Human kind.....a hopeful history....

 Last year someone talked about a book that I should read

and.....I didn't....

It felt like a good book and I talked about it with others

but....didn't read it......

And then I got it as a present with Christmas :-)

and.....still didn't read it.....

Yesterday I started and I can't stop reading....

It is translated in English:

'Human kind' A hopeful History.

An amazing book that shows that a lot of research data

is not right......

'Fake news' is nothing new and.....

some people still like to 'proof' 

that people are 'bad' deep down,

but they aren't.....

Still....lot of study books 

talk about all these research 

claiming as being true.....

Books that are still being read 

in university's and colleges 

as 'being true'.....

I even talked about a test

-the Standard prison experiment from Stanley Milgram-

in one of my blogs a few years ago....

believing it to be true,

although I couldn't understand

that it was true.....

apparently it wasn't......

People are social beings, 

they will take care of each other,

they will find way's to deal with disasters,

to help each other....

How can we as group 

be manipulated to think different,

believe that it is 'them against us'?

Only if people in power are not honest,

if scientist are not honest,

If teachers, the media 

are not honest....

And if you come closer to home:

if 'parents'/caretakers are not honest......

They can let us believe 

that we are not good enough,

don't have the power.....

Why are people fighting wars?

Is it because of ideology,

of patriotism?

Research show now, it is not that,

it is because  

of camaraderie,

of feeling that you belong.

When I read that, 

I had to think off my dad:

he had to go to Indie as a soldier

and till his dead he kept in contact with 

his fellow soldiers, friends......

About the leaders of war he said:

'let them go in the boxing ring and 

fight without taking others into the conflict...'

And I was thinking about the corona crisis.

We are all in it together,

we have rules, restrictions 

and......

we follow the rules...

because 'we want to help each other'...

Only.....it it the truth.....

Are all the rules for the best,

or are we being manipulated....

do we get all the right information......

Can we trust our leaders

and....

most important:

can we trust ourselves....

Do we trust that we are all decent deep down,

that we are connected,

and want to take care of each other......

Or....

do we still have un-dealt issues with leadership

and can we easily be manipulated....

do we forget that we have a choice now... 

The square Saturn/Uranus will 'help' us deal with it....

Feeling fear 

or the feeling of being a victim will not help.

The mind can be the jailer

or the liberator.....

This book helped me to liberate....

I really believe that all people are good

....deep down....

sometimes you don't see it, only

that is because there is hurt....

unsolved issues.....

It is not my job to safe them,

it would make me a victim.....

It is my job to stay compassionate,

firm and loving.

It's my job to remember

who I am:

It's my job to remember

that we all want the best for each other,

that we are all One....

It is also my job to set boundaries,

to love myself,

enjoy life,

be thankful for my mirrors

and Know that it will all be ok in the end.

How special that this book was written in this time....

Probably now the time was right...