I hate change!

Unless, it is my idea!

If it is someone else's idea and it's been around for awhile, I might be able to consider it and adopt it as my own.

That's why I hated the idea of going to school until I had enough time considering how my older sister and brother did with it to decide that it was OK for me too.

That's why so many people are outraged with proposed Healthcare reform until they take the time to learn what might happen.

That's why I was skeptical about the idea that God had sent a new messenger for this day until I had about a year to study the Baha'i Faith and learn who Baha'u'llah was and consider for myself if I believed that He was who He said.

I cut myself off if I am unwilling to consider and learn about new ideas, no matter the source. If I cut myself off I am apt to become afraid, afraid of these new ideas, the loss of my old ideas, and the loss of familiar ways.

Loss creates an occasion of grief, which has five steps. Baha'u'llah wrote of journeys that traversed seven valleys or four valleys. Grief is like those journeys, you can get caught in one of the stages or move slowly through them one by one or cross them all in the blink of an eye.

Today, some have created great fear amongst the people. These people have passed through Denial and arrived at Anger. Anger is where they are residing. Why? Perhaps they refused to consider the new ideas and are caught clinging to the old ideas that are being swept away with the crumbling of the old world order. Angry people do things and say things that they later regret. But they do not stop the change.

Angry people do not stop to ask, "where are we going." Yet that is a very important question. The answer lies in the writings of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdul-Baha, Shoghi Effendi, and The Universal House of Justice. A study of this material is a journey, with many stages. Each person experiences the journey their own way. But it is the process of independent investigation of truth that keeps the journey safe, safe for the world.

The Change is Coming.

And it is the change that we all have been waiting for, some of us even praying for. But it might not happen this year or next. You see, we are in the middle of it and it will just take awhile to complete.

People from all walks of life have begun to realize the kinds of things that are happening. Followers of the Baha'i Faith have a leg-up, but that's no protection from the winds of change -- they blow on all alike.

David C. Korten is an author from north-west American conservative roots who has woken up. His book The Great Turning, building on his previous titles, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Post-Corporate World, goes into great detail to describe, from human the side, the growth and maturation of mankind. It is important information to understand as it is an analog to the teachings of the Baha'i Faith.

Baha'u'llah, whose Revelation poured forth from 1852 to 1892, revealed spiritual truths and the implications for the material world. Government must treat its citizens as a trust from God. The equality of men and women, the balance of the masculine and the feminine qualities of character. How the world order will be funded through the Right of God. The need for world peace. And on and on.

Korten has reviewed the history of mankind and now, over 100 years later, in the voice of one man among many, recognizes and expounds many of these principles. Though he does not mention if he has ever met Baha'is or heard the message of Baha'u'llah during the times he lived in the third world, he is an example of the power of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.

Baha'is understand that the world will turn. And here we can read from a well versed, human observer that the signs are evident.