Ask the Swami

by Swami Beyondananda

Dear Swami,
Here’s something I find puzzling. Why is it that when we already have a glut of unoccupied office space in most cities, developers insist on building more regardless of environmental impact? It seems like some kind of dysfunctional obsession, if you ask me. What’s your take on this, Swami?

Norma Lee Mild
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dear Norma,
Yes, you’re definitely on target. Quite often, people – particularly men – will end up building beyond what is needed. They think that if they keep building and building, they will overcome their feeling of not being enough, and that what they construct will become their living monument. In psychological circles, this is known as an unresolved edifice complex. This worship of the man-made leaves millions of pilgrims stuck on the highway of life each morning as they religiously go to “acquire practice”. The result is what I call “greedlock” – the inability of society to move forward due to our faulty view that self-worth is a result of net worth.

Fortunately, there is a cure for greedlock and the unresolved edifice complex. And that is to divest. Take off that vest, and while you’re at it, sever those power ties. Leave your mercenary life behind and become an immercenary instead. Immerse yourself in an esteem bath, where you imagine your parents, teachers, and especially Ed McMahon telling you that you’ve been given a special gift just for entering – so you are already a winner.

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Dear Swami, 
There’s a tremendous untapped potential in our society that we haven’t begun to use – the power of the human mind. Specifically, I believe I that each of us has undeveloped psychic power. How about it, Swami? Do you think we will harness psychic energy for human and planetary benefit in the future?

Ray D. Onyx
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Ray,
In a recent visit to the future, I was pleased to find that indeed psychic power was being used in all areas of life and we were saving tremendous amounts of time and energy as a result. For example, psychic shopping will be all the rage. In fact, there will be a huge department store where all the employees will be psychic. It will be called Seers. Yes, as soon as you walk into the store, they will already have your order waiting for you. Or you can do the Seers shop-by-mail program. That’s where every month they ship you an item you’re going to need later that month. And you’ll never have to worry about overextending your budget as long as you have a Seers credit card. Most stores will approve or reject credit based on past credit ratings. Seers will base theirs on future credit ratings.

Oh, it will be an amazing world indeed. There will be psychic advertising agencies. All they’ll have to do is beam their messages to targeted mailing lists – just beaming their thoughts at the list will be enough, so they’ll never have to do any actual mailing. Think of how much money this will save! Speaking of saving money, since we already will know who is going to win the elections, there will be no need for losing candidates to spend any money on debates or advertising. This is good news for people who hate missing their regular TV shows. The psychic revolution will have a great effect on the world of sports. Instead of betting on the Sunday football game, fans will bet on the Saturday pigskin preview shows. Since only the most die-hard fans will end up watching the game itself, this will free up a lot of time for most people. The era of the overpaid athlete will give way to the era of the overpaid psychic. But we are still many years from this scenario, as we still have a long way to go developing psychic powers. Case in point: I was recently invited to speak at a psychic fair. When I got there, I learned it had been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.

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