Looking Ahead with Barack Obama

No matter whom you voted for in the recent election, we now have a new President and we ought to give him our loving support through prayer and proactive behavior. As I write and counsel, thought impressions are more powerful than knives and guns. Words sting but silent and invisible nasty vitriol can affect the energetic universe in which we all live. This swirling movement of resonance impedes the efforts of the Divine to reach us with guidance. And what is at the root of such imagery is fear-fear sired by dark and dangerous pits of anger and rage camouflaged by trying to speak in the name of a great teacher. Christians must be particularly careful about letting their personal dogma or beliefs color their sensibility.
 
So what did President Barack Obama inherit as Commander-in-Chief of this great nation? What are his challenges? What part do you play in the return to greatness of our country that was founded upon freedom to worship as one chooses not as a Christian nation (this is the most errant pitfall in thinking that many of us in the United States preach. If you are guilty of this, change your sermon!)
 
Barack Obama must understand and implement a policy of under-spending; the effort to become solvent again begins with us as individuals. Our corrections here at the Sedona Intensive, and personally for each of us, began with spending less and paying down debt. If that meant cutting out services and dispensable purchases, we are doing it. As a nation, we must reduce the debt by collecting taxes and paying down what we have already spent. The deficit is beyond comprehension but it is not beyond our capacity to reduce it measurably. As I say constantly, Obama and all of us are going to have to rebuild the house that greed destroyed ‘brick by brick and stone by stone’. We are in an era of the Great Reconstruction-from ground zero-back up to a house we can make an affordable home.
 
Barack Obama must influence our nation in staying out of countries that do not want us and can legislate and govern as they so choose. Dictators rule because the people let them. The United States fought a Civil War because, among other reasons, one half wanted to free the slaves and my ancestors wanted to keep them. Let other countries fight their own battles-let them decide to what lengths they are willing to go to be free, to establish a government they are willing to die for to have-and it may not be the democracy that we have in this country. Oil interest bullies, Rovian rogues and clandestine operators get us into wars. We know from the facts the war in Iraq started by lies and distortions. Obama has pledged to seek peace and not war. The part you play is to pray for peace and to send vibrations of harmony out into the universe.
 
Barack Obama must be more non-partisan than a Democrat. He must reach out to those who opposed him, who voted against him, to garner their good will and support by listening to what they have to say; to take outside opinions into consideration. And he is smart enough to recognize the lunatic fringe from the freedom fighters; the bellicose religionists from the bountiful righteous.
 
Most of all Barack Obama must engage dialogue with the Divine, a Power greater than himself, God, if you will, for guidance in these glorious, but heretofore, perilous times. Although I have never believed that this place, this world, was the real reality, it is where we find ourselves to make the corrections for bad girl and bad boy behavior, engendered by a divided self from which intolerance and hatred are inflicted toward those whom we perceive to be “different” than we are.
 
Lastly, Barack Obama must once and for all lead us toward a colorblind Consciousness from a platform of not only tolerance for those of color, but to see us as one, the same, color be-damned. Our storyline may be different, our backstory in some cases involved more strife and struggle but we are in the eyes of God the same. Barack Obama can help heal this hundreds-year old rip in the fabric of this nation and turn to YES WE CAN with unanimity and harmony.
 
Did it ever dawn on you that you may have played a part in the devolution of this country? Have you looked at yourself in the mirror and seen your selfish and self-centered attitude that ‘it’s all about me?’ Well, as at 9/11 when I asked my friend Scott ‘What did I do to cause this tragedy?”, I have looked at myself and I have begun to implement psychic changes in consciousness to do my part to change our country. To change this nation I must change myself.

Albert Clayton Gaulden can be reached at info@sedonaintensive.com or visit www.sedonaintensive.com/ for more information.

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