On the way to make my dreams come true I regularly encounter despair, but the will to reach my dreams keeps me moving. I sometimes lose certainty about my dreams really being my dreams, but the will to reach my dreams keeps me moving.

Regardless of really knowing my dream, only assumedly knowing my dream or not knowing it at all, I experienced that it is only necessary to know the very next tiny step and to go this step.

At times this step appears to be senseless or even intentionally painful. It then may be hard to go the step and then it is time to strengthen my faith - time to connect to myself and to say: "The very next step is all I need to know, because going this step will show me the next one. Even if I know my dream I will not be in the position to know the actual way to make it come true. Stubbornly focussing on one particular way by focussing on far more than the very next step may prevent me from seeing the very next step in the worst case or may at least distract me from going it as I'm exposed to despair when I consider the burden of the long way in front of me instead of enjoying the success of having taken the next tiny step."

Dear all,

I'm curious whether this crisis will lead to a faster reorientation of mankind. I know that sooner or later this reorientation will actually happen - in any case these heavy financial losses, like every disaster, provide a chance for changes and for spiritual growth. It is known for a long time and on a basis being as broad as beginning at spiritualism and ending at science that the way mankind lives right now is not sustainable.

During the most recent years I noticed increading parallels between what I observed in global economy and what Karl Marx wrote about the development of capitalism in "Das Kapital" - for those not familiar with it I try to put it in a nutshell: He developed an economic thesis illustrating ever increasing accumulation of capital, at the cost of more and more exploitation of labor. These developments have several implications.

One is a growing consolidation of economic players that leads to instability and dysfunctional markets with respect to classical economics - we observed such a development during the last decades and now we even ended up in a big crisis that nearly "killed" some of the biggest multinational corporations in several industries. The "Adam and Smith" of economics, Adam Smith, once introduced the principle of the "invisible hand" - he believed that economy has to be totally free and that under such circumstances the individual intentions for profit maximation of all economical players automatically lead to the best outcome for the economy - and thus for mankind - in total, whereas an "invisible hand" provides guidance in this process. It would be too extensive to discuss the many reasons why this hand doesn't exist, or doesn't exist any longer. However, one of the main reasons in my opinion is that economical players by far do not have to face the consequences of what they're doing and therefore are not required to accept full responsibility for their actions. Many people consider the idea of an "invisible hand" to be romantic, I do not. Accepting full responsibility and therefore facing all consequences would bring this hand into existence as the mechanism behind this idea in my opinion is very similar to way the universe (or God or All That Is or whatever else term one might use) as a whole in considered to work by many people once they begin to walk on the spiritual way. I have some ideas on how full responsibility could be implemented into the "rules of the game", but this would lead too far right now.

Back to Karl Marx: Another implication are increasing social tensions, driven by the economical developments as described above. Marx considered this to be a natural development of capitalism, in the end leading to major changes in societies and to a way of living together which he called socialism. Try to forget about the "socialism" or "communism" we observed this far: Lenin denied the necessity of a natural development and believed that the "end product" could be brought into existence artificially - we learned that he was wrong. However, we see increasing social tensions. As tensions itself never will directly lead to a "good" result, they very well might lead to people rethinking their approach to life. It is necessary that each one of us lives unconditional love and accepts full responsibility for his own life in order to reach a state I then would call real socialism.

The current crisis for sure will force more or less people to reconsider their concept of life. Thus it contributes to reaching the "critical mass" of warriors of the light that Paulo Coelho wrote about in "Am Ufer des Rio Piedro saß ich und weinte" (I don't know the english title, it might be "At the banks of Rio Piedro I sat and cried"??) and that - once it is reached - will lead to significant changes on the whole planet.

Love

Günther

Dear $am,

quantum physics shows us that reality is determined by observation. At the same time there is still a gap between the general theory of relativity and quantum physics. A common interpretation of this gap implies the existence of endless parallel realities. That's dry science and neither love nor spirits. Given this you of course are right - in your reality - and wrong - in numerous other realities - at the same time. Simple.