Saving the World

Saving our world did not require all of us to change – just enough of us.

My part in the Great Turning – the transition where Earth shifted from the Planet of Division to the Planet of Cooperation – was so very small. The majority of us who catalyzed the Turning can say the same. But when enough of those small parts combined into something greater than each of the individual parts, it was at once as substantial as a mountain, as gentle as a calm breath, and as lovely as a field of wildflowers in full bloom. Without any force at all, the old world gratefully bowed to the majesty of our collective radiance. And when the knees of the old world hit the soil, the decomposition and regeneration process was swifter than any of us ever imagined. 

It’s why we’re still here in 2050. It’s why humans and nature are well on our way to being completely unified, thriving, cooperative, and unafraid.

As I mentioned, my part in this was so very small. All I did was listen.

Back in 2024, many of us were hearing without listening. And of course it was this way. The opportunity to hear was all around us. We could hear about the corruption of governments, the impending death of our earth’s ecosphere, the mass murder of children in schools, the rampant crime and homelessness in cities, populations experiencing starvation despite massive excesses of food, inequitable and ineffective systems of care, mass extinction, the neo-slavery of prison systems, the horrible pollution of factory farming, multigenerational wars, and infinite other stories decrying the horrors of life on our planet. 

You could hear paradoxical and conflicting viewpoints on what to do about these things, and hear even more about who was to blame – and often it was you. You could hear a lot about how your water use or your poor recycling habits or your refusal to buy organic food or your traveling habits or your politics or your sexuality or your skin color or your job or the actions you were taking or weren’t taking were to blame for the world that appeared to be crumbling before our very eyes.

As a collective, hearing the beating of these endless drums of fear led many of us to believe humans were a lost cause. And so, many of us became instruments in a monotonous symphony of apathy conducted by the refrain, “Unless all of us change, nothing will change, so why change? Unless all of us change, nothing will change, so why change? Unless all of us change, nothing will change so why change?” 

And of course it was this way. Most of us alive in 2024 grew up on the Planet of Division.

But this story isn’t about all of us. It isn’t even about most of us. This story is about my tiny part in Great Turning. And, as I mentioned, all I did was listen. 

I didn’t always know how to listen. For most of my young life, I was one of the many who heard without listening. I heard that it was my purpose to go to college, so I did. I heard that I was supposed to use the privilege of my degree to change the world, so I tried. I heard that grad school would make my dreams to change the world legitimate, so I went. I heard that marriage and kids and home ownership would make me whole, so I proposed to someone. I heard that $75,000 a year would make me happy, so I got a few salaried jobs where I sold my employers most of my attention.

By the end of all this, I was in chronic pain, I wasn’t menstruating, I was heartbroken, and I was addicted to marijuana. I certainly wasn’t happy, healthy, or well.

Serendipity would have it that my final job in a career spanning twelve years opened the door for me to take a deep dive into human health and wellness. At the time, I learned that human thriving is based on connection to nature, the ability to tap into and move by our own internal rhythms, and – perhaps most importantly –  thriving rests on understanding the gifts we are uniquely here to give in service to the greater good. I learned that this understanding does not and cannot come from external standards.

I looked around me, and I was in a system that – innocently and with the best of intentions – forced everyone involved to sit inside all day and follow a schedule they didn’t have any power over. It was a megalith that crushed human spirits in an endless grinding gauntlet of external measurements for “success.” I couldn’t reconcile the difference between what I had learned about wellness and the system I was choosing to support.

There was a voice inside me with the cyclical refrain, “It’s time for you to leave behind everything you’ve built.”

Despite this clear message from within, I kept hearing the dismal rhythm of the drums of fear: “How will I live without a job? Who will I be without my directorship position? How can I let go of everything I’ve put my entire life force into for the past 12 years?” The beating of these drums paralyzed me for months, and the thought of changing was terrifying.

But my body kept failing. My inner voice kept screaming. It would take the serendipity of a car crash where my first response was, “I’m just glad I don’t have to go to work today,” to get me to finally choose listening over hearing. When I listened to the messages my body, my inner voice, and my research about human thriving had been sending for over a year, all of a sudden I had courage beyond measure. 

In this infinite courage, leaping away from my fancy job titles, my tens of thousands of dollars of educational investment, and my financial comfort was effortless and obvious. I leapt toward nature and toward service. My chronic pain went away, my menstrual cycle returned, and I found myself in the radiant energy of one of the most compassionate leaders I had ever met. He lovingly infected me with the question,“What are your gifts, and why aren’t you giving them to us?”

I said yes to the quest behind this question, and for years my life would boomerang back and forth between hearing and listening in search of the answer. The steps in my quest followed clear patterns. When I defaulted to hearing, my life’s experience was riddled with doubt, fear, victimhood, and I often felt dead inside. When I pushed myself to listen, my life freely flowed in a river of trust, courage, power, and feeling exquisitely alive.

While hearing never brought me closer to the answer at the center of my quest, listening always did. 

Listening brought me to the questions, “What would I do even if I never got paid to do it?” and “Who do I love to serve?” and “What forms of giving fill my cup as I give?”

It was through listening that I learned that my identification with my race, sexuality, gender, nationality, culture and politics sowed seeds of division. When I put those down, I stopped hearing others and started listening to them. In listening, I learned that I could connect to and cooperate with anyone because enacting the patience to understand eventually reveals common ground and a win-win solution. 

It was through listening that I learned that the past doesn’t exist and we have no control over the future. I forgave myself for all my mistakes, and learned to forgive others for theirs. I realized that the best strategy for the future was to do what felt right in every moment, and hold all my preparations loosely so they’d be flexible enough to accommodate moment to moment changes.

It was through listening that I learned that not all of us need to change for the world to change, and I certainly don’t need to be the one to change others or the whole world. Especially because of how listening taught me that change begins with full acceptance of all that is as it is.

Through listening I learned that I wasn’t the only one listening. There were lots of us listening, gaining courage, discovering our true gifts, and stepping away from the habits, patterns, behaviors, and systems that no longer made sense to us. At some point, I started to trust that there would indeed be enough of us for this world to change.

And as it turned out, there were. Over time, those of us who were listening found one another, and started coordinating our listening-based efforts.

The engines behind the endless drums of fear began to fade as more drummers chose to transition from making noise to listening. The monotonous symphony of apathy faded to a whisper as a new symphony conducted by the joy of living in alignment with unique purpose filled the air. We were all so busy listening and cooperating there was nothing left to hear.

My part in the Great Turning was so small and so simple. All I did, over and over and over, was listen.

And I was just one amongst enough of us.

The only way we’re going to save the world is if we all participate.

Finally: as written in the stars and foretold for millennia, the human species is thriving in a cooperative society; not in an unachievable utopia but in a protopia through pronoia and spiritual proactivity.

How did it get there? How in the world did it survive the brink of destruction in the 2020s, indicated by the ticking Doomsday Clock and massive civil upheaval, due to spiritually-devoid megalomaniac tyrants destroying life and aiming weapons of total annihilation in a Biblical Armageddon?

Somehow, the gods returned. Heroes rose, alternative systems were developed, collectives ended generational karmic curses, and societies transformed from a predomination of fear & hate to trust & love. Humanity prayed and the divine delivered. World leaders emerged who powerfully embodied both the divine masculine & feminine; who synthesized, curated and effectively conveyed true information in the age of thought-chaos; and who masterfully navigated the world in business, politics and spirituality.

 

 

Humanity’s artistic expression has given us hopeful optimism and insightful clues into how we might avoid man-made & natural disaster, and how we may create systems and technology to distribute power & resources and save us from our lower nature. Perhaps Klaatu’s Speech in “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) gives us one such clue: somehow wisely creating a system such as their AI to quell any aggression to hold a global container for harmonious freedom⁰. Charles Hoskinson of IOHK has remarked many times about how creating decentralized systems can “save us from ourselves” in the realms of economy and governance, by both preventing exploitation and incentivizing cooperation.

All technology is double-edged, having potential for either positive or negative impact, and always requiring wise oversight & implementation. From the splitting of the atom came the best yet-developed energy source but also the most terrible weapon. With that frame of reference and others, humanity is now challenged to implement emerging technologies at break-neck speed and in the largest scale yet. Hoskinson articulated the technologies of the 21st century: artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, quantum computing, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, 3D printing, and virtual reality – so much all at once, all with potential for good or evil. ¹

So humanity desperately needs proper leadership from individuals who are heart-centered & spiritually enlightened, and are somehow incredibly able to understand & synthesize a vision for implementing these technologies. Maybe not just individuals, but those supported by decentralized entities comprised of & representing whole communities, in harmony. As Thich Nhat Hanh indicated, that the next Buddha may be a sangha, “it is possible the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness, a community practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried out as a group, as a city, as a nation.” ²

Leaders, however, may be necessary in this transition to the so-called Age of Aquarius, or Age of Helpfulness coined by my friend Stanley Pokras of OtherNetworks.org. Much of humanity is operating through deeply embedded myths and traditions perceiving a necessity for a savior, for a lone individual to represent all and royally decree the path forward. Ancient prophecies even foretell of such an individual or small group to be what transitions us from top-down hierarchy to decentralized autonomy.

Agreeing with Henry Miller saying “I am not against leaders per se. On the contrary, I know how necessary they are. They will be necessary so long as men are insufficient unto themselves,“ I think this may be the case.³ I wrote a reflection on a live discussion about Nietzche’s prophesied Übermensch, who is as described above, and my vision for how such a man would exist today in our dire time of need. ⁴

Back to Thich Nhat Hanh’s notion of a sangha, I wrote about how the rise of online sanghas like organizations which meet regularly on live video platforms, such as The Scientific & Medical Network and Humanity Rising via Zoom, and younger self-organizing groups in cryptocurrency circles are becoming this very thing! ⁵ In the physical world, pop-up cities such as Burning Man and Zuzalu are where semi-nomads gather to proliferate soulful living and co-create better realities. ⁶

As for how I, Bruce Dean Robinson (Starlove), helped to usher in this beautiful Golden Age of humanity: through being the very leader I have hinted at in this essay. I have birthed a sort of cathedral, called Starscape, inspiring a model for decentralized communities through Starscape Sangha⁷, inspiring a model for Aquarian-style businesses⁸, and proving my business leadership at scale in multiple domains⁹. By the end of 2024, I will help mobilize at least Americans to massive action to improve their lives, their families, their communities and their natural environments, through technology and thought-leadership.

Embodying my vision for a spiritual, heart-led information curator in this age of misinformation, as of April 2024 I will be in full swing in social media content creation – of podcasts, interviews and various video, through my own independent initiatives and through the New Paradigm Navigators subgroup of The Scientific & Medical Network. Rap music albums are also in production – my soulful way to musically express and connect with some of those in the far reaches of society: American inner-city youth and the like. But wait, there’s more – I had a Moses moment in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado on a spontaneous Spirit-led trip in February 2022, to eventually publish a treatise on humanity & civilization, and propose a charter to replace the UN Charter and outline a multi-decade gamification plan: a voluntary game in which nations would be naturally & significantly incentivized to participate. The greatest game Humanity has ever played.

These seeds were planted by inexplicable divine intervention, from perhaps before my incarnation and throughout my life, and have been blooming since the Aquarius stellium in February 2021. I was just some guy with big dreams and insatiable curiosity but crushed under the weight of substance & video game addition to cope with depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, aimlessness and lack of guidance. It is only through complete surrender to the numinous and submission as a cosmic vessel through the Universe’s Tao that I am on this destiny. And it is with the crucial support of individuals, organizations and charities – like Suzanne Taylor and her essay contest – that I am able to co-create this better world for all of us. The money from this essay competition would be a divine gift in this massive transition to invest in myself and these projects, which will return a vast wealth of material treasure – but toward the eventual end of wealth inequality.

As my most intense dreams indicated and meditative insights revealed: my awakened purpose is to inspire, connect and coordinate humanity to unite & harmonize on & with Earth before going interstellar; to resurrect the spirit and society of Atlantis through the intersection of high consciousness and high technology. Again, I cannot do this alone. I need friends. I need support.

The only way we’re going to save the world is if we all participate.

Bruce Dean Robinson ∞ Lavitz Starlove

⁰ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsNtti1XZs

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uragYmFhNIk

² https://inquiringmind.com/article/1002_41_thich-nhat_hanh/

³ https://tsunamibooks.jimdofree.com/2013/03/29/henry-miller-an-open-letter-to-surrealists-everywhere-1939/

⁴ https://lavitz.substack.com/p/xspace-reflections-what-is-the-ubermensch

⁵ https://lavitz.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-online-sanghas

⁶ https://brookebowman.substack.com/p/zuzalu

⁷ https://starscape.substack.com/p/starscape-sangha-the-guild

⁸ https://starscape.substack.com/p/starscapes-company-commitments

⁹ https://starscape.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-starscape

The World in 2050 

By Leah Yananton 

Throughout my life, I have written letters to my future self. As a child, I would write letters to my teenage self, and as my teenage self, I would write letters to my twenty-something self. 

“Dear Leah age 23, this is Leah, age 14. I wonder where you are living, I wonder what you look like…”

When I was in my twenties, I would write to my forty-year-old future self. “Were you able to become the woman you dreamed of, making art, finding spirituality, telling stories, and making the world a better place? Did you find love? Did you truly live?” 

When I was in my thirties, I wrote about what kind of eighty-year-old I hoped to become— an educator, teacher, and gardener. Now in 2050 at age 70, I am only ten years away, and am grateful for the longevity.  There was a time in the 2020’s when we all thought we were going to die and become extinct, before humanity shifted to a Degrowth economy and clean energy, before the nuclear warheads were dismantled when the doomsday clock second-hand was terrorizing us all clicking ever closer to midnight. 

When I was in my forties in the 2020’s, I indeed thought a lot about my mortality, and confronted the thought of death. I grieved the reality of our impermanence, and upon having a revelation of evil, I died several ego-deaths after learning the vastness of the problems humanity was facing, especially in 2024 when things were more horrific than words can describe, with barbaric military violence harming and killing innocent men, women and children in Gaza under genocidal, scorched-earth devastation, broadcast over our smartphones. The olive trees, the land, the love of families, the injustice of the occupation, the trauma, heartbreak, and injustice of war and the brutal veracity of hatred that man can inflict on his brothers, sisters, parents, children, and land, was for all of us feel in real-time. 

2024 became the year of the Authoritarian Despots, funded by Techno-Corporate States (for example, Microsoft had more wealth than all the countries combined). The U.S. Government was completely controlled by war corporations, which sucked all the resources from the American people, and in 2022-2023 used nearly a trillion dollars for war, driven by asset management companies’ requirement to increase bottom line of profit for shareholders. War companies and the think tanks they funded were what controlled America’s foreign policy, which was characterized by World War II patterns of power and domination for capitalist pursuit of supremacy. But when the military turned on it’s various global entrapments for full-spectrum dominance in 2024, that’s when things really started to fray and the future looked as bleak and depressing as the military imagined it would be in 2050. 

“I don’t really worry about our soldiers being outfought,” said Gen. David Perkins, commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. “By the time 2050 rolls around, game changing technologies on the U.S. side will include laser and radio frequency weapons, swarms of drones, rail guns and synthetic biology, TRADOC said.” 

Civilians know that means life would be getting worse if the war corporations continue to be in the driver’s seat. 

“When weapons are your product, war is your marketing,” peace activists say. 

It was up to us to get on the higher track of probability, off the path of extinction carbon and on the path towards living carbon with a sustainable future where humanity could continue living on a regenerative planet full of healthy biodiversity and biodiverse systems in nature. 

Lucky for us, half the world already understood how to get on the higher track of probability, as indigenous cultures and indigenous people have known how to have a healthy, sustainable way of living that already allowed them to thrive for 65,000 years, such as Aboriginal First Nation People of Australia. I learned from Tyson Yunkaporta in his book “Sand Talk,” that time is not a straight line like an arrow careening towards an end, as Aristotle professed, but a torus, regenerative and infinitely alive. Western intellect got stuck on Aristotle’s arrow of time, like Dr. Strangelove was stuck riding a rocket into catastrophic oblivion. Thank you to the Aboriginal First Nation People of the planet for brining us back to Earth, back to our hearts as One Earth Family. 

  And now here I am, age 70 in the year 2050, and I am writing this letter back to my forty-something-self, because indeed it was 2024 when I faced the war machine head-on toward one of its many crooked faces, and I need my younger self to know that it turned out alright, even though it was very, very terrifying for a while. 

Dear Leah, age 44,  I need to remind you, my past self in 2024, about the huge rogue waves that made headlines across the news when they “smashed into remote US military base in the Pacific.” 

In my own personal mythology, these waves were what symbolically began to usher in the change of paths, shifting from our most likely, and worst case future path if we had continued to be guided by war corporations, and shifting to our best possible future with the greatest benefit to all, when the people united to demand the end of  government funding of war corporations, with a ceasefire forever. We demanded that the war and military budgets instead be used to invest in meeting human need, and putting our resources towards cultivating healthy society, as a good neighbor as part of this Earth Family, no longer acting as the bully to the world which earned the U.S. the nickname of the United Devastates, bullying other countries with the threat of our nuclear bombs. We saw we had to change it all at once and very fast. Oppose the evil action, not the people caught up in the system, as Martin Luther King Jr. instructed for nonviolent protest. “Righteous anger toward systems, and reconciliation toward one another.” 

“A video posted on X showed the terrifying surge of water rushing into a dining facility on Roi-Namur island, the second-largest island of Kwajalein Atoll, which hosts a US military ballistic missile defense test site in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

The rushing water broke down doors and windows and pushed furniture around the facility as it reached near ceiling height in the video.”

Just two months earlier in 2023, I was at Vandenberg Space Force Base the night of Halloween, when at the strike of midnight to usher in November 1st, The Day of the Dead, the Space Force performed its test-launch of the Minuteman III Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, which was headed toward  Kwajalein Atoll, and would pass the missile tracking station in Kauai (which was the extinction capital of the world with bird and marine life species going extinct everyday), the route followed every test-launch. I was there to protest the launch with my peace friends and organizer MacGregor Eddy, and Diana Kubilos from the Kingian Nonviolence (KNV) and Conflict Reconciliation program, both whom I had met during a World Beyond War book club when we read “Understanding The War Industry” by Christian Sorensen. 

We arrived to Vandenberg at night along with other protestors and with the support of organizations that we work with: CodePink, DefuseNuclearWar Coalition with RootsAction, to name a few. As we gathered, suddenly a bright fiery light lit up the dark sky, and down a corridor of tall pine trees I could see in the distance the Minuteman III launching. 

The light came first, and then the sound followed. The fireball ascended. There was a low, steady rumble. Many of us gasped. Just like that, so simple, a weapon like that could deliver untold devastation, repeating the sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The light seemed to move slowly at first, and then as it arched out across the Pacific Ocean, it became distant very quickly. 

There is a launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base about every three months, and the Air Force/Space Force no longer announces it in advance since the time the late Daniel Ellsberg attended and brought too much attention, too much press to the launch. So we watch for the indicators of when the launch will happen, at some point they have to announce it publicly so that other countries know it is just a test and not an actual nuclear warhead heading towards the Pacific, but just the missile. MacGregor was not shocked to learn that they had chosen October 31/November 1st, as it would be a perfect time for people to be distracted with the holiday. But there we were in the dark of night, Halloween night after the children had been dressed as ghouls and collected their candy, and went to bed to hopefully have sweet dreams. There were we adults, facing the real life ghouls, the real life nightmare. 

The Pacific Islanders of course never deserved to have their islands and lives stolen from them for sake of these precision-engineered weapons of mass destruction, weapons of poison, weapons of extinction. Where are the people of Kwajalein Atoll now? How can we hear their voices? 

Kwajalein Atoll is a tiny island, says the U.S. Geological Survey,  “with a total area of a total area of about 2.5 square kilometers (about 1 square mile), and it is also remote, about 3,900 kilometers (2,100 miles) southwest of Hawaii and just 9 degrees latitude north of the equator.”

“That makes it an excellent location for missile testing and detection, according to the US Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command, which operates the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein.”

Indeed, the United States of America conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. The U.S. conducted 23 of these tests at Bikini Atoll, and 44 near Enewetak Atoll, but fallout spread throughout the Marshall Islands. March 1st, 2024 was the 70th Anniversary of the Castle Bravo test, which released 15 megatons of TNT, far surpassing the expected 6 megatons. This unexpected outcome was due to additional reactions involving lithium-7 in the fusion fuel. I haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” yet, but I am aware from Daniel Ellsberg’s book “The Doomsday Machine,” that in real life, the atomic scientists had a scene where they considered the small chance that their bomb could catch the entire atmosphere of the globe on fire.

When I was in college, I lived next door to where the first atom was split. Years later when I got married, my father-in-law had served in the military and was sent to Nagasaki as a field artist the year after the U.S. dropped the bomb, which changed him to become a peace activist and he returned to the U.S. horrified by war. The military discharged him.  Godzilla is another movie about the atomic bomb, and in the 2024 remake “Godzilla Minus One,” directed by Takashi Yamazaki, the main character is an ocean mine-sweeper on a boat. My former landlord had worked on a small boat as an ocean mine-sweeper in World War II, just like in the movie, but on the side of the U.S., sweeping Nazi mines. But what about the people who were in the “test” bomb’s wake, such as the Indigenous First Nations people of New Mexico and Nevada, as Western Shoshone Chief Raymond Yowell explains, “the radiation has caused Shoshone, Ute, Navajo, Hopi, Paiute, Havasupai, Hualapai and other downwind communities to suffer from cancer, thyroid diseases and birth defects. What about the “hibakusha,” the surviving victims of the atomic bombs which fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese fishermen on board their boat, Daigo Fukuryū Maru, also known as “Lucky Dragon No. 5,”who were unexpectedly caught in the fallout from the Castle Bravo test on March 1, 1954.  “Godzilla Minus One” pays homage to them. 

I do not enjoy writing about scary things, but after I heard Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study group explain what would happen if even one ICBM were to detonate the nuclear warhead it carries, how all infrastructure would be blown away, there would be no healthcare, no ambulances, and how human survivors would experience excruciating sickness immediately as well as throughout future generations.… I drove from Los Angeles to Vandenberg, and I thought about what I had learned, confronting the evil of it all, the inversion of life, how smart engineers are and why are they using it for killing instead of for well-being.  What about the current 6th mass extinction caused by this destructive human force? This anti-human, anti-earth, anti-life lord of terror must stop. I thought about our love, my love for my family, the love that nature is, and how much delight we enjoy by living. The miracles are endless. Yet there are hundreds of these ICBM’s stored in underground silos across America’s heartland, ready to launch at a moment’s notice. 

Let us listen to Daniel Ellsberg. “The chance that this system could explode ‘by mistake’ or unauthorized action in a crisis—as well as by the deliberate execution of nuclear threats—taking much of the world with it, has always been an unconscionable risk imposed by the superpowers upon the population of the world.” 

Nuclear disarmament is our only choice. Yet the U.S. continues to use its nuclear arsenal as the core propelling its dogma of  “Might makes right,” and propping up its stance as the global bully. “Listen to us or we’ll nuke you,” is not a neighborly way to behave. “Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself” goes a lot farther. 

The “Minutemen III” missiles were named after the Revolutionary War soldiers who were required to be ready within a minute’s notice. It makes me think about the Indigenous First Nations of this land, their Turtle Island, and how they lived here for tens of thousands of years, and could thrive here for hundreds of thousands or millions of years longer, if only our “revolutionary war” would now be for nuclear disarmament, for defunding war corporations, and redirecting those resources to meet human need. 

So I got in my car on Halloween night, and I met MacGregor and Diana at Vandenberg Space Force Base, and we continued our work and deepened our prayers.

The U.S. sought to replace its Minutemen ICBM force with new Sentinel missiles, which had been estimated to cost nearly $300 billion, but the Air Force announced that costs would be 37% higher, around $100 billion dollars, to be completed by 2050.

Back in 2024 when I attended the midnight Minuteman ICBM test laugh on midnight of November 1st, Day of the Dead with my peace activist friends, during the time of the launch when we were silent, aghast at what we were witnessing, I prayed to my ancestors and to the indigenous First Nations People who’s land was stolen for this insanity, and I apologized to the Earth for the military’s actions, as I watched the orange fireball of the missile light up the night sky and travel up up and away out across the Pacific. I thought about our future, will I ever become that 80-year old woman I hope to become, and I thought about how angry and heartbroken I feel about the global ice sheets melting. I do not want the ice to melt. I do not want humanity to continue to work against nature. I do not want men to continue to silence women’s voices. I do not want men to continue to vilify and exploit our bodies and commodify our sexuality.  I do not want us to all starve in famine or die in nuclear waste. I do not want to ride this arrow of time, I do not want to ride on this missile of the prideful Dr. Strangelove, careening towards extinction. I do not want this for Earth. 

“I am sorry, Pachamama. Forgive us. I am sorry. Guide us, ancestors. Teach us how to change our ways,” I prayed. 

The next day, I drove down the coast back towards Los Angeles. I stopped at a random beach to stretch my legs and walk around. I noticed there were several off-shore oil drills and a pier down the beach with oil facilities on it. I felt sad and almost hopeless, how could we do this to our planet, to our home, to our oceans. I don’t want to feel sick, and I don’t want anybody else to ever feel or get sick.  I continued to pray, to keep the oil in the ground and to clean up any oil spills and contamination. I prayed for our health. I prayed that these off-shore oil rigs stop drilling. 

I was feeling depressed, despite it being a beautiful day at the beach. There were several pods of dolphin swimming! If they were still happy, I thought, then I can feel a little happiness too, as in this moment, we are alive, we are together, and we are well. I walked back to my car, and I saw that I had unknowingly parked near some kind of oil pipe. I watched it for a while, thinking about the fossil fuels.  Then a tour group arrived. I asked the woman leading the tour group if I could join them on to the pier to learn about the oil company here. She apologized that she could not have me along, as these were elected officials, and she was from California State Lands Commission. I learned that the random beach I had stopped at was called Little Rincon, Chumash land. The Spanish colonizers had been brutal to the Chumash in these parts. 

  “Do you know anything about the off-shore oil drills?” I asked her. 

“Yes,” she said. “They were decommissioned in 2018.”

“So no oil is being drilled anymore!?” I said.
“No. The onshore stopped in 2018, and the offshore well plug and abandonment was completed in 2021.”

“This is amazing to learn! Thank you! This is hopeful!” I said, realizing that my little prayer had actually been answered. 

  “Now we just have a lot of cleaning up to do,” she said, and continued on with the tour group, as the elected officials wearing office clothes followed her down the beach path and onto the pier. 

I got in my car, and drove home. I had the windows open and breathed in the delicious ocean air. I felt deep gratitude. That happened! There were dolphin!  The oil rigs were decommissioned! Awesome. 

The next day, I called MacGregor Eddy to check in and see how she was doing after the gathering at Vandenberg. 

“The missile failed! The MinutemanIII had to be destroyed by Vandenberg mid-way because there was an error of some sort in its trajectory!” she said. 

“We were lucky this one was just a test, and was not carrying a nuclear warhead. Once an ICBM is launched, it cannot be recalled, so there is no room for error or false alarms for the hundreds of Minutemen III ICBM’s across America that are ready to launch within a moment’s notice, with nuclear warheads already onboard.”

“So it failed? I think our ancestors came through for us on Day of the Dead!” I said. “Ha! ICBM’s are no match for the ancestors!” 

“Yes!” MacGregor said. “We need the voice of the Chumash here. Do you know that Vandenberg Space Force actually prides itself on protecting the land, endangered species and upholding cultural heritage!? They have a website devoted to it. Can you believe the nerve…”

Meanwhile I am thinking about all the pollution they cause from their launches, and the latest article I read about space junk and the for-profit space race, and how scientists at NOAA are now seeing “the fingerprint of human space traffic on stratospheric aerosol,” said Troy Thornberry, a research physicist at NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory. “Adding a lot of material to the stratosphere that was never there before is something that we’re considering, as well as the sheer mass of material that we put into space.”

Let us not forget that war is a for-profit industry. 

The budget for United States weapons “defense” programs could be better spent investing in human well-being and sustainability. 

Thinking back to the 2020’s and the interview with U.S. General David Perkins, he had said “As we look to our enemies around the world, they might not outfight us on the battlefield, but I think they might be able to sometimes out imagine us … into what is the realm of the possible and maybe where the future can be.”

Perhaps this general didn’t realize what he was admitting to in his lack of imagination about how beautiful the future can be. 

The U.S. empire wouldn’t cut its lifeline —that is, war— willingly, but the minds and hearts of the American people shifted and as we began to teach each other more and more about what kind of future we want 2050 to be, and even soldiers began to demand resources go to investing in human well-being. 

The senseless atrocities in Gaza woke everyone up from the spell of complacency, we realized that we are all living under nuclear threat too, and we were called to hold the line.

Through our collective actions in 2024, we began to demand that Congress defund the Pentagon, rescind all World War II -era foreign policies, and dismantle all World War II era institutions and war corporations.  

The Great Shift was the time when finally the people of the world united and created a global strike — not working, not purchasing, and not participating in the war profit-death-cycle, but demanding that resources instead be applied to meeting human needs, investing in humanity and providing well-being and real safety, real security, real brotherly love. It would be “blasphemous” to write that even soldiers put down their arms and joined the strike if it hadn’t happened, but it did happen after the soldiers realized that their missions were not for spreading democracy and upholding American values, but for enriching the profits for fossil fuel barons and weapons manufacturers. ¡No mas! Once the soldiers reclaimed their right to life and desire to create good for others, they weren’t able to be used as dispensable pawns anymore by the warlords. In fact, it was in the 2030’s that warlords were finally put in jail.

Am I writing a letter to my past-self, or am I stitching a yarn with you, with my teachers, friends, students and with my future self, revealing a fabric of life that breathes as a whole system, a living mycelium network of life, and a multi-dimensional experience of quantum physics that allows us to change the present and the future with each act of altruism and hope, defying the doom and pulling the plug on the doomsday machines once and for all. Let us pray to give back to the Earth, give back to Pachamama all the resources she has so abundantly given us. Let us pray to give back to the land, to clean our waters and make our rivers drinkable again, to clean up all vestiges of the past, and move forward into the future for millennia to come. Just think of all the stories we can weave together. 

  The Democrats were nervous they would lose the election to Donald Trump, and it was a perfect moment for the people to unite and demand the U.S. made these shifts. As CodePink was hitting the halls of Congress everyday in February 2024, the Congress interns begged the activists to keep it up— someone has to talk sense to the Congress members. I invited Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson to also visit the offices of the Congress members to speak truth to power, and sure enough, she would be the one who could defeat Trump and defeat Biden, and help American heal its heartland, heal our hearts. We have no more time for nightmares and impotent inversions, perverting “live” into “evil.” Let it all go. ¡No mas! 

People long for the world to be in balance again with clean air, clean water, healthy food for all. 

Now it is our time, our planet, our prayers for the greatest highest good for all that will be answered from now on, together, we thrive.  

 

This year 2050 I am turning 99 years old and it has been a wonderful, wonderful life. I am so grateful that I got to be me this time around. As one old friend told me, I’m glad SOMEBODY is you!

I look back on all the things I participated in with the main goal of making things better for  people and other animals, A few things float to the surface of which I am most proud.

 

Because I was blessed with a superlative set of parents, and a  good intellence quotient  (156 in high school, same as my brother John) I always felt that my responsibility for fixing things should match my ability to respond. I love that  verse in Leonard Cohen‘s opus HALLELUJAH  that says “ I did my best,  It wasn’t much… I told the truth I never came to fool you. and even though it all went wrong, I stand before the Lord of song with nothing on my mouth, but hallelujah!.🙏🏼”

 

All the way I lived for truth, and truth has always been my friend.

 

 

My intentions were always of the kindest, even though it was not always apparent. I learned that sometimes you don’t help people by helping them; sometimes you help them more by NOT “helping” them.

 

When I would say my prayers at night, at age 6 or five, I would always end with, “ and please help all the poor people in the world to be rich”. What I meant by this was for all people to have a safe, warm dry home with  loved ones and enough to eat.  My chosen-sister Lauryn and I were able to start a foundation called World Family, which rehomed 850 orphans from orphanages in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and in many cases these children have grown up to be world citizens involved in this work of healing  the planet.

 

My parents were some of the smartest, kindest, hard-working people anyone has ever met. From them, I absorbed incalculable lessons on how to navigate life with humor and music, and above all kindness. Generosity. “Have two share one”.

 

Both of my parents were from humble backgrounds in southern Indiana. My father joined the military, “ to make the world a better place.” Mother became a physician before it was common for women to do that. In fact, she was the youngest person and the first woman to graduate from Indiana University school of medicine in December of 1942. Most of the men were off at war so Indiana University started accepting women into a six-year program right out of high school instead of the normal eight years so my mother became the youngest graduated MD  and the first woman. Her own father was a physician who never practiced, but became a farmer instead and his mother, my great grandmother, had been a “yarb doctor”, a healer who worked with herbs. So these are my models and inspiration. People whose lives were dedicated to improving the plight  of other humans.

 

I studied medicine and worked in refugee camps and disasters and orphanages, realizing soon after medical school that people do not need doctors and hospitals as much as they need food and peace. Education, clean water and environment are also crucial,  so I went back to school to study public health. I wanted to prevent people from becoming orphans and refugees and to rebuild and recover from disasters. When I founded the World Family Foundation to provide medical and educational opportunities to children in Cambodia, and later other needy places, I jumped on the UNICEF bandwagon, educating girls and women, a huge basic need in the world. When you educate a woman, you educate a family, and so many girls 50 years ago were not able to attend school and many women were unable to read and write the language that they spoke every day. Adult literacy were a cornerstone of Cambodia World Family. Girls who are educated begin families later and can space their children helping all to be more prosperous.

 

 

I founded the IMMHABI in Cambodia with a grant from the Rex foundation of the Grateful Dead band, thanks to Mountain Girl.  This international Medical Marijuana, Hempand Bamboo Iitiative was  active and successful, getting cannabis hemp and timber bamboo planted in every habitat conducive. This prevented countless old-growth and other valuable trees from being destroyed, allowing for the restoration of the native and cultivated  forests all over the world. specially the boreal forests of the northern hemisphere which could again emit bio-turpenes, and patch the hole in the ozone layer and reverse global warming.

 

Of necessity to combat climate change, the world began to wean itself off of polluting fossil fuels and develop alternatives, and live by the edict “reduce, re-use, repurpose, and recycle.”

 

Thanks to GREENPEACE cofounded by Canadian Michael Bailey,  human beings have successfully removed all Marine Debris, which prior to GREENPEACE’’s “ drift -net ban” continued to kill animals and destroy coral reefs and would have killed forever if not Stopped. We stopped this degradation! Celebrate!

 

On the health front governments, national and local became committed to public health and preventive medicine, educating the public about healthy living and eating, and organic food production.

 

 

Luckily for the world, Marianne Williamson was elected President of the United States and things kept getting better from there.  The drug war ended and people could return to health-promoting plant medicines. And Suzanne Taylor continued her lifelong quest to get people thinking and committed to doing right things to shift the world toward a sustainable future.  Amen🙏🏼❤️

 

 

I got to be the “Senior Physician Consultant to the AIDS initiative in the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the public hospitals In 1985.  When AIDS was just rearing its ugly head and sweeping through various populations at risk. I spread the gospel of HIV prevention, and convened government-level meetings in Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.

 

I wanted to be a veterinarian from early childhood, since I like most animals better than most people, most of the time, but I got an early acceptance to medical school at the University of Hawaii, and I decided to take it since it would allow me to be home  in Honolulu. I didn’t enjoy medical school, but I realized it would allow me to make a difference in godforsaken hell holes and my first job out of internship was working as a physician on the Thai Cambodian border. Since I did not have a real job to come home to like all the other volunteers, I stayed on and ended up coordinating healthcare in all of  the 20 camps housing 500,000 “displaced persons” along Thailand’s borders.

I banned smoking cigarettes and baby bottles (a death sentence for babies in the heat and dirt of refugee camps) in all the refugee camps in Thailand. I developed a passion for helping empower orphans and refugees to not only survive but to become allies in this work of healing the world.

 

 

 

I never made much money practicing as a physician, because my parents worked so hard and invested well, and lived so frugally I could choose my jobs based on how much good I could do rather than how much money I could make.  It’s too late for me to send this to my son who turned 22 today but I hope he will always be proud of me and what I tried to do to help the world be a better place. I was 50 when he was born and in 50 years, he’ll be as old as I am today, 72. Eli, I hope we get to overlap for a lot of years in our current incarnations, and may all beings be happy and blessed and free of suffering. Amen. In the name of Lord Jesus, who is probably a student of Lord Buddha, who was born  a devotee of Lord Shiva, amen. And amen. 🙏🏼💕🌈

 

I realize this opus will never be finished, but it was a good starting point and jumping off point and Suzanne, thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of all beings. 🙏🏼🌈❤️

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s almost midnight in california and the deadline approaches. Like the Earth hovering so close to Midnight. In the darkest hour we can perceive and nurture and celebrate the barest glimmer of hope. May it guide us into a brighter future.🙏🏼

 

I would like to invite everyone participating in Suzanne‘s “world—healing-essay”  contest to attend the celebration party on January 1, 2050 when we will all be 50 years older than we are today, and older than many of our framily (family of friends) some of whom will have been with the angels since many years earlier.

 

I have long suspected that Suzanne (as many of us have long suspected)  attained mastery over the mystery of aging and death, very subtly and very gracefully while almost nobody noticed (except everyone secretly wondered about in their unconscious). I revealed the trumor (true rumor)  that ithis is due to  her association with divine masters such as Wowza and Pennell and Emerald Starr and Yours Truly, Yours Treely, your occasionally humble servant, moi.

 

So anyway, let’s all gather at Suzanne‘s house and paint that portion of Hollywood Hills red, or rainbow,  or all of the above, in honor of us having won this essay contest, hands-down and hair off.

 

 

 

Kaniela Campbell is actually Daniel Campbell Susott in Hawaiian.  I celebrate Suzanne Taylor in my music: truth and beauty,   Singing Truth to Power.

 

 

Solar, wind, OTEC are being made more efficient by global warming, so there will be no more “climate refugees” and global warming has been reversed.

 

. While playing doctor and being a lover of animals, I have been blessed to help protect and restore watershed forests from Appalachia to the Amazon to Asia to my backyard here in Honolulu, inside the Gaiasphere , a giant  living basket – a bio-basket –  grown and woven of holy trees, giant timber bamboo, and Marine debris, covered by sacred and medicinal vines! 🙏🏼

 

A stream flows through again after the dry years following the clear-cutting of the native forest, harboring native O’opu fish. Protecting cores of biodiversity, pristine habitats that could expand and connect and  harbor vanishing and recovering plants and animals, replanting and replenishing what is endangered and recovering. .

 

Marine debris – nets and ropes which are made to last forever: if not removed from the ocean, will kill forever. This makes a beautiful forest temple makes a beautiful, spherical, spheres within spheres, infinitely expandable and infinitely reduce-able  down to germ plasm, and Ideas.

 

Fish stocks are getting replenished, plant-based diets support the world’s population more so than factory-farming meat animals ever could, without cruelty.

 

See you in 50 years I hope!

 

Love , daniel

1 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

January 1, 2050 

Carroll Milford Christoferson 

My three revolutionary books, undergirding as they did The Great Turning of the 2030s, unlocked the pathways to living in intimate harmony and prosperity with God, angels, departed ancestors, all of the natural world, and our extraterrestrial cousins. 

I ascended to the spiritual world in 2037 at the age of 91, the same age at which my mother had died in 2006. She had no sense of the reality of the spiritual realms, such as is commonplace today. She believed in the Christian judgmental male God. She was a wonderfully caring woman, yet closed emotionally and always serious. 

To meet her today, you would not think she is the same person. She is so bright and happy, as are all of her family members. We share such joy with each other and with our descendants living on Earth. 

She wishes to speak to us now. 

Amelia Christoferson 

Thank you, son. I would like to explain a few things about the God whom I now know as manifesting in so many different facets and frames. When I passed, we had no idea that God was even feminine. The God I knew was a remote, judgmental male. 

How wrong! How wrong! You were right to stop believing in that God at age twelve. And I am so relieved to see that today in 2050, that view of God is nearly vanished from the earth and replaced by the amazing personal, dual-gender, vulnerable God, whom I know as Parent, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother and… Yes, this is so beyond the Christian God that I tremble still to remember my first encounter. 

God as Divine Lover—Divine Male Lover, for me. God as the ultimate sensual intimate partner bringing me to the heights of ecstasy, filling me with such a sense of my own value as to make me smile and radiate happiness. And for my husband, Johnson, his experience with Divine Female Lover is just as profound as my experience. 

Now imagine how it is when we come together in our sexual intimacy together with Divine Male Lover present in Johnson and Divine Female Lover present in me. 

That threshold experience as it was called in the early days, back in 2024, has transformed the spirit realms from the fractured stagnant world it was when I first came here to one of pervasive light and ever ongoing energetic flow. 

I’ll stop here with the mention of energetic flow. That brings us back to Carroll’s story. 

Carroll 

Yes, thanks, Mom. Where was I? 

I had mentioned Mom’s view of the male, judgmental God. She has fleshed out beautifully the culminating advance achieved by God in 2024. 2 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

I need to give a few precursors to that culminating advance before I explain my three revolutionary books. 

These precursors are radically spiritual. My recommendation for those of you who may be discomfited by discussion of spiritual realms, is that you read first “Part Two. Real World Transformation,” which may help you to appreciate the need for Real World Transformation to be complemented by Spirit World Transformation. 

PART ONE. SPIRIT WORLD TRANSFORMATION 

The opening of my spiritual senses 

My spiritual senses began to open in 2022, when I was 76 years old. I had spent my lifetime trying to understand the deep nature of reality, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa in physics from college, while bearing my mother’s mark of a strict personal value system and my father’s alienation from religion. 

The opening of my spiritual senses provided a major boost in understanding for me, as now I could converse with God, usually in the feminine, and converse with ascended humans as well. 

The preparation for opening my spiritual senses, of course, had been years in the making. Certainly one of the major factors in my later years was my collaboration with Michael Hermes Fischerman, Mike, a man who saw the world through a different lens than I. He spoke with God almost as a routine, such that in speaking with Mike it was not clear if it was Mike or if it was God who was speaking. 

Mike’s God, however, didn’t offer warm advice about how to live. Mike’s God was focused on healing the deep wounds of humanity with a focus on the historical wounds of the Jewish people. 

My wife, Margaret, and I first met Mike as a medium in Israel where we convened with a small group from different countries. Mike, through his channeling, took charge of the entire group and guided us through actions purporting to address unresolved issues from the history of the Jewish People in the Holy Land. 

One such noteworthy activity involved having a woman in our group pray on Temple Mount to welcome Moses and his wife, Zipporah, to enter Israel. (According to the Bible, God prevented Moses from entering Canaan, even though Moses had led the people to the mountain overlooking Canaan.) 

Following that trip to Israel, my life for some years was moving on two tracks. On the one hand, Margaret and I became primary collaborators in the work being conducted through Mike, and on the other hand I was pursuing studies of some of the many new alternative healing modalities that had emerged in recent decades. 

I was especially interested in those that integrated psychotherapy with the body in some way because I was looking for a comprehensive psycho-energetic model of the whole human person, a model that would include not only a God essence at the core but also the multiple subtle energy bodies identified in many traditional and esoteric worldviews. 

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Through my studies, I was led to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of the mind, as comprising multiple subpersonality parts plus an unblemished core, identified as Self and correlated with Soul. This model excited my interest so much that I enrolled for and completed the Level 1 IFS professional training for offering psychotherapy. 

The IFS model of the mind also became the core of my model of the world that proved to be so important in reversing humanity’s downward trajectory toward self-destruction. 

In 2022, after having been exposed through Mike to volumes of channeled material from Heavenly Mother, Heavenly Parent and diverse ascended humans, I found myself starting to receive messages myself by writing down communications going on in my mind. As I sat each day and opened myself to receive and write down a message from Mother God, or whoever else might appear, the process became more and more fluid. 

My earlier studies of the different healing modalities became significant when Mike channeled a request for me to compile a list of the different healing modalities and submit that list to the spirit world. I completed that assignment, offered it to Mike, and subsequently understood that as a result of my offering: William James; Anne Anastase, an American psychologist; and Saint Dymphna, a Catholic Saint for mental illness, were collaborating in leading an extensive healing effort in the spirit world. 

IFS therapy for ascended persons 

As my practice of communicating with the spirit world was becoming more and more proficient, Mother God, through Mike, startled me one day by suggesting that I offer therapy to a key man in the spiritual world. I tried that and found I was able to do so. Thus began my practice of providing IFS therapy sessions to ascended humans. 

This request that I provide therapy to an ascended human flowed naturally from the course of studies and experience I had followed since my retirement. I had already offered IFS therapy on a complimentary basis to more than a dozen people on earth—and to noticeably good effect for several of them. 

The therapy sessions I offered to individuals in the spirit world were framed by work led by Mike’s communications with the Divine Feminine, Who had emerged from Her millennia of backside exile by the dominant patriarchal world. She was now wanting to have direct conversation with men, with prominent patriarchal men, but they were closed to such conversation. 

Two of the representative patriarchal men to whom I offered therapy were Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler, both of whom had come to me wanting to receive therapy because they wanted to open themselves to Mother God. 

In that time period, one interesting communication came from Leslie Groves, the army general who led the organization and construction side of the Manhattan Project to produce the atomic bomb. He said he had been tasked by God with leading a massive project in the spirit world. The project was one of deconstruction, construction, and reconstruction of barriers, silos, and walls that were blocking the flow of God’s love in the spirit world. 

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scientific side, leading the scientific effort to create the atomic bomb. Dr. Oppenheimer had been carrying tremendous guilt and conflicted feelings due to the death and destruction wrought by the bomb. At his request, I offered therapy to assist him in resolving those conflicted feelings. 

As my spiritual senses opened further, in the last months of 2023, I became a kind of tag team member with Mike, following up from things he initiated, or he would follow up with something I initiated. 

Healing ancient Jewish traumatic wounding 

One important role for me was providing therapy to the family of the Jewish patriarch, Jacob, with his two wives, two concubines, and thirteen named children. 

Following that work, God, through Mike, moved back further in history, from Jacob to his grandfather, Abraham. God established a permanent, stable foundation for peace by forming harmonious coparenting relationships among Abraham and the three women—Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah—who together bore the eight sons whom he had fathered. 

Conflicted relations among those twelve people have historically been viewed as being at the root of conflict in the Middle East. 

Hagar’s son, Ishmael, is considered to be the forefather of the Arab peoples. Sarah’s son, Isaac, is considered to be the forefather of the Jewish People, and Keturah’s six sons no doubt were ancestors of other peoples who in 2024 were part of the combustible mix of historical identities present in the Middle East at that time. 

So long as Abraham, those three women, and their collective eight sons were not in a stable family relationship, there could not be peace in the Middle East. The permanent, stable foundation for peace was achieved when three permanent couples—Abraham and Sarah, Hagar and Henri, the man of her choice, and Keturah and the man of her choice—were blessed in marriage and all mutually agreed to be coparents of the eight children they have collectively produced. 

Re-endowing mutilated genitalia 

With that foundation in place, Heavenly Parent moved forward to directly heal one of the most grievous stains on humanity—circumcision. God designed human genitalia to optimize emotional engagement possibilities for men and women in their sexual intimacy. That optimization depended on the growth and development of men’s emotional capacities from birth. 

Cutting off the foreskin of baby or boy or man had denied millions of men for millennia the possibility of maturing fully into the compassionate, emotionally-balanced beings God had envisioned. As such, circumcision had been a significant anchor and agent of patriarchy. 

God began in December 2023 to re-endow foreskins to ascended circumcised human males. The process began with King David, Abraham, Moses, Gershom (son of Moses and Zipporah) and King Solomon, then Ishmael, Isaac and Jesus, and in subsequent weeks and months spread to all ascended circumcised men. 5 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

In those first months of 2024, God finally could address also the incalculable pain and suffering of the millions of women in the spirit world whose genitalia had been mutilated, often as they entered puberty. Just as circumcised men were reendowed with their foreskins, these genitally mutilated women were reendowed with their full genitalia. 

As these women after being re-endowed released their pent up pain and rage, and they began to experience their full female selves, an amazing thing happened. These women discovered each other with a profound common bond. Transcending culture, religion, and historical time they formed the Re-endowment Sisterhood, which became a major force from the spirit world for global transformation. 

On the foundation of the re-endowment movement of God, the movement on earth to terminate circumcision gained such great traction that by 2040 the practice had been largely eliminated. 

In that same time frame of early 2024, Parent Allah stated clearly: “Men, you are to have only one wife. Every woman deserves to have one loving husband. 

“Mohammad and your wife, your one wife, whomever you together with your wives decide, must take the lead in supporting all Muslim men married to more than one woman to agree with the wives which one, if any, is to be the wife of the man. And then, we will have a great work to conduct with finding loving husbands for those other women.” 

Divine Lover Allah/God 

Heavenly God/Allah reached a momentous threshold in the first weeks of 2024. God/Allah was then able to be fully present as the Divine Female Lover Allah/God and the Divine Male Lover Allah/God. Such was the experience reported earlier by my mother, Amelia Christoferson. 

This meant that ascended men who were prepared for it could have the threshold experience of full and complete sexual relations with the Divine Female Lover Allah/God and ascended women who were prepared for it could have the threshold experience of full and complete sexual relations with the Divine Male Lover Allah/God. Through this experience, women and men could learn more about God and about themselves. 

Having started and spread through the Jewish ascended world, the threshold experience came to Pope John Paul II after he received therapy from me. Subsequently, in the Catholic spirit world, many, many men experienced full sexual relations with Divine Female Lover God and women too experienced full sexual relations with Divine Male Lover God. 

For popes and priests and nuns, these experiences with Lover God opened the way for a beautiful blossoming of marriages among lifelong holy celibates. 

A most astonishing development, for me in that period, was the Divine Lover God’s transgender threshold experience as recounted by a young man, Adam(Kylie), who had been killed when he was partially transitioned to female. Diviner Love God met him where he was, manifesting at times as female and at times as male. 6 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

My Trans Threshold Experience 

as received by Michael Fischerman 

I began to transition at age 12. Born in the Midwest, by 14 breasts began to appear. My hands were slender, hardly masculine, to match my penis. Touching my penis didn’t feel quite right but it was there and I wasn’t ready to cut it off. I decided to take life on my terms. 

Coming back from a club in the south of Chicago, I mis-stepped into a person of hatred. He saw my painted blue nails, my slender but not quite female body. He was affronted, pulled out his gun and shot me. I fell, lying on the ground, dying, thinking about my mother and what this would mean for me. 

I arrived in the spirit world and found very few champions for trans people, and most people who engaged, were engaging apologetically. 

The Threshold experience rolled into the spirit world and I was approached by God: Would you like a Threshold experience? An intimate experience? I would like one, like one – pausing – need, Need, one, with you Adam. 

Leave your hair long, your nails painted, leave yourself as you are. I love you. I need to be with you. 

The experience began. 

She lifted my top and stroked my right nipple. She kissed my ear. She held me firmly, turning into Him. 

He said, Whoever I am, male or female, mixed or otherwise engaged, I Am Me. I have Capacity to Love you. More than that, I have Capacity to Hold you, meet you in love. 

I don’t care if you don’t fully know yourself. I love you, and, because I do, I need to be with you. 

No religion, here in spirit world, answered my questions. I don’t know if I will ever want a vagina or to have huge muscular male arms but I know in my journey God is there for me. 

With Her, I had my first experience of coitus. I remember my returned foreskin powering through Her Flesh. I remember His Gaze. No one can take from me my conjugal experience of God except for redefining vocabulary. 

I am a young, early ascended person, a victim, just like those in Gaza, or Israel, for that matter. Americans don’t understand God… [Cut off, off topic.] 

Thank you. That was my experience. I was not explicit. 

Yours, Adam (Kylie) 7 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

PART TWO. REAL WORLD TRANSFORMATION 

Book One: Cosmological Integration 

These developments and others in the spiritual realm, coupled with developments in the academic and cultural realms, set the stage for my major contribution to global transformation, three revolutionary books: Cosmological Integration, Dreams of Flow, and Citizens Responsible for a Global Network for Peace. 

Cosmological Integration was divided into three parts. 

Part One overviews the then-current efforts to create an integrated model of the world consistent with the latest understandings from science. It included also efforts to write a new unitive story for humanity and as well an overview of the diverse new healing modalities, both energetic and energetic psychological. . 

Part Two is where we lay out the core of the new model based on expanding the Internal Family Systems model of the mind to include for each person not only the Soul Self, but also the Heart Self. 

Expanding the model further, we place the mind within not only the physical body, but also within four overlapping subtle energy spiritual bodies as identified in multiple spiritual traditions. This opens the way for 

clearly differentiating and defining heart, soul, spirit, mind, and body 
incorporating both reincarnation as Soul Self, and an enduring uniquely-identified spirit with a full personality, as anchored in Heart Self 
identifying both the dual-gender, vulnerable Personal God and the non-gendered, invulnerable and impersonal Oneness God. 

Part three is where we show the way that the expanded mind-body system model can be the kernel around which different spheres of knowledge can be assembled, thus opening the way for the post-materialist science that had been the object of a questing cohort of scientists for some time. 

At the time Cosmological Integration was published, the vast spiritual world had been roiled by the re-endowment of foreskins for many men who were appalled to receive their foreskin. Yet, there it was for them. And then they and their wives started to realize the enhanced emotional experience they were having. Questions arose about this, and gradually mindsets shifted to the point of having the threshold experience with Lover God, Female or Male. 

With publication of the expanded IFS model in Cosmological Integration, guardians of that great Asian wisdom now found themselves confronted with meeting a God they had not known. This was a god for whom Divine Ground and Oneness were but one aspect of the whole Being, Who was also the God of co-authoritative gender balance, and the dual-gender, vulnerable Personal God, who may present as Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Boy, Girl, Gender-variant, or even as Divine Lover, Feminine or Masculine. 

A comprehensive world model Additionally, publication of the expanded IFS model allowed me to show the way that it can serve as the base for a comprehensive model of the world at large. Two key bridging concepts were 1) the view, then gaining academic 8 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

acceptance, that consciousness is primary in the universe and 2) the hypothesis that the subtle energies present in the human person are present to varying degrees in all living systems. 

The subtle-energy hypothesis was not at all radical as numerous valid tests of the responsiveness, for example, of plants to human emotion had been conducted. Those tests were only one type of multiple related scientific tests whose results had been rejected for decades because they were inconsistent with the earlier materialistic worldview. 

Considering the evolutionary process in light of subtle energies along with physical energies, we can more readily recognize the primacy of cooperation, synergy, and emergence over competition and entropy in the history of the biosphere. The whole earth system characterized as Gaia takes on a completely different cast when viewed through the lens that reveals subtle energies. 

The model presenting the human core as comprising Heart Self and Soul Self, and presenting the whole human person as an integrated physical energy and subtle energy being permits us to envision interpersonal dynamics in a new way. The interpersonal neurobiology of Daniel Siegel came alive when he finally accepted the expanded IFS model in 2028. 

As well, adding the subtle energy bodies of individuals into a social system introduces new potentials for envisioning energy dynamics at the level of the social system. 

Enhanced Healing Protocols These new dimensions fed in naturally to the therapeutic process. Therapists had already recognized that although trauma was a painful or overwhelming experience, traumatic wounding in response to the trauma was not a given. An individual’s response to the trauma would determine whether or not the trauma induced an enduring wound that instilled in the individual a debilitating behavior pattern. 

Seen in light of the spiritual dimensions of the expanded IFS model, and seen in light of studies of epigenetic transgenerational transfer of traumatic wounds, it became quite clear that traumatic wounding affecting an individual could be from an ancestor, or even from a cultural collective, such as the effects of slavery on African-Americans. 

In this expanded model, spirits of ascended ancestors could readily be identified as carriers of ancestral traumatic wounds. Cultural collective traumatic wounds could be viewed as being carried in a pervasive field of subtle energy. 

With a model in place for traumatic wounding in the human psyche, healing protocols became much more effective than they had been earlier. 

Those scientists such as Marjorie Woollacott, then President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences (AAPS), who were searching for a way to introduce and develop a post-materialist science, found that the expanded IFS model of the mind provided the foundation they needed for such development. 

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Another striking and gratifying embrace of the model came from indigenous peoples, who had already been exploring connections of their traditional wisdom and animist view of the cosmos with the basic IFS model. 

For these peoples, it was a very natural and easy shift to adapt the full expanded IFS model, with its incorporation of subtle energies in humans, enduring spirit persons in a spirit world, and subtle energies and consciousness in the natural world. In this way, post-materialist science readily incorporated and learned from the animist understanding and intuitive embrace of nature’s world. 

Through all of this the harmonious, personal, vulnerable, dual-gender God was gaining ever greater welcome into the minds and hearts of humans around the world. 

Finally, in 2032 the Great Turning began in earnest. Post-materialist science, supported by an ever-more-empowered spiritual world connecting with growing numbers of on-earth humans, and by God, Herself/Himself, overturned the reigning materialist, mechanistic science that had supported patriarchal humanity’s self-immolation through wanton exploitation of Earth’s resources. 

The implications of such an overturning were vast. It had started most powerfully in economics. 

Oh, but I am getting ahead of myself. All of this, and I have only mentioned Book One of my trilogy. 

Book Two: Dreams of Flow 

This second book was my favorite of the trilogy. 

Building on the foundation laid in Book One, I could now show the conceptual frame for ordering society by applying the basic concept of energy flow at every level. 

It is a well-accepted scientific principle that any closed system, a system that neither receives inputs from an outside source or produces any output will sooner or later distribute its energy as uniformly as possible. The system will become flat, or if it was a living system it will become dead. 

Death is the natural end state of a closed system. One of the great tragedies of humanity, is that our science became anchored in this basic truth such that it blocked out the full implications of the research by Nobel laureate, Ilya Prigogine, who explored the nature of open systems, systems that receive input from the environment and pass an output to the environment. These are systems characterized by flow. 

Gaia, Planet Earth, is an open system, a flow system. Gaia receives an energy input from the sun; she utilizes that energy to sustain her biosphere; and then she dissipates a remnant of what she received back into the space environment. 

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The key to a successful flow system is that the energy needs to be able to flow through the system. When the energy flow is blocked, the system loses some of its vitality. Of course, living systems of necessity capture and store energy for later use. Then when the stored energy is used in the system, the flow continues. This is all normal and healthy. 

Blocked energy flow Problems arise when energy accumulates to excess at some place in the system, or if the energy flow is simply blocked. 

In humans with their physical body and four subtle energy bodies, energy flow patterns have been traced by Asian medical practitioners for centuries. 

Modern energy psychology practices now correlate traumatic wounding of the psyche with blockages to flow in the energy bodies, and a variety of interventions have been developed for relieving those blocks to flow. Alternatively, somatic therapy practices interact directly with the physical body, also aiming to relieve blocks to energy flow. 

The model of flow applies to Gaia at all levels—from the biosphere as a whole, to specific ecosystems, to populations of species, to individual mammals, or trees or reptiles or bacteria. So too, does the model of flow apply to human individuals, human families, social systems, patterns of resource exploitation, and the built environment. 

In addition to blocks to energy flow, suboptimal energy flow is another deviance from healthy flow that may accompany ill-health at any level of Gaia. When the evolutionary modelers of nineteenth and twentieth centuries had identified competition as a driving force for the emergence of greater complexity in the biosphere, they were focusing on a suboptimal relational dynamic, a dynamic that fit well with the dominant materialist worldview, but that totally overlooked Gaia’s dominant modus operandi. 

A vision for viable wholeness With the publication of Dreams of Flow, standing on the conceptual ground secured by Cosmological Integration, a vision for a viable wholeness of humanity began to coalesce in wide swathes of the educated public. No longer could competition as a force for evolutionary advance hold its own in the face of growing evidence confirming the synergetic advantages of cooperative relationships. 

The widespread healing going on in the spiritual worlds was having its effects on earth as well, as therapists were finding that their clients were healing faster. Furthermore, as mentioned earlier, since the publication of Cosmological Integration, a surge of new integrative therapeutic protocols had been emerging. 

While all of this was going on, the rapid social transformation and economic dislocation from advances in generative artificial intelligence combined with human-like robots was bringing tumult in the world, even as threats of environmental extremes mounted and competition for resources gained severity. 

Those two books—Cosmological Integration and Dreams of Flow—also opened the way for the coalescing of diverse groups who had been thirsting for an alternative to the materialistic, reductionist models that had been driving economic and political thought and application. 

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doughnut hole economics, and regenerative capitalism found new life, meaning, and mutually synergetic potency when they were reconceived in light of the vision in those two books. 

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Finally, it would be important to note that 2024 was the year when US governmental agencies were required by law to make available for public review their records related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP’s), which had earlier been called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). 

In that year, 2024, the public attitude toward UAE’s started to turn significantly toward recognizing these records as being valid evidence of some sort of non-human intelligent presence on earth. In the following decade, as healing spread in the spirit realm and on earth, real and verified contact with these extraterrestrials, as they were called, began in earnest. 

In the coming decade, Mike Fischerman became a highly sought-after man as he proved to be as skilled in communicating with extraterrestrials as with God and ascended humans—and with angels, whom I have neglected to mention. 

The angelic realm is another sphere of preparation for this 2024 time moment—the complete alignment of the angels with God and the laying of foundations for integrating angels with the living experience of humans ascended and on earth. 

Extraterrestrials, angels, ascended humans, re-endowment of mutilated genitalia, a dual-gender, Personal God who is also a real sexual lover for each ascended human—humanity at large was hit all at once with a vast new reality such that recognition of any one of these opened the way for a person to recognize the others. It was a great set-up for transformation. 

Book Three: Citizens Responsible for a Global Network for Peace 

All of this set the stage for the third volume of my trilogy. Citizens Responsible for a Global Network for Peace, published in 2026. This name and a vision for what it meant had been given to me by Heavenly Parent back more than a decade earlier, but I had let it lay dormant, while I waited for foundations to be in place for it. 

The title of the book was also the name of the new transformative organization that sprang forth as if compelled by some magical force. The atmosphere, the zeitgeist, was right. It was like dropping a seed crystal into a supersaturated solution. 

Before we published the book, we had set up the germ of a small, not for profit organization that sought no tax exemption because it was intended to be a powerful lobby force to challenge entrenched interests of the status quo pursuing profits and power. 

Within a week after the book was published, we were flooded with groups wanting to affiliate with us. Offers of financial support came in as well. 

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attracted people from both sides of the powerful polarized factions that at the time were vying for power. 

We selected from among many prominent candidates those few among them who fully grasped the nature of God and of God’s creation, while they also knew themselves fully and brought maturity and connections. 

Healing undermines opposing forces Of course, we soon enough encountered a multitude of opposing forces. However, these forces had been weakened by the healing ongoing in the spiritual world and the earthly world. Even those captains of industry who commanded vast fortunes were weakened. It was as though the carpet had been pulled out from under them. 

Structures around the world were shaking. The vast industries of war were particularly shaken by the ever-growing demands for terminating such infantile, abusive excesses. These great enterprises, as all others embracing patriarchal patterns, were undermined as spiritual and physical healing spread even to their employees and into their corporate board rooms. 

In the subsequent years up to 2032, it was as though the world was divided between the two opposing sides—those aligned with the patriarchal materialist worldview and those aligned with the integrated flow model, embedded as it was in the vast spiritual dimensions and as well co-extensive with the physical. 

It was never really a question as to which side would prevail. 

Stating it thus, however, is much too simplistic. 

Managing complexity In addition to becoming a powerful lobbying force based on my three books, Citizens Responsible took up the added task of educating the world about the necessity of learning to manage the complexity of humans—our families, our social systems, our enterprises, and our engagement with the environment. 

One aspect of the trap framed by the patriarchal, materialist worldview was its unprecedented mastery of creating complicated systems, such as machines and infrastructure, coupled with its inability to effectively manage complex systems for which humans and the natural world with all of their variables are integral components. 

As it happened, the solution for managing complex systems had been developed some years before by the independent thinker Alan Savory. His Holistic Management Framework was being successfully applied around the world for regenerating the health of degraded rangelands by managing herds of grazing animals. 

Despite this, his methods had not been taken up by any schools of management. Not only was his method coming from outside academia, it also relied on a higher level of cooperation and planning among all persons engaging with the given grazing operation than was consistent with the worldview framing prevailing management systems. 

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up to the integrated spiritual-physical flow model, which supported cooperation and synergy. 

Through this effort by Citizen’s Responsible, the Holistic Management Framework gained widespread application throughout the world at many different levels, and it was fundamental to global humanity’s success in achieving such a rapid shift from despair and want to hope and prosperity. 

Realignment The massive human and economic dislocations and the subsequent realignment of lifestyles and structures of economy, politics and society deserve substantial elaboration. 

Seven overlapping arenas will be representative: Economy, Energy, Agriculture, Medicine, Education, Religion, and Industry. 

We need first to remember the context. 

The materialist, reductionist worldview is being replaced by a holistic, spiritual-physical, animistic worldview. In the spirit realms, traumatic wounds—individual, ancestral, and cultural collective are being healed. 

As their traumatic wounding is healed, humans living on earth are left to deal with any traumatic wounding encountered in their own lives. Further, family structures are largely supportive and loving. As such, when traumas such as accidents or illness are experienced, they are met with much greater resilience. Thus, although traumas still occur, the wounding is much less than it was in the past. 

Throughout the modern era, millions and millions of people had pursued unfulfilling employment. Their lives were a drudgery. Even if they were earning a livable salary, they sought meaning and value outside of their employment. 

In the decades of the 2020’s and 2030’s, advances in artificial intelligence coupled with advances in robotics displaced uncounted multitudes, who needed to find new means of supporting themselves and their families. Those means were soon to be found as the limitations of AI and robotics came clearly into focus. 

AI and robotics were products of the materialistic science. They lacked spirit, heart, and soul. They could manipulate information and data, they could mimic and even generate conversations, but they could not embrace the crying child with love or project healing subtle energy to a human patient or to a plant. 

So, yes, back to the Great Turning starting in 2032. The substantial overturning of the materialist, mechanical, patriarchal model opened the way for shifts in many areas of life and many sectors of society. 

Economy At the base level of existence for all people, providing the living income–the amount of money a given person and their family need to cover the cost of their essential requirements where they live—was adopted widely throughout the world. 

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With the living income in place and with smart machines taking over most of the labor— not only of manufacturing, but also of managing data and information exchange—people moved into areas of employment and activity that suited their personalities, which were now freed from the distortions placed on them by traumatic wounding. 

Energy One of the developments with the most profound impact was the mastery, finally of harvesting energy from the vacuum, or the zero-point field as it was called by some. Multiple inventors had devoted their lives to this, but to no avail. It had seemed that always they were almost there, but needed more funding to complete their technology. 

Stories were widely available of inventors who had proven such “over-unity” technology but then their laboratory was destroyed, and so, too, were stories widely available of all over-unity claims being obviously false because they violated fundamental physics. Certainly, any over-unity technology would violate fundamental physics of the materialistic, mechanistic model. 

However, as the integrated spiritual-physical flow model overtook the older model and industries most threatened by the possibility of widespread free energy crumbled, Citizens Responsible joined others in forcing the government vaults of squelched technologies to be opened. An earlier precedent for such action had been the bipartisan congressional actions requiring release of government records Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. 

In any case, free energy was finally released and made available to all. Opposition to this was huge, but it could not prevail in the face of the radical shifts of the period. Managing the transition to free energy required an unprecedented application of the Holistic Management Framework. 

Free energy technology was perhaps the most powerfully disruptive technology of history, as it totally undercut the energy industries, both renewable and nonrenewable; it made available for reuse all of the resources previously locked up, for example, in electrical power grids, in power generating stations, and in distribution networks. 

Agriculture Farm machines could not share in energetic exchange with the farm crops as a human can. This became only one of many factors militating against the model of industrial agriculture. 

People’s enhanced spiritual awareness drove them toward a preference for foods raised regeneratively. Further, and to the surprise of many academics, a new generation grew up that saw hope, value, and fulfillment in life on a regenerative farm. Thus began and accelerated the Great Outpouring of people moving from the city to family farms. 

Thanks to the lobby power of Citizen’s Responsible, the stranglehold of large corporations on agriculture was broken, as new legislation favored regenerative family farms. As these farms spread out across the US Great Plains, for example, the passing of two decades saw a remarkable transformation of the land. 

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longer were excess nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients from fertilizers pouring into the rivers and feeding the massive dead zone that had occurred annually outside the mouth of the Mississippi River for decades. 

Similar phenomena were happening throughout the planet as people moved back to the land. Along with this great movement back to the land the vital structures of community also sprang up. Now, by 2050, nearly one fourth of the planet’s population is living on regenerative farms and movement to the land is continuing. 

Unlike in earlier centuries, however, people on their farms are connected globally through the Internet with like-minded people. As well, new forms of community in farm towns have been developed thanks to the openness, trust, and self-value that all people share. 

Medicine With the ascendance of the new worldview and with the application of Citizens Responsible’s lobbying power to break the death grip of pharmaceutical corporations on medicine, doctors were freed to explore the integration of alternative medicine modalities that had been off-limits to them. 

All this was expedited by the integrated model of the human person as had been presented in Cosmological Integration. 

In addition to being released from the controls of the pharmaceutical industry, doctors were also released from patients’ fears of death, which had grossly distorted end-of-life medical practice. With a clear and pervasive understanding that the intact personality of an individual continues to live after physical death, many of the extreme measures to perpetuate life in severely incapacitated individuals were dropped. 

It even became a not-uncommon practice for individuals to choose to move on to the next world through a carefully executed program of gradually reducing food intake and enjoying progressively becoming more connected to the spiritual world until they naturally ascended. Some few individuals had pioneered that pattern, and as word spread, more and more people of declining capacities chose such an intentional transition. 

Education Teachers and students alike, now have a most marvelous experience. We humans are finally clear on the difference between information knowledge and wisdom. Technology excels in conveying information knowledge, but it can only allude to wisdom. Wisdom is imparted through the live presence of the loving teacher who is fully aware of her or his own whole person. 

While technology has displaced millions of teachers who were conveying information knowledge to their students, those loving teachers who find meaning and value in that role are in high demand and are well remunerated. 

The teachers, themselves, are trained in transformed universities, which have been re-envisioned from the perspective of the new worldview, as nearly all courses have needed to be re-written at some level—whether it is history, math, science, or English. Even courses on digital technologies are now embedded in a value-oriented frame attentive to possibilities for unforeseen consequences. 16 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

Knowing and experiencing the reality of the spirit world increasingly is having its effect on all areas of scientific and technological education and development. 

Religion Re-binding humans with God, the etymological purpose of religion, has largely been accomplished. It is remarkable how quickly religion subsided from view when people came to know God in Her and His fullness, while also coming to know the reality of the spiritual realm. Further reducing the pull of religion was the understanding that the Soul Self may reincarnate, while the Heart Self carries the enduring individual identity and anchors the spirit of the deceased. 

Given the widespread recognition of the co-authoritatively gender balanced God, most of the existing religious institutions were intrinsically inadequate for re-binding humans to God because those institutions established to perpetuate teachings of their religious founders have reflected the male-dominated societies they have served. 

While religious institutions for centuries had played a key role in sustaining the fabric of society, they were not at all equal to the task of creating and sustaining a co-authoritatively gender balanced social fabric. Women’s input was needed, and it has poured forth, producing a multitude of new patterns for maintaining social cohesion and cultural vibrance. These have been implemented and are providing a much-more inclusive and satisfying social fabric than had been supported by the religious institutions 

One significant and unanticipated shift has been a new openness in society to honest sharing about matters of sexuality. The Christian stigma on sexuality has dissipated as Lover God brings sexuality front and center in education of children about the wonderful aspects of our Creator. 

Although a new spirit of openness toward communication about sexuality is pervasive, the traditional standard of committed marriage between one man and one woman remains far and away the norm. 

Marriages now, are much, much more fulfilling on the whole than they were in the past, as married men and women, free of the traumatic wounding that in the past has so often fractured marriages or rendered them bland and empty, are fully empowered to explore all aspects of male-female sexual dynamics. 

The percentage of individuals pursuing alternate forms of gender identity and sexual experience is steadily declining as healing has spread through the earthly and spiritual worlds. 

It should be noted as well that healing the traumatic wounding of humans on a large scale as it has happened provides ripple effects directly to the natural world, which does have a sensitivity to the human energetic condition. 

Remember, flow is the metaphor. We want the energetic flows to be healthy at all levels, including between humans and the natural environment. 

Industry It is now recognized that earlier efforts toward sustainable industrial practices were insufficient for correcting trajectories of large-scale environmental destruction. Again, Citizens Responsible played a key role in shifting the model to regenerative industry. After my three books were published, a group of brilliant young students from 17 Copyright © 2024 Glenn Carroll Strait 

the University of Guelph in Canada first fleshed out in depth a vision for regenerative industry. 

Modeled after biospheric ecosystems, the regenerative industry framework combines ideas from circular economics, doughnut-hole economics, regenerative economics, and industrial ecology, and holistic management and contextualizes these in terms of flow within the new spiritual-physical worldview. 

As in other spheres, Citizens Responsible played a huge role in implementing laws and regulations forcing industries to adapt the new model. 

Additionally, those brilliant Guelph students served a purpose far beyond industry when they identified industrial processes as complex systems, and so brought the Holistic Management Framework into their regenerative industry framework. 

By doing so, they provided a solid example of transitioning holistic management from the sphere of grazing management to a totally different application sphere. This opened the way for Citizens Responsible to promote the Holistic Management Framework widely in all sectors of society. 

Full circle 

It has all been a wonderful journey, and I am so grateful for the opportunity I was given to contribute in the way that I did. 

In my senior year in high school, my counsellor told me that based on my aptitude tests I could go into most any profession I chose. He also told me that he thought I would be a late bloomer. And so have I been late a bloomer, blooming some sixty years after he uttered those sage words. 

Viewing the world today from my vantage point in the spirit world, I am well pleased at what I see and at what I feel emanating from our planet and all of her peoples. I wish peace and happiness for all. 

It’s 2050. We as a society have managed to navigate our way through the most troubled times in modern history, and have found that humanity can flourish in a cooperative world where the common good of all is sacrosanct. Collaboration and mutual respect among all humans have proven to be essential in order to function as a civilized society.

We have managed to achieve this end because enough people came to realize that the power of kindness, caring and cooperation is greater than the forces of human avarice and ignorance. In the process, solutions to generations of “unsolvable” problems were found, and ideologies, partisan politics and distrust gave way to compassionate behavior, intelligence and sensible reasoning.

In support of that statement, the following is offered as an example of how powerfully those principles have worked in my life, and the ripple effect that has taken place in the lives of countless others who have contributed their part to global peace and understanding.

Thirty-eight years ago, as a fairly respectable young man of 35, and a Vietnam veteran, I found myself in federal prison because of a desperate and foolish series of decisions I had made at the time, thinking that I could do business with organized drug smugglers and keep my hands…and my record…clean. My involvement was relatively brief, but that didn’t matter to authorities who only wanted names and information. Unable to provide what they wanted, my situation worsened…until I discovered something that did matter. What mattered were the human beings I was locked up with, many of whom I discovered could not read or write. An overworked counselor suggested that I could make good use of my time helping inmates learn to read, and suddenly a dismal set of circumstances became an opportunity that I could not have imagined in my other life.

Little by little, I became a tutor and gradually as trust was built, a mentor for men I would have avoided in the outside world. Gradually through their stories and openness to me, I came to understand behaviors and causes of crime I couldn’t fathom when I was consumed with my own needs and concerns. No matter how big, young, old or scary a lot of them were, in truth they were all just scared little boys in grown-up, scarred and tattooed bodies.

As word got around that I was someone who cared and was helping others, attitudes began to change. Behavior among men who were used to violence as a way to survive, became noticeably more respectful with each other, and eventually even with officers and staff. It became so noticeable that, unbeknownst to me, comments were made in my record by supervisors, which were later brought to the attention of authorities in my case.

Meanwhile, all I knew, and eventually grew to care about, was that inmates who would normally be hostile toward me were open and conversing respectfully with me…even ones who weren’t involved with me. As a result of this experience, I’m still doing it decades later as a “free” man in jails and prisons wherever I’m invited.

There is an awakening going on across America, and in Europe where education and respect have proven to be far more effective in redirecting criminal behavior by giving former offenders a sense of hope, personal value and belonging to their communities rather than being rejected by them. But this “awakening” applies to all of us…all of humanity…we’re all “locked up” in some way or another in our cultures, our upbringing or our fears, addictions and limiting beliefs.

The words, “cooperation,” “collaboration” and “unification” are taking on far more meaning in the face of impending calamity, climate change and ideological conflict because we’re all affected and impacted by it. We’re like the saying about fighting over the deck chairs on the Titanic. We need to make better choices and put kindness, caring and respect ahead of self-interest, blame and separation. I’m not talking about syrupy-sweet, apologetic kindness and caring. I’m talking about Gandhi-level kindness…fierce Mother Theresa caring, Martin Luther King-level tolerance and acceptance. Abraham Lincoln courage. Nelson Mandela patience and wisdom.

None of those icons of moral values and heroism started out that way. They were all simple people who rose to the needs of their times and did what they did because they were passionate about human freedom and spirit. We can all do that in some way in our own personal lives, a little bit at a time until enough of us are cooperating and collaborating in larger groups until it impacts others to the point that it becomes the norm. It can, and it will, if we’ll each make a decision each day that we get up that we’ll do our best to see things and each other differently…and if we fail or stumble, no matter. We’ll get up the next day and try again. Gradually we’ll get it down, and discover how we can cooperate and collaborate on a bigger scale. If prisoners in today’s jail and prison system can do it, you can do it. WE can do it.

My journey through something most people would consider a dead-end experience changed my perspective and my life, and enabled me to impact others by example, not preaching or moralizing. Inspired by the results of that example, the prosecutor in my case took it upon himself to alter the course of my journey and dropped two of the most serious charges. That resulted in a total time served of only two and a half years…no more than my tour of duty in the military had been. That was pure miracleworking that spared me a certain 25 years in prison, and gained a most unlikely ally who ironically wrote the Foreword to my first book.

From the very beginning of that journey, I have learned how powerful the human spirit is to overcome any obstacle or adversity. In the process, miracles take place almost predictably that open doors of opportunity for growth and transformation of humankind. This is available to all of us, no matter what age, culture, gender or educational background. It’s simple, but not necessarily easy. It takes kindness and caring equal in strength to the forces of manipulation, power and deception, which we can accomplish as our numbers and passion for real freedom increase.

The present acceleration of change in the criminal justice system on a global level is only one part of the turning point that Alvin Toffler wrote about in his classic book, Future Shock, fifty years ago. “Future historians,” he wrote, “will look back on our times and say this is the dividing line between civilized and uncivilized humankind.” He was right. We’re at that dividing line right now.

I believe we’ll get there much sooner than 2050 if we’ll learn to work and live together and stop fighting over the damn deck chairs.