Please, Joe, if you can change the title of the thread to "BS" etc., please do so. Thanks! kat

Written for a more general audience, still I thought I'd share this with you, my friends:

"All the best" for the good of our country

I've a radical thought for our future. Ever since it came down to Gore or Bush, then Bush, I've debated, read, and listened to dire predictions. I've gleefully joined in, like Cassandra foretelling the pillaging of Troy; I've readily agreed that a Bush presidency will ruin our country and all of those things I hold dear.

This is in direct violation of my own spiritual beliefs. I believe we are what we speak, think, and believe in. If we think we are sick or poor or happy or wealthy, we are opening a door, in our minds and hearts, to accept either manifestation, for good or bad. We are programming our subconscious to "make it so" as Captain Kirk used to say on Star Trek. I do not believe we automatically become those things just by saying it, or thinking it, but I do believe it sets a propensity within us towards those things. We do have free will and can overcome our own best intentions quite easily.

By extension then, I believe the mass consciousness of our country, even our world, can have tremendous effect on how things go. Of course this is so or advertising would not exist. Planting the seed of illness is easily done when one is inundated with pharmaceutical ads urging one to ask their doctor about a specific prescription drug for whatever symptoms are appropriate. An interesting study would be to see how many people then create, with their own belief, such symptoms. Unchecked, such beliefs can and do become real ailments.

Certain physicians have recognised the efficacy of this theory and have put it into practise. Some surgeons have their patients visualise healthy outcomes before going under the knife. Others use it in their daily practises, in subtle and not so subtle ways.

Because of the irrefutable evidence I've experienced in my own life; because I believe we are each responsible; because I believe each one of us can have an impact on the collective consciousness of humankind and thus, on the way of things in our world, I am turning my words and thoughts to the positive in regards to our country's politics for the next four years.

I do not believe in hiding my head in the sand and chanting vacuous affirmations in a Pollyanna sort of way. I don't like Bush, I don't have much hope for him. I will vigorously defend those programs and such that I believe our country needs to nurture and maintain.

I will do so without denigration. That may sound like a tall order for an op/ed writer, but I believe I can do so and I hope others will join in with me. To that end, I will give thanks on a daily basis that our country's leaders are guided to take right action; imbued with wisdom; and, willingly put aside their own ambitions to bring about that which is for the highest good of all concerned. In this way, I believe we can effect the outcome of the presidency; we can know that whatever supreme being one might believe in, is being given a clear shot at helping us to help ourselves, for the good of all our country's peoples. If one doesn't believe in a higher being, then at least they will be acting positively and would hopefully feel some benefit from doing so.

My Irish friends usually sign off their emails and such with "All the best." I'd like to wish President-elect Bush all the best, while letting him know he will be watched with an eagle eye. I hope he likes racking up karmic brownie points as much as I do!

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