I guess the truth is that there may be the odd weekday when I don't write, after all. Yesterday, my writing focus was elsewhere...
This morning, I opened Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It, deciding to meditate on the first statement that passed in front of my eyes. It's one of those books that lends itself to this activity really well.
At the end of the chapter, "Casting the Burden", she says: "'In the twinkling of an eye,' man's release will come when he realizes there is no power in evil [her italics]. The material world will fade away, and the fourth-dimensional world, the 'World of the Wondrous', will swing into manifestation."
I agree with her that "there is no power in evil", that it is not a power or force in and of itself. If there is only one creative force in the universe, whatever you wish to call it, and it is made up of love, passion, truth, creativity, life and joy, it simply makes no sense that there would be an "opposing" -- second -- force. However, our belief in that opposing force has created much of the world as we know it. I don't know what would happen if every human released that belief tonight; would the material world fade away? Much of our human-created part might, but let's face it, it is unlikely to happen that fast.
But nearly one hundred years after Shinn wrote this, we may well be entering a time when nature itself is evolving upwards into a higher dimension, and we, as part of nature, are essentially being asked to make the same upward spiritual leap ourselves. These next few decades will probably be marked by unprecedented growing pains, but yes, what will gradually emerge is a world (and a human experience) more wondrous than we can imagine. Hang in there, folks.
