This essay was a finalist in the How We Saved the World essay contest, where people wrote as if it was 2050 when the world was working, saying how we got there starting with something they did. Here's the intro to this presentation of results, with links to the other finalists and an invitation to make comments about the contest.

Becoming Magnificent

Becoming Magnificent by Adruma Victoria A quarter of a century ago, I made the determination to begin honoring the inherent magnificence of ME. I became convinced at that time that even the most immature individuals possess within themselves qualities of infinite magnificence. My challenge became how to peddle this treasure of realization….at all times and in all directions? I knew that if I lived this truth and listened to the frequencies of my soul song, that this vibrancy would multiply. And it did! Now, mind you, I was not alone. Every day I encountered people who felt courageous enough to love self, others and the creation……..just as the sun shines and the palm trees dance. I teach music at a private school. Music theory gave me a wonderful platform to impart onto my students far greater access to their inner light and their own magnificence. My daughter, Kiah, bought me singing bowls for my birthday. I used them to help my friend, John, who was struggling with cancer. After he received just a few sound baths, his wife called me and shared that his diminished blood count had greatly improved, and that the cancer was disappearing. I was amazed at how sound and positive intention had worked to support John’s healing. I wept tears of appreciation at how the magic of sound and positive energy can afford the most benevolent of outcomes. I believe in angels and have vast experiences of how they have healed me and made me strong, so I began to expand my thinking in this area and asked these angels to co-create with me to produce energy resonance that would multiply love and light. My Rock/Soul band, Side Hustle, plays at clubs and festivals. I invited the angels to dance and to inspire the spiritual surrounding of the many individuals who come and enjoy our music and asked them to multiply in their lives. Somehow, we tapped into the forces of light and love beyond the veil. Behaviors of respect and equity for women, the elderly and any group that was so often marginalized began to spread like wildfire. The beauty that seemed dormant in each soul started resonating and vibrating at higher frequencies, such that love stimulating beauty coupled with respect and gratitude became more common. I had to change ME, and the world changed as I evolved. The true beauty of living expanded. Here in the year 2050, each of us embrace the calibration of our unique inner song of love with harmonic overtones. Just as ten thousand birds can fly like a wave and change direction in beautiful harmony, the sentience of all created beings of Mother Earth share the poetic dance of tension and release resolving to beauty within the earth and sky people. The intelligence of water ripples in human consciousness and throughout atmospheres beyond our human scope. The memories of stars that long ago smacked into planets, affording us the elements of the human body and its support systems vibrate joy. The individual sound signature of each of us is as infinite as numbers affords endless stimulation, passion and discovery of life. We live also as masters in the art of living and masters in the art of loving. I lived more and more with focus on my own magnificence and that of every human being. I sought to honor the feminine aspects of the natural world, and, although I am rather masculine, those of myself. The universe cross-pollinated the heart-centered living that was once dormant in our species. Here in 2050, we love living and giving, and we marvel at the myriad of beautiful expressions of love within our global community of the heart. The mountains and trees sing new songs of joy heard and desired by multitudes.