The World After Good Has Won...

By Bill Lamond

I want to summarize what we have learned in the last ten years of living with fulfillment-based thinking, about a new kind of world, so you can take advantage of it in your own lives.

1. Culturally, there is a complete void about what the world will look like when Good has triumphed. Notice that our movies, books, and stories are all about the endless struggle between Good and Evil. When you get to the part where Good wins as it always does in the last 5 or 10 minutes/pages -- often using the same violent tactics as Evil -- then, all of a sudden we come to "THE END."

We need to develop a vision for what the world will look like after "The End." More pointedly, we need to stop saying "The End" and finally start saying, "AAAH, now THE BEGINNING." Whatever you cannot envision, you will probably not be able to create. (Try this experiment: really try to envision the world after "The End." Most likely, you'll get stuck after about one minute or you'll tell yourself that this is a fairytale that will never happen or you'll just go blank.) This is where the real, imaginative, strategic work needs to be done if we ever expect to get humankind out of the predicament we find ourselves in.

2. We think that Good is triumphing is some global phenomenon, like trumpets blowing and God saying, "Hey, knock it off." Nothing could be further from the truth. The triumph of Good is a personal, individual, intimate experience that every one of us can have now and generate as a grassroots wave. If you are honest with yourself, you will recognize that Good has won in you. I-m not talking about the ridiculous perfection game where you are never free to make a mistake.

What I am talking about is that if you are reading this, you are probably a person who is honest, prays for a better world, generally treats people with respect, is a good parent, etc. YOU ARE A PERSON IN WHOM GOOD HAS WON (whether you make mistakes or not). When you finally acknowledge that in yourself and stop acting like something is wrong or broken, you enter a different universe -- one that most people have been praying for! I've seen people weep with joy when they finally have freed themselves from the insane notion that something is inherently broken in them and come into contact with their intrinsic goodness. You are a good person. Good has won in you. Evil is not where you live. Isn't it great? It's a gigantic relief.

3. When you acknowledge that Good has won in you and that you are not at war with yourself or Evil, several things become obvious. The first and primary thing that is obvious is that the strategy that you used to live your life when you thought that Good and Evil were at war is not going to be a useful strategy to live in peace and happiness. You will need to craft a new strategy for your life -- one that reflects your goodness and what's available in that state. That's where fulfillment-based thinking and natural genius occurred to me. Rather than trying to fix something that I thought was broken or keep trying to prove that I'm really OK, I investigated what my greatest joys and pleasures are and began to follow them.

4. Evil loses its power and glamour and threat. It actually becomes boring because it's a losing strategy that never gets anyone what they truly want, namely to be happy -- the central thing that is hardwired in EVERY human being.

5. You will have to hold yourself to a different standard. War/struggle is a state of emergency. It is permissible to do things in a state of emergency that you would never do in peacetime. In war, you can injure yourself profoundly to get a result produced and people will call you a hero. In peacetime, you have to develop a style that nourishes and grows you. Think of raising your children. You nourish and grow them. To raise them in "life is an emergency" would be a state of insanity. You just wouldn't do it, although our media are making a powerful attempt to do just that by what they incessantly focus on.

6. War is a state of constant fear. Fear is the opposite of openness and shuts people down. What I discovered for myself when I shifted worlds was that the state of chronic fear in which I lived had caused my brain and central nervous system to be "starved," and that I needed to nourish them in order to operate again at full capacity. You can only live in emergency so long before your body starts breaking down under the stress. This is an embarrassing thing to say, though it needs saying: Most people are not getting where they would like to go in life because their brain and central nervous system are starved energetically and cannot "read" the data in really creative ways. This kind of energetic starvation kills intelligence and deadens our natural gifts and talents. It is completely counterproductive to live in strategies based on war or fear. (How to nourish the brain and central nervous system energetically is a whole topic in itself.)

7. I recognized that my style of making agreements needed to change drastically. That's why I invented "Irresistible Opportunities." These are agreements that are crafted so that everyone involved feels joyous and gets what they wanted -- or even more than they wanted. Most people hate to be sold anything. The reason is that, until very recently, the game of selling was based on strategies of domination or heavy-handed persuasion -- as in "high-pressure salespeople." Sales as skirmishes or battles! I knew of a company whose sales staff called themselves "kamikaze enrollers." A few years ago, car companies radically changed their sales strategies and started promising prospective customers that their salespeople were there to help them, to answer questions, and to take care of them. What a relief! Did these salespeople also want to make a sale? Of course! The question is, who would you rather buy from, someone who beat you up or someone who treated you with courtesy and respect?

8. In a time of peace the emphasis is on building, growing, nurturing, exploring, and enjoying. Isn't that what you want? Then declare that Good has won in you, enter a world at peace and start looking for the practices that are consistent with that world. We don't know what all of them are. They will need to be mapped.

We need people who are real, live everyday examples of human beings who are living from their goodness, pleasure and joy, so that others can see what it looks like and emulate it. Though sometimes a charismatic political, spiritual, or cultural leader inspires a country or the world to greatness for a time, unfortunately, when that person leaves office or dies, people often go back to the way they were before and think back nostalgically on that "golden" time. The story of Camelot is one powerful example. Truthfully, only when enough of us have made a personal, private decision to live in our goodness and stick to that commitment, will societal thinking reflect a dramatic, permanent change for the better. That's how to have a world that is viable for everyone and everything -- one person at a time, until the larger, mass consciousness reflects our personal decision!

Something to think about... A friend of mine told me about a principle from wave theory in physics. The principle is that when two waves of energy at the exact same vibrational level come into contact, the power generated is not twice as much, but four times at much -- the square of the sum of the waves involved. When three identical waves come into contact with one another, the power is nine times as much, and so on. If you saw the movie, The Perfect Storm, where two hurricanes came together with cataclysmic results, you already understand this principle.

She went on to say that if 80,000 people sustained and united their conscious energy in service to a commonly held vision, the power of the change generated would increase 6.4 billion times -- the same number as the current population of our world! It could be any vision, including one of extraordinary peace, safety and goodness.

One of my favorite people is an eighty-year-old woman who has lived in New York City all her life. She is a spiritual mother to me and I love her deeply. One day while visiting, she mentioned that in the summer, when she was a girl, many families camped out at night in Central Park. Her family did. It was just too hot to sleep indoors and the park was safe! As we continued to talk, it became obvious to me that a tiny percentage of New Yorkers make Central Park unsafe at night for the good people of that city.

Certainly, the same can be said of terrorists who are holding the world hostage emotionally. They are a tiny percentage of people. We act as if we are victims of these people. We also act as if fighting them harder and harder will work, when our fear and our fighting just solidifies and magnifies their power. Fear is what terrorism intends to generate.

What if an infinitesimally small percentage of human beings had the power to create the world that most of us want? Did you know that, even as I write this, there is a worldwide spiritual movement of more than 800,000 people who are consciously practicing uniting in love and harmony to manifest a world that is centered in Spirit, environmentally balanced, and completely harmonious? They live in more than eighty countries and come from every ethnicity and religious background. They are practicing by living their lives that way now -- rather than waiting - and by uniting in a common prayer and vision for a New World. They are, in fact, ten times the number of people we may actually need to alter the world consciousness we live in.

Something to think about, something to commit to, something to practice!

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