Applying the Spiritual Method of Inquiry to Money
One of the themes that I have continued to talk about is taking responsibility? It seems like an easy concept, but it is actually something very difficult to do. Mostly we like to blame- our mates, our parents, our investment advisor, the government, the economy, Bernie Madoff etc. [...]
Posts under ‘Conscious Money’
Money and Inquiry
The Future is Now
Are Being Spiritual and Not Debting for the Future Contradictory?
I received this email last week:
“In an excellent post last April on credit card debt, you stated bluntly, ‘Debt steals from the future.’
I’m in full agreement, but I fear this line of reasoning falls on deaf ears to many debt-laden people who’ve imbibed spiritual literature [...]
Money and the Patriarchy
The Challenge to the Old Masculine Mentality
The masculine is what turns the soul outward to affect the world. But in order for it to help us through the global crisis, which is really a wake-up all to humanity, it must escape the defining cultural influences to which it has been subjected for centuries. The forces [...]
Opting Out of Serfdom
Day to Day Living in the New Paradigm
In my last two blogs I talked at length about predatory lending and the debt economy getting us into trouble as a nation and as individuals.
We need to step out of the culture of easy money and magical thinking that allowed Ponzi schemes like Bernie Madoff- but not [...]
Serfdom in the Global Economy
Obama Bailing Out the Banks
In my last post, I talked about debt from the point of view of the individual getting off the wheel of bondage. Today I want to talk about debt again, but from the point of view of the Macro.
Why? Because we can’t talk intelligently about our own money actions without talking [...]
Debt is the New Bondage
Staying Out of Credit Card Debt
As stated in the New Yorker in its April 13, 2009 issue, in the article I.O.U. by Jill Lepore ,”Consumer debt has been the engine of the American economy since the 1970’s and arguably longer”. I would argue not just the American economy, but the whole world consumer driven bubble [...]
Madoff as Teacher not Devil
Madoff’s Lesson For Us
My friends, Matt and Geneen, lost all their retirement savings in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. Instead of being victims, they have used the experience in very constructive ways for themselves. I am not talking out of school here, because they have each publicized their plight in their own ways: together as [...]