I read a review for a book, The Anxious Generation. It seems that around 2010 the mental health of adolescents plunged. The rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and self-harm more than doubled in some instances. Social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, has written this book which not only examines causes, but gives more than a dozen mechanisms to facilitate the “great rewriting of childhood”. This plague has hit many countries, not only ours. It started when we forsook a play-based childhood for a screen-based one. Most people my age had a childhood based on playing outdoors, enjoying nature, or even working on the farm. When my adult friends are subject to depression, I suggest gardening, walking, helping others. I’m interested in reading this book and seeing what his four rules are for “setting us free” from the “collective action problems” that trap us. This is a time for recognizing what we’ve done wrong and setting it right. I’m in!
“We have repeated how little is asked of you to learn this course. It is the same small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy; the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit for which He gives you everything; the very little on which salvation rests; the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection. And being true, it is so simple that it cannot fail to be completely understood. Rejected yes, but not ambiguous. And if you choose against it now it will not be because it is obscure, but rather that this little cost seemed, in your judgment, to be too much to pay for peace.”
—A Course in Miracles T-21.II.1:1-5
“Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so-called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. Christian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 102-30-1
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