsense at first glance. And as time goes, these new things are perfectly adopted by the existing habitual pictures of the world and form our new Reality - although may be not under our conscious direction. So we might say that Reality is a complex of Man’s habits and World Concepts existing in Man’s mind and being formed and changed by Man’s mind either consciously or unconsciously.
Many of our readers share a Reality that actually does work well to inspire, not to limit us, namely the idea that we are made in “God’s image and likeness”. So, I like the habitual picture of the world of myself as a godling-in-the-making, a creator by that very definition. Most of all, I Iike the idea of being a creator of my own Reality. And I like the idea that this is my birthright, a memory to recapture rather than a difficult new task to master, or one more thing to do. After all, we are already doing this creating all day long, whether we want to or not, only we may not like what we have created if we do it from our unconscious self. Creativity is intricately linked with our origin, our destiny, and "everything in between". The "everything in between" is the part where we can make the most powerful difference: Just imagine – You create Your Own Reality by the way you choose, every moment of every day. You can choose what to perceive, by the way you direct your will, awareness and focus. And you can decide how to think about it, and what to do with it thereafter – this single thought ought to inspire millions of people.
The needs most people have could probably be grouped into three categories, which we could call health, abundance, and love. Although this sounds relatively simple, most people are still trying very hard to discover how to experience these desirable states. It seems like such a terrible waste that so many people are still missing out on enjoying this divine power and, like robots, unconsciously go through life in accordance with their unconscious programming, never realizing that they could easily satisfy those needs. They are not like our Thinker, above, but blindly follow the rules and regulations of whichever habitual pictures of the world were conditioned into their heads by our technocratic society and culture. But just think! What if you took the liberty to start creating your own concept of the world, different from the consensus reality which has brought us so much suffering? Does this mean you should get picketing-signs and banners ready so as to protest the dysfunctional ideas our society and culture holds for itself? Thank God not. We need not leave the comfort of our home, but we can begin to create our own concept of the world, in a strictly private, inner sense, just as Anastasia has shown us so carefully. Along with the Universe's own future plan for us, her beautiful vision is also already in place for the world. There is this brilliant vision which caused us to create this wonderful magazine, namely the idea to create what we call a Space of Love on a piece of land the size of one hectare, where a person can lead a self-sufficient and healthy life, with loved-ones, in Love and Harmony with Nature. All we need to do now is summon our creativity for that one task: to join each other in that beautiful vision of a world that has turned back into its original state - Paradise, by way of millions of patchwork Spaces of Love all over the planet. So you can start with that one small thing which will turn out to be the most significant one: You can start with yourself.
And if you further imagine what might happen if you created your new reality as your own Space of Love, inside and out. Imagine that along comes your friend, sees it and thinks to herself: “Oh, I love it” and gets inspired to do the same. And so will your fellow neighbor and your neighbor's neighbor and tens and hundreds of other people living nearby begin to create their realities as their own Spaces of Love. You might think me naive, but didn’t we just find out that this is how many things in the world have been changed - one experience, one small miracle at a time? But it's not hard to imagine how the idea of creating a personal Space of Love could turn into a national, then multi-national and ultimately global expanse of Spaces of Love?
What would happen to the rest of the world that has not yet convinced of such a life? In time, it would be in the minority and would probably just be swept up and join the happy global family. For myself, without banners or picketing signs, that is how I will envision it, right along with Anastasia for inspiration, namely that the entire world can be transformed into a Space of Love. I will create and enjoy a vision of a future where an entirely new concept of the world grew out of countless single experiences. You may ask, "And how many people are needed to make such a global vision come true? Ten million? A hundred million?" While we have silly jokes about the need for five or six people - usually of our least favorite nationality - to screw in a single light-bulb, there is great news. It works exactly the opposite here: There is only one person needed to change our entire planet into such a Space of Love - and this person, again, is...You! Everything begins with You… and with the creation of your own reality. Since you are the creator of your own reality, of your own Space of Love, all that is needed is one, then ten, and then hundreds of Yous. Soon, there will be millions of single Yous, along with your loved-ones. And sooner than we know, we will have our global Space of Love. O.K., you can say "I'm a dreamer...but I'm not the only one... Perhaps some day - soon? - you will join me...?" I can't sing any further or we will have to ask for reprint permission, although I fudged a bit on John Lennon's beautiful lines. So won't you sing, and dream with us - with all of us, one reality at a time.
Yuri Smirnov
“It is done unto you as you believe” (Mathew 9:19).
In our everyday life at home, at work, or socializing with friends, most of us talk without much awareness. For instance, who really thinks about the true sense of the words they use? We use the word Reality, as an example, without much thought and without considering its deeper meaning. This is true about many words and the way we use them. If, however, you dare to dip into the ocean of words more consciously you may "come up" with a lot of new and amazing choices which could impact your entire life.
For instance, what really is Reality? From all-knowing Wikipedia, we learn that Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". But how do we know indeed that any of the things to which Wikipedia refers “actually exist”? Scientists tell us it is with the help of our sense organs that we gain the knowledge of “actual existence” of things and that we, therewith, "perceive" reality. So it appears that the only way we begin to perceive reality is through Sensation, which is a very personal experience I would think, considering how different us people are from each other.
If we took liberties with the etymology of the word Reality, we can use such unsavory, quasi-scientific activity as an example for creating reality as we go along - in the image of our own vision for the future, NOT what we are told to do, to expect, want or need. For instance, the word, we are told, is derived from the Latin Res/realis (matter; from matter). But if we clear our mind and wipe our eyes, we might also find that it consists of two important syllabae, namely RE and AL. RE, we know, can contribute a meaning of renewal and transformation. And AL can represent anything from the utalitarian use as an article (such as our English "the") to the most sacred of all, at least for some people: Allah. Allah is probably one of the most well-known words starting with AL. So, from the profane use as an article such as "the", it is also the first syllaba in the Arabic name for God, the Most High, the Supreme Being - the ALL (!!). There are also other words containing AL and bearing similar meaning, such as Altar, a sacred place in a Christian church, in service to God. Another similar word comes from the Russian mythology tradition, namely an Alatyr-stone, which is a sacred stone meant to make connection with God.
Now, if we were to agree that everything around us is "made of God", as it says in the Bible, and considering our musings above, what might we say is Reality in a deeper sense? And what does it mean to be real? Might we not say that Reality is God, as experienced by our sense organs? But ever so quickly, we usually interpret what our sense-organs have sensed, which turns it into our personal perception. It now has been acted upon by us - so it has been changed. Or, in other words: Our own Reality is not the prime, original existence of things. It is something secondary, changed and transformed by our perceptions. While our sensory organs might be able to pick up sensation rather neutrally, we would never know so, because our minds are ever busy interpreting sensory information in accordance with their own "background of experience", or stored historical data. This means that what we in time perceive is not the original experience but a distorted copy which went through the filter of our opinions and mental concepts of the world - we receive a reflection of the mirror of our own concept of the Universe. And this reflection is also formed by our mind, or by our intellect, to be precise. For a better understanding, we might differentiate these terms further. Mind is a part of our personality and its main function is thinking and reasoning whereas intellect is nothing else but a tool like computer that mind uses when necessary. So our mind, which is under our direct control, hand-in-hand with our intellect, which can also be developed by our own activities, take a very large part in creating and interpreting the data which becomes our Reality.
The human mind is perhaps the most powerful tool in the Universe. It is a tool which we can use when we need it or which we can "put aside" when we don’t need it, for instance during meditation. Our mind and intellect are greatly affected by programming - often indiscriminate - from our earliest childhood, a programming which usually continues on - unchallenged - throughout the course of our entire life. This programming is what we might describe as our "habitual picture of the world", which is in fact the filter which we use when receiving any new information from the outer world. Different theorists and philosophers have described this phenomenon in various ways. Let's see if we can make better sense of this idea. We do see things in accordance with our background of experience, the way we were "taught" and we continue on with these frames of reference and beliefs. Rarely does anyone challenge their own habitual ways of perceiving, which act like small windows which allow us only to see a very small part of what might be "outside the house", so to speak. Moreover, modern science has not exactly made it easier to challenge these rigid ways of approaching what we call Reality, as if there was only one, in this case, OURS. A good example for this is how traditional scientists have decided that logico-mathematical thinking, namely that of the "straightforward intellect" is more real, and more valuable than other modes of perception. Likewise, if something completely new to us is occurring in our environment, we usually simply screen it out or interpret it as something else for ourselves - more in keeping with what we are used to seeing and thinking, namely in keeping with OUR Reality.
Remember, for instance, the stories about the Australian aborigines when they first saw European sailing ships: they just ignored them and went right on fishing. And the South-American Indians thought their God was returning when the saw the white sails of ships, which made it so easy to conquer them. Because ships were so far beyond their comprehension, they couldn't even imagine anything like that, so that their intellect, based on their habitual pictures of the world, didn't even register the ships for what they were. Their intellect “refused” to let them "see" these un-known forms as ships, because they were not part of their "background of experience", even though we might assume that their sensory organs did perceive them.
We have all heard it said, more or less non-chalantly: Reality is nothing but the result of a mutual consent between people who just agreed to consider certain experiences and perceptions Reality. But we seldom consider how profound this statement really is. And the other carelessly shared statement is more profound yet, if we really let it sink in: Our world is nothing more but the result of collective agreements. No news to most of us. But if we ask ourselves what that really means today, right now - especially in a world such as ours - we realize the tremendous power of choice we have, and the participation in the way we see, experience and create our world.
Even our well-respected scientists, for instance physicists, did nothing more than agree amongst themselves to put names to certain things they thought they perceived, although none of them ever saw those so-called quarks, protons, electrons, neutrons. So the theories they construct and logical conclusions they make are still only based on assumptions, postulates and agreements. Certainly, we do not need to challenge their activities here. They are helpful in many ways. But without remembering that we are really only working within - and discovering things in the context of - our own intellectual constructs, we could easily forget who we truly are and become imprisoned in just one or another habitual picture of the world. The danger of this can be quickly understood when we look at the habitual pictures of the world which Western medicine has created for us (and we colluded right along with it) and then compare them with the pictures that, for instance, Chinese medicine created. We can see how these habitual pictures in and around us can cause quite a bit of suffering and even death, or a sense of wellness and power.
Unless a person becomes quite disciplined and consistently challenges the logic of their habitual pictures of the world, this filtering system will be busy trying to keep things unchanged, carefully filtering new information and rejecting everything that is not consistent with its own habitual perceptions. An interesting and fun way to understand and share these concepts is the film “What the Bleep do we know!?” (2004-2006, Director William Arntz). The film can be a great source of information about how Reality shifts in accordance with our perceptions. It can also be a lovely thing to watch with family or friends and then enjoy a discussion around these discoveries, so we can "wake up" more and more people to these choices and powers. Remember Margaret Meade's statement, which we cannot quote too much: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Our readers know better than most people about these conditioned, programmed patterns at work inside and all around us. "Vladimir, be logical", was Anastasia's way of making Vladimir Megre are of his own unchallenged assumptions. People drawn to the Ringing Cedars books, and to our publication, know how everything new which challenges our habitual concepts has to literally break its way into our awareness with enormous effort and difficulty. Even in the face of irrefutable facts to support the new idea, it might nevertheless be rejected, ignored or even destroyed for a long time. But a moment usually comes when the number of such facts becomes so great that they cannot continue to be ignored, and so our intellect strains to find logical explanations to what is happening. It does this below our awareness and with great success - after all, this is part of its work.
How many times, we might wonder, has a very concrete idea of the world, a planet-size habitual picture, in which the vast majority of people believed, been changed by just one, or a handful of people? We know that it oftentimes began with an un-ordinary person - a "thinking" person. We can call him the Thinker, who takes the liberty (or impudence) to doubt his own habitual way of perceiving and interpreting things, because, maybe he is not quite as asleep as his contemporaries. Maybe he read about a woman called Anastasia, who opened up the "doors of perception" to him. Meanwhile, our Thinker creates a beautiful and, to him, absolutely coherent new image of the world, something unfamiliar to the majority of people around him. When he goes to share his ideas with others, if they challenge consensus reality too much, they will be taken as complete nonsense and foolishness, and called "unscientific and unproven". The Thinker himself is often jeered and mocked. But if the Thinker is consistent and persistent long enough, he may succeed in convincing a few supporters and followers and so his ideas, along with his support-group, will keep growing. Maybe he has read what Albert Einstein said, and feels encouraged to persist nevertheless: "If at first, the idea is not absurd...then there is no hope for it." So he, or she, oppose the vast majority and challenge the official habitual picture of the world and one day they prevail and so the new construct, or vision, is adopted by the majority. The Thinker is treated as a genius and his ideas might be recognized as some or other turning point in human history.
But what we might also be aware of is how our mind and intellect are able to logically explain almost anything, even the things that seemed to be absolute nonsense at first glance. And as time goes, these new things are perfectly adopted by the existing habitual pictures of the world and form our new Reality - although may be not under our conscious direction. So we might say that Reality is a complex of Man’s habits and World Concepts existing in Man’s mind and being formed and changed by Man’s mind either consciously or unconsciously.
Many of our readers share a Reality that actually does work well to inspire, not to limit us, namely the idea that we are made in “God’s image and likeness”. So, I like the habitual picture of the world of myself as a godling-in-the-making, a creator by that very definition. Most of all, I Iike the idea of being a creator of my own Reality. And I like the idea that this is my birthright, a memory to recapture rather than a difficult new task to master, or one more thing to do. After all, we are already doing this creating all day long, whether we want to or not, only we may not like what we have created if we do it from our unconscious self. Creativity is intricately linked with our origin, our destiny, and "everything in between". The "everything in between" is the part where we can make the most powerful difference: Just imagine – You create Your Own Reality by the way you choose, every moment of every day. You can choose what to perceive, by the way you direct your will, awareness and focus. And you can decide how to think about it, and what to do with it thereafter – this single thought ought to inspire millions of people.
The needs most people have could probably be grouped into three categories, which we could call health, abundance, and love. Although this sounds relatively simple, most people are still trying very hard to discover how to experience these desirable states. It seems like such a terrible waste that so many people are still missing out on enjoying this divine power and, like robots, unconsciously go through life in accordance with their unconscious programming, never realizing that they could easily satisfy those needs. They are not like our Thinker, above, but blindly follow the rules and regulations of whichever habitual pictures of the world were conditioned into their heads by our technocratic society and culture. But just think! What if you took the liberty to start creating your own concept of the world, different from the consensus reality which has brought us so much suffering? Does this mean you should get picketing-signs and banners ready so as to protest the dysfunctional ideas our society and culture holds for itself? Thank God not. We need not leave the comfort of our home, but we can begin to create our own concept of the world, in a strictly private, inner sense, just as Anastasia has shown us so carefully. Along with the Universe's own future plan for us, her beautiful vision is also already in place for the world. There is this brilliant vision which caused us to create this wonderful magazine, namely the idea to create what we call a Space of Love on a piece of land the size of one hectare, where a person can lead a self-sufficient and healthy life, with loved-ones, in Love and Harmony with Nature. All we need to do now is summon our creativity for that one task: to join each other in that beautiful vision of a world that has turned back into its original state - Paradise, by way of millions of patchwork Spaces of Love all over the planet. So you can start with that one small thing which will turn out to be the most significant one: You can start with yourself.
And if you further imagine what might happen if you created your new reality as your own Space of Love, inside and out. Imagine that along comes your friend, sees it and thinks to herself: “Oh, I love it” and gets inspired to do the same. And so will your fellow neighbor and your neighbor's neighbor and tens and hundreds of other people living nearby begin to create their realities as their own Spaces of Love. You might think me naive, but didn’t we just find out that this is how many things in the world have been changed - one experience, one small miracle at a time? But it's not hard to imagine how the idea of creating a personal Space of Love could turn into a national, then multi-national and ultimately global expanse of Spaces of Love?
What would happen to the rest of the world that has not yet convinced of such a life? In time, it would be in the minority and would probably just be swept up and join the happy global family. For myself, without banners or picketing signs, that is how I will envision it, right along with Anastasia for inspiration, namely that the entire world can be transformed into a Space of Love. I will create and enjoy a vision of a future where an entirely new concept of the world grew out of countless single experiences. You may ask, "And how many people are needed to make such a global vision come true? Ten million? A hundred million?" While we have silly jokes about the need for five or six people - usually of our least favorite nationality - to screw in a single light-bulb, there is great news. It works exactly the opposite here: There is only one person needed to change our entire planet into such a Space of Love - and this person, again, is...You! Everything begins with You… and with the creation of your own reality. Since you are the creator of your own reality, of your own Space of Love, all that is needed is one, then ten, and then hundreds of Yous. Soon, there will be millions of single Yous, along with your loved-ones. And sooner than we know, we will have our global Space of Love. O.K., you can say "I'm a dreamer...but I'm not the only one... Perhaps some day - soon? - you will join me...?" I can't sing any further or we will have to ask for reprint permission, although I fudged a bit on John Lennon's beautiful lines. So won't you sing, and dream with us - with all of us, one reality at a time.
Yuri Smirnov
