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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Deprivation’
Money and Obesity
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Answer To Our Credit Crisis
The Antidote to Greed in the Economic Downturn
In my last post I talked about leaving the chase for more is better and a sense of deprivation which fueled that chase and start living in a sense of sufficiency. I also said this would take a shift in consciousness.
In the November 10 Newsweek, in the Article, [...]