The Impossible Dream, Part II

By Robert Ringer

Let's start today by considering three options you would have had if, like Viktor Frankl in the 1940s, you had found yourself in a Nazi concentration camp.

Option No. 1: If you had a great attitude concerning the dire straits you were in, you still may not have survived without a good deal of luck.

Option No. 2: If you harbored an attitude of total despair, you surely would have been doomed, even if you had been fairly lucky.

Option No. 3: But if you had a positive attitude coupled with good luck, you would have had a shot at surviving. This, I believe, is what Frankl was getting at when he said that choosing one's attitude in any given set of circumstances is the last of the human freedoms.

In all likelihood, then, the impossible dream is, at least theoretically, not impossible at all. In my lifetime, I have experienced far too many impossible situations that mysteriously became possible.

Meeting my wife was impossible. (Too long of a story to go into here.) My son coming into this world — rather than dying at birth, as he almost certainly should have — was impossible.

For that matter, when I get up every morning and behold my little speck of the universe, it occurs to me that both the universe and my consciousness are complete impossibilities. Surely I am the most improbable collection of atoms in existence. If I am a product of "evolution," what was the cause behind such an impossible consequence? Because, after all, I am nothing more than a consequence, am I not?

Whatever it is that arranged my atoms in such a way that I can reflect on my own existence, does it not seem reasonable that the same Whatever can make a brain tumor disappear? Or bring the perfect spouse into the loneliest of lives? Or cure a person with financial leprosy and guide him to great wealth?

I believe that the answer is yes. Luck, coincidence, and fate are interesting abstracts, but a more meaningful abstract is human will — the will to power, the will to money, the will to live ... and so on.

And when it comes to transforming the impossible into the possible, I believe the fundamental human will is the will to connect. That's because connecting with the Eternal Energy of the universe allows you to transcend secular rules.

When you are connected to Eternal Energy, your life is not at the mercy of luck or coincidences. Eternal Energy allows you to go beyond dreaming the impossible dream — and actually live it. Though we may never completely understand it, it appears to give the atoms of which you are comprised the magnetic ability to attract the things you need in order to transform the impossible dream into reality.

Which begs the question: How does one connect with Eternal Energy? Not an easy question to answer. In fact, it's a question that has been around since time immemorial.

With the caveat that I do not possess any inside information on the subject, in one or more future articles I'll share some of my thoughts with you on this all-important question. In the meantime, what are your thoughts?

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