The True Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart, Part 3 of 3

Written on November 17th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

Published on Dissident Voice, by Mohammed Mesbahi, Nov 15, 2016: a spiritual education for the Art of Being (Part One; Part Two).

… The lack of right education in our societies therefore highlights our underlying dilemma, in that the sharing economy is a viable idea, a potentially colossal and planetary idea, if it is accomplished in a wholly inclusive and moral way by firstly concentrating all our attention on the needs of the world’s struggling poor majority. As we have forcefully argued, that is the only hope that a sharing economy can be properly sustained and steadily bourgeon over time, although we can merely bear witness to the global refugee crisis to see how far our education has strayed from a simple understanding of right human relationship. We have not been educated to share with those less fortunate than ourselves, even in the most advanced democratic societies of Western Europe; for surely, if everyone was imbued with the values of sharing and cooperation from cradle to grave, then the crisis of mass human displacement and insecurity that is caused by senseless regional conflicts—and largely contributed to by Western foreign policies—would never have reached this critical stage. But since it has manifested like a stark illustration of our unequal world, there can be no resolution to its deep-seated causes without the implementation of the principle of sharing into world affairs, thus returning us once again to our central premise … //

… Therefore, the Art of Being should most engross our attention at this time, and not the Art of Living as oft described, for it is the former that will largely define the new age education in its successive phases of evolvement. What that higher level of spiritual education may look like is beyond the scope of our present remit, although we can summarise by saying that it concerns an awareness of the soul and its purpose through meditation, esoteric studies and service to mankind. Such are the eternal means by which we are ultimately to led to Self-realisation (or the Art of Being), as attested to in the Ageless Wisdom teachings that have been released to humanity in diverse traditions throughout the millennia. But even here we must acknowledge our present difficulty, because you cannot practise or realise the Art of Being through a conditioned mind, or try to understand its meaning only intellectually. In fact, it is the very process of seeking the meaning of the Art of Being that will lead us to be gradually deconditioned, and therefore more consciously aware and inwardly free … //

… It may be misconstrued that saving the poor and starving masses is the only reason for implementing the principle of sharing into world affairs, which is actually far from the case. What we are most concerned with is the need to bring awareness, love and common sense to our everyday thinking and actions, and it happens that our prevalent lack of thinking about the welfare of others is what most overtly demonstrates the absence of these suppressed human attributes. We need to ask ourselves why we are interested in saving those who are needlessly dying from poverty-related causes, if we don’t consider them equal to ourselves with a divine right to spiritually evolve. Is that not the reason, above all reasons, why we can no longer allow any person to die as a result of our collective indifference, when there is more than enough food and other resources available for everyone in the world? By the same token, it is erroneous to believe that the United Nations is ultimately the greatest hope we have for healing, repairing and transforming the world, when the only real hope lies in awakening the spiritual heart centre of humanity as a whole. How else are the necessary changes going to be brought about, without the awareness and compassion that leads to the correct motivations for navigating energy to its rightful place? Please meditate and reflect over this last rhetorical question, and it may reveal much about how we can personally be of use to the great work of planetary renewal that lies ahead.

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Links:

India’s Cash Crackdown – Chaos Continues, on naked capitalism (first on The National, by Jerri-Lynn Scofield, Nov 16, 2016;

Was forced to kill my best friend – former Congo child soldier, on The Asian Age, Nov 16, 2016: Millions of people died between 1996 and 2003 as conflict caused hunger and disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo;

Three in four UAE drivers admit to using phones behind the wheel, on The National UAE, by Ramona Ruiz, Nov 16, 2016;

INDIA: Demonetisation And The Common People, on Countercurrent, by Prof Ranjit Goswami, Nov 16, 2016: India saw a late evening announcement on the 8th of November, 2016; by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, declaring five hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use will no longer be legal tender from midnight tonight, that is 8th November 2016;

Economic Emergency In India And What Does That Mean For The Common People, on Countercurrent.org, by Binu Mathew, Nov 9, 2016;

REMEMBER:

  • Canada: The Harper government and evangelical capitalism, on rabble.ca, by Joyce Nelson, Feb 6, 2015;
  • Die BRD im Würgegriff der Bankenmafia, 46.04 min, von Holger Strohm am 27. Dezember 2014 hochgeladen;
  • Die pure Wahrheit in 6 Minuten, 7.49 min, (mit Andreas Popp), von Der Wassermann Unzensiert am 10. Mai 2013 hochgeladen;
  • Underground Facilities – Intelligence and Targeting Issues, on The National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book No. 372, by Jeffrey T. Richelson, March 23, 2012:
    - U.S. Intelligence: Hiding of Military Assets by Rogue Nations and Other States, a Major Security Challenge for 21st Century;
    - U.S. Documents Describe Monitoring Effort Going Back to Early Cold War Years;
  • Bankers have seized Europe: Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over, on Global Research.ca, by Paul Craig Roberts, November 26, 2011: on November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled sovereign debt from Greece, Italy, and Spain must accept part of the cost of their bailout by writing off some of the debt. The private banks want to avoid any losses either by forcing the Greek, Italian, and Spanish governments to make good on the bonds by imposing extreme austerity on their citizens, or by having the European Central Bank print euros with which to buy the sovereign debt from the private banks. Printing money to make good on debt is contrary to the ECB’s charter and especially frightens Germans, because of the Weimar experience with hyperinflation.

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