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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘market economy’
The Rubber Is Meeting The Road
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 [...]
Money and Inquiry
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]