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As I have explained at the end of Chapter 8, my discovery is valid for allof us – not only for the famous people, but also for the ordinary people. Also your own life’s good and bad seasons, therefore, alternate the same way like the famous peoples’. You can find thus, how your own seasons will be in the future. Specifically:
If the alternating, 16-17 year cycles extend back 500 years into the past – from 1479 to 1990, as we’ve seen in Chapter 8 – there is no reason to think they will not continue 500 years into the future. And since our last alternation of seasons happened in 1990 (as we’ve seen in the biographies of Gorbachev, Mandela, Thatcher, Glenn, Taylor, Kennedy Onassis, the Dalai Lama and Carter), that means the next turning point of seasons in our lives lies 16-17 years after 1990 – around 2007. A new season starts then that lasts 16-17 years – until 2024. The next alternations of our seasons after 2024, furthermore, happen at the dates 2040, 2056, 2073, and so on – every 16-17 years.
Recall, however, that there are two opposite courses of seasons in our lives, the first course and the second course. To find, therefore, how your own seasons will be in the future, you have to find first to which course of seasons you belong: to the first course or to the second. For this purpose you have to follow this way:
First, you have to see your life “from above,” in large periods, not day by day. An example from the book Thinking Better, (1) by psychologists David Lewis and James Green, will help clarify this point. They describe a situation where two children get lost in a remote area and the authorities can’t decide how to search for them –whether to send a group of rescuers to cover the area on foot, or to call in helicopters to survey the terrain.
Each method has advantages and disadvantages. If the searchers choose the first method, which is time consuming, they risk bringing help too late. If they choose the second method, which is quicker, they run the risk of not being able to see the children if they are obscured by trees. Lewis and Green suggest that people who would favor the first method are pathfinder types; those who would prefer the second method are helicopter pilot types. To find, therefore, to which course of seasons you belong, you have to see your life “from above”, in large periods, not day by day. You have to be a helicopter pilot, not a pathfinder.
The following graphs will help in your effort to find to which course of seasons you belong. Examine first whether your life’s seasons alternated according to the first graph. If you find that your seasons didn’t alternate according to the first graph, use the second graph.
If you prefer, you can follow an easier way: you can examine only your season from 1990 to 2007. Compared with the years before 1990, did a good or bad season start for you in 1990 –which continued until 2007? Of course, the work for finding to which course of seasons you belong will take you enough time. Maybe you’ll need to come back after one or two days to re-examine your findings and add more details.
If despite your efforts, you cannot recall with the above manner how your good and bad seasons were in your life (and find thus now to which course of seasons you belong), there is another way to find this in the future. You can start examining how your seasons will be from now on – observing, that is, whether from now on you have a good or bad season in your life in comparison with the years before 2007. If after 2007, you have a bad season in comparison with the previous years, that means you belong to the second course of seasons – and vice versa: if after 2007, you have a good season in comparison with the previous years, that means you belong to the first course of seasons.
That manner can also be used by readers who will read my book later, after 2024. Those readers can observe, that is, whether they have a good or bad season in their life in comparison with the years before 2024, or 2040, 2056, 2073 and so on – every 16-17 years. In every case, however, you have also to remember some points we’ve already seen. Specifically:
- Recall that a “good” season is a season of inner satisfaction, with successes and achievements, while a “bad” season is a season of anxiety, failure, and disappointment. To use objective criteria, the main factors of a good or bad season are money, fame, love, health, and some others. These criteria differ from person to person, and they change with age. And though all or many of the above factors may interest a person, it is usually one of them, the most interesting, that shapes his/her good and bad seasons at a given moment. For famous Greek opera star Maria Callas for example, love was her main pursue after the age of 30 –as we’ve seen in her biography– while her career, though equally important, came second. On the other hand, Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis’s main pursue was money –throughout almost all his life, as we’ve also seen in his biography. Only later, Onassis’s health became his main concern, and he entered a bad season because of it, though he still remained the wealthiest person on earth.
- Also, remember that a good season is not necessarily paradisal, nor a bad season is always a hell. There may be some bad events during one of your good seasons, as well some good events during a bad season. For example, in one of your good seasons, you may have had some problems with your health, or with your carrier, or a divorce may have occurred, or even death of a beloved person. These isolated events must not make you to think that they change your season from good to bad one. It is the overall view of your season of 16-17 years that counts: looking at this season from above as a helicopter pilot, in its entity was this season a good or a bad one? When Hugo was at the summer of one of his good seasons –from 1859 to 1875 (i.e., for 16-17 years) – he lost his wife in 1868, and his two sons in 1871 and 1873, while his younger daughter had been confined to a madhouse in 1872. These bad facts, however, didn’t prevent him from continuing his summer; all the theaters of Paris asked to perform his works, while he had a lot of women admirers, as we’ve seen in his biography.
- Also, recall that there are “spring times” and “autumns” within our good and bad seasons. Each good season starts slowly, then becomes very good, and finally culminates in great satisfaction or even glory. Every bad season begins gradually, eventually becoming very bad and possibly ending in catastrophe. The first part of each good season resembles “springtime”, while the second part resembles “summer.” Likewise, the first part of each bad season resembles “autumn,” while the second part resembles “winter.” For example, in his bad season from 1792 to 1809, Beethoven realized first the serious problem with his hearing, the problem worsened later, and finally he became so desperate that he wanted to commit suicide. On the other hand, in his good season from 1809 to 1825, Beethoven first learned to cope with his hearing problem, then at the end of this season realized tremendous success with his musical compositions.
- Keep also in mind that not all of us are becoming Beethoven’s or Napoleons, for example, with the tragic or triumphant ups and downs they had in their lives. Your alternations of seasons, therefore, though clearly existing, may be less dramatic compared with those of the famous people we’ve seen so far.
- Finally, you have to remember that the duration of each season is something between 16 and 17 years. A season of your life, therefore, may have not begun exactly at the dates shown in the above graphs; it may have occurred sometime around those dates. The same phenomenon happens with the seasons of the year on our earth, and especially with the weather we associate with each season: these seasons do not always start at the same point. Sometimes the summer starts earlier than the previous year, while some other times it starts later. The same happens with the winter, autumn, and springtime.
How Your Seasons Will Be in the Future
After finding to which of the two courses of seasons you belong, you will be able now to foresee how your life’s good and bad seasons will be in the future, and so you’ll be able to know whether the years just ahead are good or bad for you, and how long this season will last, so that you can act accordingly. As noted earlier, if there is a storm on the horizon, you’ll take shelter in time; if sunny days loom ahead, you’ll take advantage of it before the opportunity passes. In short, you will be able to take crucial decisions regarding your career, marriage, family, relationships, and all other life’s issues.
According to which course of seasons you found you belong, you’ll know which your seasons will be in the future. Specifically, the alternations of your future good and bad seasons will be as shown in the accompanying graph.
And so on every 16-17 years. As you can see, if you belong to the first course of seasons, the years just ahead of you up to 2024 will be good; if you belong to the second course, these years will be bad.
Questions for the Future
My theory explained in this book is, of course, a fresh piece of knowledge –and we could say that maybe a new science can be born from it. In the light of my findings, therefore, new studies by other persons (scientists or scholars) are absolutely necessary in the future, so that they can enable us to take more advantages of the discovery described. Among other things, these studies must answer the following questions deriving from what we’ve seen so far.
- What is this that causes the alternations of seasons in our lives? And why there are two opposite courses of seasons? Do astronomical influences –such as unknown magnetic fields around the earth that come from the sun, other planets, or even other galaxies– cause the alternations of our seasons? Finding the answers to these questions may help us avoid or ameliorate in the future the bad seasons in our lives –perhaps the way migratory birds leave one hemisphere during the winter and fly to the other, so that they can continually experience summer. Future generations of scientists and scholars, therefore, may come up with the answer. Ancient peoples didn’t know what caused the alternations of the four seasons in the earth –fall, winter, spring, summer– though they didn’t deny these seasons’ existence. Only thousands of years later, we learned that the main cause of the four seasons in our earth is the shifting distance between the earth and the sun.
- How does that unknown cause influence the alternations of the seasons? Is it influencing the function of our minds? As an example of this possibility, consider the case of Winston Churchill. As you’ve seen in his biography, when World War I began in 1914, Churchill –as first lord of the admiralty– thought the only salvation for England was to land at Antwerp, Belgium. But no one agreed with him. Then he went alone to Antwerp, assumed leadership of a small body of sailors, and ordered two divisions of inexperienced recruits to be transferred from England to Antwerp. What followed was a catastrophe. Had Churchill’s state of mind been influenced by what causes the alternations of seasons in our life? The answer can of course, help us to more benefit from our discovery.
- Does the conclusion at which we have arrived –that we can foresee the good and bad seasons in our lives the way shown above– require some adjustments? When great Polish astronomer Nicholus Copernicus announced in 1543 that the earth is moving around the sun, he said that the earth’s movement was in circles with the sun as their center. However, in 1609, the German astronomer Johannes Keppler discovered that the earth moves around the sun not in circles but in elliptical orbits that have two centers, one occupied by the sun. We cannot rule out, therefore, the possibility that the conclusion presented in this book may need some improvements. Despite my efforts, for example, I didn’t find any people without any alternations of life’s seasons –in whom their lives roll without any significant worries, or without any substantial satisfactions. However, there may be such people: in most parts of Ecuador in South America, for example, the weather is steadily springtime all over the year. The same phenomenon may in some cases happen with the seasons in our lives, therefore: some people –quite a few, however– may belong to a kind of an “equatorial” course. Also, I didn’t find any people consisting some exception, whose life seasons alternate with a different way, other than the one described in this book, or their seasons alternate irregularly, without any pattern. The subject needs further research by other people, however.
- Do our life’s seasonal shifts every 16-17 years apply also to a whole nation or
a country, or even more to our entire world, or at least to a company? Are their seasons also alternating every 16-17 years and in two opposite courses? For example, are the economic crises, or the world’s climatic changes, also governed by our discovery? To all these questions, the answer is no. Our discovery of this book regards only the personal life of individuals; it does not apply to the lives of persons in a group, like a country, or a nation, or a company, or even more to our whole world. However, could we say that a nation’s or a country’s fortunes are governed by the alternations of seasons in the lives of the people’s majority in that nation or country? Since there are two opposite courses of seasons, that means that during an economic crisis, for example, a part of people (the majority or the minority) must be at their bad season and the others at their good one. Could we say, therefore, that if the majority of people in a nation or country are in their good or bad season, also their nation as an entity is in a good or bad season? The same question also applies, of course, to our entire world as an entity. Also, it applies to a company: are a company’s fortunes governed by the alternations of seasons in the lives of its owners’ majority? Or are they governed by the seasonal alternations in the life of its chief executive officer? All these questions need, of course further research by other people in the future.
There are of course, many other questions to be answered. For example, should we marry to a person belonging to the same with us course of seasons or to the opposite? Onassis and the woman he loved, Maria Callas, belonged to the same course of seasons, and their relation was extremely satisfactory, as we’ve seen. But Onassis and his second wife Jackie Kennedy belonged to opposite courses, and their marriage was a failure, as we’ve also seen. The question needs further research, however, and other people must find in the future an answer to it –as well as to all the other above questions, for a much better life for all.
For the moment, I hope my book has indeed given you the means to learn whether the years just ahead are good or bad for you, so that you can take advantage of this ability. If you agree – and you want to help as many people as possible to benefit from our discovery – tell also your friends to read this book. At the same time, you will also contribute to the creation of a much better world. As I explained a little before the end of Chapter 9, the discovery we’ve seen in this book radically changes the mentality and character of all people. People will become in the future more philosophized and peaceful, they will not be quarrelsome and aggressive, on the contrary they will be tolerant and merciful, and have more understanding towards the others, while superficiality and imprudence will be drastically reduced. For achieving soon, however, these beneficial results, this book must be read, of course, by as many readers as possible around the world.
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