I have been communicating back and forth with one of my step-daughters about reading a copy of the Bhagavad Gita that i gave her.  Recently, she said that she had read the first "ten pages".  Earlier, i told her to make sure she started at the beginning of the book (i.e., the forward, preface, whatever introductory stuff there is before you get into the meat of things.

I thought ten pages was progress, so i went and got my copy of the same book, and started to read the first ten pages of the book.  Now here is where i stop because now i would like to give Andrew Harvey credit for the words he wrote on the "third page" of the introduction.  They follow:

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I believe that the whole of humanity is now in the thick of a battle whose outcome will determine the fate of the planet.  This battle is between those forces of Life that want to us living in harmony with the creation, inspired by divine love, and so able to re-create our devastated word with the powers of the Divine itself, and the forces of death--ignorance, pride, greed--that have brought us to the moment where we have almost destroyed Nature and polluted the world's mind and heart with violence and a materialist vision of humanity.  The destiny of this vision is so reductive that it threatens us all with despair and meaninglessness at a moment when hope and resolve are crucial.  This tremendous battle is being fought out in every arena of our life--in politics, industry, the arts, the sciences, the universities, the media, and in the depths of all of our psyches.

The signs are not encouraging.  We have known about the progressive degradation of the environment for more than twenty years now, but almost nothing significant has been done to counteract it.  Two billion people are now living in poverty, yet our addiction to an economic system that thrives on such desolation continues unabated.  Much of organized religion continues to be largely divisive, drunk on outmoded visions of exclusive truth, and wedded to a vision of the Divine that obsessively restricts transcendence at this moment when the entire immanent body of God-Nature is in mortal danger.  The majority of modern seekers in the so-called New Age who pride themselves on participating in a mystical renaissance are in fact largely trapped in a narcisstic coma, apolitical, unconcerned by and blind to the approaching potentially terminal tragedy of the destruction of nature.

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The copyright date was 2001, so i assume this was Mr. Andrew Harvey's view at that particular time, and here we are another 23-years down the line and look where we are.  

A Devil is running for the Presidency of the United States of America--and right now the polls say Americans are not sure which way they want to go.

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It's time that some of you to either start reading the Bhagavad Gita or The Stand because you are living the history of those stories.