--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aren't we a cheerful bunch!! But it ain't lookin' real > good out there, is it?
Speak for yourself, honey. What things "look like" depends a great deal on where you live, what the media in that place beam at you, and most of all the psychic mindset of the place itself. The psychic mindset of the United States of America right now is fear. In particular, fear of "loss." That is why I don't live there. If I did, I'd probably be as focused on all the negative and potentially "threatening" things in the world as many folks there are. But I don't live there. I live somewhere where the psychic and media mindsets are different, and where *most* of the people I meet are *not* focused on all this stuff and worried about it. You mentioned at one point that new regulations in the US have curtailed your ability to travel. Have you ever looked into *that* as the cause for some of your focus, as much as anything else? > I've heard people make a good > argument for the notion that we went to war to keep an > economic melt-down at bay. Apparently it's not > working. Well, we're overpopulated and so wholesale > slaughter is unavoidable to their way of thinking. Do you remember a comedian named Sam Kinison? Big, brash guy whose schtick was to set up a joke and then yell out the punchline at the top of his voice? The one I find myself remembering right now went something like, "I've got a message for all of those folks who are starving in Ethiopia. MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!" Yeah, yeah. I know that in many cases they can't. But most of the folks reading this forum could. And a little road trip *outside* the borders of the US might do wonders for their view of whether the world is lookin' dismal or not so much. I'm not sayin' that Europe doesn't have its issues and problems. All I'm sayin' is that I don't see the people who live there -- for the most part, England excluded -- living in fear the way that Americans tend to. I think that the issue is "psychically environmental." There is something WRONG with the *place* right now. And one of the easiest ways to shed the psychic side effects of that wrongness is to get away from it for a while, and immerse yourself in a different psychic environment. It doesn't make the problems go away, but it sure can do wonders for one's ability to not let the problems get one down. Just another commercial for the value of Road Trips. We now return you to your normally-scheduled programming. So to speak. :-)
