The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine April, 2017 | Page 11

How is it possible
for seven billion human beings to all want the
same thing-safety, security, peace, prosperity, opportunity, happiness, and love-yet be unable to
produce it for any but the tiniest percentage, even after thousands of years of trying?
I pose this question wherever I appear on my speaking tours, but I rarely get a satisfactory
answer. That's because most people do not understand the nature of the problem. As a result, we
keep trying to solve the problem at every level except the level
at which the problem exists.
First, we try to solve the problems as if they were political
problems. We author legislation, we pass resolutions, we issue
declarations and sign documents, we create governments and
then, by vote or by force, dismantle the governments we have
created-we try everything we can think of politically, and yet we
are faced with the same problems today that we have faced for
centuries, and indeed, for millennia.
So we say, obviously these are not political problems. They must
be economic problems. And we then try in every way that we can
to manipulate how cash flows around the problems. We throw
money at them (as in the sending of foreign aid), or we withhold
money from them (as in the imposition of economic sanctions).
We try everything we can think of economically, and yet we are
faced with the same problems today that we have faced for centuries, and indeed, for millennia.
So we say, obviously these are not economic problems, they must be
military problems. And then we shoot bullets at them and drop bombs
on them and fire missiles into them. We try everything we can think of
militarily, and yet we are faced with the same problems today that we
have faced for centuries, and indeed, for millennia.
So we say, it's time to stop the fighting and go back to the bargaining
table. We need to negotiate a settlement. And the cycle starts all over
again. We pass more resolutions, then we impose more sanctions, then
we drop more bombs, all the while crying out plaintively:
"There must be a solution somewhere."
Yet the problem facing humanity is not a political problem, it is not an economic problem, and it is
not a military problem. It is a spiritual problem, and it can only be solved by spiritual means.
My Conversations with God book series-the first entry of which was published in 1995-has been
read by millions and been translated into 37 languages worldwide, and I have been answering
questions about the content of those books for 20 years. So I have some well-worn opinions on
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