Man`s will is his kingdom of heaven
t’s a saying we’re all familiar with. It highlights the fact that we humans are able and free to make our own decisions. This freedom is a precious commodity. For the clearer our outlook on life is in this regard, the more fully we realise that we must experience and accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
A law we know from physics and nature. The same irrefutable fact also applies to the way we lead our lives. Yet, from the perspective of today’s zeitgeist of collective mass influence, the central question arises as to whether we still have the freedom, as individuals, to freely and independently determine and decide on our own personal life matters.
I can imagine that the first critical response from a reader might be: …utterly clear and logical…I live my life according to my own vision.
A crucial point, however, is this: why are we humans, despite the freedom granted to us through our free will to shape everything as we please, generally so deeply dissatisfied? Clearly, everyone can list many things and reasons for what is amiss in the outside world and causes concern. The question of dissatisfaction is therefore relative and multifaceted. What one person finds unsatisfactory is of no concern to the next, who remains untroubled by it.
Our comfort zone, in the so-called Western world, is extraordinarily well-developed. We are wrapped in cotton wool. We have – by global standards – extraordinary safeguards and are happy to place our responsibility in others’ hands when life challenges us – following the motto ‘HE or SHE or the great IT will sort it out’. Our protest and, above all, our condemnation are quick to follow when things do not go as we would like. Our expectations have become excessively high. In other words, the bar is set high, and woe betide anyone who cannot meet it; our patience and willingness to put up with things then plummet. The downward spiral then has us firmly in its grip, and the reasons for our dissatisfaction confirm our belief that we are right, that things simply cannot go on like this.
From my life in Africa, I know all too well a different world that is incomparable to Europe. People are, in a way, generally
friendly towards one another, and this is also noticeable in their interactions with foreigners. This seems to have been lost in the affluent nations. Africa displays greater contentment and joie de vivre in the way people carry themselves. Where does this come from? Shouldn’t our earthly wealth and possessions lead us to a more grateful and positive mindset?
Why this is so is surely a legitimate question to ask ourselves!
I shall take the liberty of offering a spontaneous, fundamental answer here:
Amidst our habitual, ever-present prosperity, possessions and materialism, we have become somewhat blind to life itself, through our expectations and the constant evaluation of everything we encounter.
Genuine gratitude is surely one of our greatest losses. For we have scarcely any time to pause, let alone to reflect. Dissatisfaction arises and is ultimately an expression of what does NOT meet our expectations. A perceived gap between what is and what we would like it to be triggers dissatisfaction. So that our modern world can still satisfy our expectations, we constantly need something new that is supposed to make us happy again.
This mechanism is primarily driven by a vast sales and entertainment machine that ceaselessly entices our consumerist instincts, ensuring that we remain, as if out of our minds, perpetually hungry for ‘having even more’.
The strategic principle dictates: we humans must never find peace. By any means necessary, industry goes to enormous lengths to prevent us from doing so. We are not to have time to pause and reflect, to simply BE with ourselves. For otherwise we might notice something and suddenly realise the madness we are participating in, and how we are constantly sacrificing our time and money to the world of consumption. If this were not the case, the consequences would be fatal and devastating. For the sustained sales turnover and profit of the huge, globally operating and ever-expanding sales machines are only guaranteed if they are kept running and ensure ever-increasing hyper-prosperity.
To provide everything in abundance. If we were – theoretically – to withdraw our sustenance and energy from all these systems and were no longer available, they could no longer survive and would collapse.
In summary, these systems serve to:
Keep material and insatiable consumerism going by any means necessary, manipulating our hunger and desires in such a way that we almost compulsively devote a great deal of our time and attention to it. Where, then, is there enough time and energy left in our lives for ourselves, our families and our children? Or for other things that would be important for our well-being and perhaps also for our neighbours.
The second great evil of our time is the ever-present internet and the power of social media. As always, the question for us as decision-makers is whether, as free people, we use our technological developments for our own good or allow ourselves to become dependent in a way that amounts to being controlled by others.
That is why we should take a closer look at this now oversized monster, which, with truly overwhelming explosive power and a magnetic pull, is clearly taking over our lives like a drug and has assumed control of our LIVES through the media.
For these media forces now dominate our very BEING to an insane extent. Our self-permitted dependence has now reached a point where one can observe, in our constant online connectivity, that each of us seems to need it as much as the air we breathe.
Our way of life is characterised by this collective BEING ONLINE, a notoriously compulsive consumption. Being online demands an incredible amount of our attention and has become deeply embedded in every aspect of life.
True to the motto: nothing works without it. I must be online. What’s new? The world of apps governs our knowledge and decisions.
We surrender ourselves to a deluge of news and, in some cases, mindless time-wasters with supposedly important information, which seek to dictate our very lives without asking, in a way that should actually make us sit up and take notice.
Have we really come this far in our quest for happiness, time and the meaning of life, to allow ourselves to be unconsciously drawn into a downward spiral and to go along with it all so readily? The consequences are well known, including that we no longer have time and feel more dissatisfied than happy.
What is missing is a conscious decision to ask ourselves whether we really need and want all this, to put a firm stop to it and to clearly redraw the boundaries of what we allow to be done to us.
When will we stand up and say NO, taking full responsibility for our lives? When will we finally be brave and determined enough to wake up, to say a resounding NO to what is being thrust upon us?
Not to mention the harm being done to our children, who, with their sensitive young souls, are still unable to grasp the full picture. For one thing is clear: the monster described above does not stop at us or our children, and in doing so it uncontrollably weakens our families, makes them unhappy in the long run, and leads to a family atmosphere that becomes almost impossible for parents to manage.
Long-term alienation resulting from the silencing of interpersonal communication, because everyone now communicates only via their mobile phones, inevitably leads to a creeping alienation, to the point where we eventually have nothing left to say to one another. Listening and making time to be there for one another demands attention, which is scarcely left in our time-pressed lives. Relationships between partners, parents and children are at risk of breaking down in the long run.
Let us wake up!
In view of the current circumstances facing our young people, children and grandchildren, I would like to appeal in particular to our responsibility as parents and grandparents. Barely settled in life, children – as young souls – are being hollowed out and uprooted in the long run by this monster, with all its alien and often life-threatening temptations and enticements. Uncontrolled access to the artificial world leads, amidst the prevailing overconsumption, to an alienation from reality, resulting in dissatisfaction and an inner conflict over how to cope with it. The relationship with oneself, one’s own self and one’s immediate social environment grows cold, and feelings of belonging are impoverished.
I know parents who are at their wits’ end, unable to cope with the constant battle within the family to regulate and control their children’s consumption. External forces took control long ago. This is an inhumanity towards our children and future generations. All this is done in full knowledge of the facts, and with the broad support and legal backing of our governments, which do nothing to stop it.
Decisive action is long overdue, as is the urgent and necessary intervention of all responsible institutions to stand up to these autonomous, autocratic industrial platforms, which have managed, ruthlessly and with an insatiable lust for power, to do everything in their power to control access to us through their systems and strategically abuse this against people, so that power, huge turnover and profit can be maximised, and to develop entire standardised functions in such a way that ever greater dependencies are created for us as consumers and users. In their eyes, we are truly nothing more than that. A functioning number, but not a human being.
Although the dramatic negative consequences for our societies are already known worldwide and are increasing, we are faced with the pressing question of how to deal with this, or rather, how to escape it all.
In my view, some people still harbour the naive belief that it’s not half as bad as it seems, which amounts to a distortion of what is actually happening.
Another group, however, is becoming increasingly aware that they can no longer accept this distorted world as opposed to real life. They are troubled by the fact that things are heading in the wrong direction, and this frightens them. It is a kind of premonition that the consequences already visible from this way of life – which has become so commonplace – with its psychological, physical and emotional changes, will become increasingly impossible to resist the longer this goes on.
We should ask ourselves whether the kind of life that suits each individual and their way of living is actually still possible? Do I want what is happening here?
One answer to this question might be: ‘It is what it is…’, but that would be short-sighted and sounds like a denial of the facts. Dealing with this is not just a matter of the mind, but rather of an honest heart, of pausing to reflect and trusting one’s own inner voice.
When we no longer wish to see what is present and real, we begin to trivialise it. Downplaying means denying the truth and thereby indirectly supporting an evil or something bad. In doing so, we make ourselves complicit. Our children and families need critical engagement with these issues. It is the responsibility of us all, on the one hand, to set an example for our children and, furthermore, to instil in them the awareness to take a clear stance on these matters and not to remain speechless or simply acquiesce to the prevailing zeitgeist.
It is our responsibility to truly help our children recognise evil, call it by its name and thus open their eyes to the dangers. To fail to do this out of a sense of complacency, because it is too much effort, or to argue with the excuse that we cannot change anything anyway, will soon have fatal consequences.
Standing up against something harmful is and always will be a struggle. The values and principles that enrich our lives, and the commitment to protect them, must always be worth fighting for. So that we may stand firm before ourselves, the children entrusted to us, and our neighbours. It must be a matter of the utmost importance to us to send a clear signal regarding the dignity of our lives and to stand up clearly for the preservation of a meaningful life.
What has happened:
Our senses regarding life have, in the meantime, become so calibrated and absorbed that we are, to a large extent, programmed to believe we must go along with this madness, as if there were nothing else left in the life we have been gifted. The consequence of this is the daily rush and hustle, accompanied by all manner of arduous and burdensome physical, psychological and illness-inducing manifestations. Let’s be honest: this has given rise to an inescapable feeling of dissatisfaction. It is precisely at this point that our consciousness has been misled into believing that happiness and a pleasant sense of supposed contentment can actually be derived from materialism and the information age through access to the internet – the land of unlimited possibilities. Far from it.
Man’s will is his kingdom of heaven. Who determines this symbolic kingdom of heaven, or hell? Or somewhere in between? Who rules and determines our lives? Is it still us, or have others long since taken control and gained access to interfere in our very own, original lives, taking over decisions through manipulation?
What have we done to allow this to happen and for it to have already become the norm in our way of life? When did we stop being critical enough in the past, surrendering to all this and regarding it as normal, under the tacit assumption that whatever everyone else does must be right? This is extremely dangerous, as history teaches us. No one out there has responsibility for our lives. Only we ourselves.
So who gives these external machinations the right to dictate in our lives what we must do or refrain from doing, or what we must consume and participate in?
Only we ourselves decide that. ONLY US, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. No one else on the entire planet. We ourselves are the culprits against ourselves, our children, and the life bestowed upon us all.
Because we have surrendered our sovereignty to others who proclaim the madness of global influence over the masses with the principle: what is happening here is technological development and gives everyone more individual opportunities and benefits. Progress is the magic word for a better and simpler life for all of you. It has become the norm, something everyone must have, from which seemingly no one can escape. Constantly driven and always carrying on in this vein until every individual is utterly dependent.
The constant change in the name of boundless growth, supposedly to make our lives more beautiful, is a colossal fallacy. Have we already resigned ourselves and let things take their course, without acknowledging our responsibility to stand up and consciously reject what has happened here? The question must be asked here: who are those out there, beyond our four walls?
The Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, is by no means an unknown, random phenomenon, but rather consciously brought about, intended and desired by people. Everything that happens consists of powerful currents and is dedicated to the masses. The masses. Today, they have been made subservient and are creatures loyal to the system. All of them – that is, US – are systematically being moulded in the same way. As long as we ALL, as a mass, listen to this systematically organised indoctrination, follow it faithfully and agree unanimously, because we obediently go along with the authorities on this misguided path, nothing will change.
Our will, as to whether we wish to live in a kingdom of heaven that belongs to us and is determined by us, remains entirely our own decision.
However, as long as we look away complacently, we make ourselves jointly responsible and must ourselves face the consequences of our unhappy lives, with the unpleasant consequences that will arise sooner or later.
With the conviction that we cannot do anything about it anyway, we will have to bear the consequences ourselves. For looking away does not absolve us of responsibility. Each of us is the sole architect of our own happiness in life.
Now the question arises: how do we reclaim our lost sceptre?
Once we become aware that a serious problem exists here, the inevitable result is an awakening, like a flash of clarity. A realisation that strikes us like a bolt of lightning and triggers something within us.
This new perspective virtually challenges us, as a first step, to free ourselves from the sense of powerlessness that tells us: ‘There’s nothing we can do about it anyway.’
Powerlessness means no longer possessing consciousness. A powerless person is helpless. The powerless person no longer makes decisions. Being at the mercy of circumstances in this sense causes a sense of powerlessness in us humans that makes us feel sad, even depressed, or angry.
So as long as we continue to deny this influence of the world, insisting that all the developments mentioned above have nothing to do with us, we are not living our own lives, but are a product of what controls us from outside. We are not ourselves. The danger is losing our identity in the true way of life.
Unconscious bondage makes us ill in the long run. Our true life, in its originally deep-rooted divine significance, is subject to the universal laws that are ever-present.
Our life must therefore not be lived by others, but only by ourselves. Spiritual enslavement is not in harmony with the cosmos and its laws. Everything that works against this law from outside and is permitted by us causes separation, pain, illness and disharmony.
Only when we consciously recognise and perceive the problem does the desire to change something awaken within us. This ‘becoming aware’ is akin to enlightenment. NEW consciousness is enlightenment. For this inner attitude sets the decisive course for an initial spark that shows us where our life’s journey should be steered in future. This triggers a kind of longing and inner urge to no longer go along with all this, accompanied by the unbridled desire of the heart to bring about change at all costs for ourselves and our families. Not a matter of the mind, but an inner process.
What will happen?
Fundamentally, such an inner process is linked to the prerequisite that we, as human beings, wish to make a genuine personal decision with absolute clarity. That is the first step towards change. The mind will trick us into seeking a logic for how this is supposed to work and expecting a plausible explanation. Let us take comfort in the fact that this cannot work, for the mind will truly not understand it and will be unable to provide a solution as to how this is supposed to work in this visible world. For we can never combat or overturn the conditions of our time described above.
Invisibly, through our very personal decision, something is first set in motion that we cannot see. It is the MYSTERY of the trust we summon to allow ourselves to believe that our life and the universal divine law behind it will provide a solution. We do not need to know what this solution looks like at the moment of our decision.
It is unimportant and irrelevant to us how this problem can be brought under control according to the workings of our mind. The only thing that matters is trust in the universal power of the life principle, that there are other ways and means beyond our overbearing mind to turn our concerns and worries around, so that we may regain the reins.
Believing in and trusting this GOOD of the Kingdom of Heaven we long for, despite all the adversities of the worlds around us described above, creates something NEW in life that we truly cannot easily imagine. It is a universal law of life. It corresponds to the immutable principle of sowing and reaping. The more personal strength and conviction we bring to this endeavour with our families, and the more willing we are to address it in open communication and talk about it, the more momentum we will receive for something NEW from higher realms.
The sense of powerlessness mentioned above will gradually fade the more we consciously believe and trust that we need not be at the mercy of what drives this world externally. These new forces bring about changes which, when they occur, we cannot fully comprehend, but which we can and are allowed to experience. The well-known saying, ‘Faith moves mountains’, is not merely a proverb, but the truth.
Unfortunately, in the modern world, where technology and the progress of great knowledge and skill prevail, much of what once sounded true and true to life in times gone by has been lost to us and we have been trained away from it. Why is it so hard for us to remember that there was once something else in life that we had heard of, but have probably forgotten, slandered, overlooked, indeed lost?
This ancient GOD, who still exists far adrift behind the superhumans who have become boundless, yet has been banished from our hearts, cast aside, dismissed by the lofty EGO with the attitude ‘we don’t need that in our modern world’, entirely in accordance with the law of pride and arrogance: We do not need a God.
The EGO has led us astray with the aim of slowly but surely making us believe that anything is possible for us humans – even without GOD. Humanity has thus placed itself above God.
The proof of this is evident when we consider the state of the world, and should show us just how far we have come.
Where in families today is a prayer still said?
Where in our society is there still room for the teachings of truth, taught by God, or proclaimed by teachers sent by Him?
Where are the true laws of life still upheld in families and shared as an integral part of daily life?
When will we stop letting our overdeveloped intellect run rampant and worshipping it as the saviour of our existence on this planet? When will we stop believing that, with all the prevailing sciences, we can manage everything ourselves and are ALONE capable of self-sufficiently managing the Earth as the wonderful habitat we have been given, instead of reflecting once more on our origins, where we come from, and who was and is the Source from whom we are all actually permitted to BE and to whom we owe our lives?
Whether we like it or not, we are ultimately all hanging by a thread. Have we not succumbed to the fallacy that this is not the case?
The consequence is that we have all been led ASTRAY by the idol of the intellect and the pride in our hearts.
Concluding remarks:
In view of the overall situation of humanity, the only solution can be a turning away from disaster towards a contrite repentance.
By pausing to reflect and striving for an inner return to our roots, and by walking this path. In this lies the only salvation for what we have wrought. Through this, we and our children, and perhaps our descendants, may be guided once more onto wondrously new paths of life. For God sees and knows our thoughts and deeds.
He grants us freedom through the greatest gift we have received: our free will.
We humans are intelligent beings with abilities and talents. With these, we can create, achieve and shape much – for better or for worse. This power lies solely in our hands.
The crucial question now is whether we include Him who gave us this gift of life in this process, or leave Him out. Sooner or later, humanity will reach its limits and realise that it simply cannot do without HIM, the supreme Spirit of Creation.
Man’s will is indeed his kingdom of heaven – or perhaps not.
It lies entirely in our hands.
Author
Wolfgang Foerg
Namibia, April 2026