Book of Redemption: Chapter 13 Heritage...
PRE-CORONAVIRUS... America's leaders did THE EXACT OPPOSITE of bringing out the best in US with divide and conquer, hyper-partisan politics.
PRE-CORONAVIRUS... in America, one mass shooting after another just came and went. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses and suicides... every year. Racial Hate & Anti-Semitism were spreading like a virus... and so were Income Inequality and Homelessness.
Now, in 2023... more than 100,000 Americans die of drug overdoses... ALONE.
THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR... to fix it all at the exact same time!!!
Where to begin? Begin here...
AMERICA STOP... 'PROVE THAT ALL LIVES DO MATTER'.
You can't fix what is wrong with America or for that matter anything, by only focusing your attention on what has gone wrong. You must also identify what went right and then devise a plan to do more of that.
Over time and fight by fight, the good will eventually overcome the bad. It's just the 'way' things work... and no idea has ever brought more 'Light and Beauty' into the world than the idea of The American Dream.
That would be a good thing for All of US to remember as America considers its next move in The Middle East or on the streets of Oakland or any place where the passions and emotions of 'The People' are awakened to the desire to serve... 'The Greater Good'.
In time, this new book & venture that I share with you today, will help do four things in order to... PROVE THAT ALL LIVES DO MATTER...
1. Unite A Bitterly Divided America.
2. Defeat Extremism With Ideas.
3. Save The American Dream.
4. Remove... TRUMPISM... from American politics.
I know, I know... that's quite a claim too. But it's also true.
It's true because these ideas literally came to me in my dreams. And when you learn how many great ideas came to people in their dreams... people who we now all accept as great people---
Well, you will understand why I couldn't lose, as long as I could make it to TODAY... the day that I finally get to share my American dream with you.
I'm telling you this today.... BECAUSE... 'The Competing Narrative' that I share with you today is the result of a brutal 15 year process of GOD making me go through a special version of HELL in order to collect and organize the words and ideas that will bring the idea of 'Hell On Earth'... to an eventual end.
That's right... God made me go through Hell... so I could learn how to get out alive and then SHARE all that I know with you.
I'm telling you this today... BECAUSE... that's what last night's dream told me to say today, in... EXACTLY... the same way that Donald Trump wakes up every day and tweets away.
Only my words and ideas come from a much different place... and serve an entirely different purpose and master of course.
AND TODAY... THAT IS HOW GOD WANTS ME TO FRAME...
THE IDEA OF... 'DAVID v. GOLIATH PART II'.
What purpose does Donald Trump serve?
Well, he serves the purpose of actually creating... Hell On Earth.
After all... HELL ON EARTH... is the ONLY way he can make his cherished dream of becoming "President for Life"... come true.
THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH. WHETHER WE WANT IT TRUE OR NOT.
And science is a very important part of the pursuit of truth. But the real truth is this... today's science isn't capable of understanding the whole truth about God... AND... God designed it that way.
For more than 100 years...
many Scientists and many, many Atheists have wrapped themselves in an unholy arrogance that spurned the common narrative that 'Believers' are ignorant fools who "cling to guns & religion". And as more and more Atheists, Scientists and Secular Humanists clung to that bitter belief and doubled down it in their worship of Barack Obama...
THE REAL ANTI-CHRIST EMERGED... RIGHT ON TIME.
Just as THE BIBLE and other religious traditions promised he would.
THE TRUTH IS... a higher power designed the advancement of modern man and it won't be long before Scientists and Atheists finally understand... ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY... was given to mankind by the same higher intelligence that gave us Religion.
But God's design isn't to have Scientists and Atheists pick a Religion. NO. God's design is to open mankind's hearts and minds to the idea that this really is 'The End Times' and the end of the need for Atheists and Religion.
That's right GOD promised mankind an UGLY time called 'The End Times' and a beautiful new time... AFTER... THE WORD OF GOD... destroyed THE REAL-ANTICHRIST and THE BEAST.
With that in mind...
Sometimes you can get everything right but the timing... and because the timing is wrong, your dream just can't come true no matter how hard you try... or how many different ways you try to get something right.
Don't know what I mean?
Then read 'Steve Jobs'... the authorized autobiography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.
At the age of 56 Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder died from a treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Two and a half weeks later, his authorized autobiography hit the store shelves.
Some people say it's all too soon... I say it's right on time.
Steve Jobs proved the idea of The American Dream true. He also proved the value of trusting your intuition or Inspiration and credits his success to what he calls "magical thinking" and the ability to re-shape reality.
Meaning he got things done that other people said couldn't be done.
His intuition said 'do it anyway'. His intuition said 'do it this way'.
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Jobs was rewarded for not letting anyone or anything stand in the way of his vision. So one might wonder, did his 'intuition' or Inspiration fail him when he refused early, possibly life saving treatment for pancreatic cancer?
Maybe... but then again, maybe not.
Today, We know... because of Isaacson's book, that Steve Jobs was adopted, had Syrian roots, came from humble beginnings, was a hippie, the world's greatest capitalist... and perhaps, one of the most self-centered people of his generation.
At a time when millions of Americans are still out of work, The Arab world is on fire and The 'me' Generation has just about run its course... and many modern-day hippies are 'Occupying Wall Street' and the parks of so many US cities and some are demanding an end to Capitalism... and thousands of Syrians are literally dying in the streets of Syria for freedom and equality and the number one political issue of the day is jobs, jobs, jobs...
Well, maybe it's time once again to re-shape reality.
Because America is 'endless-war' weakened and weary... and deeply divided. And Mr. Trump is without the moral authority or the mandate to unite US at a time when the world will need America's strength the most.
What's all this really mean?
Like it or not... and whether you like him or not, the next President of these United States is going to need our help!
In other words America... it's time to "Think Different"... again.
On the big issues of War and Economic Inequality and the fight between The Left and The Right and Mid-East Peace the question still remains... Who is right and who is wrong?
So we pick sides and... WE FIGHT. But in this modern world... the more we fight, the more we consume Our Good Nature, Our Resources and 'The Light' that all of our ancestors fought so hard to achieve. In other words, in this modern world... the more we fight... the more darkness we bring into this world. And the more we do that... the more everyone loses. That's The Dark Secret that Al Qaeda and ISIS were hoping to keep secret until it was too late.
But it's not too late... not yet.
247 years ago... The Idea of America had finally been put to quill and parchment and a "Declaration of Equality" was made by 56 men who faced certain death should the Idea of America... fail.
With these courageous words; "We hold this truth to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" a new American Spirit began to rise. Our Founders had no conscious understanding of where and when the journey to equality would finally end... because let's face it, it was a better version of "Self" that Americans didn't always know how to be.
But each man affixed their signature anyway, not as hypocrites... but as Founders of an Inspired Nation ready to begin making their Way towards it.
Behind every story of tragedy, suffering and pain is the real story of distraction, inattention, indifference, indecision or recklessness by someone somewhere who turned a blind eye, one too many times- making the bad things we tend to call accidents... inevitable.
No... 'Bad Things' don't just come out of nowhere to bite US in the ass... instead they make their way to US... because we chose one way over another OR because we lost sight of our purpose OR because we were seduced away from the 'good things'.
Turn away enough times and it becomes almost impossible to see the 'Purpose' in anything OR to know which way to turn to get out of way of trouble. Even when our gut tells US trouble is coming our way.
For 22 years We turned our collective attention to revenge for 9/11 and towards a very dark cloud in Iraq and every chance we got... We deepened the divide between Republicans and Democrats. Now there can be no doubt trouble has made its way to the American shore. And as we turn to our 'leaders' for direction and hope it's plain to see America has lost her Way and much of our standing in a world that desperately needs America to stand strong. It's easy to see America is now weak in the knee, as the foundation on which this great nation stands... shows cracks from obvious signs of neglect and abuse.
With careful hindsight Historians confirm- 'Everything' does happen for a reason and historic outcomes are predictable with a fair degree of certainty if events and circumstances at a specific moment of time are viewed within their proper 'context'. But when it comes to foresight and the ability to predict the future consequences of decisions and actions... most predictions are useless without the right context or lens to decipher the code.
On September 1, 2001... my struggling business went online with a first of a kind Behavioral Health Program for college students. Having learned many lessons from the dot-com bubble, the business model included a subscription fee paid by colleges.
Trying hard not to rush into things, the previous 6 months were spent convincing eleven colleges to test the idea.
But "my plan" didn't include 9/11.
Imagine for a moment being a young entrepreneur, having burned through all your savings and original investments just to get to the day that "the test" could begin... and to be in possession of a one of a kind product (sparse as it was at the time) dedicated to the issues of stress, depression, anger and grief.
Well, what would you do in the immediate days after 9/11?
Most of you would do what I did... give the program to as many colleges as you could, free of charge.
After all, men and women were heading to war and some of them were about to literally give all they had to give. In my mind, the absolute very least that I could do... was the very best that I could do at the time.
The choice to offer the Outreach Program free to colleges was a fateful decision.
The original business proposition, proposed a test to determine if a branded website could reach "at risk" students ahead of risky, violent or otherwise dangerous behavior. Including suicide.
It's not hard to see the value to the schools... if it worked.
Reaching just one student could be very valuable.
I didn't know it at the time, but giving the program away free meant that instead of needing to reach a troubled student, two or three... any successful new business model required that I reach millions... maybe stressed... but otherwise very healthy young men and women with commercial health messages that they didn't need.
Over time I came to believe that a healthy person not only doesn't need to hear about the symptoms of depression... but that general mental health education that distributed vague and sometimes misleading "symptoms of depression" could possibly plant the seeds of depression or at the very least- feed it.
Need proof?
When I began working on the business model in 2000... The National Institute of Mental Health claimed that some 19 million Americans suffered from "the condition" of depression and anxiety.
Today it's estimated that 10 percent of Americans take antidepressants. No matter how you look at it... that's a VERY ugly trend.
Twenty three years ago- there was tremendous hope and optimism in the behavioral health field that increased 'education' was all that was needed. Today it's clear those "experts", no matter how well educated and well intended... have been proven wrong.
Today, The United States Government estimates that one in five Americans or 20% of the U.S. population is 'mentally ill'.
In my mind, the government labeling 60 million Americans that 'way' is very dangerous and... Insane!
My advice now?
Study how 'Light' spreads from one person to another and spread more of that. That's the only proven way to stop the spread of the darkness and finally reverse each ugly trend...
One American Dream at a time.