The Mark of the Beast

What is the gentle and intelligent way to affect change?

By planting seeds of hope we can uplift, inspire.

The brutish way to affect change is to destroy, demolish, demean.

The people of this planet seem to have two directions.

Their music is mostly about love.  They sing of love, lost love, new love, making love.

But their newspapers tell a different story.  There we find much negativity, violence, anger.

Very little artful dialogue is found in our free press.

But that which we pay for is usually of a higher scale, an uplifting class.

Which reflects our true nature?

The man and the beast dwell within.  The scraps thrown to us from the world feed our lower nature.  We should never pay for such trash, yet we ingest it.  We let it dull our minds and poison our hearts.

A public radio depends on support and donations from its audience to survive.  The news is more intelligent, less burdened by rhetoric and political bias.  This is a higher standard of reporting and it attempts to expand the listener's breadth and scope of knowledge.

One such station NPR made the point recently that in these times people need to pay for quality news programs.

Why is it the things we pay for are of higher quality and the things that are free are often so low-brow?

Our choices show we have a higher nature, a loving nature.  It's a matter then of ingesting the free garbage or choosing to feed the mind and body with the best you can afford.  Do you choose knowledge, love and gentle understanding?  Do you want to feed your mind and spirit?  You can grow your mind and consciousness to the point where someday you will free yourself from the shackles of this mundane lifestyle.  You can be a source of positivity and change, a person others turn to for hope.

Alternatively, the dark forces on earth will gladly feed the beast.  His mark will be on your mind.

The choice is yours.