“Breaking Free from Planet Crazytown” An urgent call to awaken compassion, courage, and clarity in a world gone mad.

We live on a spinning blue ball riddled with chaos and confusion—what I call Planet Crazytown. But within each of us lies a strength waiting to be unlocked: the power to choose compassion over cruelty, clarity over madness, and action over apathy.

This is not a sermon or a sales pitch, but a heart-to-heart invitation from one imperfect human to another. It’s time to break free, step beyond the noise, and become the change we desperately need.

Dear Ones… Start right now to stand up for compassion in every area of your life, beginning from the tip of your nose and extending outward to encompass the whole universe. Aim high and never take “no” for an answer. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re setting your sights too high. Man’s reach must always exceed his grasp, or we’re all wasting our time doing absolutely nothing.

Don’t be fooled by those who tell you to “be practical.” They only want to kill their consciences by excusing and rationalizing away their own unwillingness to act. Dream big. Resolve to save the whole suffering world and get busy doing it. By doing that, you’ll already have succeeded. As Gandhi put it, BE the change. That’s all, nothing less, nothing more.

Remember, YOU are a beautiful, inherently powerful, irreplaceable, unique, and wonderful being of infinite worth and value. If you’re an American, Mister Rogers (one of our truly great spiritual leaders and a thoroughly sane man) told you this as a kid, but the insane world beat it out of you. So now, listen again. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, if you choose to make it one. You have strength beyond measure waiting to be unlocked somewhere deep in your heart. All the “doctors” of history have done their damndest to tell you exactly where to find it, if you’ll just shut off the crazy voices of the world in your head for five minutes and really, sincerely LOOK and LISTEN. Turn off the TV and turn off the phone if you have to, just to find a place to start. Never believe that you cannot change the world, for it is really you and ONLY you who can. That’s a fact, Jack. Learn it, love it, live it.

Beliefs are dangerous, and we don’t exactly have a good history of using them wisely. Instead of believing, go within. Go into the depths of your heart and see if what I’ve told you rings true. Go to the place where there is no logic, no “truth” that can be formulated in words and used to beat your fellow man over the head, no belief, and no chattering mind. Go to the quiet place where faith lives, and I don’t mean Crazytown’s phony, self-serving sales-pitch version of “faith” that asks you to send $100 to a Mega Church, believe that dinosaurs and man walked the Earth together 5,000 years ago, or blow yourself up for the glory of Allah.

I mean real faith, the universal message of the heart. Put aside everything the crazy world has ever told you, go to that small, still place, and see if what I’ve said to you rings true. If it doesn’t, then I’m sorry I’ve wasted your time.

As your brother in humankind, I am at your service forever, even if you choose to to not hear me, as many of you have already chosen to do throughout our shared lives together here on Planet Crazytown.

However, we CAN learn. This is our opportunity. Nothing other than one totally free being in the universe choosing to open himself or herself to the possibility of a better course for this incarnation of our human life any of us have.

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

It is up to you now. Will you at least take the seed into your heart, for just a moment? Will you step outside your self-imposed ego prison for just a brief instant and see that the insane ideas, beliefs, and attitudes you have been trained to accept as “normal” are killing you and the whole bloody world spiritually, psychologically, and even materially? Will you, like Nero, choose only to fiddle while Rome burns? Can you, just for a moment, set aside this deadly blindness and arrogance? Will you turn away from the madness at long last and face the shining Sun of your true infinite being? Will you reach into the depths of your heart and summon the courage to become who you really are?

When you accept the seed of compassion into your heart, it is at that very moment that all sentient beings are consciously renewed and the universe and its infinite angels rejoice for all eternity, because eternity is within you.

You know what to do if you want any of that. It’s all out there in a thousand forms and a million places. If you want Jesus, he’s not hard to find (although I’d recommend staying away from most churches). Ditto the Buddha, Lao-Tsu, the Dalai Lama, Swami Anybodyananda, Pantheism, Humanism, or whatever appeals to you. As long as you understand that all of these doctors prescribe the same medicine you’ve just been prescribed here, knock yourself out.

Compassion is the only medicine in the world on which you can never overdose.

This is my whole and complete message to you. Take it for what it is, not some “sermon” from on high, not a lecture from some “guru” or “master,” but a heart-to-heart personal letter from a brother in humankind who shares in your pain and heartache. Your true master is and has always been your own heart and nothing else, and if I have been at all successful in opening your mind to its small, still voice, then that is the true medicine.

Good luck to you, and may we each do whatever is in our power to cure our shared suffering together, as brothers and sisters on this little blue ball of mud. I will see a few of you on the streets, at the markets, and on the wires, where you will neither know me nor care to know me, but understand that I do know you, and no matter how crazy you are, you will always be my friend.

And that, very simply, is why I will never lie to you about what really matters.

The choice is yours.

Blessings, Love & Light...