I Eat The Stars

Hope is a word with many meanings and implications. An old friend would always insist that hope was foolish, because you wouldn’t address the problem, only hope for a good result. We had many spirited discussions, with me on the side of hope, saying it meant looking toward the best possible outcome, without designating what that may be. And so when this book was brought to my attention today, it immediately piqued my interest! “I eat the stars”, is a book written by Sarah Wilson. On the surface, this book is about how to deal with the collapse of earthly systems. The author states that this collapse “is not a finality, but an invitation to reconnect with what matters to us, and to meet the future with courage, creativity, and unprecedented care.” She says that “breaking up with hope felt like leaving a toxic relationship.” And this does not mean giving up hope, but rather giving up the need to stay with the status quo. Perhaps the way we’ve always done things is not the way we should be doing things? She gives us tips on how to “stay kind and radically human as the world shifts around us.” In looking at our transition she asks the question: ”What if this new world we’re entering is more stunning than we’d ever imagined?” I like her thinking!

“The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 96:15-20

“The ego has a strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your questioning might well begin. The ego invests heavily in the past, and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time that is meaningful. Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it to ensure its continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding the present. By the notion of paying for the past in the future, the past becomes the determiner of the future, making them continuous without an intervening present. For the ego regards the present only as a brief transition to the future, in which it brings the past to the future by interpreting the present in past terms.”
—A Course in Miracles T-13.IV.4:1-5