Meditation: (on creating a New Earth)
After once again setting my intention to visit New Earth, I found myself on the sidewalk of a large city. It had many tall buildings and looked like downtown New York City or Chicago, except there very few big bright neon signs. 
As I looked around I noticed that the store immediately in front of me was a hot dog place. Hot dogs are about the least nutritious food I can imagine so I was very surprised to see a hot dog store here on New Earth. So I wandered inside.
The storefront was very small, with a long counter with lots of ingredients behind glass, much like a Subway Store. There were a few small tables and a tall counter with stools that ran along a large window overlooking the sidewalk.
The man at the counter was a young man with dark hair and a short beard. He was very excited and enthusiastic about his hot dogs. I mentioned my doubts about hot dogs even being on New Earth, but he just laughed.
“Hot dogs can be a wonderful food, you just have to do it right,” he said. “These hot dogs are made from grass fed beef and sustainable pork (he didn’t say what that was), and are served with condiments that are nutritionally sound. They have none of the nitrites that make regular hot dogs questionable, but still taste almost the same. The coleslaw and sauerkraut are made from organic cabbage, and I have organic tomatoes, onions, lettuce and beans for the chili. The buns are whole wheat or gluten free with no preservatives.”
I was interested in the fact that people here still ate meat. I questioned him about the ethical and environmental problems people on Old Earth have with meat consumption. He told me that here on New Earth there are people who can talk to animals, even domestic and wild animals. The animals have let us know that one of their main purposes as incarnated beings is to be food for other animals, even humans. They have no problem with this as long as their living conditions are humane and hunting is regulated so that humans do not have unfair advantages.
Providing optimal living conditions for domesticated animals also helps environmental concerns. Allowing cattle, pigs and chickens free range eliminates the need for chemically based fertilizers on farms and cuts down on disease so antibiotics aren’t needed. Carefully regulated grazing where animals are moved frequently and pastures allowed to regenerate, allow a farmer to have more animals per acre than on Old Earth.
I asked him how he acquired all this knowledge and where he found so many wonderful ingredients. He said there are councils made up of walk-ins from Old Earth who are available free to everyone who wants to start a business or a new enterprise. These walk-ins were the very best and most successful at what they did on Old Earth, or they had really good ideas that Old Earth was not ready for. He said there is a council for just about everything, and a well organized infrastructure that directs people to the councils they need.
In his case, he used a council for small business start-ups that provided him help in how to use the latest technology and accounting practices to cut down on expenses. He used another that directed him to the best organic and sustainable farms in his area, and still another to help him research recipe ideas for the taste experiences he wanted for his customers. A marketing council helped him in advertising.
These councils are free because the people on them are not in the regular economic chain. Because they’re walk-ins they are able to generate unlimited funds that are outside the normal economy that then allows them to make their services free of charge.
But no one is required to take the councils’ advice if they don’t want it. Often members of one council will have different views on the best ways to do something, but it is up to the person seeking advice to choose what he or she thinks fits best for them. If things don’t go so well, you can always go back to the councils to trouble shoot and figure out what went wrong. This information is then stored so that others don’t make the same mistake.
He said his hot dog place was doing very well, and so far, he hadn’t had any reason to go back to the councils, although he was glad they were there if he needed them, which he was almost sure he would eventually.
So what could I do but order a hot dog. I ordered a special combination from my college days and was amazed that he had the ingredients. My special hot dog had chili, cheese and onions with coleslaw on top on a whole-wheat bun. It was yummy. The vegetables were crisp and fresh and the meat robust and flavorful even though it lacked a certain hot dog taste that I assumed must come from the nitrites. But what was there, more than made up for what was not.
I asked him where he lived and he told me he lived right upstairs from his store. Since this seemed right in the middle of a large business district, I was surprised that he could afford such a rent.
He said that he had a small one-bedroom apartment that was rent adjusted for new small business owners. It was available to him because people were encouraged to live near where they were working, so living space had to be organized to accommodate this preference. Consequently, most buildings had a combination of retail, office, and high and low income housing in them. He was not exactly sure how this worked economically and logistically, and suggested that I talk to real estate people if I wanted to know more.
But that’s for another day. My hot dog lunch was surprisingly satisfying and I was getting sleepy. Time to go home.
For more on the energy realm, see my book, It’s All About Energy: Adventures in Expanded Reality”, available on Amazon, in local bookstores and on my website: www.transformationalexpansion.com