Sherri makes a valuable contribution to this whole discussion:
> What he states further is that most people believe their personal
> thoughts disapear into thin air and have no impact. He states that
> thinking is a system on this planet and does have an impact but that
> impact has traditionally been ignored.
Belief is where things start and where things end. Belief is what
makes the countries united or divided. Belief is what makes one
person climb out of the ghetto and another stay. Belief is what makes
a person choose a life of serving others through religion, and another
choose a life of business.
Dr. Bernie Siegel talks about the power of beleif in treating medical
illness. If the medical practitioner doesn't believe the treatment
will help, it can have a negative effect on the patient. If the
patient doesn't believe they have hope....
'If you think you can, or you think you can't you're right.'
The more people think negatively about the future and society, the
more negative our future will result. As Sherri said, thinking is a
'system' on this planet, and with mass communications thinking is
becoming even more consistent than ever in history. The power of this
mail list is adjusting people's concepts by sharing different ideas
and concepts.
> how to dramatically change events so that the divisions which we as
> a collective force have created on this planet don't deepen further.
> It involves thinking in a very different way but you can't think
> about it to get there...
IMHO we will not be dramatically changing events, but through mass
communications the outpouring of sympathy and support for the
disasters are coming from many parts of the world, not just people's
own back yards. The challenge is to get this information and different
thinking out to the people who can't afford internet, who can't get to
the information.
It all depends upon your point of view. As one television personality
from Inside Edition said, for stories to get on the air, they have to
contain two ingredients -- emotion and content...otherwise they won't
make it!
If you rely upon the media to tell stories, then it can be a very
pessimistic view of the world in crisis! (CNN = Constantly Negative
News) If you balance it by looking at what's happening in your own
community, then maybe there's hope.
I've rambled on for long enough.
Gary Scherling
Helping people help themselves
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GScherling_GMS_TPN
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