THE FUTURE
Question: I thought I just read in Chapter Twenty-Seven that time doesn’t exist. What are you doing calling the last chapter in this book “The Future?”
Answer: You’re right. But I also said in Chapter Twenty that “I can still dream;” and that’s what I’d like to do – dream a little about the future – as long as I don’t get attached to the fulfillment of those dreams.
Actually, toward the end of your time in the cocoon, you begin to see ripples in the Universal ocean, movement in the “Earth Environment” template; and sometimes it’s fun to speculate – in a general sort of way – where those ripples might be heading. I’m seeing a couple ripples I want to focus on for a few minutes before I end this book, simply because I find some of this stuff fascinating.
The first ripple I see is that the drama and conflict and pain and suffering and war and violence and hardship in the “Earth Environment” template are actually increasing across the world, despite – or perhaps, as explained in Chapter Eighteen, in part as a result of – the resistance of more and more “peaceworkers.” Some of the “developed” countries haven’t been so hard hit yet, but they will be as the global economic system becomes more chaotic.
It seems like every day the news is full of more deaths from war and violence, and from natural disasters as well. More people are out of work around the world, more barely living from hand to mouth, more losing their homes, more with no idea how they or their families will survive. More economies are failing, more governments are collapsing or being challenged, and more theories of everything are falling by the wayside.
For me, however, this is not a “bad” thing at all. It may actually be signaling the beginning of a mass exodus out of the movie theater with large numbers of Players gathering around the garden ready to eat from the Tree of Life. In other words, the screws may be tightening, the rubber band may be stretching to its limits, the situation deteriorating until more and more Human Children are willing to stand up in their seats and yell, “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more” – and more Human Adults realize what’s in the back of the movie theater isn’t working either and head for the door. Sometimes things have to get pretty “bad” for that to happen.
But I’ve been overly optimistic before, so I can’t be sure. As Alan Shore said in one of his closing arguments in an episode of Boston Legal…
“When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out not to be true, I expected the American people to rise up. They didn’t. Then, when the Abu Ghraib torture thing surfaced, and it was revealed that our government participated in rendition – a practice where we kidnap people and turn them over to regimes who specialize in torture – I was sure then the American people would be heard from. We stood mute.
“Then came the news that we jailed thousands of so-called ‘terrorist’ suspects, locked them up without the right to a trial, or even the right to confront their accusers. Certainly we would never stand for that. We did.
“And now it’s been discovered the Executive Branch has been conducting massive illegal domestic surveillance on its own citizens – you and me; and I at least consoled myself that finally – finally – the American people will have had enough. Evidently we haven’t.
“In fact, if the people of this country have spoken, the message is, ‘We’re okay with it all – torture, warrantless search and seizures, illegal wiretappings, prison without a fair trail, or any trial, war on false pretenses. We as a citizenry are apparently not offended. There are no demonstrations on college campuses; in fact there’s no clear indication that young people even seem to notice.”1
Maybe it’s an encouraging sign that “young people” aren’t demonstrating on college campuses, or otherwise protesting in general. Perhaps it means they are beginning to realize that “changing things” isn’t working, but they also see the futility in resistance, the purposelessness in joining groups in the back of the movie theater, the rampant contradictions and inconsistencies in all judgmental belief systems.
Maybe “young people” are simply numb, fed up with the whole thing, but with no clue of what to do, no concept yet of a viable alternative to the outdated and inaccurate models of life found inside the movie theater. Perhaps they’re ready for this Human Game model.
As I asked in Chapter Twenty-One, “How much more pain and suffering and limitation and restriction is required before millions of Players surrender, understand it is their own judgments and resistance causing that pain and suffering, and are willing to begin processing the false knowledge and layers of the ego that are part of life inside the movie theater?”
So Ripple #1 appears to me headed in the direction of more pain and suffering, and says to me the rollercoaster is nearing the top of the first hill, when things get really tough and the going gets really rough for those inside.
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Ripple #2, going in the opposite direction, is that there are also signs more and more Players are waking up from their dreamstate, or at least waking up within their dreamstate.
You recall I talked about a “template” (or matrix) for the “Earth Environment” in Chapter Twenty-Four. Let’s speculate a little on how that template might change from time to time….
Remember The Field?
“A field of all possibility.”2
“The foundation of the universe is a single universal field of intelligence… the fountainhead of all the laws of nature; all the fundamental forces, all the fundamental particles, all the laws governing life at every level of the universe.”3
“We can’t explain what we do see as matter…unless we picture that these matter particles somehow come out from or emerge from these thought-wave patterns.”4