The choice we are making today and every day is whether we are at the cusp of a global transformation of consciousness or at the end of an interesting but ultimately unsuccessful experiment.
To learn a different response or have a genuine choice about what I do, I must be in 'present time' and I must change the way my situation 'occurs' for me
Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.