I got an email from a friend yesterday echoing sentiments I've heard elsewhere over Obama's selection of Clinton administration and Wall Street retreads for his economic and national affairs teams.

Their frustration is understood, because they see these people as complicit in getting us into this "mess" in the first place.

Many lightworkers have put their hopes in Obama to lead us to the promised land. Then again, do they really think that the change they want to create is possible from within the existing order, whether by Obama or anyone else?

Here he is, a guy who really appears to want to change things. However, it's not like he has great personal expertise in some of these matters. His economic credentials aren't particularly strong, other than seeming to care about people who are hurting.

Neither are his foreign policy credentials. In fact, he was slammed throughout the election for not having any.

Yet my friends are questioning his decision to turn to those who do have that experience. They don't think he's showing a real commitment to change, or putting a team in place that can accomplish it.

Rather, to them it looks like more of the same.

Sure, there are many alternative-voice economists out there who might have something to add to the discussion. Same with foreign policy wonks who see things another way. Some might even be lightworkers.

But they've not been in the mainstream of public thought. Instead, they've been in the fringes, speaking to a small and often vocal minority that the mainstream has written off as a bunch of liberal radicals.

After all, most of them talk about dramatic upheaval, not tweaking the system from within. They probably are not the kind of people to turn to if a president were looking to get the old ways back on track.

To Obama and his team of advisors, they might as well not even exist.

So then why should it come as any surprise that Obama's picking from the same old pool of so-called experts who only see things from within the very system many of us are seeking to reform? To them change is uncomfortable. It upsets the status quo, and renders their years of experience and power moot.

After all, if he were to fill his cabinet with a bunch of new-thinking advisors, he'd probably be run out of town on a rail before he ever sniffed his inauguration.

Nevertheless, just imagine what would happen if Obama were to surround himself with new-edge thinkers and visionaries of a metaphysical bent.

That would really throw the powers-that-be into a tizzy.

To them economic collapse and world upheaval are far less scary than the possibility of beings that exist in unseen realms who know more about how our world works than they do, and what they offer to help us change things.

For if what they're saying is right, then we can quit playing their games of power and greed and re-create our world in an image that better serves us all.

In fact, this may be their greatest fear -- that the people just might find a way to create a new world free of leaders, financiers or people to fight for us, where we conduct our affairs in peace and plenty without them.

While this may be a scary thought to them, it's not to me. It's my dream. Perhaps it's yours, too.

And this is a dream that is very much within our reach.

We don't need Obama to make it happen, but we're more than willing to have his help. But if he's not going to get on board, there no sense waiting for him to come around.

Dreams do come true. Let's bring this one to life.