I dreamt last night that the world was at war. All over the world in my dream there was war. Pain, death, fear, panic everywhere. I found some friends. They let me in through this chain link fence with barbed wire which led to a different world underneath everything on the surface. They told me that this is where we have to go right now to get away from all the war on the earth. Stay here. it's safe. I awoke from the dream feeling that although things may get pretty creepy and downright ugly over the next few months or years, that somewhere beneath the surface there is still a large group of us who see through to the other side. As the powers that be fight their petty battles over imaginary distinctions between right and wrong there is still hope among us that in the end there is the shining light within us all that knows that somewhere there is a win-win game waiting to unfold for us all. 

Someone had commented ‘imagine what will happen on the planet when we start using all of our resources among us to start helping each other rather than fighting and hurting each other.’ Imagine if instead of countries like America or china or Russia or Iraq or Korea continuing to build up their armies and war machines they instead started building up their feed the hungry machines or their cure the sick machines or their empower your neighbor machines. Why are companies that build weapons of mass destruction for profit, and companies that are trying to feed the millions who are hungry or stop human rights violations non-profit? When did we first decide to start pedaling backwards? And I am always struck by our willingness to allow this to still exist here. we hear about the billions of dollars that are made by giant multi-national companies by the production of weapons of mass destruction. But at the same time we are also often reminded by our governments of how little money and resources there are to really solve the world’s hunger, homeless, famine, and sickness problems. So obviously something is not right. like our giant collective brain as a people is just not working quite right yet.