. Mark Woodhouse -

FOURTEEN KEYS TO THE COMING WORLDVIEW

 All roads lead from consciousness. The more emotionally clear, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned we are, the more we can create anything through conscious intent, inside or outside ourselves, that we desire -- from dissolving tumors to avoiding police radar traps. Consciousness is no mere accidental by-product of brain chemistry; it is a field with many levels, some of which connect us to other people and some of which are filtered through our brains. One's emotional body, for example, has a distinct frequency-based dimensional status, but literally suffuses or interpenetrates one's entire physical body -- and then some! This is why stress, fear, anger, or guilt can predispose one to physical disease and, indeed, why psychoneuroimmunology works at all.

 We are on the verge of becoming a member of a galactic federation with other extraterrestrial races.  First, we will experience the transforming effects of full and global open contact in 2007

 Love is at the core of our being -- part of our God/Goddess self -- not simply an emotion we are sometimes lucky enough to experience. It is, however, covered over by fear and other unhealthy emotions. We do not create love; we allow it by letting go of fear. Much psychopathology, criminal behavior, and general unhappiness can be traced to a perceived lack of love and to subsequently mistaken ways of trying to find it. With the power of discerning love, those in the self-help movement are reclaiming their lives. Sooner or later, love brings up all things unlike itself for healing.

 Gender equality is only the beginning. Gender equality is a critical evolutionary goal. Behind it, however, is a more profound transformational agenda, namely, the fuller integration of the archetypal feminine into the lives and consciousness of both men and women. Women do not want equal rights merely to succeed in a world that men have created. They want a different world with more empowering and enriching ways of creating relationships, conducting business, and healing ourselves and the planet. As they integrate the archetypal feminine they discover within themselves -- an energy far broader and enriching in its implications than the female gender role that calls academic feminists to arms -- men, too, will work for a different world.

 A free press is only as good as the information its news journalists are allowed to uncover. The whole truth about many things has long been known by the few and withheld from the many in order to consolidate power and nurture greed.  Mind-control agendas, suppressed help for disease, free energy technology, and the ways wars have been arranged and the news manipulated, for example, will become progressively open to public scrutiny in the coming years. They already have in many alternative news publications.

 Reincarnation is a fact of lives, not just on Earth, but elsewhere, too. If you are not convinced by the evidence now, you soon will be. The important idea to keep in mind as we transition into this new worldview, however, is that the purpose of reincarnation is not punishment for moral failure; it is to learn lessons and grow. We choose the main script (yes, even a so-called "rotten" script) before we are born, and we can modify it throughout life. With this realization, our perception of human history and psychology, together with our actions based on those perceptions, will undergo a profound revolution. Every victim, for example, has been an oppressor, just as every so-called winner in some lives has experienced great loss in others. And, no, reincarnationists do not all claim to have been Cleopatra or Julius Caesar. They are interested in past lives, because they look for more growth in this life than merely repeating actions which did not serve them well in the past.

 There is energy and consciousness (intelligence) in everything. Recognition of this will change the way business is done in many arenas. It doesn't mean, for example, that we should never eat flesh. It does mean, however, that the way we treat that flesh (whether fish, fowl, or hoofed) while alive, and the attitudes and techniques we bring to its preparation, will be transformed. It also means that the practice of organ transplants needs a fundamental review, unless of course putting the donor's leftover fear and anger in your body is appealing. And, ironically, it means that "chaos" in nature is there for a reason, not to validate the second law of thermodynamics on the road to randomness, but to birth instead new levels of creative evolution. Finally, the consciousness in all things does not mean that we should never bulldoze trees. It means that, if this is essential, we should acknowledge their contributions to the greater good. Mother nature is not looking to be saved by a belated recognition of codependence. She would, however, appreciate being honored and loved for what she is.

 Without psychology, morality will not get very far. The great moral agendas of our time -- ending racism, establishing peace, feeding and housing the poor, eliminating crime and violence, educating the masses, and overcoming drug abuse -- are not primarily about morality. Nor are they about scarce resources, of which we have ample amounts to address these challenges. They are instead about simple but powerful dynamics of consciousness: fear (of dying, being left out, not being honored, scarcity, etc.); control (of markets, resources, people, information, etc.); and feeling unconnected to ourselves, our neighbors, the earth, and the Divine Source in which we are sustained. If these dynamics are not addressed, one heart at a time, all the legislation, moralizing, and resource reallocation in the world will not accomplish our goals. Least of all will more centralized power at the top (as made to SEEM necessary through contrived and misinterpreted social crises) accomplish anything other than cultural apartheid, strangled freedoms, and more wealth for the few.

 Religions have one primary reason for being, namely, to empower their members in a quest for direct, felt spiritual alignment. All other reasons, e.g., ceremonial communion, helping the poor, and moral rectitude, should derive their significance to the degree they reflect this prime directive. Feeding the hungry because "God says so" is better than not feeding the hungry at all. But feeding the hungry because the nectar of compassion connects your heart to the world is where religion must direct itself. Dogmas and faith will no longer satisfy the quest of the human spirit to find its place. Nor will moral righteousness built on the crumbling foundations of guilt and retribution. Only the experienced reconnection with God/Goddess will suffice. The universe was not created as a moral testing ground for humans, as an altar for worshipping a deity, or as a prayer stage where we will be saved from ourselves. It was created because God/Goddess wished to experience everything that could be created (just knowing everything is rather boring) and because S/HE wished to share the results of this adventure. We were created as mini-gods and goddesses from the same Divine Source that sustains everything, so that this source could experience "otherness" within itself and thereby enjoy the long journey of our finding our way home. We were created in order to create -- as joyfully, passionately, and diversely as possible. The goal of religion, then, should be to empower our sense of this mutually co-creative journey.  This will result in a move away from traditional theism toward a more inclusive panentheism.

 The paranormal not only is here to stay, but also will become normal. Critics tell us that the phenomenal rise of interest in paranormal phenomena reflects wishful thinking, irrationality, and the need to find transcendent order in times of great stress. In their view, some people think they see angels because they need to see angels. In fact, the reverse is true; some see angels because angels exist. The great lesson of paranormal phenomena is that humans are multidimensional beings and are awakening to that fact, even as events and beings from those dimensions increasingly penetrate our consensus reality of three dimensions bounded by the five senses. Apparitions, healings, auras, channelings, near-death and out-of-body experiences, past-life regressions, and invisible friends all express this larger truth. Even as the skeptics from CSICOP tell us that we cannot be experiencing what we know we are, their worst nightmare is coming true. Ironically, some of their children or grandchildren may soon be doing psychic readings and offering them hands-on healing.

 The interest charged on credit instruments that funds the illusory assumption that debt-based economic growth must continue forever only results in the rich getting richer faster than everybody else, who by definition then fall further behind. Only political expedience keeps this long-term trend in check. Beyond achieving economies of scale and addressing genuine human needs, rather than conditioned responses, no economy must grow forever in order that its citizens may prosper. Growth has been made the religion of business to keep the workers employed and satisfied while the rich get really rich. And through long-term cycles of boom and bust, we have been conditioned with mind-numbing efficiency, to believe that going ever further into debt is the way to finance growth.  There comes a point where debt can only be serviced by taking on more debt if one's current standard of living is to be maintained. At this point, only those toward the top of the economic pile can prosper while the rest are consumed by their need to survive.  Banks facilitate debt through fractional banking practices, i.e., the right to create money from out of nothing -- and charge interest on it!  An economic and financial revolution relating to personal and collective debt, central banking practices, taxation, and the backing of currencies, is not far off.  

 This nation's educational ills can be effectively addressed when political, business, and educational leaders spend as much energy on appropriate MEANS as they do whining about raising standards to meet foreign competition. First, we need to get serious with students (and their parents!) who abuse drugs or disrupt class, not with suspensions, punishment, and moral lectures (which achieve almost nothing), but with core level emotional reconstruction which can be done in school. Second, with the exception of a few courses in learning styles, personal growth, and master teaching, abolish colleges of education; require teachers to master the content of what they are to teach, not the methods of how to teach it. Third, reduce their paperwork by 75% and take a good hard look at the fear-based tidal wave of "accountability." Fourth, pay them well and reward them twice as much for results as for advanced degrees or seniority. Fifth, dismiss weak teachers, then get the principals, county review committees, and school boards off good teachers' backs. Sixth, encourage creativity and experimentation; teach with sensitivity to different learning styles and rates. Seventh, develop a coherent curriculum in which all the pieces have both a genuine reason for being and fit together in a vision that unites, rather than fragments. Eighth, integrate new technologies available for accelerated whole-brain learning, creative expression, skill acquisition, and assorted behavioral challenges such as ADD (for which biofeedback works far better than Ritalin!). But don't confuse techno-fix with educational transformation. Johnny's computer skills may help get him a job, but he won't be able to keep it unless he has something interesting, useful, and literate to say; he must learn to spell before he gets a spell-check function. Ninth, introduce short courses and daily time slots that deal with personal growth: settings that help students and teachers confront their feelings, set boundaries, communicate authentically, and connect with each other. Awaken both to the ways of the heart. Tenth, get parents involved in more than fundraising; some can teach better than substitutes, assist other teachers, mentor students living on the edge, tutor, and spread the compassion that currently burned out teachers would like to rekindle. Finally, prepare teachers for a generation of children who will demonstrate abilities not explained by any current paradigm.  Set aside political correctness; it's typically not needed where it's applied.  Move beyond the mind-set of "winners and losers." Schools and parents have not lived up to their potential until all children get to be "student of the month."

 The first large-scale, fully integrated conventional/alternative hospital in America will produce "miracles" (by current standards), generate six-month waiting lists, and accelerate the revolution in medical education and the insurance industry. Alternative/complementary/integrative medicine is far more than a grabbag of new treatments that mainstream medicine has not tried out. It encompasses a whole new vision of both health and disease, a redistribution of responsibility for both, and more caring relationships between patients and their physicians. Health is not merely the absence of symptoms of disease, but a predisposition to optimum wellness and response to the threat of disease on biochemical, psychological, environmental, and spiritual levels -- all of which are interconnected. Alternative medicine looks at root causes, which are typically systemic, not localized, and respects the innate intelligence of the body to heal itself, if given health promoting, rather than disease killing, remedies. Instead of immediately giving you a shot for the flu, for example, the alternative/integrative practitioner inquires into the health of your immune system. Why was it not able to ward off the flu to begin with? Or instead of prescribing a hormone that merely compensates for stressed adrenals, she will suggest ways to bring them to a state of optimum function. This may include dealing with your repressed fears, and acupuncture, as well as caffeine reduction. When chronic disease, such as cancer, does occur, there are effective alternative remedies, such as essiac, nutritional supplements, oxygen therapies, ultra-violet blood suffusion, spiritual healing, and deep emotional work, for example -- not well received by the AMA or the FDA. Increasingly, however, it must be our responsibility to stay healthy more than the physician's responsibility to save us from ourselves. Without that shift, both the quality and quantity of health care will decline in direct proportion to skyrocketing costs and the mindless expansion of bureaucratic regulations.

 Stand in your own light. Those invested in the status quo will summon their resources to convince you that none of the above is true. They will fail, however, because interdimensional penetration by the energies of Light and Love are lifting the veil of illusion and awakening the entire human race.  We are slowly but powerfully moving beyond local and global duality dramas.  A silent revolution in the collective unconscious is bringing adversarial relationships to the point of collapse even as fears pushed to the surface fan their flames! The sooner we acknowledge this fact and respond accordingly, the greater will be our prosperity and joy. Friends and family may laugh today. Tomorrow, they will be knocking on your door, asking if you've read Conversations With God or seen What the Bleep.  Next week, they will be changing the way "business is done" at work. And next month, they may be speaking with angels. Count not the ships in the harbor, but look instead to the direction of the winds -- and hold fast! The dream of Earth Mother will radiate throughout the galaxy.