Are Things Hopeless?
On its face, judging from what we get in the media, it would
seem our world is spiraling into the abyss. Putting aside that
"doom and gloom" is a profit center for the media, there is
reason for concern but also reason for hope.
That hope resides in each of us as individuals. Evil can only
exist if good men do nothing. Every good or bad thing that has
ever come to the world began with one person who decided to do
something. One is a powerful number. The helping hand we need
for world woes does not lie with government or others, it is
right at the end of our own arm.
Yes, everything may fall around us but if we do all that we know
to be right - beginning right now - then at least we will have
no regrets that the misery that might visit us was due to our
stupidity or laziness. We must do what we should, when it ought
to be done, whether we like it or not.
There is even good science emerging that proves the action of
one can have far-reaching consequences. Morphic resonance is a
phenomenon being studied in biology that is gathering powerful
supporting evidence. It argues that there is a sort of force
field that exists that permits telepathic-like instant
communication between creatures resulting in the transference of
skills and traits totally apart from genetics. This provides an
explanation for why an invention will be simultaneously
developed by inventors totally unaware of one another in
different corners of the globe. We can see it at work when
hundreds of fish in a shoal or birds in a flock will dart in
perfect synchrony to and fro without ever colliding with one
another. It explains why mice taught to run a maze somehow
transmit the skill to totally separate groups.
This concept helps us to understand that we are not ever really
alone. What we think and do can instantly transmit to an entire
population to change the course of events. The prevailing
undercurrent of thought in society, the zeitgeist, might
therefore be changed by the action of one. We are moving to the
unspoken drumbeat of others, but they are also moving to ours.
So there is no reason to ever give up and feel hopeless and
powerless in the face of adversity and depressing world events.
In fact, once we sense futility and lack of control, we
jeopardize our well-being and happiness through the mind-body
connection. Our own demise can then be self-fulfilling
As we watch what appears to be ominous signs in our world, we
must try with even greater vigor to move forward, to do what is
right in our own little sphere and to do it as if the world
could be changed as a result. We must believe that we matter,
each of us, and that what we do can have an effect. It does.
Sheldrake, R. (1981). A new science of life: The hypothesis of
morphic resonance. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press.