Over-Consumption and the Bloating of America
My husband and I just took a road trip from here is the San Francisco Bay area up through Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and camped on the way home down the coast. What was remarkable was the amount of obesity we encountered. Some of these encounters were more memorable [...]
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Money and Obesity
The Rubber Is Meeting The Road
The Spiritual Opportunity Of Our Money Pain
I really like this guy , Matt Taibbi, who writes for the Rolling Stone magazine. He again has a great article this month on the continued betrayal of the American people. The article is called “Wall Street Strikes Back” and the table of contents description on Page 5 [...]
Concentric Circles of Recession
We Are Not Out of the Falling Bubble Woods Yet.
I heard a joke the other day, that might have been funny if it weren’t so close to the truth.
“The last will and testament of the Icelandic financial sector requested their ashes be spread over Europe”. I loved what my husband’s friend said in response to [...]
The Money Split
The Spiritualization of Money
At the core of all great spiritual teachings is the recognition that as human beings we have two natures. In Hindu, this is talked about in terms of Shiva and Shakti. In Buddhsit Mahamudra, it is the union of luminous clarity and emptiness (Shiva) and Phenomenon. In Dzogchen, it is the union [...]
The Wall Street Hustle
Opting Out of the Big Bank Fiasco and Moving Toward Self Sufficiency
The Rolling Stone March 2009 issue had an article by Matt Taibbi called Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle in which he likens the financial crisis bailout to a street con and makes a very good case of it, taking us step by step through the [...]
Chaos and The Economy
A Spiritual View of the Economic Crises
I was at a mediation and guidance session the other night that was led by my friend, Pratima Freeman, who has been receiving guidance higher consciousness during meditation for many years. Not any particular being, but a transmission from a source of wisdom. See her website, Gifts of Guidance. [...]
Sustainable World
The Great Turning
Laast Sunday, January 3rd, in Mill Valley, CA I spent the afternoon at Awakening The Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium which was created by The Pachamam Alliance. Apparently this symposium has 2000 trainers that share it around the world in more than 40 countries on six continents.
This alliance was created out of a call [...]
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 Fear
The Survival Instinct and Money
One of the opposing forces in addition to the usual resistances and psychodynamic issues we have to contend with on our journey of realization are the animal instincts. They are powerful drives underneath our consciousness that want to preserve life on an animal level and are not concerned as consciousness is [...]
Money and Enlightenment
How I See What Spiritual Teacher Jed McKenna Has To Say and the Economic Crisis Are Related
I have been reading Jed Mckenna’s Notebook which is the newest from Spiritual Teacher, although he would hate that title. I have read his other three books in what he calls his Enlightenment Trilogy: Spiritual Enlightenment The Damnedest Thing, Spiritually [...]