A Time of Real Harvest
The Divine Eye: Seeing the Good in Everything and Everyone, March 24, 1995, Oasis Bookstore, Amherst, Massachusetts
Yes, earlier you were talking about a historical figure. Today was a historical day, for a number of reasons. Newt [Gingrich] and his associates have been very active.
Yes.
Legislation was passed that essentially dismantles, on the federal level, forty major welfare programs.
Yes.
And the next thing they’re going to do is reverse affirmative action.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Ironically, at the same time, Americans were feeling euphoric in that the Dow Jones industrial average went up fifty points to close at an all-time high of 4,138. So, I have two questions: What will be the political and social ramifications of this social legislation that is working it is way through the system? And how much longer can the national financial felicity continue? Where is this bull market going to top out and when, if this year? And also, I wanted to say, personally I prefer “S” gauge. I hope that is alright.
“S” gauge is an oddball gauge, isn’t it?
Yes, it is.
It is very hard to model in “S” gauge.
Yes.
You’re very brave. What do you like about it?
I like its... It is really an amalgamation of the two best aspects of the “HO” and the “O” gauge Lionel. It is good like Lionel; in that it has sufficient size to be durable.
Yes.
Yet it retains the realism, and the proper proportions as does “HO.”
You can pack more in.
Exactly.
Well, the stock market is overinflated right now; its true value is approximately two hundred points lower than it currently is existing. The balloon will not necessarily pop the way it popped in October 1987, but the balloon will slowly deflate.
We do not think that it is going to deflate its full two hundred points rapidly. But there is a small chance that it may. It depends largely upon the weather, and the weather’s effect upon the agricultural world.
But the stock market has a larger psychological impact upon the people. When it does begin to deflate, the people will also begin to become deflated. Because the most average people are not feeling as good in their life as the stock market makes the big people feel. But they look to that as a kind of illusory comfort that, “Oh things are fine, the stocks are high;” when most people are not fine. So, what will happen is the illusion will vanish, and people will become upset again. People haven’t felt permission to be upset, because things have supposedly been so good.
With the Newt, what is happening is they are going to shock people. They are already beginning to shock the people, but they are going to shock them even more about the venomous nature of some of their proposals. People did not necessarily care what these people planned to do. It is a great error to believe that people did care. Now that the people are in there, who said they were going to do these things, the actions they are taking are surprising many people. We believe that this bodes well, not for any particular person or party, but instead, it bodes well for a reinvigoration of the people who are citizens of the country. They are caring more right now than they ever have before because, in previous years, only bland legislation was passed. Now that there is very spicy legislation, the people are awake. This is only good.
In this materialistic society, it is easy for people to become very sleepy, very drowsy, and not to care very much about their government. But, when the government begins to do outrageous things, publicly outrageous, promised outrageous things, previously it was privately outrageous, publicly outrageous, the people become outraged. The public becomes outraged. So, we believe that it is boding well.
However, there still remains an organization of the outrage of the people, which can turn that outrage into productivity. That has not yet come and the great weakness of the opposing party to this Newt one, is that it has never had a strong organization. It has never been able to act as one body. That is a very great weakness. It has got a lot of ego rife within it; people who think that only they and what they care about are important.
There has never been any one single magical collective submission or surrender of the will to the common good. And we do not mean some stupid common denominator whereby nothing effective could be said, but it only met everyone’s needs. Instead, we mean that no one has ever tried before to let their own will be subjugated to the will of the mass for the better good. If they should allow that, we think that there is a power that can be unleashed that would be very surprising to the Newt. But let us also say with the Divine Eye, the goodness of the Newt has yet to shine through.
The Newt has been quite misunderstood and misrepresented, partly because of his own ego, partly because of the fear that he conjures up. People misrepresent what he is saying and what he is being. The Newt actually is a much wiser being than he appears, and you should not interpret his wisdom by the legislation he proposes or supports, because it is not a fair representation, and neither are his romance novels. His wisdom is much better than his public productions. So, this is a time of real harvest.
The harvest of the period of the 1980s, in your world, when in that time the mass population was immature. Largely, people were not ready or willing to analyze their government very well, so they allowed a few to convince them that they could analyze the government well. Now, the average person is much more ready and much more willing to take a critical look at their representative government and at their society. And so, the discourse, if you will, has heightened, not necessarily unraveled in a good or bad direction, but has become more intense. And the most important thing would be for no one to go to sleep in these years. No one to roll over and say, “I don’t care,” or no one to roll over and say, “They’re going to do whatever they want.” Because there is no “they.” There is no “they.” There is you. What do you want?
Dear Ones, thank you. Yes, you are quite welcome dear ones. We thank you for your remarkable attention and focus. We want to sing a beautiful song for you.
[Group joins in singing Eon’s Closing Song]
Light of Peace
Light of Love
From within and above
Help us truly play our parts
On the earth and in our hearts
We say farewell for you now.