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State
of the Universe
Address 2000
by Swami
Beyondananda
Well,
the New Millennium is here, and if you are
reading this, I predict we have survived. The
Y2K glitch has given us a great opportunity to
consider the age-old question, "What are
we human beings really like when the chips are
down?" and face our fear that when the
Big Ball dropped, we would drop the ball. With
the Millennial Madness sale finally over, we
can now turn our attention from the profits of
doom towards that which profits everyone.
Discorporate
Takeovers Continue Unabated
Speaking
of profits of doom, as was predicted at the
beginning of the year, the Monsanto
Corporation has abandoned its terminator seed
technology on orders from Above. As you may
remember, the would-be know-it-alls from that
corporate giant decided they wanted to own and
manufacture all of the crop seeds worldwide.
But a Discorporate Giant nixed the plan. Said
a spokesman for the Creator, "Human
beings have free will, so of course they are
free to play God -- as long as God wins."
Like
any spiritual transformation, Monsanto's was
an inside job. An insider working with the
Rockefeller Foundation began to suffer pangs
of conscience, the first symptom of awakening
compassion. He began to doubt the assertions
that Monsanto scientists were wiser than
Creation, and decided to air his concerns at a
Monsanto board meeting. He secretly instructed
the press to be there (before someone else
could secretly instruct them not to), and he
spilled the soybeans. By the time the spin
doctors arrived on the scene, it was too late.
The terminator technology had expired.
Personally,
I see it as a result of all those mass prayers
and meditations. The blisskrieg is beginning
to pay off. Even the tobacco industry has
suffered a bout of conscience, and if this
persists it means that any institution is susceptible
to awakened compassion. It is said that when a
certain number in any group attain Buddha
consciousness -- known as the Hundredth Monk
theory -- the organization will transform too.
And our loving prayers help. The rising esteem
from all that love makes the atmosphere more
favorable for enlightening to strike.
The
discorporate takeover is also being felt in
our hospitals and HMOs. While the medical
establishment insists that nothing works
better than allopathic medicine, critics are
agreeing that indeed nothing often does. Some
recent studies indicate that placebos have
higher success rates than certain established
medical procedures! And why shouldn't they?
Since the atom is 99. 99% empty space, and we
are comprised entirely of atoms, are we not
more nothing than anything? Although medical
authorities scoff at the notion
("Invisible medicine? I just can't see it."),
just wait until the HMOs catch on. I predict
we'll see more and more practitioners sending
their patients off with a placebo and a prayer.
And
if you still need proof of the power of
prayer, you need only look as far as the
baseball world. In Cleveland this past summer,
a group of East Indians of the Buddhist
persuasion -- the Cleveland Indian Indians
they called themselves -- adopted popular
outfielder Manny Ramirez, who ended up with
more runs batted in than anyone in over sixty
years, a feat attributable in part to Buddhist
chanting. Each time Ramirez would come up with
runners in scoring position, he would hear
those devoted fans chanting "oh Manny bat
me home, oh Manny bat me home, oh Manny bat me
home" -- and more often than not, he did.
I
would look for Spirit to materialize even more
in 2000. The blisskrieg will continue unabated
as more and more of us convert our karmas from
internal combustion to esteem. This will drive
the price of lie-ability insurance sky high.
The more the underlying truth comes out
through individual awakening, the more certain
companies will have to pay to insure their
ability to lie. (If you think legal advice is
expensive, it's nothing compared to the cost
of illegal advice. )As more of us decide to
put outcome ahead of income, lie-ability will
no longer be an asset.
Finally,
the Discorporate Powers, working through our
own prayers and actions, will transform the
arms race. In 2000, look for the nations of
the world to give up the foolish notion of
disarmament, and focus instead on learning and
teaching the appropriate use of arms. Yes,
that's right. Ever since I was refused service
at a fancy restaurant years ago for not
wearing a sports jacket, I have been a staunch
supporter of the right to bare arms.
No
one wants to be without arms. Look at Venus di
Milo -- beautiful to look at, but she can't do
a thing. The Creator gave us arms for a
reason, and free will to choose what we do
with them. So this year, I predict the first
arms exchanges between formerly-warring
parties will take place. On my tell-a-vision
screen, I see rival armies proudly walking
towards each other as their commanders issue
the orders:
"At ease!"
"Present arms!"
"Hug!"
Who knows? We may be able to stop some of the
balkin' in the Balkans, cool the ire in
Ireland, and relieve the pressure around other
dangerous human fault lines.
Now
in some areas, we will no doubt fall short in
2000. For example, I predict another
Presidential election year will go by without
us learning to harness the wind from all of
the oratory and put it to some useful purpose.
On the other hand, I see a great
transformation in store for Bill Gates. As
part of his settlement with the government, he
will have to take one of those Radical Honesty
workshops, and will end up renaming his
company "Macrohard". The Artist
Formerly Known as Prince will drop that name
as well, and hereafter be known as The Artist
Formerly Known As the Artist Formerly Known as
Prince. And the discorporate takeover will hit
the airwaves in the form of a new network
featuring only disembodied commentators -- the
Channel Channel.
There
-- I've tossed out my predictions, and you
probably will too. Because
this is indeed a Universe of unlimited
possibilities, so why limit ourselves? We've
survived to a new millennium, which is great.
Now it's time to raise the bar a bit and go
for "thrival" instead of mere
survival. With every thought and deed we are
buying futures. I say it's time we picked one
we'd like to own.
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