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Gary Zukav for years has
conveyed the most complex insights in language all can understand.
Over and over, he challenges us to see the depth of our potential
in the world…
and act on that awareness.
He is the author of four consecutive New York Times Bestsellers.
In 1979, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics,
plumbed the depths of quantum physics and relativity, winning The
American Book Award for Science. In 1989, The Seat of the Soul led
the way to seeing the alignment of the personality and the soul
as the fulfillment of life and captured the imagination of millions,
becoming the #1 New York Times bestseller over thirty times and
remaining on the New York Times bestseller list almost three years.
Soul Stories (2000), as well as The Heart of the Soul: Emotional
Awareness (2002) and The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice (2003),
both co-authored with Linda Francis, also became New York Times
Bestsellers.
His
gentle presence, humor, and wisdom have endeared Gary Zukav to millions
of viewers through his many appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show,
over six million copies of his books are in print, and translations
have been published in twenty-four languages. Gary Zukav grew up
in the Mid-west, graduated from Harvard, and became a Special Forces
(Green Beret) officer with Vietnam service before writing his first
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Price Of Corn And The Soul |
 As the flood crest moves south along the Mississippi River, breeching levees along the way (36 in two weeks), millions of acres of US farmland are under water. As many as 5 million acres of corn and soybeans in the Midwest have been inundated. In Iowa alone 83 of 99 counties have been declared disaster areas. According to the Des Moines Register the first half of 2008 was the wettest in Iowa since the 19 th century when record keeping began. Even before the rains that flooded these fields, US stockpiles of corn were projected to reach a 13 year low next year. Now that the Midwest is just beginning to dry out and crops that will be planted late this year will produce low yields, this bleak projection is not even a best case scenario. This is an extremely dangerous situation for millions of people around the world because the United States provides (provided) 54 percent of all world corn exports! In addition, shortages of soybeans, wheat, and rice were already making food more and more expensive. Shortly after the 36th levee broke, corn prices hit a record at the Chicago Board of Trade, more than doubling the previous 40 year average. Most of us who surf the internet can afford to buy food but food agencies around the world cannot and the most impoverished and hungry people in the world depend upon them to survive. Many are not surviving. What does this have to do with the soul? What does the rising price of food (and oil) have to do with the soul? Does the soul calculate value based upon supply and demand? Does it look for opportunities to buy low and sell high? What does it look for? What does it value? If you could see through the eyes of your soul, metaphorically speaking, what would you make of hungry people in Haiti and Pakistan rioting over unaffordable food while a few individuals profit and millions more watch in sympathy, turn away in pain, or numb them to this brutal reality?  The soul intends harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life, all of which are ignored in this tragedy. Hunger produces rage, sharing is scarce, and life is a cheap commodity (although corn and oil are increasing in value). It is easy to see speculators as villains, hungry and starving people as victims, and ourselves as concerned or shocked by-standers, but this perception is inaccurate and unhelpful.
We are never bystanders. What is in the whole is in us, and what is in us is in the whole. The desire to profit from circumstances, any circumstances that prevent food from reaching hungry children and their hungry parents exists in each of us. You can see it in you when you shop sales, bargain with a car dealer, and invest your resources. There are no villains and victims. There are only fellow souls in the Earth school learning the relationship between cause (choice) and effect (consequences of choice) and to distinguish between acts of love and acts of fear. The need to profit at the expense of others is an act of fear that produces destructive consequences. The place to challenge it is in yourself because that is the only place that you can replace fear with love, and the choice of destructive consequences with the choice of constructive consequences. The soul is not concerned with the price of corn. It is concerned with love. Are you?
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| Authentic
power is the experience of fulfillment, gratitude, and meaning.
It is the alignment of your personality with your soul – with harmony, cooperation,
sharing, and reverence for Life. Creating authentic power is the
evolutionary requirement of a new, emerging multisensory humanity – a
species that is not confined to the perceptions of the five senses.
We are becoming a highly intuitive, heart-centered species, and
our previous understanding of power as the ability to manipulate
and control now produces only violence and destruction.
From our new perspective,
external circumstances are symbolic and provide us information
about our intentions, individual and collective, so that we can
change them and create healthy and inspiring symbols rather than
unhealthy and debilitating symbols. The symbols that surround
us – our systems of governance, commerce, education,
health care, science, and military, among others – reflect
the pursuit of external power and are disintegrating. This disintegration
of social (and interpersonal) structures is the product of a profoundly
positive process, not a pathology. This is important to understand.
The thoughts that you
will read here will always support you in viewing our collective
experiences and your personal experiences as opportunities to
create authentic power – to become emotionally
aware, choose responsibly, consult your intuition, and contribute
the gifts that you were born to give to this new and unprecedented
phase of human evolution. |
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