“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.” Corazon Aquino.

Yes, I cheated.  I looked for a quotation to suit the mood of this post and came across the above.  Corazon Aquino was the woman who led the revolution which toppled the authoritarian regime of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy in the Philippines.

Anyway, to the theme of this Post.

Those that are regular readers of Learning from Dogs know that at one level I am not optimistic about the future over the coming years.  A quick trawl through this Blog will find quite a few articles showing that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.

One of the forecasters who has consistently been on the money, so to speak, is Gerald Celente.  He runs an organisation known as Trends Research Institute.

Here’s 14 minutes from a recent interview on the Alex Jones Show.  Do watch it to the end.

Despite being US focussed this interview still has massive implications for the rest of the world.

This Post is about faith.  Around minute 10:30 in the above video, Celente talks of those people that have the faith in themselves to bring about change.  Celente talks that from all great disasters comes change.  He talks of the Black Death that in the three years from 1348 wiped out up to 50% of Europe’s population.

From the Eye Witness to History website:

Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the epidemic played itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe’s population had fallen victim to the pestilence.

 

 

So here’s the point.  In the Celente interview, he predicts that 20% of Americans will reject the way that they see their society going. Fascinating!  That 20% figure.

Dr David Hawkins in his seminal book Power vs Force writes on page 77:

… 85% of the [world] race is below the critical level of 200, while the overall average level of human consciousness is approximately 204.  The power of the relatively few individuals near the top counterbalance the weakness of the masses towards the bottom to achieve the overall balance.

Hawkins is saying that 15% of the world’s population has the integrity required to bring up the level of consciousness of all the rest.

I have the faith that we are on the verge of another renaissance for mankind, one based on integrity and truthfulness, honesty and love.  In my faith, I see this next renaissance being born in America, still the land of the free.

 

 

Titian was born in 1488 just 100 years after Europe was ravaged by the Plague.

Keep the faith – there is a wonderful new world just around the corner.

By Paul Handover