Wealth Magic: Making Money Part of Spirituality

I just looked over those links to the Sacred Commerce books, and the only thing that stands out for me about capitalism in any form, conscious or not, is that, to date, capitalism has not shown itself to be sustainable as a process. Capitalism ceases to become capitalism when it is wedded with sustainability, and "conscious capitalism" must, by definition, include all of the relevant information available to us today as "conscious" citizens...including sustainability. Otherwise, we're not being conscious. In the description of the second book in particular I still sense an incompleteness, because there are still so many other abstracts that exert their influence upon the overall system...property values, fluctuating markets and interest rates, debt and credit, inflation...I could be the best coffee barristo in the world, providing service and joy, but still only make $7 per hour, you know?

There are many aspects to the financial system and the beliefs associated with it that need to be consciously addressed. The degree of stress upon people for survival creates such a distortion of perception that access to one's creativity, caring, and generosity is greatly stifled and cut off. I'd like to suggest an alternative approach that could significantly shift the paradigm somewhat, and it's not a new idea...

Let every human being on the planet, by virtue of being alive, be given food, clothing, and shelter, access to medical care and information. Without the tremendous focus on survival, where the capitalist system allows some to make a profit providing the basic human needs to many, there would be a blossoming on many levels of creativity, service, and consciousness...everything that genuinely needs to get done would get done, and we would launch ourselves into an entirely new way of living with ourselves and the planet. It is the right of every being born to have their basic needs met...it is the failure of the current belief system and infrastructure created by those beliefs that do not provide those basic needs. Furthermore, it brings into sharp focus (consciousness) the responsibility we all have regarding the fact that a massive human population has on its environment.

I know that such a change is possible. I know we have the genius, the heart, the ability to make such a change. And sorry to say, I know that we know we could be doing it too, in short order. Future ancestors may wonder how we made it through these times, treating ourselves and the planet the way we do right now, in the name of commerce and capitalism.

The price of cruise missles should not have any influence or bearing on the price of apples. It strikes me as strange that there is not some sort of alternative currency for, let say, food. Is it possible to seperate basic needs from the capitalist model of exponential growth and greediness, thereby alleviating the suffering of billions wondering where their next meal will come from?

There is a definite 'momentum' involved in the perpetuation of the myth of protection of the 'wealthy'.

I have a definite problem with this presumption.

I consider the Jews of Germany.

The presumption of hitler was that they were the greedy ones, and that taking their 'wealth' was merely transference of goods 'back' to rightful 'owners'.

However, there was a definite lineage of oral history that was preserved by these folk, and that lineage didn't really have anything to do with some 'greed' or 'material' selfishness. In fact, as far as I can see, what they preserved had more to do with a respect to egalitarianism and respect for a system of law than it had to do with some 'racial' respect. As they detracted from such basis, they were seen as 'enemies of the state'. Read: Nazi Germany.

As a culture, the Jewish component of the whole could be seen as a repository of a respect for divergence from ANY totalitarian philosophy. In that regard, they were akin to the American Idealism as symbolized by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Evidently this kind of independance was not tolerable by those who wanted a particular transfer of power from "kingdomship" directly to dictatorship. Utterly ignoring the potential of both parlimentary or representative systems.

The best environment for creative thinking is amongst the latter systems and the philosophy of 'let come what may' by free thought as an evolutionary environment is the most challenging to those who think THEY have the better ideal. And they are those who will most propogate the use of force and surveilance of free thought as worthy of punishment by force.

Where are we?

Where are you?

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it was the capitalist revolution that overthrew the nobility and the church. the landed nobility was validated by the divine right of kings, which stood in the way of the newly wealthy bourgeoisie (literally, urban dwellers), whose profits came from commerce and manufacturing, rather than inheritance. their political power was impeded by this old guard, hence the french and american revolutions.

excessive violence by the poor against the rich stopped the social progress of the democratic ideals of the rebels. capitalism, an economic system, co-opted democracy, a political system. that communism, another economic system, adopted repressive tactics was in part due to the capitalist subversion of communism's initially democratic political framework. as realized in the soviet union, communism became nothing but a form of capitalism.

western europe, however, achieved socialist democracy in the ashes of wwii -- which was ultimately a war between capitalists and communists. that the us supported and supplied and tolerated the nazis was due to the nazi opposition to communists and socialists (many of whose greatest thinkers were jews, further ammo for nazi ideologues, though such anti-semitism was not accepted by either the leadership or the rank and file workers of communist and socialist bent).

the association of communism with totalitarianism is merely capitalist propaganda. as is the association of anarchy with lawless mayhem and every man for himself ideals. in fact, individualism, the ideological basis of capitalist economics, is the biggest source of the "every man for himself ideals" too often touted as "human nature." nature works in harmony, in collaboration, in cooperation, the self in service to the greatest good. human nature is no different, though capitalists would try to pretend otherwise.

even the notion of overpopulation was perpetrated by the capitalist, racist malthus. his theory was not that there were too many people, but that there were too many non-whites, and whitey had better look out, cause the darkies would outnumber them before long. in fact, whites have always been an international minority. similarly, it was thomas huxley, another arch-capitalist, who took darwin's theory of survival of the fittest -- the fittest being those who acted according to the laws of mutual aid, not individual prowess -- and turned it into the fittest individual.

as for representation, the democracy of the greeks abided the selection of senators by lottery. voting took place on the senate floor or in referenda placed before the male citizens of property. women and slaves, of course, were ineligible for the lottery or referenda, but at some point, propertied foreigners were let into the mix. i have long advocated the elimination of voting in favor of a lottery based system of civil service. sadly, a lot of self-proclaimed liberals, wringing their hands over the persecution of jews by nazis or palestinians by israelis or muslims by hindus or blacks by whites or gays by breeders, etc., fear the obvious social benefits of empowering every citizen by making each a potential civil servant (as opposed to politician, as there would be no lifetime office, nor mayors, governors, or presidents). it seems difficult to imagine that an inability to participate generates ignorance and apathy, that the opportunity to serve your fellow citizens -- and the fact that your friends, co-workers, relatives, neighbors would also serve and share their experience -- would create a commonWEALTH of humanity that would prove far more representative than the present system of capitalist representative mockery and tinkle-down (as in urine, yes) oligarchy we now abide, hoping that we will have more money with which to feel at ease.

and please, don't make me talk about black american history. i mean, the jews got israel. where's my family's several thousand acres and innumerable mules? but i guess i shouldn't bring that up, since whites today had nothing to do with that. what i had to do with the nazis, i'm not certain either.

peace

The key point will always be "subjective value".

For who is paper and coin valuable ... diamond and gold ... food and clothing ... air and water ... soil and soul.

Each of us place our value subjectively ... in each and every moment .. in relation to each and every thing.

There is no policy that actually determines wealth.

Each of us are doing this ourselves all the time.

Wealth means the realization of ones subjective value ... money only exists to dumb-down ones inherent sense of value.

Very ideological/platonic ... to make actual things of value exist only in relation to abstract representation.

There is no person who's inherent sense of value can be compromised ... unless of course they just do not actually value ... just trading off this inherent sense for capitol ... the very proof of the loss of wealth.

Just like "voting" is the sacrifice of freedom ... and not the exercise of freedom ... as each of us is already inherently sovereign ... self-governed to the degree we actually understand inherent value. {principles/purpose etc}

Money is the sacrifice of value/wealth, and not the promise of such. All modern so-called wealth comes from people giving up their inherent contentment {already valuable unto ones self}

All back and forth discussion on such is the very proof of lack of inherent value.

A little food, clothing shelter ... to help ones inherent value become stabilized.

Spirituality is this and this alone ... although who will not admit that "spirit" pervades all things.

Entheogenic substances certainly offer a free way to synergize ones sense of value ... hence wealth is seen to be forever inherent ... never exponentially viable

To want "more" ... or "better" is proof of poverty ... at every level ... the very sacrifice of wealth.

If the whole world financial system crashes ... that would be 'but an opportunity to return to lost value

Are we ready

" (...) I would urge you to heed this warning: we are privileged. We are privileged to be able to practice magic, in any form. I am privileged to be able to write this article, you to read it. In most parts of the world, right now, this would be illegal. It may become illegal here. Therefore, and thus far, we enact our magic, our ceremonies, and our rituals not merely for ourselves, but from a place of privilege whereupon we stand, on behalf of others. For those others who cannot, who are not, allowed to do so.

Do not let your privilege and freedom be eroded.

Work magic for the sake of liberation through magic".

R J Stewart December 2004.

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