While in the process of writing up a new blog post related to the recent Projecting Reality at the Speed of Thought post, I was sent this very intriguing video. It’s apparently quite popular with over 3.6 million views on YouTube so far. Watching the video, I had an amazing realization that I thought I’d share. My other planned post will just have to wait a bit longer.The video is a simple run through of photos of all of the 44 U.S. presidents to date. On the surface, it’s nothing all that special other than the creative genius employed by the producer to make each photo morph into the next. In preparation for viewing it, I’ll ask you to gently pull away from your busy life for 4 minutes, take a few deep breaths to center yourself and quiet your thoughts and, giving it your full attention, watch the video from start to finish. If you look closely, you will see something occur that is truly wonderful – a very profound yet subtle gift to witness and receive in these modern times of ours.
Okay, ready? Watch the video… and pay added attention to the look on the faces in the last minute or so.
How many of us, at least those aged 30 and over, have not at least once nostalgically looked back and thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go back to the Little House on the Prairie days and live in those simpler times?” How many of us haven’t looked back to what we imagine as a much easier way of life, seemingly now so long ago and far away? It goes without saying that these last hundred years or so have been utterly riddled with massive global hardships. No need to recount them here – most of us could rattle off a couple dozen global tragedies in the blink of an eye.
Watching this video and these presidents from a different perspective shows something else altogether – something innocent and perfectly wonderful about our modern experience of life – a radiant light just below the surface of the dim and often gloomy perspective we presently seem to have on our world today. Did you see it? Did you look closely? As their faces morph from one to the next, so do their stoic frowns eventually become gentle smiles. Toward the end, spanning the last 70 years or so, during times which we could easily claim as the toughest decades ever faced by humankind on a global scale, the tense, cold faces of these men dissolve away and what emerges are gentle grins which again give way to full, radiant smiles – smiles which reveal an underlying spirit of genuine peace, joy and prosperity.
What does this video say about our present human condition? It speaks volumes. It calls to us to be willing, despite what our five limited senses would have us believe about our troubled world, to open ourselves up to a higher awareness of the fact that this is a great time to be alive. Just as the faces in the video reflect a transformation from stoic gloom to a state of genuine peace and joy, so is our troubled journey transformed when we realize that we live in an age of Self-rediscovery where ‘free will’ takes on a much deeper meaning for us.
It has been said that “coincidence is when God works a miracle and decides to remain anonymous.” This is no coincidence. The timely convergence of quantum mechanics with ancient and modern spiritual traditions and philosophies, along with our ever-deepening exploration into consciousness and the mind, are leading us to the knowledge in this present age that we can choose to think differently and therefore see our world differently… through a new pair of glasses. In so doing, perhaps we can witness a depressed, beat-up old world become transformed into one of beauty, peace and joy for all.
Posted by Patrick 
