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by Michael Corthell This article is about healing, but not in the traditional Western sense. It is not a substitute for licensed medical advice. This article is about having belief and faith—knowing that healing is a partnership between God and the individual. ''Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.'' '' Rise and go; your faith has made you well.'' —Jesus (God incarnate) Jesus also says, 'Your faith has made you well', to the ten lepers and a blind beggar. Other times Jesus links faith and healing without using the exact words, 'Your faith has made you well,'' such as in Matthew 8:13 and 15:28 .   '' Then Jesus said to the centurion, '' Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.'' And his servant was healed at that moment.'' and, also: Then Jesus said to her, '' Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.'

Having all that you need, as well as  recognizing that you have all you need, equals happiness. “I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.” ― Nathan W. Morris

A Resource-Based Economy is nothing like any other system. They say “It’s a form of communism.” No, it’s not! Communism has warships, airplanes, bombers, poison gas, nerve gas…and all the things we have [today]. It’s nothing like any other ‘…ism’. It’s different than any culture ever tried before.  ― Jacque Fresco , The Venus Project All of us, deep down inside, have a longing to be reconnected with nature. That connection on a cultural, global scale will fuel our collective creative imagination and restore our world. “Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money. This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for the

  We cannot harm one without harming all. The healthy 'inter-are' with the unhealthy and the wealthy 'inter-are' with the poor. We can't escape that connection.  Most human beings have been taught to believe that they are separate from other human and non-human beings and in fact all life. That is simply false. We are each other. We inter-are. The fact that we ‘inter-are’ is the great awakening we must have in order for the Earth to be saved.

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven Home isn't a location, it's where you find light when your world grows dark.

  “When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.” ― Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora That intractable, long-term pain is often caused by the pursuit of temporary pleasure.

by Michael Corthell In western societies particularly, there is a major hindrance in acquiring a positive mindset; it is the greed and gluttony of instant gratification. The brain has the ability to change its programming by 'rewiring' itself. This 'rewiring' of course, can be either positive or negative and since the post World War Two 'baby boom' generation we as a global culture have done just that, we have rewired our collective minds to ''want it all and want it right now!'' Many people today grow up without a true sense of how yesterday affects today are unlikely to have a very real sense of how today affects tomorrow. We live in a society that advertises instant everything, giving our brains instant emotional gratification, which works just like the natural feel good chemicals our brain produces. The more immediate gratification we offer our brains, the more we crave it. We have created a consumer addiction, which in turn h

“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work  is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough Excuses are never lost for long(if you're looking for one, you'll always find one!). Plato may have stated it most succinctly when he said, ''The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is, of all things the most shameful and vile.''

  “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.” ― Katherine Mansfield The future is inevitable, but the past is fixed.

by Michael Corthell Do you worry about past events or things you should have done(or not done)? Is regret a constant companion? This great read by Mr. Carnegie is fully relevant to life today. People had been worrying and regretting well before 1944 and will likely worry a lot in 2021 and beyond. What would you do if I told you to 'go saw sawdust'? You'd probably laugh and then say, ''Well that's pretty damn stupid.'' and say to me, "What sense would that make, its already sawed, done with, finished.'' I would say, ''Exactly!'' and then I might say, ''It's the same thing as crying over spilled milk, isn't it?'' In the above example the only reason I would say such a seemingly ridiculous thing is that the person I said it to was either regretting a past mistakes and some how trying to fix one by dwelling on it or living comfortably in the past, and neglecting his present. '

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Greed is a little bit more than enough.

“If you can drink from the fountain, why then, should you request for a drink of water from the cup?” ― Michael Bassey Johnson A primary key to success is demanding more than good, never settle for good enough and always doing a more.

by Michael Corthell Many of us who have been or who are successful have looked at our lives and noticed, ''How about that! Everything is going pretty well! We're happy; The kids are doing great; We have enough money; A nice home, etc etc. I have a great job, my family is awesome. Things have never been better!'' ''You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.'' —Zig Ziglar It feels wonderful doesn't it? Being safe, happy and content is terrific. But hold just one second. This happy (and very common place) can also be a very dangerous place. If you get too comfortable, and you start to take things for granted—you have settled. Settled for what? Settled for 'just good' or more rightly 'just good enough'. Life has become common place. So what happens next? Discontentment. You can easily get so comfortable in life's routine that there is a very real dang