Humanity is in need of a great change. If we are honest with ourselves, if we can slow down long enough to really see the truths being reflected back to us in the mirror of life we have created, we can glimpse clearly what is, and what is not, working. History has shown us that civilizations adopt beliefs which not only create reality, but become the foundational core beliefs of its people. These beliefs are woven into the fabric of society, and are the design of how we live and experience life. We are influenced by the beliefs of our leaders, by the prominent institutions of religion and science, by what we read, study and watch on TV. Though the signs are currently evident we need to step back and reconsider many of these beliefs, mankind appears to be comfortably trapped on a runaway train heading for a potentially disastrous fate of our own making. We must embrace new beliefs to create the change we want and need before we hit the wall at mach speed.

Global chaos is on the rise. It is vital to understand the cause of this chaos is old, outworn beliefs being challenged by new perceptions. This new awareness is not only exposing the harsh realities of diverse, critical circumstances we face, but demanding we pull back the curtain to expose the misperceptions and outdated beliefs that no longer serve us. If we do not slow down willingly to question what we think we know, it will ultimately be forced upon us under less desirable situations. This clash between old and new beliefs is the exact fuel humanity needs to ignite our evolution towards something better. How fast we evolve depends upon our willingness to embrace change, and overcoming our fears of the losses such change may bring.

Buried within each one of us is the light of knowing the truths by which to live. Yet, it takes courage to disconnect from all our environmental influences and distractions to uncover our own personal truth. When we reconnect to our own inner knowing, this light reveals the violation of basic human rights in the shadows to which we have become blind. Humanity has been swept into the industrial and material sea where the captains of power and greed chart their own course, and we have been willing passengers aboard ship. President Eisenhower gave us fair warning about the consequences of the inevitable corporate monsters. While we have been busy enjoying our affluent, material distractions, the monsters have been busy ensuring our slavery to the modern lifestyle. Our way of life is leaking valuable juice that is both severing our vital link to Nature, and becoming toxic waste. We cannot point the finger at the monsters if we are ourselves lost and forgotten we are here to thrive in the garden, and live in harmony with Nature. It is time for mutiny aboard the ship, but we had best be clear about what we truly believe, and what is possible. If our environment creates our beliefs, and our current environment is full of misperceptions, then creating change can only come from the courage in our own core beliefs.

To confirm our own beliefs, we need to look long and hard at our cultural belief systems that daily influence us, and see both what is worth preserving and what is damaging us. The fundamental beliefs of our government, churches, schools and institutions have trickled the American dream down to such core beliefs that happiness is money, wisdom is education, military and war is needed to keep us safe and big Pharma drugs offer health and longevity. Yet, we know one can be rich and miserable, war is fear based and ends in devastation, informational knowledge does not guarantee wisdom and pharmaceutical drugs are deadly and toxic. And still, we do it anyway.

Our institutions are supporting beliefs and perceptions which have been proven false:

▪ The material world is the only reality that matters, yet quantum physics has proven “the field” beyond matter as the source.

▪ Medicine wants us to believe we are genetically fated for certain diseases when science has proven the environmental influence of belief to override our genes.

▪ The belief that human evolution is random and chaotic, that only the fittest survive, keeps mankind weak and without personal power.

▪ Education pumps us full of information and knowledge, yet we are confronting challenges created from a lack of wisdom.

Our collective belief system software needs an update. As Bruce Lipton explains in his book Spontaneous Evolution, ” These failed paradigms unconsciously hold in place the current dysfunctions that threaten our survival. Once we release ourselves from these limiting misperceptions, we will be open to a whole new world of possibilities and opportunities. Radical thinking will open doors to an emergent future we cannot even fathom.”

If we are going to be the creators of change in this world, we must identify old, worn out beliefs and misperceptions, and replace them with new, vital, hopeful, imaginative, wise and even predictable beliefs.

We cannot be sheep and simply follow the shepherds of the past.

▪ To bridge the worlds of science and religion, we must believe we can create Heaven on Earth.

▪ To heal the shame of our past, we must learn from our mistakes and believe in the power of forgiveness.

▪ To use the power of technology and science with integrity, they must be infused with a belief in compassion.

▪ To set ourselves free from our own victim prisons, we must believe in the power of our own perceptions to create the reality we know is possible.

Our second president, John Adams, gave us this wisdom, “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

Dragonfly shows us we must return to the mid-point to avoid the tipping point. The place of balance offers us sacred and golden beliefs by which to live. It is time to change, and be the change.