| There are an increasing number of people who want | | | | because they dared to stand up to the yobs that |
| to know how they can make positive changes in their | | | | terrorise their neighbourhoods. This has led to a young |
| lives and in the world through self-improvement, | | | | generation with little or no respect or discipline and it |
| therapy, resolving the past or a spiritual pursuit. | | | | has left parents, teachers and members of the |
| Equally there are a growing number of people | | | | community seemingly powerless to do anything but call |
| concerned about the total-surveillance and control | | | | the police. Unsurprisingly the result is more crime and a |
| aspect of western society. This dangerous | | | | less safe place to live in - exactly the opposite of |
| development is usually called the New World Order by | | | | what the government measures promised. |
| those who believe that there is a plan rather than | | | | It is easy to manipulate people's believes through the |
| incompetence and ignorance behind it. | | | | mass-media. Let us look at another example. |
| Surprising as it may sound, both groups of people are | | | | At the time of writing, the world is panicking over |
| facing the same challenge, as we will see shortly. | | | | swine flu. Apparently there is a global problem |
| When we say New World Order we are referring to | | | | threatening thousands of lives. Drugs are being bought |
| the rise of an Orwellian Big Brother state all over the | | | | and hoarded (no doubt manufacturers are making |
| Western world. This has accelerated enormously since | | | | untold millions) and people are "worried sick". |
| 9/11, as the so-called war on terror now serves as an | | | | But this is only one example of many health scares. |
| excuse for the removal of civil liberties like never | | | | Many people today use antibacterial cleaning agents |
| before. The term New World Order implies that the | | | | and soaps. They don't think their immune system, |
| orator doesn't agree with it. From the view of such a | | | | having evolved over millennia, can cope with the small |
| person, there is a secret agenda which has been going | | | | amount of germs of a Western world home. Another |
| on for centuries with the aim of enslaving humanity | | | | example is the liberal use of antibiotics in medical |
| under an unelected world government. But one need | | | | practice. Antibiotics are very important for fighting |
| not go as far as this to see that the reactive | | | | serious infections but they are today prescribed so |
| measures of Western governments to almost | | | | liberally, that bacteria are becoming increasingly |
| anything (crime, terrorism, immigration, poverty, | | | | resistant. So we have antibacterial cleaning agents and |
| healthcare) are invariably a non-solution perpetuating | | | | we have antibiotics and what is the affect of all this on |
| the problem and ignoring root causes. Usually such | | | | our immune systems? I'm not a doctor or scientist but |
| reactive measures are taken on the back of highly | | | | it seems common sense that total lack of practice isn't |
| emotional media reports that highlight an individual victim | | | | exactly going to strengthen it! |
| of crime, or an illness or similar examples, neglecting to | | | | So once again we can see that the perception of |
| mention that the vast majority of the population is | | | | weakness and vulnerability with regards to our health |
| never affected. This allows new laws to be passed to | | | | has generated fear, the fear has led to |
| fix a problem which is in truth not there or is a lot | | | | over-protective measures and the reality this has |
| smaller than is made out. | | | | produced is indeed a weak immune system. |
| Unfortunately none of the measures taken will ever | | | | Now coming back to Swine Flu, it can be argued that |
| solve the problem, simply because our perception | | | | worrying about it will also weaken the immune system |
| creates our reality and therefore if we do not alter our | | | | - this at least is what cell biologist Bruce Lipton PhD |
| believes, we will never change the outside world. | | | | has found in his research. The term "worried sick" has |
| Crime is today one of the areas where this can be | | | | not come about for no reason. |
| seen very clearly. | | | | If we do not wish to see more Big Brother-style |
| Constant focus in the media on crime creates in the | | | | measure imposed on us "for our own good", we had |
| population the belief that crime rate are rising, that | | | | better stop acting weak and start changing our |
| things are for ever getting worse and that the world is | | | | believes. |
| becoming ever more dangerous to live in. The state | | | | And here is where we meet the self-improvement |
| responds with harsher sentences, early intervention | | | | person who is also out to change his or her perception |
| with "problem children", DNA databases, new laws, | | | | about themselves. They are trying to find out what |
| increased surveillance and so on. | | | | makes them tick, how their past influences them today, |
| But such measures lead away from good parenting, | | | | how they have acquired their believes and whether |
| community involvement and self-responsibility. Instead | | | | these believes actually serve them. Therefore, |
| any misbehaviour is channelled into the criminal justice | | | | whether we are trying to free ourselves from our |
| system. I have some involvement in the criminal justice | | | | social conditioning, learn how to handle our emotions, |
| system in the UK and I have seen how parents end | | | | become better parents, improve our relationships or |
| up in court, reported by the children they tried to | | | | fight the New World Order and create a better and |
| discipline. I have also seen ordinary people prosecuted | | | | free future, we are essentially fighting the same battle. |