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Train wreck therapy

By Ed Conley - Sep 20th, 2008 at 11:22 am EDT

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We all know from personal experience, either our own or our friends and family, that disasters have a hidden positive side. They tend to wake us up. We humans like to set up our life like a toy train set with everything running smoothly here and there picking up pleasures and dropping off pains.
Here at Bevell's Hardware in Blackstone the mother of all train sets is laid out each Christmas season taking up a quarter of the store, and people come for miles to stand and watch the trains weaving through the various stops of small town life. But no matter how big or elaborate the train set it still goes in circles within a boundary that has no horizon. When train wrecks come, and they always do, we have to reach in and put the train back on its track.
When it comes to us humans and our little train sets of the mind, it is only when disaster comes that we have the opportunity to realize that we have been living within a contracted world where life goes in circles and sleeps in the illusion that every situation is a new event while in reality it is just a new form of yesterday. So any kind of shock is good when it comes to waking up from this dream of toy trains and small towns of familiar pleasures and shared pains.
Our nation is going through a shock therapy right now with the wreck of the financial train, and the government like a good train master is reaching in to put the trains back on their track. But this is also a time to realize that these wrecks are recurring disasters that have to do not with the tracks but our outdated train set. Our train layout is too small for the expanded global world of nations now. We have to lay an expanded vision of ourselves, one that is in harmony with the real world. The question at the voting booth this year is simple. Can the train master who's world view created our current train set have the wisdom to see a greater vision, or do we need a new train master, one who already has an expanded vision of who we are and can be?

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