I am finishing up this post which I started a few days ago in the year of 2025. Now that we are officially into 2026, I must seriously think about how I can have a good year by making a supreme effort to stay positive by choosing happiness as my primary goal. Therefore, the first thing I will do is wish everyone a “Happy New Year” and mean it.

Staying happy these days is a huge battle facing humanity, and it won’t get better until we can define what it truly means for ourselves and how we can attain it. This is a question many of us are asking when we are witnessing so much suffering in our world? I know it’s a difficult concept to accept, but I also know we musn’t give up the hope that we can find happiness if we can change our thoughts about what happiness is and what we need to do to find it. Of course, many will argue that when we hear and see what is happening around the world, then what hope can we have that it’s possible to find any happiness anymore? Some of us are already giving up and believing we are doomed. They believe we will not be able to change our thinking and embrace the new world that some enlightened people are envisioning quickly enough to save ourselves.

I think it is possible to save ourselves if we can change how and what we choose to think about. However, we need to be prepared to take this seriously by taking the time to find out more about how to do this and then dedicating time practicing it. It requires some inner work which may prompt one to ask how can we find the time to sit still, meditate, or take courses being offered these days online, all focused on how to quiet our overloaded minds? With the way things are going, we are already finding our lives being stretched to the limit trying to keep pace with the changes happening around us. Some are feeling threatened of losing their jobs, for their safety as our crime rate rises, their health due to our failing health care system, and, finally, the demise of some of the outdated beliefs we were brought up on. All such concerns can then lead to more of us experiencing extreme stress which can often lead to depression, physical illness, and yes, crime.

In 2015 I wrote a blog entitled “A Moment of Happiness” on the topic of cherishing those fleeting moments of happiness we might have experienced in our lives. Back then, I didn’t believe that I could ever achieve a permanent state of happiness. Only gurus and special people devoted to a spiritual calling could ever be happy all the time. Having always been a person who has been attracted to more than a conventional life, such as I was brought up in, I have taken courses and worked on myself to become that ‘better person’. I totally believe that it’s our thinking or mind that holds us back and keeps us stuck in the familiar way of living rather than embracing the new. Let’s face the truth, we humans are simply not good at embracing change. I thought I was getting better at making changes but when I went back and read the post I wrote over ten years ago, I realized I have more work to do. Lately, I’ve been finding it difficult to accept the many changes facing us today, especially in the field of technology and the way we are being forced to communicate to one another. I find myself wanting to keep doing what is familiar because it helps me feel more successful at what I do. However, I know that taking on something new, which can stimulate my creativity rather than my mind, is the route to take. If I keep doing what I’ve always done, I will get stuck, which I know brings on negative thinking because when I let that happen, I often feel depressed. However, I can manage to change my thinking with a good talking to my “self” to change whatever I was thinking about. One of the best tools I use is to take a quick walk down to my garden or to the beach which is near where I live. Breaking my state of mind is a great way to banish my negative thoughts which are often bound to pop up far too much at times if I let them.

I am being reminded of another much broader way to look at what is happening in our world these days which has given me some hope. Have you ever heard about how we are moving upward from the third dimension to the fifth dimension? To understand this concept think for a moment about the Broadway hit “The Age of Aquarius,” which addressed this new age we were entering back then in the late ’90’s. This was a time of rapid change when young people in America hit the streets in protest of what was going on with governments allowing ridiculous wars such as Viet Nam to take so many lives, young people hoping to find a better place with the help of drugs, and those with grudges to assassinate those in power. This feeling of unrest spread to other countries as the people woke up to the fact that the old way was not working. It was time for change. Since change is hard for many, such as our leaders and those in power, it is slow to happen and things get progressively worse to the point where it almost seems hopeless to idealists that it will ever happen.

Well the good news is that it is now happening and moving more quickly, but not all people are going in the right direction. We are at a precipice where we have the pros and the cons about who is right or wrong making us seemingly more divided than ever. However, there is hope. Futurists, psychics, astrologers, healers, and many others are awakening. They are predicting that by the year 2032, most earthlings will have entered the fifth dimension with some going even further into the sixth and seventh. At present, there are still many of us who are stuck in the Piscean Age or the third dimension where we have been for centuries. If all these forward-looking people are right, this is certainly good news. Maybe I will still be here in 2032 to have the opportunity to witness the change. My hope is that my one and only grandson will reach the fifth and be a part of this New World. However, until this happens, our years until then are going to demand that we make big changes within ourselves to be ready for the changes ahead of us. For instance, there will be such challenges as our changing climate, a huge migration of homeless people, more wars and disputes from those who haven’t risen to the fifth dimension and continue to dominate and make trouble. The changes needed to make this new world aren’t going to happen quietly and easily overnight. We will have huge challenges to face for sure.

However, if we listen to the people who know and understand this, there can be a new world where we will be living a life fueled by love and kindness rather than fear and hate. The old order of large governments, cities and dictators will have gone the way of the dodo. It will indeed be a New World. Again, this is nothing new as great leaders, writers and enlightened souls in the past have written about this. I still remember how Plato’s Republic grabbed my attention in high school. It also explains why I enjoyed living and working on a kibbutz in Israel years ago as a volunteer. The kibbutz was a good example of people working together for a common good which did not follow the rules of communism.

I was recently listening on YouTube to a lady by the name of Diana Cooper who speaks and writes about the dimensions as well as the existence of angels. Since she was a child, she sensed other personalities were around her urging her to devote her life to spreading to others what she was learning by listening to their messages. Now her vocation as a senior adult in England is to follow the messages she has gotten from her angels so that today she has forged a successful career for herself by passing on her experience and knowledge about the world outside of ours here on Earth.

She firmly believes we must take the time to stop and listen to them through prayer or meditation. We all have angels up there as they may be our relatives, loved ones, or just old souls who stay up there in the nether world (or heaven or whatever you wish to call it) to be guides to those of us still here on Earth. I have heard about this but have never taken it seriously. After listening to her, I think I should. Now it doesn’t necessarily have to be angels, it could be God (if you believe there is such a person or thing), Buddha or any entity who has passed on to the nether world. All we must do is believe there is a greater source beyond our physical body out there where eventually we will be going, who is guiding us or at least trying to if we can accept such an idea. Perhaps for some of us, it is easier to understand if we think of this as a soul which could be a deceased relative or spouse trying to keep in touch with us. This is my attempt to understand the importance of a world outside of what I see and live while I am here on Earth. If you are really interested in learning more about this, you might want to go to Diana’s website at dianacooper.com where she explains so much better than I can about what dimensions, angels, past lives and old souls are. Once we open our minds to this, I truly believe that it will give us more hope and a promise to make the most of ourselves and our talents. I think that the actual word or words I need to use is to first learn to love and accept our “self” and once we do that, it will be easier to love others. Then, when we do that, we need to understand that this energy will go beyond and help our whole world. How many people and how many ways has this been said for centuries? The person who immediately comes to my mind is Carl Jung, a brilliant psychologist. Then there is Edgar Casey, an American psychic who predicted many events that have already taken place.

There have been many advanced souls or seers, but we need many more. We are at a turning point as far as I can see. If we don’t give up our fears and replace them with love, then I can’t help but believe we will possibly annihilate ourselves. There is no going back to our old way of thinking and acting. We must keep moving forward and not give up the battle.