New Revelations - Part Two

Our desire for world peace and harmony are being thwarted not only by our five fallacies about God, listed in Part One, but also by our fallacies about Life. In the book, The New Revelations A Conversation with God, God tells the author, Neale Donald Walsch, that there are five fallacies about Life. They are:

1) Human beings are separate from each other.
2) There is not enough of what human beings need to be happy.
3) To get the stuff of which there is not enough, human beings must compete with each other.
4) Some human beings are better than other human beings.
5) It is appropriate for human beings to resolve severe differences created by the other fallacies by killing each other.

Most of us see ourselves as unique living beings. Our world is all about our own happiness and our survival. We see ourselves as separate from other human beings. We observe that our very skin separates us from the world around us. I suggest that a good many of us are driven by what we see as good for us as this unique individual. Yes, we form bonds and friendships and we cooperate to get things done. We even share common beliefs and values, but in our heart of hearts we still view the world in terms of what is in it for ME. What does it all mean for ME? We have real trouble with the concept that each of us is intimately interconnected to each other, where the loss of even one of us diminishes the whole.

Many of us see the world in terms of things that make us happy or will make us happy. We are in the pursuit of getting as many of those THINGS as possible before we die. The problem is that we have this idea that there are not enough of these “goodies” out there for everyone. We need to grab and hoard as many things for ourselves, our family and friends and our nation as we can. Our world becomes all about competition where there are “have’s” and “have not’s.” We carry this idea of scarcity deep inside us. I’ve got mine! You go scramble for yours! If I worked hard for my well deserved “goodies” then why should I share them with others who did not work as hard as I did? There is not enough to go around.

In addition to this idea of scarcity, human beings have this need to feel better than or superior to other human beings. Even if you see yourself as a good person, a fair minded person, how many of us upon seeing homeless, street people look away and think how lucky we are not to be…them. We form groups with common beliefs, purpose and values. My group is better than, more worthy than that other group over there. Our beliefs, our values are better than other groups. We have more THINGS and those things give us more resources and more…POWER. We are better! I am better than…others. We judge and we act on this concept of superiority and scarcity.

Students of human history can surely see many examples of how the other fallacies of Life have led our species to the last of the fallacies of Life. Hitler felt that the Aryan Race was superior to others, especially the Jews. This belief led to World War II and the mass extermination of millions of men, women and children. A belief that some human beings are better than other human beings has brought about all kinds of atrocities, pain and death. A belief in superiority can lead to a belief that some human beings are less than human and can be disposed of or enslaved in lives of misery and poverty. At the very least, it allows us to deny some their civil rights and due process under the law. It allows us to discriminate.

Still, we scratch our heads and wonder why mankind has not been able to achieve peace and harmony on this planet. We see the edge of the Abyss and wonder how much time we have left to get it right. In New Revelations, God tells Walsch that there are five steps we can take right now to achieve the peace we seek. They are:

The Five Steps to Peace

1) You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
2) You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
3) You can choose to be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, an understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planet.
4) You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
5) You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

We act on what we BELIEVE, but if what we believe is flawed and does not work, if it no longer serves us, then we must be willing to examine our belief systems. Do they work or not? If they do not, are we willing to explore new thoughts and to change our beliefs? If we see ourselves as separate, unique and superior (or inferior) to each other then how can we ever hope to evolve to our greatest human potential? Will we continue to see ourselves as a single living cell in a giant void, or will we realize that we are part of a whole living body that works and functions as one being without end or limit?

In Part Three, I want to explore God’s NEW Revelations for us. Remember…this is a dangerous book!

Food for THOUGHT...