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While this book is a story of loss, discovery, reinvention and contribution, it is also something more.
We are pioneers of “uncertainty.”
Life put us on a path that exposed us to relentless change and disruption, which consistently jeopardized and impacted our well-being. This inspired us to see the world anew, and navigate our increasingly complex life experiences with a fresh perspective.
Our story demonstrates what it’s really like to face a mind shift when you don't know you need one. When you don't think you want one.
About the authors
Pamela Powers Lawson
Pamela Powers Lawson
Pamela Powers Lawson
Pamela is a former award-winning journalist. She is Co-Founder of the Spherit contextual reasoning system.
Phil Lawson
Pamela Powers Lawson
Pamela Powers Lawson
Phil is an inventor, patent-holder, Co-Founder of Spherit, and co-author of the book, Being Spherical: Reshaping Our Lives and Our World for the 21st Century.
It's Going to be O.K. (but not like we thought)
Chapter 1: Stage
There are moments in time, despite our purest heartfelt intentions, when things are not going to be O.K. Not as we believe they should be, or hope they will be.
That realization occurred to me after a family tragedy in 2007, compounded by a book I read a year later about Abraham Lincoln.
“It’s going to be okay,” were the final words of a distant relative, the day she lay dying in a crushed SUV on a two-lane mountain road in Colorado. A spring blizzard was spitting cold at the windows as she consoled her 2-year-old son, who was crying. A damaged 18-wheeler sat cockeyed nearby, having slammed to a stop in the head-on collision.
But things were not okay.
The young woman, a nurse by profession, was soon dead — her tiny boy, motherless; her husband, widowed; her carefully planned life, derailed.
I recalled her haunting words — passed on by her sister, who was driving that fateful day — when I was immersed in a historic anthology about Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln was forced to deal with what author Joe Wheeler described as a “ticking time bomb” set 85 years before he became president, at the birth of our nation, when American democracy was too delicate and the colonies too divided to disarm it. That centuries-old issue was slavery, and it blew up in Lincoln’s time, costing the lives of more than 620,000 countrymen in the American Civil War.
Lincoln could not escape his destiny. And neither can you or I. Something is amiss: a widespread disturbance, cumulative in nature — bequeathed to us by previous generations. Unavoidable, like a semi in your path as your car slides on ice.
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As you will read in this book, I’m all for living in the now; living life purposefully; choosing my actions carefully and thinking positive thoughts (though that last one took some work). I know it’s possible to experience quantum leaps in awareness and lifestyles. You will read about it here.
But what happens if our lives are suddenly and permanently changed, despite the power of our intentions?
If our beliefs are challenged, how do we get through a multi-dimensional crisis, such as the one we are experiencing today?
Things are not okay — as we have known them. But there may be another way for things to turn out okay. And that makes this a scary but exciting time for you and me to be alive.
About Pam and Phil
Pam and Phil met at the age of 6, married at 18, and kicked off their enigmatic partnership with a decade of volunteer mission work in the Deep South.
Eventually, they lived and worked in Hollywood; traveled abroad on business; worked in leadership roles at companies that were deploying cutting edge online technologies; and they've launched their own start-ups. They've even endured two historic natural disasters within 18 months of each other.
All of this netted them abundant life experiences. But it also perplexed them.
They realized a.) the world doesn't work the way they were taught it does, and b.) humans, as a species, are not adapting well to the realities of our times.
It's Going to be O.K. (but not like we thought) is a book-writing odyssey full of heart and surprising breakthroughs that was 20+ years in the making.
Chapter 8: Crash
[Excerpt]
Little did we know it then but a door was opening for us, if ever so slightly, to another place. And it happened after this harrowing chain of events: I nearly died. Our lives came to a full stop. We sought help but conventional routes failed us. Someone unexpected came to the rescue. We were forced to ask tough questions. We were transported outside our comfort zone by the answers. All of which, caused us to shift our perspectives and engage in the process of change.
