Malik - The New Ages

What if you were the only person living on this planet? How would you live your life?

What if none of us had to work for money? What would be our occupations, our professions, our jobs? What would be the avocations, the evolutionary pursuits that billions would be following?

And if that were so, how would this planet, civilizations, societies & families, be different? How would so much energy, which is currently dissipated in survival, be redirected? And what would it create?

What is a better system? Capitalism or socialism?

What is more important? Wealth creation or wealth redistribution?

Is GDP a good enough measure of a nations, a societys prosperity? Or should there also be prosperity indices? Equality metric? A gross national happiness index?

Are science & religion destined to be at odds? Is technology inherently incompatible with the spirit?

Is personal freedom the death knell for social norms? Are basic instincts & social life fundamental paradoxes?

What if women & artistes ran our societies, our governments, our bureaucracies, our corporations? How qualitatively different would life be? Would wars reduce? Would defence expenditure come down significantly, and these resources deployed for health, education, sanitation, and infrastructure? Would compassion & understanding replace domination & aggression as our basic traits? Would love replace machismo & violence as the virtue in our popular culture?

At a chaotic and crucial time in human history, where technological & economic growth is combined with strife, and an increasing divide between societies & communities, a normal, sensitive person like me (& millions of others out there) is forced to ask some very fundamental questions:

Is it a time to rejoice or feel despondent? Is there increasing happiness out there, or increasing disparity? What can we do differently, so that we continually have more good news than bad?

Are we ready to usher in a new world??

Now imagine if life was not the mundane routine of survival, but a fantastic adventure way beyond the ordinary of mysterious clues, allegorical guideposts & mystical coincidences, leading to the discovery of our higher selves across space, time & dimensionsof our karmic relationships, resulting in the fulfillment of a higher purpose, our destinya memory that we, as humanity, have forgotten

Its time to revive that unconscious memory

John Lennon once said: You may say that Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one...

Here are my words:
I live in my dreams; I walk my own way,
I look at what can be, not what is today,
I dream of a world with ideals,
I dream of a world that heals,
I dream of a world, with love that flows,
I dream of a world, with warmth which glows,
I dream of society where people care,
I dream of a place where individually we dare & collectively we share,
I dream of a world where people compete but do not fight,
I dream of people who live in today, but of our collective future do not lose sight,
I dream of a world which is pure, green & clean,
And all this of a world, which can be, for it has been,
I dream of harmony between men, between nations, & between nature & man,
I know these are dreams, but if we all dream, WE CERTAINLY CAN..

So let us dream together, dear reader..lets go through this adventureand discover our own destiny

Dedicated to the thousands of fans, friends & fellow believers, who are part of The New Ages community on Facebook, and who share their dream of a new world, with me & each other, daily And to all others who dream thus

But Mr. President, we are close to a breakthrough. After all these months of behind the scenes diplomacy & negotiations, I finally see an agreement materializing. All we need to do is to give peace a real chance, and be flexible.

Mr. Johnson, peace & negotiations are being construed as weakness, an inability to act. We have been discussing this issue for over six months now, but are facing the same deadlock. Moreover, the defense sub-committee has presented a compelling case for an all-out offense: a swift, sledgehammer campaign. This would be in the best interests of our national security, apart from creating a conducive environment for democracy in the region. This report has been shared with all of you in the last cabinet meeting... said the well built man seated at the head of a cabinet.

I have seen that report, Mr. President, including the fine print & the annexure. said the agitated leader of the opposition, raising his finger. And I must say that it has not been able to present any conclusive evidence in support of the allegations leveled. I take the liberty of quoting Clausewitz at this juncture: Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Most of what this so called intelligence report says seems like a compilation of news reports & editorials rather than concrete, on-ground intelligence! In fact, the whole report seems to work backwards, with evidence created to support interpretation, not the other way round! This is certainly not how I have seen any credible intelligence report in over thirty years of public life. And I am sure thats the view of most of us here, whether from the opposition or treasury benches.

Sir, our nation has long stood as the beacon of justice and fair play in the world- that is what gave us moral & political leadership in global affairs. Of late, a lot of that credibility has anyways been ruptured by our misadventures. If we even think of war now, based on such sketchy intelligence & a distinctly prejudiced view about the region, our allies too will not stand by us this time. The entire coalition that was so painstakingly built will lie in tatters. Not to mention the potential irreversible damage to our moral authority.

I agree with Mr. Johnsons views. added another moderate in the cabinet. This war will irreversibly hamper room for any future dialogue, and will rip apart the global consensus that earlier governments had so patiently built.