When Your Insight Becomes Metaphysical and Your Book Doesn't Get Published

Certainly morbidity and mortality are more on the minds of everyone in our world today. Historically speaking, we as 'a world' have endured much worse over the millenniums and eras, and as countries, we have experienced much more devastating events and scourges. But it is 'our time' in which to deal with a different lot of unsettling events, illnesses, and catastrophes, and with such problems as the rise in the abuse of drugs and a decrease in the number of doctors and nurses or the overly technologically-dependent countries. Battles are raging everywhere. Religion is one central, common, predominant vein of all the fighting, followed by politics, greed, dominance, and pure insanity. It is amazing how so many millions of cultures have survived on the same global planet. It is an enormous complexity of beliefs, values, ethics, morals, covert and overt players, activists, pacifists, destroyers and growers, and believers and nonbelievers. When one thinks of planet Earth comprised of nations, it is analogous to an extended family. It was either designed by God, occurred via Darwinism, or is Mother Nature or an Alien Nation's creation, in anyway having everything it needs to survive left natural.. There is an authority figure and there are children.One sets the rules and actions cause reactions and there will always be a consequence for each action. The United States has often thought of itself as the global authority figure. In many ways, it has felt that it truly is a nation under God and formed by our forefathers, some of greatest minds. Still, Buddha and Indian elders/spirits also have astounding stories of great beginnings. Why is there evil in the hearts of many? Why is there famine and disease? One of the simplest and longest living cultures on the earth (they live to an old age) is the Australian Aborigines. It is on my bucket list to do a walk-about with some elders one day. It is also on my bucket list to ride an elephant and a camel. I wrote a book once: Willey the Wombat's Walk-A-Bout. It never got published. I had an entire series planned. I must have sent that book to 23 publishers with no luck. I suppose these days you have to be a star to have your children's' book published. It was quite good.