Our friend the dandelion.

Remember that perspective is everything?  If we change our perspective the whole universe seems to change quite literally.  We are all aware of those times when it has happened and we really didn't feel like we had a choice, like someone dyeing, or falling in love. Those are the times when the universe forces us to change.   The death of a loved one is an almost immediate depression, which changes how we see everything in the universe, just like falling in love changes everything. 

What is interesting is that the same phenomenon can occur even though the universe stays exactly the same.  For instance, being on a spiritual path, one eventually has to come to terms with the fact that religious gods have nothing to do with reality.  So when one realizes this, and it is generally a mind blowing experience, one also realizes nothing has really changed, there are the same number of people, the same number of atoms, nothing in the universe actually changed.  Well, nothing in the external universe changed anyways.  The change that occurs within is actually what changes the universe!

There are so many people who like to say that this is an insignificant change, this inner change, but please consider that the people who make this claim of insignificance really do not know what they are talking about.  They are generally miserable people who are depressed and live in fear.  Think about it, that claim is always made in ignorance, because if one knows the truth about one's Self, one would want nothing else but to become that Self.  When one understands how a small change ripples out into the universe forever, one realizes it is suddenly not small at all. 

It does not take a spiritual awakening, falling in love, or someone having to die in order to change the universe.  It only requires input of new information and a change in worldview or Self view.  Personally, such change can be difficult to bring about, but that difficulty is inner turmoil.  New information can be anything new coming to the mind from within or from without; dreams, experiences, thoughts, intuitions, conversations etc. 

In order to be the most aware one can be, one must always see things for how they are, free of projections.  Remember that perspective is everything!

Please check out our friend the dandelion before moving on, if you do not trust the information on this website I am sure Google has lots of others you can refer to.  They are all going to be similar.    http://www.leaflady.org/health_benefits_of_dandelions.htm

We are Americans.  We live in a culture where people pay a company named Monsanto, to produce a chemical called Round-up, to kill what we call a weed.  The problem is, this weed, happens to be one of the most nutritious foods we can eat.  We have a health crisis of which the government, through corporations, is attempting to seize control of one of the most profitable institutions yet; healthcare.  The problem is we do not have a health crisis, we do not have a health care problem; we have a mass ignorance problem.  We have millions of people walking around claiming they are educated and yet kill nutritious food with chemicals while at the same time paying a doctor for chemicals to treat illness that would never had occurred if people ate healthy food.  This is not educated behavior; this is ignorance of the highest degree. 

In the community where I live, where I seem like a big fish, the looks I receive for picking dandelion greens are quite hilarious.  People literally look at me as if I am crazy, weird, or just plain lost my mind.  Imagine how funny this is to me, because it is them who have lost their minds.  They have lost their minds so much they spend thousands of dollars to pay a doctor for their ailments while paying another company to kill the cure which grows right in their lawns.  They really have lost their minds!

We have a serious issue in this country.  The masses are completely ignorant to what is going on.  Their perspective has been so twisted that they see the cure as a weed, and the thing that is actually killing them, they see as a cure.  What is even worse is that one does not need any farming know how whatsoever to grow dandelions.  They are prolific and grow all on their own.  One simply has to pick them, wash them, and add them to a salad. 

The idea that we can all go off as individuals and do whatever we wish is a lie.  Our individual actions have an effect on every one.  Changing one small thing about our worldview, changes the universe.  We are not individual beings, but a collection of beings.  Just like our bodies are made up of trillions of individual cells, America is made up of millions of people.  If a person had as many sick cells as America has sick people, what kind of person do you think America would be?  Because so many Americans have health issues, America has a serious health issue.  If all of my neighbors are actively destroying their health, it most certainly affects me, even if I never see them.  The fact that I do not see my neighbors affects me. 

For me this is a perfect expression of a proper perspective.   A beautiful plant that heals and prevents disease is considered a weed and chemicals are manufactured to destroy it.  This is America.  Instead of living in harmony with nature, we are destroying it.  We have a serious problem as Americans.  Those of us who wish to live a good life cannot because there are so many who do not.