Swami Beyondanews...State of the Universe
Mark Graffis
e-mail swa...@saber.net
Beyondanews -- January 1, 2000
Featuring Swami’s State of the Universe Address
Dear Friends:
Welcome to the New Millennium -- unless you are Jewish, Chinese, Mayan
or anyone else who uses a different calendar, or unless you are one of
those sticklers who insist the millennium doesnt begin until 2001. As
per every year at this time, Swami Beyondananda offers his State of the
Universe Address, which follows. Feel free to freely circulate this
document, but also be sure that the Swami tag and website address are
included.
Swami Beyondanandas State of the Universe Address 2000
Well, the New Millennium is here, and if you are reading this, I
predict we have survived. The Y2K glitch has given us a great
opportunity to consider the age-old question, What are we human beings
really like when the chips are down? and face our fear that when the
Big Ball dropped, we would drop the ball. With the Millennial Madness
sale finally over, we can now turn our attention from the profits of
doom towards that which profits everyone.
Discorporate Takeovers Continue Unabated
Speaking of profits of doom, as was predicted at the beginning of the
year (see State of the Universe Address for 1999), the Monsanto
Corporation has abandoned its terminator seed technology on orders from
Above. As you may remember, the would-be know-it-alls from that
corporate giant decided they wanted to own and manufacture all of the
crop seeds worldwide. But a Discorporate Giant nixed the plan. Said a
spokesman for the Creator, Human beings have free will, so of course
they are free to play God -- as long as God wins. Like any spiritual
transformation, Monsantos was an inside job. An insider working with
the Rockefeller Foundation began to suffer pangs of conscience, the
first symptom of awakening compassion. He began to doubt the
assertions that Monsanto scientists were wiser than Creation, and
decided to air his concerns at a Monsanto board meeting. He secretly
instructed the press to be there (before someone else could secretly
instruct them not to), and he spilled the soybeans. By the time the
spin doctors arrived on the scene, it was too late. The terminator
technology had expired.
Personally, I see it as a result of all those mass prayers and
meditations. The blisskrieg is beginning to pay off. Even the tobacco
industry has suffered a bout of conscience, and if this persists it
means that any institution is suceptible to awakened compassion. It is
said that when a certain number in any group attain Buddha
consciousness -- known as the Hundreth Monk theory -- the organization
will transform too. And our loving prayers help. The rising esteem
from all that love makes the atmosphere more favorable for enlightening
to strike.
The discorporate takeover is also being felt in our hospitals and
HMOs. While the medical establishment insists that nothing works
better than allopathic medicine, critics are agreeing that indeed
nothing often does. Some recent studies indicate that placebos have
higher success rates than certain established medical procedures! And
why shouldnt they? Since the atom is 99.99% empty space, and we are
comprised entirely of atoms, are we not more nothing than anything?
Although medical authorities scoff at the notion (Invisible medicine?
I just cant see it), just wait until the HMOs catch on. I predict well
see more and more practitioners sending their patients off with a
placebo and a prayer.
And if you still need proof of the power of prayer, you need only look
as far as the baseball world. In Cleveland this past summer, a group
of East Indians of the Buddhist persuasion -- the Cleveland Indian
Indians they called themselves -- adopted popular outfielder Manny
Ramirez, who ended up with more runs batted in than anyone in over
sixty years, a feat attributable in part to Buddhist chanting. Each
time Ramirez would come up with runners in scoring position, he would
hear those devoted fans chanting oh Manny bat me home, oh Manny bat me
home, oh Manny bat me home -- and more often than not, he did.
I would look for Spirit to materialize even more in 2000. The
blisskrieg will continue unabated as more and more of us convert our
karmas from internal combustion to esteem. This will drive the price
of lie-ability insurance sky high. The more the underlying truth comes
out through individual awakening, the more certain companies will have
to pay to insure their ability to lie. (If you think legal advice is
expensive, its nothing compared to the cost of illegal advice.) As
more of us decide to put outcome ahead of income, lie-ability will no
longer be an asset.
Finally, the Discorporate Powers, working through our own prayers and
actions, will transform the arms race. In 2000, look for the nations
of the world to give up the foolish notion of disarmament, and focus
instead on learning and teaching the appropriate use of arms. Yes,
thats right. Ever since I was refused service at a fancy restaurant
years ago for not wearing a sportjacket, I have been a staunch
supporter of the right to bare arms. No one wants to be without arms.
Look at Venus di Milo -- beautiful to look at, but she cant do a
thing. The Creator gave us arms for a reason, and free will to choose
what we do with them. So this year, I predict the first arms exchanges
between formerly-warring parties will take place. On my tell-a-vision
screen, I see rival armies proudly walking towards each other as their
commanders issue the orders:
At ease! Present arms! Hug! Who knows? We may be able to stop the
some of the balkin in the Balkans, cool the ire in Ireland, and relieve
the pressure around other dangerous human fault lines.
Now in some areas, we will no doubt fall short in 2000. For example, I
predict another Presidential election year will go by without us
learning to harness the wind from all of the oratory and put it to some
useful purpose. On the other hand, I see a great transformation in
store for Bill Gates. As part of his settlement with the government,
he will have to take one of those Radical Honesty workshops, and will
end up renaming his company Macrohard. The Artist Formerly Known as
Prince will drop that name as well, and hereafter be known as The
Artist Formerly Known As the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. And the
discorporate takeover will hit the airwaves in the form of a new
network featuring only disembodied commentators -- the Channel
Channel.
There -- Ive tossed out my predictions, and you probably will too.
Because this is indeed a Universe of unlimited possibilities, so why
limit ourselves? Weve survived to a new millennium, which is great.
Now its time to raise the bar a bit and go for thrival instead of mere
survival. With every thought and deed we are buying futures. I say
its time we picked one wed like to own.
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