What if ...6

"WHAT IF Mother Nature could perform for an audience?

    Does anyone really believe that she doesn't? We certainly see her expressing herself with storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, drought, and global warming. Is she, as the Hopi shaman said, "a mother dog shaking off fleas? "

    I would like to hear the specifics of what she teaches us with her magnificent "spectaculars." For example, are the colors of flowers vibrating at the same frequencies as the musical notes in the scale? Does all sound have color? I knew a woman who loved to attend symphony concerts just to "see" the colors the instruments were making.

    What if drought is Mother Nature's way of teaching us that we need to drink more water and yet we are polluting it everywhere?

    What if falling snow is to remind us of the protection of white lights?

    What if flooding occurs because it is time for us to wash our environments clean?
   
    What if mud sticks to us because that is what we have become?

    Maybe our unquenchable interest in dinosaurs is equal to our unquenchable thirst for oil? In their first time around, they were destroyed. In this second time around, they will destroy us.
    What if the speed of Nature's show is accelerating in a way that is meant to beckon us humans to accelerate our consciousness? What if we are holding her back and that is why she is shaking us off?
    What if the "violence" of Nature is simply her way of saying "hurry up" or you'll be left behind? Nature's violence is probably the most devastatingly dramatic and disturbing thriller to grace the screens of life - and we haven't even assigned it and X rating."


                                                                                              * reference Shirley MacLaine's book



   

What If...5

"WHAT IF we are coming to resemble our own technology?
Are we thinking and communicating with the speed of the Internet - and ignoring the depth and breadth of what we actually feel? We can get any fact in a nanosecond, but getting wisdom still takes a lifetime (or more!)."


                                                                                                      * reference Shirley MacLaine's book

What If...4

"WHAT IF Nature is designed to be fuel efficient without man's help, but mankind, forgetting we are part of Nature, has tinkered with that design?"


                                                                                                    * reference Shirley MacLaine's book

What If ...3

"WHAT IF elections focused less on manipulating the negative and more on the emergence of positive new ideas - ideas that are not already society-accepted homilies?"

* reference Shirley MacLaine's book

What If... 2

 "WHAT IF our subconscious controls our destiny?"

* reference Shirley MacLaine's book

What If...1

I am reading another book by Shirley MacLaine.
She has appeared in more than fifty films, has been nominated for an Academy Awards six times, and received the Oscar for Best Actress. She is an advocate for civil rights and liberties, and the author of ten international bestsellers.
I have read two of her books so far (you will find them on My Books page), and now I am enjoying her latest one with an interesting title: "WHAT IF..."

I decided to quote some of her 'what ifs' - label What If...
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So, let's start with this one:

WHAT IF common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen? -- Albert Einstein