Everywhere these days you see it. Hear it. The times they are a changing- a new way of living is coming. We can no more stop it than we can stop the tides. If we reach out we can touch it with our fingertips, yet it is just far enough away to evade our grasp. We see the end result; some of us even see the struggle it might take to get us there. Some are elated and excited, some are apprehensive and frightened. Most of us would love to know what’s next and how we can help.

A lot of people are telling us too. It’s not like the answer is not out there, asking us to embrace it. Leave behind your fear and use your mind, but live from your heart. Expand your ideas to understand that we are one; not just with one another but with the beautiful planet on which we currently reside. Sure there are a lot of ways to put it, and every flavor and color is out there for anyone who wishes it, as at some level we all do. The issue is not in wanting the new world to come. The issue is in not knowing the concrete physical steps we must take to make it so.

A lot of old ideas have to be put into their places before we can move on. I know that simply by watching the world. Ideals of wealth and power no longer serve us. Our government, at least in the United States, no longer serves us. This is what the occupy movement is trying to say, though I am afraid they are being maligned by the media in many ways, and they do suffer from the lack of spelling it out. So here it is.

Our government and institutions are no longer serving the people. They must change to serve the people or be dissolved by the people.

Sure, this could lead to anarchy. And how do you dissolve things without war? How does a group or a movement see itself actually accomplishing this goal? Is this the goal? I don’t think so. I think the goal is to work together with the institutions and governments to re-arrange them in a way that DOES serve the people. In any case, it is obvious that many things that did once seem to work no longer do.

Too our ideas of majority rule are actually fashioned not by how the founding fathers of America wished them to be, but instead BY a tyrannical majority bent on having their way. The system was designed to not allow this. If the majority ruled we would still have slavery. There must be ideas and goals that supersede one idea. There must be a "prime directive" so to speak. Once upon a time that was "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness". I think that could still work, but we must add to that an understanding that can come only from the heart and mind of the individual, the truth of the statement that we are all one. What harms another person no matter how far away harms me. What denies the rights of another denies MY rights. What I do to others is done to me also. In this way, the old ideas that separate us will dissolve of their own accord. The separations were never large anyway, and mostly illusion. If we join together nothing can stop us. If we understand we are not separate nothing can stop us.

In fact, nothing changes until we take this concept into ourselves, embrace it, know it, and act upon it in every decision and facet of our lives. Sure we are going to make mistakes along the way. Sure we have a lot to learn about being the truth. But we will. The human race has a miraculous ability; to adapt.