FAMILY – THE CORE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION

The family unit is the core of human civilization, nourishing its physical and mental needs, and providing the training grounds for its spiritual evolvement. When that core becomes weakened or destroyed humanity degenerates, mentally, physically, morally and spiritually.

The natural full-time activity of men is to sustain the family by providing the environment and the means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. This activity is not limited to the physical needs of the family, but to its mental, moral and spiritual development as well. The body must be strengthened, the mind developed, ethics instilled, and the spirit unfolded, making exercises and rituals to develop these components essential to the survival of the family.

If men devote their energies and activities to any purpose not related to the benefit of the family, it will be at the neglect of the family, and ultimately result in its detriment. When men fulfill their obligations, responsibilities, and considerations towards the family women can readily and easily nurture the race. When mother is safe and secure her milk flows easily and plentifully and her ability to transmit love becomes infinite.

Family is the core and fundamental unit of human society just as the atom is the fundamental unit of matter. The feminine electrons, rotating around the masculine nucleus, comprise the structure of the atom. Just as the atom combining with other atoms forms a molecule, the family combing with other families forms a tribe.

The atom, family, and even the solar system have the same structure; an assertive influence at the core around which the receptive entity (or entities) revolves. This natural patriarchal structure pervades the universe.

The attempt to make men and women equal in performance exhibits an ignorance of the purpose of life and a lack of understanding of the nature of gender.

Heat, light, and sound are assertive influences; cold, dark, and quiet reflect the absence of these influences. Two opposing entities cannot operate in one area of activity. If cold were an entity that opposed heat, a temperature setting could not be maintained. If darkness opposed light, a level of illumination could not be set. If quiet opposed sound, a level of sound could not be maintained. There can only be one assertive influence in any field of activity otherwise equilibrium could not be established. To disregard gender differences is un-natural, and unworkable.

Western society has lost its equilibrium, enacting un-natural laws to make men and women equal in function, necessitating the enactment of more laws in order to maintain order.

The purpose of life, is to grow spiritually while propagating and preserving the race, utilizing the unique characteristics of both genders, providing a warm and caring environment, generating a sense of belongingness, and maintaining equilibrium. Patriarchy provides the structure that enables those activities. Western society, not understanding the purpose of life, living outside of the patriarchal structure, believing in the exploitation of the earth for personal gain, making consumption its key activity, creating an aberration of natural behavior, has destroyed the natural order of things.

Family has no viable substitute.

The above could serve as an essay as it stands, and in a society that has an awareness of its purpose in life it would be understood; however, current Western society does have that awareness, consequently almost everything in it is subject to challenge, if not ridicule.

Women serving as devoted mothers, loyal wives, nurturers of the race, and comforters of the forlorn, no longer elicit admiration, but rather scorn and deprecation. In their stead we have independent women unencumbered by any requirement s of marriage, family, or responsibility to society, doing their own thing, whatever that means.

One such woman, a 30-year-old law student sat before Congress recently asking it to pay for her birth control costs because she apparently has yet to figure out her fertile period and how to control herself during it, an issue already buried by the more recent comments of one Hillary Rosen who stated on television that Amy Romney (wife of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and mother of five) never worked a day in her life; a clear expression of the corrupted value structure instilled in a growing number of women in Western society.

These values (or lack of them) have been drilled into the minds of young women for a long time, perhaps the most newsworthy expression being the reaction to the choice of Barbara Bush to give a commencement address at Wellesley College in 1990, when more than a quarter of the student body signed a petition that she was not a good role model for career oriented women. At that time, Barbara’s husband was President of the United States, one son Governor of Texas and the other Governor of Florida. Aren’t successful husbands and children related to the influence of the homemaker? Isn’t creating a home atmosphere that produces stable, well-functioning, and dedicated offspring a major accomplishment?

Does having an education mean that a woman should no longer dedicate herself to doing her share towards propagating and preserving the species as it progresses on its spiritual journey? Does raising children belong to the lot of the uneducated woman? Is not education compatible with the rearing of children?

The conduct and activity of Thomas Edison’s mother concerning his development provides an alternative viewpoint. Early in grade school Thomas performed poorly and his schoolmaster described him as addled or slow. His mother took him out of school and read the classics to him in addition to providing some form of home schooling. He went back to school during his eighth year and left permanently in his 13th year after which he went on to become an engineering and entrepreneurial genius. He said of his mother, “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had some one to live for, some one I must not disappoint.”

If Thomas Edison were a schoolboy in today’s society he would be given Ritalin to calm him down and his mother would be motivated to enter the workforce and “be somebody.”

There is no greater accomplishment for a woman than to bring life into this world and nurture it. The race needs nurturing, and only women can do it. They can only do it in the secure and stable environment that men establish called family. All other activity in life either supports that function or is superfluous.

Family is the core of human civilization. There is no viable alternative.

E.G.

SLUTHOOD AND AMERICAN CULTURE

Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut. By now everybody in America and probably most of the people in the world heard about this incident, but how many know the cause of the incident, what she actually said, what it reflects about the lack of morals in America, how the government collaborates in eliminating morals, and the support the government gets from deceitful and biased reporting?

Below is a quote from the Wall Street Journal of some of what Ms. Fluke said:

Without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that's practically an entire summer's salary. Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this policy.

Do you believe what you are reading? Contraception costs single women $3,000 during their atteandance at law school and they want American taxpayers to absorb this expense. They must have an exceptional amount of sex; more than can readily be imagined that would cost that amount of money to just prevent pregnancies. Granted ethics no longer exist in society but have modesty, discretion, and propriety also disappeared among women? Yes! That’s exactly what happens to women when male ethics are lacking and moral structures are removed. The decline of the classical Greek and Roman civilizations began when men lost their influence, morality disappeared, and society degenerated into increasingly lustful and debaucherous activity. That same formula has been applied to American society and the same end result is ensuing.

The government collaborates with the decline of values at any opportunity that presents itself. President Obama called Sandra Fluke directly and related these comments to his own daughters when they grow up by saying, “They should have a right to engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on; I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way.” President Obama clearly expressed to the nation that he had no ethics, and therefore no concept of the moral structure necessary for the proper development of his own children let alone the well-being of society. He has no concept of the conduct necessary for the propagation and preservation of the species and believes in replacing moral standards with government law.

Rush Limbaugh’s comments caused a media frenzy of outrage, support for birth control, defense of women’s rights, freedom to choose, and all sorts of attacks on any activity that can be construed to mean a restriction on self-expression. However, the media did not address the effect on this nation of the absence of morals and the promotion of unrestrained sexual activity.

My first reaction to Limbaugh’s comments consisted of surprise, because the term slut has fallen into relative disuse in American society. Regardless of the dictionary definition the term, slut as once used by men referred to women not considered worthy of any close relationship. Men at one time married women who would become the mothers of their children—that requirement called for a high standard—being a slut did not meet that standard.

With the advent, acceptance, and promotion of single motherhood the standards for mothers have disappeared; consequently the term slut covers a broader array of women with less stigma associated with it, causing it to fall into relative disuse.

It’s unfortunate that now any woman can become a mother. In most of the mammal world males are not only selective about the females they choose to mate with and have care for their offspring, but they also maintain the standards of their grouping. The exception to this selectivity of mates by males occurs with increasing frequency in Western society because Western man does not consider the propagation and preservation of the species an important aspect of his spiritual journey—in fact as a group he does not consider that he is on a spiritual journey.

Indiscriminate sexual activity by women has resulted in single parenthood becoming an accepted norm that raises havoc with the well-being of the race resulting in over-worked and stressed-out mothers, insecure and lonely children, decreased academic performance, increased juvenile delinquency, a bulging prison population, economic collapse, and national angst.

When a society loses its race consciousness it then focuses on self at the neglect of the race and at the expense of the race. The term slut served to help support a standard of conduct beneficial to the race.

In Biblical times the term slut did not exist, but its equivalent “harlot”, “whore”, and “whoredom” are mentioned from the first book of the bible through Revelations. The greatest of the prophets referred to the evils of whoredom, whether referring to the individual or the nation. These prophets realized that licentiousness and debauchery are not compatible with spiritual growth, and that such behavior also leads to the degeneration of the race.

The ruling powers that support sluthood have taken steps to expunge from the Bible all references to harlotry, whoredom and whore. The New International Version of the Bible no longer contains these terms. We are witnessing a rewriting and re-interpretation of matters spiritual in order to support sluthood.

Until men recognize their obligation to propagate and preserve the race while on its spiritual journey, society will continue its degenerative decline. Some might feel that Limbaugh’s comments were a wake up call, while others might feel that the horse is already out of the barn.

In any event, the battle that is now raging between gross materialism (of which sluthood is an integral part) and spirituality, will continue to grow, and its outcome is assured.

E.G.

CARE OF WOMEN

This past week members of the United States Congress and the media made it clear that the care of women has become a responsibility of the state. On Thursday February 16th a committee of the U.S. Congress held a hearing regarding abortion. Those asked to testify were apparently all clergymen. Two female members of Congress, Representatives Carolyn Maloney of New York and Eleanor Homes Norton of Washington, D.C., took umbrage that no women were asked to testify and walked out of the hearing.

Rep. Maloney made the following statement: What I want to know is, where are the women? When I look at this panel, I don't see one single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services, including family planning. Where are the women?

Rep. Maloney apparently considers the care of women to be a function of themselves and the state. She is probably unaware—or at the least does not like to admit—that the care of the family, tribe, and race has always been the responsibility of men. The responsibility of males extends to the care of the pride, herd, flock, gam, and most all groupings of mammals and birds.

Spiritual texts throughout the world and from all ages motivate men to take care of women and children, of widows, and orphans (that could account for the clergy being at the hearing). All cultures of indigenous peoples show an inherent understanding that men provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. Western society worships materialism and has neutered the male, which has destroyed the family and now makes women dependent upon government largess and law to care for their well-being; and they have been told they are liberated.

The result of government care of women has had a devastating effect on their health. In the United States 300,000 new cases of breast cancer occur each year and the majority of women now develop fibroids. Ten million American Women—ten percent of the adult female population—suffer from debilitating depression; this malady also affects three million girls. The use of stress medication has become the norm as increasing numbers of women suffer from a variety of stress related disease; but that’s okay because they are liberated.

The removal of men from authority resulted in the elimination of ethics from which moral behavior stems. The sexual promiscuity promoted due to the lack of morals that men once established has resulted in increasing cases of chlamidia, human papilloma virus, and herpes; all very painful conditions for women. But then they are liberated.

The decline of ethics has wrought even deeper devastation on society. Forty percent of all births occur out of wedlock, 24 million children go to bed at night without a father in the home, 82% of children the age of 18 do not live in a home containing both of their natural parents. The liberated mothers that spawn these births are too busy working to nurture their children and the state has taken over their rearing. This has resulted in America now having the most violent boys in the world. The chances of boys having a relationship with the law, using drugs, joining street gangs, going to prison, being shot dead in the streets or all of the above increase with every out-of-wedlock birth. Still their mothers are liberated.

The Western ignorance of the purpose of men and women knows no bounds. The day after the media’s blanketing of its outlets with the abortion controversy the Huffington Post revealed that The New York Times Book Review used the term “chick non-fiction” in referring to the work of women non-fiction writers, as though they were different from men. Women’s Editor Margaret Wheeler Johnson wrote “So here we are again. I thought after the Great Jonathan Franzen Debacle of 2001, no man would ever again dare to suggest publicly that there is an inferior class of books that only women read.”

Get that, that a man should “dare” to suggest publicly. Well I ask that all of you who read this essay please send Ms. Johnson of the Huff Post an Email, a twitter, or whatever method of communication that you use and tell her that there is a man that says so emphatically and publicly and will continue to do so anywhere and without charge.

He will state unequivocally that a woman cannot do anything that a man can do; and that the reason society is degenerating is because male responsibility and authority have been removed. Every society that has seen the removal of male authority has disintegrated. The Taoists state that without the Yang the Yin will disappear. The whole non-Western world knows that.

Regarding women’s communication, women think in pictures and speak in nouns; men think in concepts and speak in verbs. The entire communications media deals in effects (pictures) and describes them in nouns. That accounts for why women’s health in particular and all of society in general continues to deteriorate. To change things requires getting at the cause (conceptual thinking) and taking action (verbs).

Representative Nancy Pelosi joined the fray concerning the abortion hearing by repeating the question “Where are the women” and then finishing off with “duh.” Send this article to all the “duh” women and let them know that the sickest and unhappiest women in the world are Western women because “duh” they don’t have men to care for them.

By the way, if you click the link on the Huff Post article you will find one of the articles available on that page titled, Ready to be a Single Mom? Isn’t that great? Screw up the race a little more, remember you’re liberated.

E.G.

P.S. Please mail copies of this article to any media option available to you. E.G.

RIOTS IN GREECE—THE PRELUDE TO WORLDWIDE RIOTING

The economic conditions in Greece have caused renewed and intense rioting. Increasing numbers of people live in the streets, as they can no longer afford shelter. Many people find it difficult to obtain adequate food and clothing. Economists and financiers say that the Greeks did not have their financial house in order, which might be true, but who is to be the judge of this?

The answer is the free market; that vehicle created by international financiers that enables them to own the world and tell people how to live on it.

The Western worship of matters material has created a way of life that has enslaved it. People must now pay for the land they live on and travel on, the water they drink, and the food to eat. Soon it will be normal practice to have to pay for the opportunity to relieve oneself in a public toilet. Everything is owned—everything! Every natural need and activity requires the payment of a fee in one-way or another.

The concept of ownership has been ingrained into the psyche of the Western mind and it considers the activities related to ownership to be natural, the worst of these being qualifying for and obtaining a job.

Jobs provide the vehicle through which humanity shows obeisance to those who own the world for the privilege being allowed to toil for their sustenance.

The entire educational system is based on conditioning people to become jobholders. Universities have devolved into Vagina Vocational Institutions that prepare women, wimps, and neutered males for a life of toil and obeisance. The universities program the students to believe that having a job provides liberation for women, equality for wimps, and enlightenment for the neutered. Only a very few will grasp that they have been conditioned to live a life of economic servitude.

These Vagina Vocational Institutions indoctrinate people into an unnatural lifestyle that make them dependent upon government for every aspect of their thinking. These institutions also provide the vehicle for getting the students into sufficient debt so that in essence they will be beholden to the government for the rest of their lives. Thirdly, these institutions dumb down our youth who spend years in a university, get a degree, and end up knowing less than high school graduates did 60 years ago.

Modern technology has made it possible to produce more and more product with fewer and fewer people. Eventually a minority of people will be able to produce the majority of product. This activity will leave most people without jobs and in need of government dole. The people are already being psychologically prepared for this type of existence by the government as they promote receiving food stamps as being smart. Don’t be ashamed; be smart—go on food stamps. That will be followed by rent subsidies. We already have universal health coverage. The world is now owned by the few and they pay governments to dole out sustenance to the populace.

As this system becomes entrenched throughout the world, rioting will increase on every continent as the masses slowly begin to awaken to the unnatural lifestyle enforced upon them. Governments have already made significant preparation to control the masses as they begin to awaken. Security cameras have become ubiquitous and few people complain. The newer buses operated by the MTA in New York City enclose the drivers in Plexiglas and money is not collected on these buses. Loud speakers continually remind passengers that it is a felony to attack a transit worker. The message is clear: Beware of the government and all who work for it.

Big Brother is here now my sons and daughters, and he is intensifying his grip on the world. Even the rioting that will occur everywhere will not change things, because the thinking that created this monster has not changed. The OWS movement had no clear statement for change—their thinking was in accord with the system. Their only complaint was that they weren’t getting what they deemed to be their fair share. If the rioting in the streets of the world leads to the overthrow of governments they will be no more successful than the French Revolution, which had no clear alternative for change; consequently when it was over it had created a larger and stronger government.

The only lasting change will be brought about by a change in thinking, it requires an understanding that the natural activity of men is to provide for the propagation and preservation of the race, including its spiritual development. Men accomplish this activity by creating the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. This often requires a lot of work frequently accompanied by danger. The motivation for this activity is not money or ownership but the well-being of society. These activities are not considered to be jobs.

The time has come to take action. Our mission statement is clear. Are you working to bring about its implementation? You can do this by getting friends and like-minded people to subscribe to this website. You can invest in my books, or if you have already done so, get others to invest in them. You can meet with like-minded people and discuss these issues and how to further implement the mission statement.

Are you going to become active and prepare for change or will you sit by and become overwhelmed by the rioting?

E.G.

WEALTH VERSUS ABUNDANCE

We tend to use the words wealth and abundance interchangeably in our society, and their usage conjures similar images in our minds eye; however, closer examination shows they denote entirely different conditions. The interchange of these words has adversely effected our lives.

Abundance generally means “a lot of” something. We refer to abundant sunshine or rainfall, an abundant harvest, or an abundant catch for fishermen. The Bible refers to living abundantly. Everyone can have abundant sunshine, rain, harvests or catches. Everyone can live abundantly if we define it as having all of our needs met. The American Indians lived abundantly, as did the Pacific Islanders and the Africans. They all had an abundance of what they needed to live healthful lives. Birds, fish, and mammals also all live abundantly.

The term wealth on the other hand tends to be a comparative word based on ownership. We cannot all be wealthy, because wealthy people have more possessions than the poor.
Wealth and poverty are interdependent. Rich and poor depend upon each other not only for the definition of their respective positions but also for the exercise of their positions.

Jesus said, “The poor will always be among you,” for the reason that the society that he administered to believed in ownership. A person can only amass great wealth if multitudes have little; having little means owning little or nothing. In a society that shares, poverty cannot exist; taking care of each other prevents poverty from forming.

We who live in Western nations, especially in the United States believe that we have the opportunity to be rewarded for our efforts and can attain great wealth. Children are told to go to school, get an education, get a job, make a lot of money and be somebody. Having money—more money than your neighbor has—is being somebody. This philosophy in essence causes us to wish ill of our neighbor, for success is measured by having more than him.

Last year America produced 43 new millionaires—a fact that was heralded in the media. That same year hundreds of thousands of food stamp recipients were added to government rolls. There cannot be wealthy people without poor people, nor can their be wealthy nations without poor nations.

The Capitalistic system teaches that wealth is not a finite quantity, that wealth is created and that we all share in it. New products create jobs and more wealth is provided for more people. As a former business owner I once bought into that argument. I owned a small manufacturing company and created jobs for the unskilled and semi-killed. However, upon introspection I realized that their families had been destroyed and land was no longer available to them. They needed me because the system we operate in left them destitute.

Free enterprise creates wealth and poverty; only God creates abundance.

We live in a world of rich nations and poor nations, and within these nations there are rich people and poor people. The rich people—the very rich—are united in their efforts to control the world, which they already own. This rightness of ownership regardless of the consequences is so embedded in the Western psyche that when candidate Gingrich boasted that he would establish a colony on the Moon with an American Flag on it there was local applause and no national outcry. Financial interests already own the world and the water upon it; the next move apparently is to start ownership of the solar system. We could be fighting wars over who owns Mercury or Mars.

There seems to be no end to this madness of ownership and self-indulgence. The vehicle that taught sharing and working together for a common purpose was the family. Now that it has been destroyed and the government has take over the indoctrination of our youth the concept of self-centeredness, material acquisition, and self-indulgence are considered to be normal. The government continues to create drones that become increasingly dependent upon governmental largess while fewer and fewer people own the world and run it.

There is no system of government that can successfully function in a society based on ownership. Liberals and conservative, communists and capitalists, and all the shades and variations of Western governments cannot survive because they are grossly materialistic.

We live in God’s world and it was created to sustain his people. This concept that we must be beholden to another man for our survival is unnatural and will pass.

I read in a metaphysical book written more than one hundred years ago that a battle is shaping up between the material and spiritual forces of this world. I feel this battle has already begun and will intensify. We can sit back and watch it and eventually become overwhelmed by it or we can start to live differently now and survive it.

If you want to become active rather than passive I ask that you review the Men’s Action Mission statement and determine what part you can play in bringing about a more natural way of life for humankind. What is natural will survive. What isn’t won’t. Gross materialism is unnatural. It is passing.

Prepare yourself for the future—live a natural way of life. One way to do this is by supporting Men’s Action.

E.G.

IT’S TIME TO LOOK FOR A LIFEBOAT

Yesterday in a discussion with a colleague I stated that Western society couldn’t be fixed and that it would not last much longer. It is built on a weak or un-natural foundation. Any further tinkering will only move the problems from one location to another, but the overall health and well-being of society will continue to degenerate. Western society is a sinking ship, and now is the time to look for a good lifeboat.

Section IV of our mission statement contains steps for living a more healthful life that will lead to health options in addition to those provided by drug companies and the AMA. These steps will lead to having a lifeboat. On November 6, 2011 I posted the essay Holistic Healing Available from Men’s Action, as a step in fulfilling the mission statement. Two of our subscribers took advantage of this healing and their testimonials follow:

Cluster Headaches

I suffered from cluster headaches for 25 years. These headaches would occur about every two years lasting a few months each time and causing severe pain. The pain of cluster headaches is so severe that they are known as “suicide headaches” due to the fact that some sufferers have chosen to end their lives rather than endure the pain of the headaches, which can be described as a stabbing, and tearing pain located behind the eye socket.

I took pain pills along with a prophylaxis but nothing helped. When Elder George started treating me from New York City I stopped taking pain pills at the end of the first week. I stopped taking prophylaxis a couple of weeks later. The headaches have not returned.

Thanks Elder George

B.C. Torrance, CA Nov 2011

Arthritic Ankle

In the mid 1970's I was in a rather serious auto accident. Among other injuries my right foot was crushed. The resulting arthritic condition had worsened over the last several years and my radius of operation had been decreasing. The pain had become severe and I considered pain management as the next medical procedure.

One day Elder George whom I had never met but considered a close friend from internet correspondence, suggested I give Pranic Healing a try. I thought, “Sure, what have I got to lose?” I was not familiar with the concept of Prana but George said it had worked for him (and when one is in pain one is open to experimentation with whatever offers relief). We agreed to try three sessions a week for a month to see if it helped.

A few hours after my phone conversation with George (he was in New York and I was in California), I was sitting in my chair in my office when I felt this wave flow through me. The feeling was sort of like when one takes a deep breath and holds it for a time to build up the tension and then lets it out. I had never spontaneously witnessed this sensation before. (I assumed that George was doing his Energy Healing).

Over the next few days I became aware that my ankle felt different. It was very subtle and I am unable to describe the difference. I do know that I was striding out more confidently, unconcerned with the likelihood of pain. Prior to my treatments I would be hesitant in my movements, anticipating the discomfort with each step.I was stunned at how quickly the pain ceased. I have essentially no pain in my ankle when I walk now. One day I walked several miles with no pain.

And the very best part: I did not have to do a thing. The pain just magically disappeared.Thank you Elder George

H. D. Sacramento, CA January 2012

The purpose of my article of last November was to acquaint you with one of many forms of alternative healing. A dream of mine is to someday have on our website a list containing the names of practitioners of alternate forms of healing. Until then look in your own area and give them a try. If you cannot find one that you are confident with, send me an Email or give me a call.

When I treat you there is no taking time off from work, no travel time or expense, and no physical examinations. I can examine any body, anywhere, and at any time. As H.D. said above “The pain just magically disappeared.”

I strongly urge all of you to prepare for the day when the Western way of life degenerates into deep collapse—a collapse that has already begun and is intensifying. Please do not give these articles a complacent Ho-Hum response or you will get caught up in the sinking of our grossly materialistic ship without a lifeboat available to you. I am offering you a lifeboat now. Start thinking and living differently.

One way you can do this is to contact me for any ailments that you might have.

You have nothing to lose but your aches and pains.

E.G.

AN IMAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR

Most of us have two images of ourselves, the one on the inside that only we see and the one that we project on the outside for others to see. The difference between these two images produces stress within us; the greater the degree of difference the greater the degree of stress.

Some of the outer projections that we concern ourselves with might focus on how we appear to our fellow employees, the boss, our customers, the opposite sex, our family, our neighbors, or those we socialize with.

Various self-help courses and support groups that have as an objective the improvement of our outer image only make matters worse. They increase the distance between what we think of ourselves and what we are trying to project. The preoccupation with how we look on the outside causes great stress on the inside,

This same dichotomy of images appears on the national level as well. The Western world focuses on the outside, on gross domestic product and the acquisition of things. Society bombards itself with motivations to buy a better car, more stylish clothes, more expensive vacations, higher paying jobs, more profitable investments, and more ornate homes as part of efforts to become “somebody.” That “somebody” is the image that we try to project.

Projecting one image and living a different image causes anxiety and stress on a national level just as it does on the individual level. In essence we are living a lie. Living a lie causes great pressure on the mind and psyche because it involves acting on a continuous basis and also makes us unduly sensitive to the comments and evaluations of others.

While the Western world gives the image of strength on the outside it is crumbling on the inside. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue of England, the United States and Canada is mental illness. The National Institute for Mental Illness estimates that at any given time 25% of Americans suffer from mental issues. The number one debilitating illness of the American woman and European woman is depression.

Just as individuals suffer from focusing on the outside, nations and cultures do so as well. All of Western society and all nations that have accepted the Western culture suffer from stress and the mental, physical, and spiritual effects resulting there from.

Another way to live consists of focusing on the inside. When I lived in Harlem one of the songs sung in the black churches was titled “Working on the inside, changing on the outside.” That song expresses a great spiritual truth. Who we are on the inside governs what we express on the outside. Gandhi said, “If you want to change the world, start with yourself.” When we change ourselves we change what we express and the responses of others as they react to what we express. That’s how we can change the world.

A loving mother who devotes herself to her family and who constantly pours out nurturing love changes the world. She fills her environment with peace and calm. She has an aura of love about her that fills the home. Her children reflect this environment in their joy, happiness, and contentment; anxiety, tension, and anger do not reside in them. The man who provides the safe and secure environment and means for his wife to function in enables her to manifest her unconditional love.

There is no greater contribution that can be given to humankind than the raising of well-balanced, caring, and obedient children. They will grow up with an attitude of giving rather than taking and of sharing rather than owning. What a child learns when he is young he will remember all his life. The place for good learning is a happy home and that can only come about through the dedication of a caring mother and father.

The finest universities and the most brilliant professors cannot do for this world what a stable and loving home environment can do. Long after this era of material information and technology passes, loving and caring homes will remain. They will prosper as the decline of materialism accelerates.

It’s time that we live outside of the materially focused and government dominated environment and start living our lives simply and lovingly. It’s time to get rid of the individual anxiety and national angst produced by the environment of an uncaring and selfish society.

Let not forget that this world was designed by a great power. That power sent prophets throughout the world since the beginning of human existence to teach us how to live in this world. Problems ensue when we start to live outside of these teachings.

Our present society has made a God of materialism. It has created a multitude of material edifices that it worships. The power that created this world in the snapping of his fingers can bring down the works that man labored years, decades, and centuries to create. In the snapping of his fingers he brings about earthquakes, floods, and storms that in moments destroy and wash away dams, bridges, tunnels, buildings and all the other edifices of material accomplishment and worship.

As this year begins we are witnessing the accelerating destruction of, and the discontent with, the world that man has built. Every continent witnesses continuing demonstrations of discontent by people of various races, religions, and ethnicities. We know that something is wrong but we don’t know what it is yet. Eventually circumstance will force us to recognize the balance of nature, the Yin and Yang of existence, and the divine purpose of propagating and preserving the species while on our spiritual journey.

We are receiving help from our creator as with increasing frequency he brings down the works of man and the power of the mighty. The meek shall inherent the earth is a great spiritual truism. They always do. Let us be meek and work on the person within. The more that person develops the greater the good he will be able to accomplish in this world. Let’s get rid of the false person on the outside and let the true person on the inside reflect our goodness.

My thoughts are with you all as we enter this year of challenge and growth. Let’s live simply, share what we have, love God and be kind to all. That will produce inner peace along with a great image.

E.G.