Curious Lives – Richard Bach (Foreword)
My Thoughts
I have always adored Richard Bach, probably because he was the first person to introduce me to Quantum Physics and energy and how it affects life and the soul. The following is a foreword from a book I have read many times. The book is cute, heartwarming and very uplifting. So many lessons so little time here on this physical earth.
As we enter the last year of 2006 and start off a brand new 2007, I wonder what would happen if all of us actually went through life thinking thoughts of only goodness, kindness, and compassion. Would we actually change those we encounter by spreading the infectiousness of compassion or would we just be someone who is pushed to the side because our version of reality if different than theirs?
The Foreword:
I traveled the kingdom of Oz when I was a kid, every book, and there were fourteen of them. In love with the characters, in love with the enchanted land of their adventures.
“Is it real, Mom? Is Oz real?”
She replied as mothers get to do, sometimes, one sentence that lasts a lifetime: “It’s real in the writer’s mind, Richard, and now it’s real in yours.”
That was the first day I met good-news bad-news: Oz exists (You can’t get there by train.)
As I didn’t know just then how to ask what was on my mind, I spent the next half century framing my questions:
If Oz exists in our mind, then can no one destroy it, ever?
Is the world in our mind, too, and not outside?
What is all we see about us are reflections of what we think is so?
What’s reflected when we decide to change our thought?
Thanks to those early journeys deep into lands beyond maps, here I stand today, bored at last to stone with dramas about evil, films about war and malice and crime. I promised that if I had to watch one more prison scene, one more aggression, one more gigantic spectacular stupendous explosion on-screen, fiction or non, I’d walk out and rebuild the universe.
-Boom!-
What is something happened, I got to wondering as I walked away, and a culture grew up without evil, without crime or war? What would it do with all the energies that we squander on our destructions?
How would it feel to live in a world where we choose our highest right and not our darkest wrong, where we lift each other instead of always and ever putting each other down?
How could such a civilization begin, and where would it go?
So were born The Ferret Chronicles, the story of a doomed civilization that returned to life upon the single act of one individual.
