You cannot have a constitutional right to do something that is illegal. Although the community mental healthy approach has often failed to address the needs of the people with severe disorders, it has given rise to an important principle of mental health care—prevention. Rather than wait for psychological disorders to occur, many of today’s community programs try to correct the social conditions that give rise to psychological problems (poverty or violence in the community, for example) and to identity and help individuals who are at risk for developing emotional problems (for example, teenage mothers or the children of people with severe psychological disorders). However, community prevention programs are not always successful and they often suffer from limited funding, but they have grown in number throughout the United States of America and Europe, offering great promise as the ultimate form of intervention. In fact, during the 1990s, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services labeled prevention as the nation’s number one health and social priority. Prevention programs have been further energized in the past few years by the field of psychology’s growing interest in positive psychology. Positive psychology is the study and enhancement of positive feelings such as optimism and happiness; positive traits like perseverance and wisdom; positive abilities such as interpersonal skill and other talents; and group-directed virtues, including altruism and tolerance. In the clinical arena, positive psychology suggests that practitioners can helps people best by promoting positive development and psychological wellness. While researchers study and learn more about positive psychology in the laboratory, a growing number of clinicians are already beginning to apply its principles in their work. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

These specialists are teaching people coping skills that may help protect them from stress and adversity and encouraging them to become more involved in personally meaningful activities and relationships. In this way, the clinicians are trying to promote mental health and prevent mental disorders.  Promotion and prevention programs are now being applied in many clinical areas. Such programs have been offered during pregnancy, unemployment, divorce, and other periods of significant stress and have targeted such problem areas as substance abuse, violence, disaster trauma, and depression. Although programs of this kind are promising and important, we must keep in mind that the clinical field “has yet to effectively prevent any major form of psychopathology.” The growing influence of insurance coverage—so many people now seek therapy that private insurance companies have changed their coverage for mental health patients. Today the dominant form of coverage is the managed care program—a program in which the insurance company determines such key issues as which therapist its clients may choose, the cost of sessions, and the number of sessions for which a client may be reimbursed. At least 75 percent of all privately insured persons in the United States of America are currently enrolled in managed care programs. The coverage for mental health treatment under such programs follows the same basic principles as coverage for medical treatment, including a limited pool of practitioners for patients to choose from, preapproval of treatment by the insurance company, strict standards for judging whether problems and treatments qualify for reimbursement, and ongoing reviews and assessments. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

In the mental health realm, both therapists and clients typically dislike the managed care programs. They fear that the programs inevitably shorten the programs inevitably will shorten therapy (often for the worse), unfairly favour treatments whose results are not always lasting (for example, drug therapy), pose a special kind of hardship for those with severe mental disorders, and results in treatment determined by insurance companies rather than by therapist. A special program with insurance coverage—both managed care and other kinds of insurance programs—is that reimbursements for mental disorders tend to be lower than those for mental disorders. This disparity places persons with psychological difficulties at a distinct disadvantage in their efforts to overcome their problems and inevitably affect that quality and quantity of the treatment they seek. Recently the federal government and 35 states have passed so-called parity laws that direct insurance companies to provide equal coverage for mental and medical problems. It is not yet clear, however, whether these laws will indeed lead to better coverage and whether they will improve the treatment picture for people dealing with psychological problems. However, many people are choosing Kaiser Permanente for a health care provider because they like the fact that most every service a patient could need is provided under one roof, from laboratory work, medical doctor office visits, emergency and urgent care services, optometry, pediatrics, mental health care, X-ray, and many more services. In fact, with Kaiser, you do not need a referral for mental health and addiction care services. However, your personal care doctor can connect you with a therapist. Kaiser also has mental health care and addiction services are available for emergency care, meaning you do not need an appointment. If you are having a crisis, you can go to the hospital and receive treatment right away. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

Mental health and money problems are often intricately linked. Our research shows that over 1.5 million people are experiencing both problem debt and mental health care problems. However, during this pandemic, President Biden will not give any government relief to the people. And California Governor Newsome excluded veterans, retired, and certain disabled people from his relief programs.  People with problem debt are significantly more likely to experience mental health problems. Half the people in problem debt also have a mental health problem. Also, 86 percent of people with experience of mental health problems said that their financial situation had made their mental health problems worse. Almost one in five people with mental health problems are in problem debt. People experiencing mental health problems are three and a half times more likely to be in problem debt than people without mental health problems, and 72 percent of people said that their mental health problems had made their financial situation worse. One caustic interpersonal phenomenon that has received considerable interest in the literature on eating disorders is childhood sexual abuse. A common form of abuse reported by people with eating disorders childhood sexual abuse, represents a gross violation of boundaries, particularly when perpetrated in the family context. This abuse often causes guilt, confusion, repulsion, and distrust of others. These potentially vicious psychosocial repercussions can make intimate relations later in life very difficult. Contrasting findings and possible explanations—there is at least some evidence to suggest that histories of sexual abuse are more common among those with eating disorders, especially bulimia nervosa, than what would be expected by change alone. However, after numerous studies on the topic, findings remain mixed. For example, some estimates indicate that rates of childhood sexual abuse run as high as 70 percent among patients with eating disorders. One study of such patients found that 65 percent had experienced physical abuse, 28 percent had been sexually abused, and 23 percent had been raped. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

Interpersonal communication (social skills) deficits as a mediating factor? Many investigators now view childhood sexual abuse as a risk or vulnerability factor in the development of eating disorders. Childhood sexual abuse, particularly incest, is expected to contribute to (and result from) dysfunctional family environments and parent-child attachments. The combination of these poor family environment variables with the sexual abuse is thought to inhibit the development of social competencies in a child. Social competencies are defined as a sense of self-efficacy, an ability to communicate emotional needs, an ability to experience intimacy, and the capacity to use relationships with other people to regulate negative affect. The failure to develop these basic social competencies is thought to be the casual link between sexual abuse and eating disorders. An eating disorder becomes the means by which a child develops a sense of self-efficacy and affective regulation, albeit through dysfunctional, noninterpersonal means. The results of the investigation provide compelling evidence for the validity of this model of eating disorders. For example, it was observed that eating disorders were are a rate of 39 percent among incest survivors, but only 17 percent among those with no childhood abuse. As an aside, the rate of eating disorders was 47 percent in the clinical sample of incest survivors, and 24 percent in the student sample with a history of incest, again suggesting higher rates of abuse in the background of clinical samples. Those incest survivors in this study who reported little emotional warmth and expressiveness from their mothers were most likely to have developed an eating disorder. Furthermore, people with a history of incest scored lower on a number of social competency indicators than did those with no history of childhood sexual abuse. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

Incestuous family environments do not provide an adequate context for the development of social competencies and skills. The two lines of reasoning for this hypothesis are as follows. First, incest interferes with developmental processes by destroying the emotional comfort and “felt security” that allows for healthy attachment bonds. Thus children with a history of incestuous abuse have a difficult time forming attachment relationships with others. Sexual abuse may also interfere with interoceptive awareness, which is the ability to perceive and label internal emotional states and hunger. Those who are unaware of their own emotional reactions may have difficulty appropriately regulating their own social behaviour, and thus may have problems with developing social skills. Similar hypotheses involving social skills deficits are prevalent in the psychopathology literature more generally. However, an origin of those social skills deficits—namely, a dysfunctional family environment that includes sexual abuse. Although the literature on problematic social skills is not as extensive for eating disorders as it is for other mental health problems, there is some suggestive evidence of social skills problems in this population. For example, one theme that has been identified on multiple occasions is difficulty with assertion. This research group noted a strong negative correlation between eating disorder symptomatology and assertiveness. Similar findings show that women with anorexia nervosa tend to inhibit the expression of their thoughts and feelings when they are in conflict with those of other people. Clinical observations indicate that “eating-disordered clients typically have poor communication skills.” #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

The typical client has porous ego boundaries. She admits too much from others (in the form of opinions and requests), resulting in harsh introjects and a tendency to care take because she cannot tell where others’ needs leave off and hers begin. In a dissertation study, observed were deficits in social competence among women with eating disorders across such domains as relationships, family concerns, and academic concerns. This study is especially unusual in that the social competence assessments were based on behavioural observation. Another study had found evidence for social skills deficits of a different sort: Adolescent girls with eating disturbances and/or dietary restrictions are three to four times more likely to be involved in aggressive behaviours such as robbery with a weapon or aggravated robbery. Thus type of aggression against others is to be expected among those with a history of abuse. Though there would be great value in additional research on the social skills of people with eating disorders, there is at least tentative evidence at this time that they experience deficits in some social skills, and that these problems may be the developmental consequences of childhood sexual abuse. Precisely how childhood sexual abuse factors into the development of eating disorders may never be fully understood. This is because such abuse is hopelessly confounded with dysfunctional family environments. There is almost tautological relationship between the two phenomena. A family that either perpetrates or tolerates the sexual abuse of its children surely has other drastic problems. These other problems may be sufficient on their own to contribute to the development of eating disorders in such a family’s affected children. A vital study on this issue showed that even after family psychosocial factors (exempli gratia, family communication, parental monitoring, parental caring) were controlled for, youths who reported sexual abuse were still at increased risk for disordered eating. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Abuse is the mistreatment or neglect of others (such as a child or spouse, the elderly, or the disabled) in a way that causes physical, emotional, or sexual harm.  At this time, childhood sexual abuse appears to be a risk factor for the later development of eating disorders. This relationship may be mediated by the poor social skills that result from a history of such abuse. Scientific research findings on family environments, mother-daughter relationships, and childhood sexual abuse point very clearly to the family of origin in the etiology of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The architecture of these families’ relationships and interactions patterns suggest considerable dysfunction. Extreme abnormal levels of adaptability, cohesion, and EE (emotional expression) are common in families of children with eating disorders. Excessive and inappropriate pressures for achievement are also evident in many of these families. There is reason to believe that the parents of children with eating disorders may actively and aggressively project their ambitions onto their children. A history of psychiatric problems is evident in as many as 48 percent of the families of patients diagnosed with either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Findings on mother-daughter relations show that girls with eating disorders often have mothers with elevated body image concerns, excessive dieting, and eating disorders of their own. Finally, childhood sexual abuse is evident in the backgrounds of some people with eating disorders. Although not necessary or sufficient for the development of eating disorders, this abuse is believed to impair the development of social competencies, leading to inappropriate eating as a mechanism for regaining control and regulating affect. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

The Church’s position is that abuse cannot be tolerated in any form and that those who abuse will be accountable before God. The Lord expects us to do everything we can to prevent abuse and to protect and help victims. No one is expected to endure abusive behaviour. Reports of abuse should never be dismissed. Everyone should respond with compassion and sensitivity toward victims and their families. Those affected by abuse need to be heard and supported. Abuse may also violate the laws of society. The Church encourages the reporting of abuse to civil authorities, and Church leaders and members must fulfill all legal obligations to report abuse. In some places, leaders and teachers who serve with children are legally required to report abuse of children to civil authorities. In other places, any person who learns of the abuse of children, the elderly, or the disabled is legally required to tell civil authorities about the abuse. Leaders, family members, and friends should make every effort to stop abuse, find safety for the victim, and help the victim seek healing. Some victims may need help reporting abuse to law enforcement or to protective services. Victims may also need help through the healing process from professionals, including doctors and counselors. Most victims are abused by people they know. Such people can be spouses, family members, dating partners, friends, or other acquaintances. Victims should be assured that they are never to blame for the harmful behaviour of others—no matter who abuses them. A victim is not guilty. While some types of abuse may cause physical harm, all forms of abuse affect the mind and spirit. Victims of abuse often struggle with feelings of confusion, doubt, guilt, shame, mistrust, and fears. They may feel helpless, powerless, lonely, and isolated. They may even question the love of the Heavenly Fathers and their own divine worth. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

However, victims and those who support them can be assured that, through His infinite Atonement, the Saviour extends succor, healing, and power. “And one shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith one will take upon one the pains and the sickness of His people. And one will take upon Him death, that one may loose the bands of death which bind His people; and one will take upon Him their infirmities, that His bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that one may know according to the flesh how to succor His people,” reports Alma 7.11-12. When you forgive someone who has hurt or offended you, it is not simply about the other person; you are doing it for your own good, as well. “If you forgive others for their transgression, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. However, if you do not forgive other, than your Father will not forgive your transgressions,” reports Matthew 6.14-15. When you hold on to unforgiveness and live with grudges in your heart, you are building walls of separation. You are simply shutting other people out of your life. You become isolated, alone, warped, and imprisoned by your own bitterness. Those walls are not merely keeping people out; those walks are keeping you penned in. So you realise that those walls will also prevent God’s blessings from pouring into your life? Those walls can stop up the flow of God’s favour. The walks of unforgiveness will keep your prayers from being answered. They will keep your dreams from coming to pass. You must tear down the walls. You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prisons. You will never be free until you do that. Get that bitterness out of your life. That is the only way you are going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

Unforgiveness keeps God’s power from operating in our lives and prevents our prayers from being answered. Ask God to help you get rid of anger and resentment in your heart toward those people who have hurt you over the years. As you forgive them, the most amazing things will begin to happen. My Lord God, please do take an interest in Your servant, and do bless me with Your sweetness, as the Psalmist would say (20.4). With that I may feel worthy and devout enough to approach Your magnificent Sacrament. Arouse my loitering heart, excite my listless mind. “Visit me with Your medicines,” reports Psalm 106.4. I need a tonic, a purgative, something, anything, to cleanse my palate before I savour Your spirit in the Sacrament; that is to say, encounter the sudden sweetness that flares up as if from a secret fountain. Pop my eyes—the Psalmist yet again (13.3)—that I may see the Great Mystery, and prop me up to believe it with undoubted faith. One may experience genuine physical and emotional healing as one searches one’s heart and are willing to forgive. One may see God’s favour in a fresh, new way. One may see one’s prayers answered more quickly as one lets go of the past and gets rid of all that poison one is now barbouring. Today, you are meeting with a crossroad’s demon in your life and about to seal that curse and sell your soul to the Devil with a kiss. One may have issues to deal with or people one needs to forgive. One can go one of two ways. One can ignore what one knows to be true and keep burying that bitterness in one’s life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate one’s soul and those around one. Or, one can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go. Father, I do not want to habour any unforgiveness in my heart. Please shine the searchlight of Your Holy Spirit on every nook and cranny of my being, and let me see the areas where anything evil may be trying to gain a foothold through my own hesitancy to forgive. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

Prayer is not based on friendship—there is another aspect of this that we need to notice. Jesus said, “Though he will not rise and give one, because he is his friend.” He had a reason for saying that. He is not just throwing unnecessary details. He is portraying a spiritual truth. Once Jesus said to His disciples, “I call you no more servants but friends.” A friend could go to the palace of the kind or some high authority, knock at the gate, and be let in immediately. If one was not a friend, they would send a servant to tell one whether or not one would come in. Jesus is no longer calling us servants, but friends. However, the Word of God does not say anything about God answering prayer on the basis of friendship. Prayer is not answered on the basis of friendship. It is answered on the basis of the legal contract made with God the Father. Because you have been born again, you are the seed of Abraham. Jesus Christ is the Lord of your life; you are a child of God; the Spirit of God bears witness with your spirit; you can come boldly to the throne of grace. You can say, “Father, I stand before You without fear, without condemnation, without a sense of guilt.” This right or boldness is not because of friendship, but because of the new covenant. So far, we have considered the prince as a moral and collective person, united by the force of laws, and as the trustee of the executive power in the state. We have now to consider this power when it is joined together in the hands of a natural person, of a real man, who alone has the right to dispose of it in accordance with the laws. Such a person is called a monarch or a king. In utter contrast with the other forms of administration where a collective entity represents an individual, in this form of administration and individual represents a collective entity; so that the moral unity constituting the prince is at the same time a physical unity, in which all the faculties which are combined by the law in the other forms of administration with such difficulty are found naturally combined. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Thus the will of the people, the will of the prince, the public force of the state, and the particular force of the state, and the particular force of the government, all respond to the same moving agent; all the springs of the machine are in the same hand; everything moves toward the same end; there are no opposing movements which are at cross purposes with one another; and no constitution is imaginable in which a lesser effort produces a more considerable action. Archimedes sitting serenely on the shore and effortlessly launching a huge vessel is what comes to mind when I think of a capable monarch governing his vast states from his private study, and making everything move while appearing himself to be immovable. However, if there is no government that has more vigour, there is none where the private will has greater sway and more easily dominates the others. Everything moves toward the same end, it is true; but this end is not that of public felicity, and they very force of the administration unceasingly operates to the detriment of the state. Kings want to be absolute, and from a distance one cries out to them that the best way to be so is to make themselves loved by their peoples. This maxim is very noble and even very true in certain respects. Unfortunately it will always be an object of derision in courts. The power that comes from the peoples’ love is undoubtedly the greatest, but it is precarious and conditional. Princes will never be satisfied with it. The best kings want to be able to be wicked if it pleases them, without ceasing to be the masters. A political sermonizer might well say to them that since the people’s force is their force, their greatest interest is that the people should be flourishing, numerous and formidable. They know perfectly well that this is not true. Their personal interest is first of all that the people should be weak and miserable and incapable of ever resisting them. I admit that, assuming the subjects were always in perfect submission, the interest of the prince would then be for the people to be powerful, so that this power, being his own, would render him formidable in the eyes of one’s neighbour’s. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

However, since this interest is merely secondary and subordinate, and since the two suppositions are incompatible, it is natural that the princes should always give preference to the maxim that is the most immediately useful to them. This is to the point that Samuel made so forcefully to the Hebrews, and that Machiavelli has made apparent. Under the pretext of teaching kinds, he has taught important lessons to the peoples. Machiavelli’s The Prince is the book of republicans. Machiavelli was a decent man and a good citizen. However, since he was attached to the house of Medici, he was forced during the oppression of his homeland to disguise his love of liberty. The very choice of his execrable hero makes clear enough his hidden intention. And the contrast between the maxims of his book The Prince and those of his Discourses on Titus Livy and of his History of Florence shows that this profound political theorist has until now had only superficial or corrupt readers. The court of Rome has sternly prohibited his book. I can well believe it; it is the court he most clearly depicts.] We have found, through general relationships, that the monarchy is suited only to large states, and we find this again in examining the monarchy itself. The more numerous the public administration, the more the ratio of the prince to subject diminishes and approaches equality, so that this ratio increases in proportion as the government is restricted, and is at its maximum when the government is in the hands of a single man. Then there is too great a distance between the prince and the people, and the state lacks cohesiveness. In order to bring about this cohesiveness, there must therefore be intermediate orders; there must be princes, grandees, and a nobility to full them. Now none of this is suited to a small state, which is ruined by all these social levels. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

However, if it is difficult for a large state to be well governed, it is much harder still for it to be well governed by just one human, and everyone knows what happens when the king appoints substitutes. An essential and inevitable defect, which will always place the monarchical form of government below the republican form, is that in the latter form the public voice hardly ever raises to the highest positions men who are not enlightened and capable and who would not fill their positions with honour. On the other hand, those who attain these positions in monarchies are most often petty bungler, petty swindlers, petty intriguers, whose petty talents, which cause them to attain high positions at court, serve only to display their incompetence to the public as soon as they reach these positions. The populace is much less often in error in its choice than the prince, and a man of real merit in the ministry is almost as rare as a fool at the head of a republican government. Thus, when by some happy chance one of these men who are born to govern takes the helm of public business in a monarchy that has nearly been sunk by this crowd of fine managers, there is utter amazement at the resources one finds, and one’s arrival marks an era in the history of the country. Abundant living is supposed to belong to the twenty-first century. However, years must pass before the World can restore the shattered economies. For a number of years there will be immense and tragic shortages of food, clothing, and other necessities. The era of abundance is, therefore, not an immediate possibility. The post-pandemic years are necessarily filled with privation for many billions of people. Now this may be done and these problems may be solved by peaceful discussion and mutual agreement, which is the philosophic way, or by bitter strife and physical violence, which has been the common way. The first seeks the general welfare whereas the second seeks a partisan victory. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

The advantages of the philosophic way of speeded up evolutionary change are manifold in the economic sphere. The afflicted World’s need is not more hatred but less, not more warfare but more co-operation. Philosophy is opposed to all doctrines of class hatred. It believes that the situation today requires an integral multi-class outlook. Its opposition to the old-fashioned materialistic propaganda for abrupt social change is not to its egalitarian aims but to the preaching of hatred as a personal ethic and the advocacy of violence as an instrument of attainment. For both hatred and violence are the voices of the beast in humans. AN age sickened by the horrors of scientific warfare ought not need to witness the further horrors of scientific revolution. However, it is hard to persuade them that reconstruction is saner and safer path to take than revolution, the ballot-box wise than bloodshed, and that our duty is not to imitate the terrorists but to build peacefully a better order suited to sensible kindly and decent human beings. It cannot accept hatred as an inspiration to social betterment. For it knows that we cannot gather grapes off thistles nor human happiness off the tree of hatred. The history of humankind has shown what psychology always knew, that the hater will start looking for new human objects of one’s hatred, new enemies, as soon as the existing one have been, in one’s horrible modern terminology, “liquidated.” The ugly passion of hatred, having been developed and nurtured, will still exist and still seek an outlet as soon as it can persuade the mind to interpret conditions in its favour. Each emerging civilization brings with it not merely changes in how people handle time in daily life but also changes into their mental maps of time. The Third Wave is redrawing these temporal maps. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

Second Wave civilization, for Dr. Newton on, assumed that time ran along a single line from the mists of the past into the most distant future. It pictured time as absolute, uniform throughout all parts of the Universe, and independent of matter and space. It assumed that each moment, or chuck of time, was the same as the next. Sober scientists with impeccable academic credentials and years of research experience calmly inform us that time is not something that flows inexorably forward at the steady pace indicated by our clocks and calendars, but that it can be warped and distorted in nature, with the end product being different depending on just where you are measuring it from. At the ultimate extreme, supercollapsed objects—black holes—can negate time altogether, making it stand still in their vicinity. By the turn of the century Dr. Einstein had already proved that time could be compressed and stretched, and had dynamited the notion that time is absolute. He put forth the now classic case of the two observers and the railroad track, which went more or less like this: A man standing alongside a railroad track sees two bolts of lightning strike at the same time—one at the far north end of the track, the other at the south. The observer is mid-way between the two. A second fellow is sitting in a high-speed train rocketing northward along the track. As he passes the observer outside he, too, sees the bolts of lightning. However, to him the two flashes do not appear as simultaneous. Because the train is speeding him away from one and toward the other, the light from one reaches him sooner than the light from the other. To the man on the moving train, it appears that the northern flash occurs first. While in daily life the distances are so small and the speed of light so fast that difference would be unnoticeable, the example dramatized by Dr. Einstein’s point: that the chronological order of events—what comes first, second, or later in time—depends upon the velocity of the observer. Time is not absolute, but relative. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

This is a long way from the kind of time on which classical physics and indust-reality were based. Both took for granted that “before” or “after” had a fixed meaning independent of any observer. Today physics is both exploding and imploding. Every day its practitioners hypothesize—or find—new elementary particles or astrophysical phenomena, from quarks to quasars, with amazing implications, some of which are forcing additional changes in our conceptions of time. At one end of the scale, for example, black holes appear to punctuate the skies, sucking into themselves everything, including light itself, straining—if not smashing—the laws of physics. These dark maelstorms, we are told, terminate in “singularities” into which energy and matter simply vanish. In existence are “wormholes” and “white holes” through which the lost energy and matter are spewed into another Universe—whatever that might mean. A single moment in the vicinity of a black hole, it is believed, might be the equivalent of eons on Earth. Thus if some Interstellar Mission Control were to send a spaceship to explore a black hole, we might have to wait a million years for the ship to arrive. Yet, because of gravitational distortion in the vicinity of the black hole, not to mention the effects of velocity, the ship’s clock would show the passage of only a few minutes or a seconds. When we leave the vast Heavens and enter the World of microscopic particles or waves, we find similarly puzzling phenomena. At Columbia University Dr. Gerald Feinberg has even hypothesized particles called tachyons that move faster than light and for which—according to some of his colleagues—times moves backward. The British physicist J.G. Taylor tells us: “The microscopic notion of time is very different from the macroscopic.” #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

Another physicist, Fritjof Capra, puts it more simply. Time, he says, is “flowing at different rates in different parts of the Universe.” Increasingly, therefore, we cannot even speak of “time” in the singular; there appears to be alternative and plural “times” operating under different rules in different parts of the Universe or Universes we inhabit. All of which knocks the props under the Second Wave idea of Universal linear time—without substituting ancient notions of cyclical time. At precisely the same moment, therefore, that we are radially restructuring our social uses of time—by introducing flextime on the job, by decoupling workers from the mechanical conveyor, and in the other ways previously described—we are also fundamentally reformulating our theoretical images of time. And while these theoretical discoveries seem at the moment to have no practical application to daily life, the same was true of those seemingly speculative chalk marls on the blackboard—the formulas that led ultimately to the smashing of the atom. It is of particular importance to every human to whom a glimpse has been vouchsafed, that after it one summoned to begin one’s life afresh, to try a new start. If one heeds the summons no matter how unpromising one’s circumstances are for such a start—and this requires both faith and courage—eventually help will come, a change for the better. During the glimpse one left oneself and found a being within which transcended it. After the glimpse one has the chance to create a conscious relationship between them. One’s outer life ought to carry the mark of this extraordinary event. What was seen in the glimpse must now be taken into the heart and mind, the thought and memory, the whole being of the human. Henceforth one is to live and at among other humans as one who is marked for a higher destiny than semi-animal, incompletely human, blind existence. The more glimpses one gets, the more will one want to become like the ideal in all its beauty, and the longer each glimpse lasts, the longer will one seek to use its light and strength to make oneself a better human or to build a better World. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

Blessing of galaxies, blessing of stars: Great stars small stars, red stars, blue ones. Blessing of nebula, blessing of supernova, planets, satellites, asteroids, comets. Blessings of our sun and moon, blessing of our Earth; oceans, river, continents, mountain ranges, blessing of wind, and cloud, blessing of rain; fog bank, snowdrift, lightning and thunder. Bless the wisdom of the holy one above us. Bless the truth of the holy one beneath us. Bless the love of the holy one within us. Blessing of green plants, blessings of forests: Cedar, douglas fir, swordfern, salal bush, blessing of fish and birds, blessing of mammals: Salmon, eagle, cougar and mountain goat. May all humankind likewise offer blessing: Old woman, young woman, wise men and foolish blessing of youthfulness, blessing of children, big boys, little body, big girls and little ones. Bless the wisdom of the holy one above us; bless the truth of the holy one beneath us; bless the love of the holy one within us. Bring us back, O Father to Thy Torah; draw us near, O our King to Thy service, and restore us unto Thy presence in wholehearted repentance. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who desirest repentance. Forgive us, O our Father, for we have sinned; pardon us, O our King, for we have transgressed. Verily Thou art merciful and forgiving. Blessed art Thou, O gracious Lord, who art abundant in forgiveness. Behold our affliction and plead our cause. Hasten to redeem us for the sake of Thy name, for Thou art a mighty Redeemer. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, Redeemer of America and Africa. Heal us, O Lord, and we shall be healed; save us and we shall be saved, for to Thee we offer praise. Grant complete healing for all our ailments for Thou, O God art our King, our faithful and merciful Healer. Praised art Thou, O Lord, who healest the sick among Thy people of American and Africa. Bless this year unto us, O Lord our God, and bless its yield that it may be for our welfare. Please send Thy blessing upon the Earth. Please send dew and rain for a blessing upon the Earth. Satisfy us out of Thy bounty, O Lord. Do Thou bless this year that it be for us a year of abundance. Praised be Thou, O Lord, who dost bless the years. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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