I’m going to start this off by acknowledging that I am not from here!  Geographically this has always been true. I was born in California, but I wasn’t from there. We moved a lot in my childhood, and I continued that in my adult life. No matter where I’ve been, I’ve been an outsider, an interloper, an alien.

The same is true as it relates to the human race. I’m not human. I can’t possibly be because I don’t do or experience things the way so-called normal people do. I cannot tolerate much of what humanity seems to be ok with. I see no place for division, cruelty, selfishness, or greed. I see no reason for human beings to not cooperate with each other in making sure that all humans are fed, housed, clothed, healthy, and safe. And yet, for all of history humans have been fighting over land, food, resources, beliefs, whose God is the real God, etc. etc. etc. I don’t get it.

I’m not from here. As a result, I have a very different perspective on how life can and (in my mind) should be. It’s the reality that I know in the deepest parts of my soul. Perhaps where I come from, people know how to get along. I know it’s possible because perhaps I’ve lived it. It is the potential I see for humanity, if only they would be willing to try.

Creating a different kind of world, however, means the end of what humanity has known. This was what I saw in the prophetic dream I had at five years old. I saw the end of the world (as humanity has known it), along with necessary tools for bringing humanity around.

The tools were simple: honesty, integrity, cooperation, and collaboration. To create a new world from the one that is currently destroying itself, there is no room for division. Human beings must come together, no longer for their own selfish needs or desires, but for the sake of the good of the all. Nothing short of this will suffice.

To borrow from John Lennon, for humans to live in peace, we can no longer separate by religion, nation, gender, or race. We must eliminate caste. We must become equal while celebrating our uniqueness. Those who have must share with those unable to provide for themselves. We must make better use of our resources and become stewards, and not destroyers, of the earth. We must become one body with many parts working together so that all might not only survive, but thrive. We must seek out and harness each other’s unique gifts, nurturing and cultivating them for the benefit of the all. We must see our fellow humans as ourselves and treat them with the care and respect we want others to offer to us.

While many will argue with me that humans have always been as humans are. Perhaps, but I believe that humans are capable of being and doing so much better. Some will suggest that nothing has ever changed and therefore never will. I disagree. Throughout human history there have been instances of humans living in cooperation and peace. This reality lives in humanity’s collective memory if they would only take the time to seek it out.

Would a world such as this require loss. Most definitely. The loss, however, will only be that which has been made out of fear. Systems that hold humanity imprisoned will need to be dismantled. Some might not like what they will be forced to let go and they will resist. By that time, however, there may not be much left to hang on too. The system is collapsing whether humanity sees it or wants it. The system is a divided house that cannot stand and with each encroaching year, humanity is bearing witness to the collapse. Grief being what it is, many may remain in denial, but the fact remains.

The world as humanity has known it is collapsing and a new world is trying to be born. The young people know this and feel it in every fiber of their being. New breeds of humans are being born to hasten the collapse and are at the ready to build something new in its place. The new world that is wanting to be born is made of Love, not fear. It is the world I know and the world I know humanity is capable of building for itself.

May it be so.