Hello power lovers.  I am here today on top of the Continental Divide, 11,500 feet up above the earth.  I'm parked by the side of the road.  It's around 7:45 in the evening on August 7th. Occasionally a car or truck will roar by. I'm facing some distant power mountains - a suitable place to discuss the end of the world.

The world has an ending and a beginning.  It begins with you and it ends with you.  The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention - when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another. Everything is dependent upon energy. Energy is attention. Attention is awareness.

You were born with a specific amount of energy. That energy came from the totality.  It came from your other lives. In this lifetime, you can increase your energy or you can decrease it. Mysticism is study of energy, the study of power - its use, its abuse.  At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or it is decreasing.

- On the Road with Rama, Power