Peace Corps Essay

The planet is being rewired. The whole idea of having a job simply to make a pay check is evolving. People are waking up and realizing what they’ve been taught may not be the way forward anymore. It’s up to them to be still enough to see the new frontier waving them over into nothingness. This is the place where the mind meets infinite possibilities because no ideologies, religion, sex, race, age, nationality, sexuality, can get in the way of inspiration. People aren’t inspired because they fear what the new frontier may ask of them, “Let go. Take a risk. Quit your job. Leave your marriage. Move out of the country. Think new thoughts.”

Fear excites people. It tells them all the reasons why they should remain holding onto random somethingness, dogma, childhood, ideas, judgments, people, bad job,” You are safe here. Here is reliable. Here is practical. Here is SECURITY,” but here has nothing to do with any of those things. It’s the mind’s barrier that keeps people from breaking through the glass ceiling into total positive affirmations. Everyone stares at it as a reminder why they should stay in mediocracy because breaking glass is dangerous and can harm them. Those who break through bleed, but are inspired.

I listened to an interview by a scientist whose name I cannot remember. What stayed with me was his brilliant idea, “the next generation may not be Homo Sapien.” My most consistent question to myself is what is next for humanity. We have centuries of discouragement based on sex, race, age, nationality, and when I frequently play near a stream close to my house It’s obvious to me our minds are polluted by the pollution found there. According to Buddha our external world isn’t separate from us, it shows us what is going on within us.

Space exploration seems to be the next frontier but judging by the Gangs, river in India and the Mississippi, both deeply polluted, we would only bring our scattered presence to the stars. The conclusion I come to is the same Lao Tzu centuries ago did. What is next for humanity is compassion because then it doesn’t see everything separate from itself.

The Upanishads say that I will never know Brahman, the force that is in everything. Alan Watts would tell me to stop trying to understand the force. What is “It” we are searching for. Neil Degrass Tyson speaks that my eyes are connected to the greatest known force, the universe as does the Upanishads. The “It” I am searching for I will not understand and have stop trying to.

I seek to be an example to young minds that they don’t have to grow up to become an adult who loses its child like wonder and imagination. My greatest gift is to bring positive affirmations because even though the world is turning slowly out of dark times of discouragement people need a reminder that the “It” we are searching for is connection.