Today, technology has brought us communications, fractals and spectacular images of the universe we live in.
Technology is allowing us the ability to look inside the womb and watch a tiny little speck grow into a baby that will soon enter the world.
The Internet is allowing the planet's heartstrings to vibrate, in unison, when it sees something beautiful and voice strong opposition, when it doesn't.
But has technology brought mankind closer together?
Have people come to understand, respect and learned to love each other more?
Have we come to cherish and and take care of this beautiful planet we inhabit?
The evolution of mankind is a mystery.
No one knows how we came about and why things evolve but we desperately try to make sense of it all.
We give that which we don't understand fancy names and puff ourselves up, in a paltry display of feigning some type of "understanding" when, in fact, we don't have a clue.
Maybe, we weren't meant to know.
Until, of course, the time is upon us.
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Seventy years ago the world was coming out of the ravages of World War II.
There were no jobs as everyone was busy coming home, after fighting a very long war.
We were transitioning from a war time environment to one of peace.
People had no televisions, there were no Walmarts or Targets, no Mall of America, no car marts, no fancy cars.
People had to make do with what they had.
We had crank wall phones, refrigerators that were kept cold by blocks of ice and I remember my mother washing clothes using a wash board.
Milk was delivered to our homes by a milkman.
Electricity was scarce except for emergencies.
Many homes had no running water, wood stoves, oil furnaces and fireplaces were used for heating and cooking, there were no large septic tanks, cesspools were open in backyards, central heat and air were yet to come.
And yet people knew nothing else but were happy and contented, relieved that the war was over as they could now be with their loved ones and concentrate on finding jobs, creating families, starting Mom and Pop businesses.
The country was coming out of a wartime mentality and into one of building a bright future and prosperity for all.
In school, children used ink wells and wrote with quill pens; teachers unrolled sheets of paper imbedded here and there with small brown specks of tree bark; learning and discipline were the order of the day; classrooms were quiet as the students listened and learned; fun was reserved for the playground.
There was a quiet modesty, moderation and quiet reverence for all things.
Children rode their bikes down country lanes with the sun shining warmly overhead and delighted in cavorting through the woods.
Laughter and squeals of delight were heard as little girls found patches of flowers and watched a stray deer run across the meadow.
Little boys climbed trees and skipped rocks across ponds and raucously played good guys and bad guys.
We made Indian teepees outside and inside we covered big cardboard boxes with layers of bejeweled scarves that instilled wonder in us as we crawled through a labryinth of rainbow colored tunnels.
Seventy years later, mankind professes it has arrived.
Arrived at what?
There's much to be said for what technology has brought to mankind.
Technology is simply an example of humanity's evolution.
But has it really enriched our lives?
Isn't living simply and appreciating what we have, getting together with loved ones and showing kindness to one another, standing outside at night and looking up at the dazzling tapestry of light over our heads, attending church and thanking G-d for all we do have, really what it's all about?
Maybe this wormhole we're entering into is really no different than where we were seventy years ago.
Maybe it's just a continuation and a more in depth realization of what's really important in our lives a deep and more intrinsic understanding that doing things the same old way (wars and rumors of wars) isn't going to help anyone at all as we blindly go along with the status quo as humanity just can't seem to get out of "stuck on stupid."
Technology has played an important part in our lives.
But isn't it also important to understand a simple Truth, the true relationship we have with one another, a camaraderie, a deep and lasting relationship that we're just now beginning to comprehend, an awareness of a fundamental and lasting connection that is inherent in all of us?
And one that has stood the tests of technology, wars and time?
Technology may be a part of our lives but the Truth of our existence has always been with us and always will be.
This unfolding that is now occurring, (aka The Shift) this tightly closed rosebud that is now opening up to us of our birthright, this lovely and existential existence that lies before us, as essence precedes existence is one that has belonged to us from the Beginning. And one that we are now just beginning to realize.
It is our birthright.
It's just that our birthright is constantly being droned out by noise, wars, politicians, self-serving interests, big money and Ego.
Technology or Truth, which one is more important to you?
Which one will you choose?
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