New Consciousness Review Spring, 2017 | Page 53

AWAKENING HEALTH

Yet the problem facing humanity is not a political problem , it is not an economic problem , and it is not a military problem . It is a spiritual problem , and it can only be solved by spiritual means .

today that we have faced for centuries , and indeed , for millennia .
So we say , obviously these are not political problems . They must be economic problems . And we then try in every way that we can to manipulate how cash flows around the problems . We throw money at them ( as in the sending of foreign aid ), or we withhold money from them ( as in the imposition of economic sanctions ). We try everything we can think of economically , and yet we are faced with the same problems today that we have faced for centuries , and indeed , for millennia .
So we say , obviously these are not economic problems , they must be military problems . And then we shoot bullets at them and drop bombs on them and fire missiles into them . We try everything we can think of militarily , and yet we are faced with the same problems today that we have faced for centuries , and indeed , for millennia .
So we say , it ’ s time to stop the fighting and go back to the bargaining table . We need to negotiate a settlement . And the cycle starts all over again . We pass more resolutions , then we impose more sanctions , then we drop more bombs , all the while crying out plaintively : “ There must be a solution somewhere .”
Yet the problem facing humanity is not a political problem , it is not an economic problem , and it is not a military problem . It is a spiritual problem , and it can only be solved by spiritual means .
My Conversations with God book series-the first entry of which was published in 1995-has been read by millions and been translated into 37 languages worldwide , and I have been answering questions about the content of those books for 25 years . So I have some well-worn opinions on what I call “ humanity ’ s dilemma .”
It seems to me that nothing we are doing is working . Our political systems clearly are not working . Our economic systems clearly are not working . Our ecological systems clearly are not working . Our health care systems clearly are not working . Our educational systems clearly are not working . Our social systems clearly are not working . And saddest of all , our spiritual systems clearly are not working .
Nothing that we have created to produce a better life for all of us is producing that outcome for the largest number of people . In fact , it is worse than that . They are actually producing exactly the opposite .
It is time to arouse humanity from its slumber . There is obviously something we don ’ t understand , both about life and about God , the understanding of which would change everything .
I have catalogued what I consider to be humanity ’ s major misunderstandings in my latest book , Conversations with God-Book 4 : Awaken the Species . I offer seven tools for integrating the behaviors of fully awakened beings into an average person ’ s daily life .

Nothing that we have created to produce a better life for all of us is producing that outcome for the largest number of people . In fact , it is worse than that . They are actually producing exactly the opposite .

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