CHOICE: The Most Important Word of All

Choice is the exercise of free will. It is what drives the human spirit. However, choice is the most powerful word, and potentially the most dangerous action known to mankind. The fact that not all people regard choice as a good thing lets you know how precarious a “choice” can become.

On the subject of choice, noted philosopher Dr. Frederick Bailes said: “Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest…” Even if you do not subscribe to the theories of Dr. Bailes, you have to admit that his “choice” theory is on target.

Nevertheless, you should take note that unlimited choice can lead to psychological problems. Unlimited choice could cause you confusion, conflict and regrets brought on by illusions one might develop through believing unlimited choices also means unlimited control, and unlimited access to unfettered desires within an unstructured existence…

Some sports and religious fanatics may fall victim to the reality of unlimited choice in an unstructured existence, i.e. a person beating or killing someone else because their team lost the Super Bowl Game; inflicting physical or psychological injury to another person because that person refused to follow certain religious teachings or practices. Seekers of political office and their supporters often find themselves in a state of unhealthy conflict and delusion due to the belief that their choices give them unfettered control or access to laws and government using structurally criminal logic based on an anti-social agenda.

The power of “choice” is nothing to play with, but is everything to consider with the deepest of respect. Choice engages the pathway of thinking with the process of judging the subsequent choice options, leading to a selection of appropriate or inappropriate action. Here is where one personally unleashes his or her “angel or devil, king or slave.” But when uninformed people make uninformed choices, they usually unleash the very thing they thought they were trying to contain.

Whomever the American public chooses to serve as their next President, let that choice be based on an informed public engaging its pathway of rational thought with sound judgment, so that the subsequent action brings forth an appropriate choice for our nation… and not just for the most vociferous members.

Let not this choice be based of skin pigmentation or other misnomers such as “hard-working white people," war service records or religious misinformation. Indeed, when making your Presidential choice for 2008 think like a restless slave who was once an angel. Remember how it was in contrast to how it is. Look at your choices and select the person who represents the kind of change required to get this nation back on the right track. Select the person who can actually add structure to the government that you would be willing to make appropriate choices towards its betterment…

And remember: “Whatever you choose, mind will create and manifest.”

GLM