The Metaphysics of “After Earth”

So, I’ve decided to take a break from YouTube and the MetaChannel, but that does not mean I’ve taken a break from “observational metaphysics” or viewing the world in which we live metaphysically. The movie “After Earth” almost forced me to turn the camera back-on – almost. It is certainly worthy of metaphysical review and analysis. What’s interesting is - according to RottenTomatoes.com, only 12% of critics liked the movie, whereas 82% of the audience enjoyed it. That’s a 70% difference in opinion.

Whatever criteria critics are employing in determine whether a movie is worth seeing, it’s obviously not the formula the public is using. And, if the critics are supposed to be giving us the heads-up on what’s good to go see, we cannot find a more clear referendum on their job performance than this. These guys are getting to be like the weather-man who gets it wrong 70% of the time. Hate to have to say this, but critics are by no means the stand-in experts on movie-making or what makes a good movie. Thus, the best critics are people who love movies, not journalists who get paid to think a certain way or would-be film-makers whose primary focus should be on film-making.

I digressed. Let’s get back to the movie itself. First and foremost, a primary theme in the film is ‘the hero’s journey’. That automatically makes this is a man’s movie. Not that it should be, especially since one of the first stories to depict a hero’s journey is the tale of Isis who fought with skill, cunning, and valor to save her son, Horus. Thus, anyone who has fought or is fighting the good fight can connect with and be inspired by the hero’s journey.

Nevertheless, the hero’s journey is classically depicted as one where the son faces and overcomes many challenges in becoming the father, achieving manhood, or earning the respect of some group of people. We love the hero’s journey, because it is the ultimate journey for all of us. Our goal as individuals is the ultimate return to our father – GOD. This search may take the form of finding purpose or perfecting ourselves or our craft. At the core, it is the quest for that which is beyond our reach. As a collective, our goal is to achieve oneness with our fellow man and to overcome the challenges faced by humanity. Hence, most of us can resonate with this concept in one way or another.

In this film, our heroes happen to be members of a black family. There is the wife, Faia, who heroically accepts her husband’s absence and awaits his return to the family. There is the daughter, Senshi, who heroically sacrifices her life for that of her younger brother. There is the son, Kitai, who desperately wants to be a hero like his father. And, there is the father, Cypher, who acts as savior of the human race in more ways than one – it seems. As viewers, we should be able to connect with heroics, regardless of how they are packaged. It is in our DNA to connect with the courage, faith and compassion that are characteristic to these characters. I humbly submit that if you had a hard time doing so, you were likely analyzing the film a bit too much.

The film is set in a future 1,000 years from now, where human beings can be found to be desperately seeking the balance between nature and technology. So, the habitations and the ships of the future are shown to have both a natural and a technological feel. Even the weapon is made of some crystalline bone-like material and a morphing black substrate. The décor in the homes is simple and the ship’s design is simple. Thus, our connection with the characters and the story do not get lost in a whole bunch of heavy metal and technological gizmos. Now, some viewers may have experienced a level of discomfort, expecting a more technology driven future and an even greater interface with technology. However, the movie makes the clear point that it is nature that sustains us and that our relationship with nature must be first and foremost.

Kitai’s suit changes to fit the environment. What better way to make the point – “Adapt or die.” Today, militaries around the world recognize the value of blending-in with their environment. They wear camouflage that matches their environment. They even camouflage tanks and missiles. However, in contrast to the present, this movie carries us into a future time when the need for close-quarter combat renders guns and long-range weapons useless. Apparently, this movie recognizes a future where we’ve done enough damage to ourselves to grow to hate guns. Further, an alien race brings a new threat (the ursa), which preys on humans. It closes its distance before attacking.

I found it interesting that the beast was called an ursa (or bear). Animal experts state that humans have it wrong. Bears are really no major threat to us and it is seldom that bears will attack humans. They are very shy and their only interest in us is that our food often makes for an easy meal. Our fear makes us feel threatened and causes us to react, which in most cases spooks the bear. The bear simply wants us to stop freaking-out, because it doesn’t want to freak out. Being very fast and extremely powerful, the bear has a say in whether you continue to lose your cool. In the movie, this alien race of the future can be seen as spooked by the one thing that makes human’s destructive – our fear. Thus, it sentences humanity to death (or survival) by means of the very weakness that makes us destructive, our fears.

The movie attempts to make the point when Kitai encounters the baboon. He is faced with a choice. He can either create a connection in that moment or be driven by fear. Kitai does what most humans would do in a moment such as that. Out of fear, he gets the impulse to fight. He throws a rock. When he discovers he is out-numbered, he runs. This is classic fight or flight syndrome. Even the reasoning voice of his father is not enough to halt Kitai’s panic, as he imagines an enemy to be lurking behind every tree.

Eventually, Kitai discovers that much of his fear is not his own – that he was taught to be afraid by the very people who felt they were being brave for him. His sister told him that she would fight. And, his father told him that he did not have to fight. In the end, Kitai discovers that he has no innate lack of courage – that the fears of others (fears for his safety) are projected onto him. Upon making the discovery, he releases these fears by taking a leap of faith (a leap into the unknown).

Beyond the boundary of fear, Kitai discovers love. A mother bird grabs Kitai, who is a baby to the concept of flight and keeps her as his own. Having ascended ‘on the wings of love’ so-to-speak, Kitai, with his newfound courage risks his own life to save the mother bird’s babies. On a planet where everything has evolved to kill humans, Kitai can be seen as a redeemer and a restorer of humanity to Earth. The mother bird is representative of God’s providence and mercy. Kitai takes a step toward GOD (in this case a leap of faith) and GOD takes a step toward him (and human-kind). He wins the trust of one of GOD’s creatures and reclaims the possibility that humans can re-inhabit the planet. A final event with the bird informs Kitai further – that not only is he able to make choices, but that it is his responsibility to make the best choices. He recognizes that the pig leads her babies into the cave for protection from the weather at night. So, Kitai follows.

The film also acknowledges a very well known practice among indigenous people – communication with ancestors in dreams. Thus, Kitai’s sister Senshi comes to him in a dream. She helps him to discover something about her – the thing that made her strong, even though she was killed. She was full of love and compassion and could not ghost (or mask her feelings) because it was not who she was. She only fought as a means of saving him. In the dream, she even distorts her face (shows that she can access an ugly side) as she attempts to awaken Kittai as a means of saving his life.

“After Earth” also recognizes that near-death experiences are a primary means of removing all traces of fear. Faced with imminent death, we come to various realizations. In the movie, Cypher Raige, when faced with death realizes how much control he has over his own reality and how much he has been allowing fear to control him. In that moment, he becomes totally conscious of his ability and responsibility to make choices in every moment. Further, he begins to recognize fear as something that lives in the heart of thoughts about the future. Totally grounded in the present, he experiences no fear. This point is especially made toward the close of the film when Cypher decides to retire (and to study war no more). Where most movies would have the son become the soldier of tomorrow, this movie gets it right. The son courageously seeks a new way – love.

For some viewers, this might have seemed weird or unnatural, but it was an absolutely courageous stand for a movie to make. In most Western films, the son continues to ‘fight the good fight’. The question could be asked, “What good has fighting done for humanity?” And, some would argue, “…but fighting is necessary!” Is it? Or, are we simply driven by more and more fears of what might be lurking around the corner, in the dark, at some time in the future waiting to get us? We equate courage with ‘keeping up the good fight’. It allows us to put our fears to rest, if just for a moment. The movie makes the point that it is more courageous to love and to live in love and live for love. For a world like ours, one that lives in constant fear of not knowing – love is an even more desperate leap into the great unknown.

This movie, like most of this summer’s films, is in-part about the demons we create for ourselves. The consciousness of humanity is awakening and attempting new heights. However, if we are to eventually soar, we must recognize that which drags us into the underworld from whence demons arise. Fear is a weight that drags us down. It is paralyzing. It is connected to other emotions that cling to us pulling us further down into the pit of despair. But, if anything, humanity is resilient and capable of not only weathering but conquering all the storms of life. “After Earth” hopefully there is more Earth. Unlike the movie, we don’t have anywhere to go and any way to get there if we did. So, perhaps we can slay the biggest monster - fear. Like the bear, fear hibernates within us. Then, it comes forth with a hunger and a thirst that desperately needs to be satisfied. “Now” is the moment wherein fear finds no safe harbor. Where “now” once were the domain of the new-ager and the student of consciousness and spirituality, today it has become the domain of millions of movie-goers worldwide. Let’s just wait and see what happens ‘now’. By James M. Power

Hidden Meaning: The Weeknd - the Knowing (Dir.: Mikael Colombu)

On the surface, this sounds like a song about a man who cheats on the woman who cheated on him. Whether the Weeknd intended a deeper meaning for the song from its inception, you can decide. However, the video adds another dimension to the song. It is the Voice of God Almighty playing in the Mind of the Christ-figure in the video. God is the He Who Knows Everything and while these painful events play out in the lives of the characters in the music video, the viewer is to hearken to the oft-repeated reminder from the Holy Qur’an, “I Know” (or I, Allah, am the Best Knower!)

Let’s examine the video as a means of extracting much of the hidden meaning to be found in “the Knowing.”

King Haile Selassie

In the beginning sequence, Emperor Haile Selassie I is overthrown by the Dergue. The Dergue was a council that was originally set-up to look into military grievances, but gained very quickly gained power in Ethiopia. They ousted Selassie (a monarch in the line of monarchs), killed 60 high-ranking officials in his cabinet, and set-up Marxist-Leninism (a European paradigm) as the ideology of the Ethiopian State. With the ousting of King Selassie, the rule of the Solomonoid Emperors was broken.

Dick Gregory remembered watching TV and seeing King Selassie stand at the front the procession of all the European royals. King Selassie was in the same family as King David, King Solomon, and yes - Jesus. The video makes a connection between King Selassie (who cared for his country and people and was a man of peace) and the protagonist. Some of the reasons will become evident later. The primary reason is that the director wants to establish a family line that goes back to God Almighty.

I Know What You Did…

As the words to the song start to play, we find an angel staring down at a woman. The darkly angelic being puts light into the woman. “The Sons of God saw the daughters of men – that they were fair.” The Sons of God (Angels) had sex with daughters of men.

This causes the “Sons of God” to taste her – death, as their sons become part Earth-born men and part star-born. So, the protagonist is shown with his eyes clouded. Yet, he is also standing on a cloud. He is a being of Heaven, but partly a being of Earth. The earthly aspect, he is confused about. The red represents desire and it is these low desires that are causing the being confusion.

He becomes a vampire. He and his brothers are using these women for his sexual purpose like his Fathers (the Angels did). They are just meat to him. He slays them (sexually) and discards them, because this is his addition. He is one of the sons of those first Sons of God, who saw that the daughters were fair. He has inherited the ways of his Fathers. The lion represents the animal nature that is alive in the man, that because he is of God – what comes out of him is a natural things still.

Fall from Grace…

The daughters of men finally realize that they are no prizes and become disillusioned. They separate from the world (or Mars separates from Venus). Mars is anger. And, Venus is love. It’s not masculine or feminine. What God created will always be LOVE and what is man-made will always be imperfect.

So, the woman in her anger and mental anguish represents Mars here. It’s a bit of a change-up from what people would expect, but that’s how one can figure out good from evil. What God creates can create and is creative, whether male or female. It is God’s and will always be God’s. What man makes, by accident or otherwise, will always be the imperfect design of man.

The Tower represents the height of that civilization. So, the separation brought about a fall, because of this darkness that has descended upon Ethios X. The woman, still having some of the Light of the Sons of God, begins to make men of her own. “Let us make man in our image and likeness.” The men are given the Light of Religion (false light) as a yardstick, but God’s Children already have his heart. So, they don’t need religion. Hence, “Jesus said, “You are of your father the Devil. And, his works you will do.” In the video, they shut the mouth of the devil that comes to spread religion. Then, they are killed by Crusaders sent by the woman who represents Satan.

It is not until the woman attempts to destroy what GOD created that she incurs the wrath of the Eternal Fathers. This dooms her. She throws away her inheritance (LOVE), which is the only true inheritance GOD can offer. The Son reintegrates with the Father and realizes that He must let her go to break the cycle of history that has played out for 20,000 years – that this child of the Sons is not a Child of the Fathers. Thus, Satan is sent into the pit.

God Knows all. So, when the Weeknd says, “You thought you would break my heart.” It’s God saying, “You thought you would break my heart.”He’s saying, “I knew what all of you were capable of before you were made. I know why I told you not to do what I told you not to do. You’re not hurting me. You’re hurting yourselves.”

Notice also that the inheritance is passed to a donkey-like creature – that has shown itself to be upright (or advanced in its conscious enough to get the necklace). So, the woman gets passed over – having never gotten over her hurt, the emotional and mental anguish.

Notice that the words “I Know Everything” are also in an Arabic-like script. This is another indication that GOD is the Knower that the song is referring to. The video kinda’ does a 180, as normally all these figures are played by men. The Angels in Heaven are always depicted as beings of light, while the minions of hell are always depicted as dark and ugly. Here, we have a more flattering depiction of darkness. The woman becomes the darkness that attracts the beings of light.

This is a story that has been told hundreds of times over in hundreds of ways. It is the story of how life was seeded on our planet and many other places in the cosmos. This, by far, is one of the best depictions I have seen.

Extra Credit: What is meant by "Now, these tongues don't twist like they used to?"

The Value of Integrity

Becoming people of integrity is not as easy as it sounds. Integrity comes from a Latin word meaning "whole" or "complete" or "lacking nothing". So, for example, if you've ever felt something is missing in your life, it is a sure sign that you have been out of integrity. If you've ever felt someone completes you, it's a sure sign you are not in integrity. The person of integrity is looking for the whole that makes them not need another half, while the person without it is looking for the other half that makes them whole.

In a 2005 article about integrity for New Man Magazine, Orlando Magic's Pat Williams wrote:

Your integrity is the most profound expression of who you are. Integrity is the ultimate expression of your relationship with yourself, of a vow that you make to yourself as to the kind of person you choose to be. If you compromise your integrity, you may get away with it for awhile, but no one gets away with it forever. People who lack integrity eventually get exposed.

To be exposed is not to say that you'll get in trouble or have to answer to some authority. Often-times, you expose you for who you truly are to yourself. Oh! And, I am no different because I am writing this. I have to work on this integrity thing too. I wrote a book about integrity for just that reason, because it truly is The One Secret to All Success. Again, it's easier to think about and talk about, which the book is designed to do - pique the reader's consciousness about the subject. The more challenging thing is to make certain our lives are reflective of a resolve to remain in personal integrity, another goal I hope to achieve with readers of my book. Whatever the case, just be sure you make certain integrity is a watchword in your life.

James Power

Meta 101: Shine Bright Like A Diamond

True Light and True Darkness vs. False Light and False Darkness

There is, in our world, true light and true darkness. There is, in our world, false light and false darkness. The key to discovering true light and true darkness is in the realization that all true light opposes false darkness and all true darkness opposes false light.

True light and true darkness are not in opposition to one another. They exist as compliments to one another, just as false darkness compliments false light. Without this understanding, one can easily mistake true darkness for false darkness or false light for true light. Why?! Well, one might say - it's all light. What's the difference?

True light is the light of LOVE. It is opposed by false darkness, which is FEAR. True darkness is the WOMB or the matrix out of which all reality comes into being. False light is make-believe. Make-believe is not imagination. Imagination is an image held with true intent, whether it becomes a reality or not. Make-believe is deception. It is an image of reality passed along to others, with no real intention of creating the reality that is mocked-up. False light is deception.

True light (love) comes forth from true darkness (the womb) and false light (deception) creates false darkness (fear). GOD is the author of the light of love that springs forth from the matrix of reality.

This simple principle allows us to better understand why our world is so full of darkness. Satan deceived the whole world. A Satan is a being who creates false light and a devil is a being spreads false light, toward the creation of false darkness. It's that simple.

Much more can be said on the subject of light vs. darkness. And, this will be covered in my next book Who's Who & Why: Seven Billion Consciousnesses Explained. For now, observe the world in which we live in light of this invaluable truth and see what emerges. Write me at: jameswillpower@gmail.com and let me know what you've observed. Thank you for reading and may GOD bless you.

Copyright. James Power. 2013

The Importance of Personal Integrity

From the introduction to the book The One Secret To All Success by James Power

Fear pressure, peer pressure, and atmosphere pressure are all screaming the same thing. It’s a scary world out there. So, why rock the boat? Why not do what’s safe. Go with the flow. Hide in the herd. Just accept that it is the way it is. Sit. Wait. Don’t move. Maybe they will pass. Don’t speak up. Maybe they will just get it. Don’t act out. Ask to be allowed in – to be given something to do. Make peace with the world, wherever that ship we call life may be headed. Fear is the guide for those who would go unguided.

Well, for the lucky, the winds of fate just might blow you off to some paradise. For the rest of us, the headline will more likely read – “More Losers Lost At Sea.” There are many ways one can become captain of the ship called life. You can knock fear on its rear and take the helm. You can work your way through the ranks to become captain. Or, you can lower that dinghy into the water, strap on a life preserver, and set your own course. Whatever you choose to do, the grave awaits all men. So, why slave away as nothing more than a deck-hand on the good ship we call “Life”.

Let us hearken back to the immortal words penned by Paul Anka and sang by the great Frank Sinatra –

And now, the end is here. And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear. I'll state my case, of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full. I traveled each and ev'ry highway. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few. But then again too few to mention. I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption. I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew. When I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt. I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried. I've had my fill, my share of losing. And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. To think I did all that. And may I say, not in a shy way. Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way."

Ask any truly successful person and that person will say – I did it my way. It’s quite simple really. Success can only come from doing what it is you want to do in the way you want to do it. You might say – “Well, James – what if I wanted to smoke crack? How successful would I be at that?” And, I’d say – “VERY!!!” That is – if you really want to do it and can find a way to enjoy doing it, you will be successful at it. The crack-lover (and you can substitute crack for anything someone might claim to love) is not saying he loves life and wants the best out of life. He is saying – “I love crack!” Now, normally, the use and abuse of illicit drugs are a way to medicate after checking out of the game called life. So, drugs might not be the best answer. But, it is a fact. Successful people are bold enough to go against the current – to take the road less traveled to destinations seldom visited by the masses.

In a sense, that is what this book is about – the one thing that successful people possess that is uncommon in the herd. In a word, that one thing is -INTEGRITY. Thing is – it’s not just enough to know the word. It is not enough to know what the word means. It is not enough to say you possess the quality. Your life has to reflect that you know what integrity is and that you value what having integrity adds to your life. If everyone who supposed they had integrity did in-fact have it, we’d see a remarkably different world. Second, I wouldn’t have to write a book about it.

Along with one hundred other people, I took a ten-week course on integrity. And, at ten weeks into the course, we were still struggling to grasp the concept fully. What’s worse, no one would dare claim they were living a life of 100% integrity after week ten. Yet, it was a foregone conclusion that we all had integrity upon entering the course. So, it helps to think of integrity in the same way you would think of leaping from the top of a building and attempting to fly. It can be done. It is just far easier said than done.

There is no real test of integrity. So, everyone assumes they have it, since no one is actually checking. It’s like assuming you can swim. The real test of that assertion is not found in mere words, but in the deep end of a pool or in swimming out to sea. So, this book aims to approach understanding integrity from various perspectives. Then, there will be no doubt in the reader’s mind that it is something worth shooting for – the practice of integrity. The reader will see why all other practices must fall in-line behind the practice of personal integrity. My mom had eight kids. The one who had the most personal integrity is now a millionaire. And, the rest of us, we’re still working to catch-up.

You might say – well, I really don’t want more money. That might be true. But, maybe there is something you want out of life. Perhaps, you want more health, more love, more time to spend with your children, or to write that great American novel. Or, perhaps, you just want to live life your way. Or, perhaps, you don’t want anything out of this life. Perhaps, you are ‘in the world, but not of the world.’ Whatever it is, you can get more out of life by making certain realizations about your personal integrity.

You know - it is reported in the Bible that Jesus was a man of great personal integrity. He is, perhaps, the best example we have of someone who possessed a perfect degree of personal integrity. He said – “I and my Father are one!” That is the ultimate statement of personal integrity. I am one with God. I am one with God and I am here to do God’s Will. I am one with God. I am here to do God’s Will. And, nothing and no one will get in the way of that oneness or the doing of God’s will for my life.” That’s integrity! That is saying God created you and you will honor the spirit of who you were created to be, regardless of whom or what. And, Jesus was persecuted and sent to the cross for honoring that he should live as God created him to live. And, guess what? We honor and celebrate him today for his having the courage to be perfect.

A Simple Explanation of What the Words Religion, Spirituality, Metaphysics, and the Occult Actually Mean

Probably as simple and plain as anyone can put it, below is an easy way to understand these various perspectives through which life can be viewed. Neither is right nor wrong and all have their advantages and disadvantages. Some appear to be synonymous, but each expresses a unique idea about perspective.

First, let’s imagine we see a neighbor, Jimmy, running by.

The common viewpoint says – Jimmy is running.
The religious viewpoint says – You should view Jimmy’s running like this.
The spiritual viewpoint asks – Should I care that Jimmy is running?
The philosophic viewpoint says – This is why I care that Jimmy is running.
The metaphysical viewpoint says – Jimmy is running to the store.
The occult viewpoint asks – Why is Jimmy running to the store?

The common viewpoint can also be called the objective viewpoint. It is what we would all see and say we saw if we were asked to give factual testimony on what Jimmy was doing. “Jimmy was running, officer.” If I also added, “Jimmy was running to the store,” the cop would ask – “How do you know?” I would be expected to offer other factual basis for that viewpoint, since another dimension has been added to the common viewpoint.

The religious viewpoint offers a lens through which one could view life. To follow the dictates of religion is to let religion dictate our view. So, religion says - “You should view Jimmy’s running like this.” Religion is not there to see Jimmy run. Its claim is that it has seen a thousand Jimmy’s run. In so doing, it seeks to define what Jimmy running should mean for anyone who views Jimmy run.

The spiritual viewpoint is chiefly concerned with how the external world relates to internal growth. What’s to inspire me about Jimmy running? Thus, “Should I care that Jimmy is running?” Spirituality is personal and the concern for any aspect of it varies from person-to-person depending upon individual needs and desires.

If the spirit cares that Jimmy is running, the philosophical viewpoint attempts to explain why the spirit cares that Jimmy is running. Hence, “This is why I care that Jimmy is running.” Philosophy says – “This is my view on life.”

The metaphysical viewpoint observes that Jimmy is running and seeks to explain where, where-to, when, how, or how fast? Jimmy is not just running. Jimmy is running somewhere or in some way. So, metaphysics seeks to explain or add another dimension to Jimmy’s running. In this case, “Jimmy is running to the store.” How does one know that Jimmy is running to the store? One may observe that Jimmy runs down the block everyday at 5:45PM. His girlfriend gets off the bus by the store at 5:50PM. Jimmy meets her, buys snacks, and escorts her back up the block.

The occult viewpoint is concerned with the most intimate aspects of Jimmy’s running. “Why is Jimmy running to the store?” It may be observed that Jimmy doesn’t have to run to the store. Why doesn’t Jimmy simply walk? Why doesn’t he drive?

What God Has In Store for You

As a metaphysician, first and foremost, I am a believer in God. If there is anything that observing humanity and life metaphysically teaches, it is that God is a reality. The more the observer looks, the more is discovered that all life has structure, order, rhyme, and reason to it. We are not merely mishaps or cosmic accidents, but co-creators of incidence in a most incredible production orchestrated by God Himself.

As author of this production, God can offer us an understanding of why we were given certain roles to play and certain lines to read. The saying goes - "What's my motivation?"

It all comes down to roles and lines and our reason for being (in this great production).But, you'll never know what God has in-store for you if you don't ask. You'll simply be ushered onto the stage when it is your time. You'll play your part and be ushered off. You might not even realize what that part is or was when the time comes.

Some have a problem asking questions that don't have sure answers that come from the ones in-charge. Further, what if follow-up questions need answers? We want those too. Simply put, we want to be in-control of a situation that appears to be near totally out of our control - LIFE! It is frightening and discomforting to imagine we don't have any control. Yet, we do not.

God, from the perspective of this article, can be viewed as someone who is present to everything that is happening in the production. He is the producer and can be depended upon to know every aspect of it. So, stop everything you're doing and ask again! Trust - you will eventually get an answer eventually.

Can't you just see it now? "Ummm - God! There is a guy over there holding up the production. He refuses to continue until he gets answers." Well, the show must go on. So, what does God do? He offers a few answers to get you back in the game. Still, God recognizes that the production doesn't proceed as well when one has all the answers. So, you'll soon be back to asking what it all means.

And, what you'll discover through your continued asking and seeking are patterns - that there is rhyme and reason to how many of our roles fit into this production. You may find that role enhancements are definitely not unheard of or out-of-the-question. You may find that what God has in store for you is quite fascinating and unique. All that is required is that you maintain an interest in what God has in-store for you!

James Power