Once again, there are rumors that some sort of official admission of an alien presence might take place. I don’t wish to speculate on that, but if it does happen, then there will be a greater possibility of open contact. Initially, all of the change is liable to be on our side of the equation, but, if it does lead to more open contact, two things will then pertain: first, the complexity of human experience will increase exponentially; second, over time, there will be a shift in the center of gravity of our consciousness, away from the physical and into energetic reality.
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I am not a prophet. I have no crystal ball. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t look into the future and see probabilities, so I’d like to make some predictions that I hope will prove accurate and useful.

Economy.

World economic growth will be impeded by increasing commodity and fuel prices. This is because there are not enough resources to sustain expansion in both the east and the west at the same time. Either eastern or western economies can grow, but not all at the same time. The greater likelihood in 2011 is that eastern economies will experience a cyclical slowdown, but this may not be enough to reduce commodity prices, especially if bad weather continues to affect food harvests worldwide.
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Anne and I have just come back from a month-long driving trip to my home state of Texas, and I have never been so terrified in my life. From what we experienced in Texas, the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords today in Arizona doesn’t surprise me at all. The atmosphere was completely different from the way it was when we lived there between 1994 and 2005, and light years from what it was when I grew up there.
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I have seen 65 Christmases and remember 61 of them, and yet every year at this time, I find myself deeply moved and filled with an upwelling of hope and joy that is quite unquenchable, and is as intense right now as it was when I was a little boy, looking up into the stars of the holy night, half expecting to see Jesus and half expecting to see Santa on his sleigh.
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