Thank God for Donald Trump

We're now focused on the rules of the universe

You’re reading Rx for the Planet, a biweekly newsletter about re-evolution. The great story of the human race is still untold: We’re not an accidental by-product of a random Earth or cold universe, but on a journey to reunite with intelligent life on the other 100 billion planets. I invite you to join me each week in exploring, explaining, and readying ourselves for this amazing, unprecedented moment in human history.

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Fruit flies don’t get enough credit.

I was reminded of this when a swarm showed up in our kitchen this November, several months after their usual summer invasion.

They launched from a bowl of overripe bananas and did their normal heat-seeking missile routine, landing in our coffee, wine, and anything wet or tasty. They’re pesky, no doubt.

But they did carry a message: Climate change is real. November in California is not supposed to be this warm—and they’re not supposed to be here. Give them credit for the reminder.

I’ll give them credit also for their impact on my life. In 12^th grade, in my Advanced Biology genetics project, I raised several generations of fruit flies. This takes four days, so it’s not like children.

But the project was so interesting it propelled me into biology at the university level. Plus, it burned the scientific name for fruit flies into my memory. Out of respect to the flies and to my teacher (Thank you, John Johnson), sixty-five years later I address them by their appropriate title: Drosophila melanogaster.

Drosophila don’t really need my endorsement. Fruit flies have a biological make-up similar to humans and share 75% of the genes that cause disease in the human population. They’re so popular in labs that scientists raise them by the millions—and from them humans have learned vital information about biological rhythms, learning, memory, neurodegenerative disease, and drug response.

So, a strange fact: More is known about the fruit fly than any other animal on Earth.

Really, it’s safe to say we know more about fruit flies than we do about ourselves.

Remember that next summer or maybe winter, if things continue. Like the flies, events will teach us facts we didn’t know before.

I’m not going to add to the chatter about the election in the U.S. I follow politics closely and find the commentary interesting.

And full disclosure: I voted for Kamala.

But the discussion is too earthbound. The arc of evolution bends in more mysterious ways. As I write about in every post about re-evolution, humans are on track to experience a radical expansion of consciousness and awareness.

It’s the deepest, most transformative journey humans have experienced since the original settling of the planet by intelligent beings from other star systems. We don’t know those beings directly, but we will soon.

With their guidance, humans will learn that our present conception of life is too shallow for this planet to take its place in an intelligent universe.

But how do we learn the true rules of the universe? That’s the question before the human race.

One way is the traditional route. Since those beginning days, through dreams, visions, channels, avatars, and indigenous insight, deeper truths have been offered to us. But humans deferred, choosing to embed those truths in myths, or to hide universal wisdom in arcane, outmoded religious texts and rituals. 

With re-evolution, a second route is open. The energetic forces driving our ‘upliftment’ have accelerated, intensified, and quickened. This exponential increase allows our thoughts to resonate more directly with the wholeness of the universal field of knowledge. We can download directly and efficiently, if we choose.

The net effect of acceleration has been positive, drawing our world in the direction of connection, kindness, and empathy. It’s a palpable emotion slowly overtaking the eight billion of us. The arrow points toward the stars—and we feel it.

But it’s also responsible for the grave disappointment across half the planet. So much separation and discord in our political life strikes the heart. Fear has been amplified. The potential darkness leaves us feeling betrayed or at the very least, as one neighbor put it, “We’re all off center now.”

Most of us are familiar with the carrot and stick approach to learning. Wholeness is the carrot. The reward and pleasure of a united planet, and the fulfillment of our deep yearning to reunite with other planets, continually tempts us to expand our human perspective, explore the stars, and go further on the inner journey.  

But the carrot won’t be enough. Our guides know that. True reunification with the stars requires dislodging old ideas, freeing ourselves of old beliefs, and—more than anything else—elevating our consciousness to place us in resonance with the energetic cloud of universal information.

That requires a stick. As I’ve been saying in Rx for the Planet for the past year, life needs to get a bit rougher. We benefit from more disruption, not less.

You can start with Donald Trump, if you like. If I were to guess, I’d say it’s part of his life mission to be a neutral force to prompt deeper reflection on life. His presence is global. He can be unbalanced and dangerous. But mostly he will cause us to question ourselves.

Possibly he will contribute to unity. That sounds strange, except the universe really does work in mysterious ways. The questioning will lead to polarization and a clear choice. The twin forces of unity versus separation that determine a planet’s fitness for life beyond the third dimension will be starkly revealed.

In the end, the population of Earth will be forced to decide what it truly wants. That’s the planetary journey. Ultimately, it is also the individual path to freedom, truth, and soul growth for each of us. We each own a different soul path, a different history, a different truth. You also must decide what you want.

So present events open up that choice quite starkly. First, each of us must decide our stance on the first rule of the universe: Unconditional love and acceptance. Judgement is a staple in human history; going forward, it is a failed strategy. It’s earthbound thinking. It takes our planet nowhere.

Donald Trump may help us focus on our path. As Rumi, a sage who did his best to inform us about the rules, wrote:

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.

But the stick remains. Deeper disruption is on the near horizon. Our guides are quite clear, as I’ve written repeatedly, that disruption will bring pain, upheaval, injustice, and death for some.

The result will be increased anger, confusion, and loss of faith. This is inevitable. But there’s beauty in the seeming darkness settling over life. The side effect of deep disruption is intended to be positive: It begins to reorganize the energies of the heart and mind to attract truths not considered.

Don’t believe for a moment that Donald Trump is an accident. He is a player in that cosmic game. But he plays on a much larger field than he knows. The disappointment around present politics is designed to drive us deeper, in the direction of severe questioning of our beliefs, scientific values, religious divisions, and societal norms.

It’s a process designed to help each of us become less earthbound by asking questions that one day will yield new answers and an entirely fresh view of governance. Perhaps view it as the birth of a new politics of the soul. Think, for example, of a different future when we ask these questions:

Can we really discuss gender and equality without understanding the journey of the soul and many lifetimes as every type of human?

Can we know the right or wrong of abortion without understanding that life is ongoing and each of us has been reborn a thousand times?

Can we talk about health without understanding love and light?

Can we understand climate change without addressing the collective trauma disturbing the planet?

Can we create economic justice without understanding fear and control?

Can we discuss immigration without understanding the fundamental equality of every soul?

Can we talk about a unified planet without knowing human origins?

Can we discover human purpose without knowing humans are more than a brain and body?

Can we talk about wisdom and empathy without knowing they derive from the universe?

The next few years demands spiritual maturity. And not all across the globe are capable, willing, or signed up for that journey. But for those of you who feel hopeless or despairing, or just helpless, the path is open.

Rumi understood this:

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”

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2025 is around the corner. I don’t own a crystal ball but I have good indicators of what to expect. It will be a pivotal year. Coming together as a human community, connecting to our Earth, and respecting all life, will be critical. You can help. Please subscribe and share Rx for the Planet.