Emergent Wealth
Emergent Wealth
"Not only is money the arena in which the old paradigm still wields the greatest power, it is also so poorly understood by nearly everyone, particularly the Emergent consciousness, that it is likely to be the last domino to fall".
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up familiar with it."
~ Max Planck
In my attempts to develop the Emergent concept it has become increasingly evident that the real power in the Emergent paradigm does not come through its "victory" in an argument with the fading reality, its power must lie in making that reality irrelevant. Just as Buckminster Fuller urged us to make the existing model obsolete, Max Planck suggests dated ideas simply atrophy as attention shifts to the new.
Fortunately for those tiring of the old, the fractal nature of time, as described by Carl Kalleman, means that ideologies of adherents of the paternalistic hierarchical systems born of a limited and separatist consciousness are dieing at an increasingly rapid rate. At least their ideas are.
The collapse of time has created a unique situation on Earth where a number of contradictory global mindsets co-exist No wonder there's so much chaos about! The latest expression of humanitys' global processing has been around since 2011 and is best described as unity consciousness. This state of being is totally beyond the grasp of those locked into the old paradigm, bound as they are by survival consciousness.
The beneficiaries of the old systems are trying to have an argument with a consciousness that sees no separation. As the failing incumbents desperately try to create opponents to fight and start wars to wage, the Emergents are busy exploring a new sense of freedom. As a reault we have a world in which those still pulling the levers of power in the old system are quite literally trying to herd cats, trying to control the uncontrollable. You may well be experiencing this personally as you are aware of the madness of the world around you but unaffected by it.
The Emergents instinctively grasp unity consciousness and live it, as far as possible, as their experience. Their knowing extending beyond the need for explanation, justification or exclusion. Their innate sovereignty requires an integrity which includes all and is steeped in self responsibility. There are no victims in the Emergent paradigm and, to once again borrow the words of Buckminster Fuller, this new breed see themselves "as the architects of the future, not it's victim".
Emergent Economy
Unfortunately one area still firmly in the control of those patriarchal dinosaurs is the monetary system. Economy and finance remains the toughest area to imagine an Emergent revolution. To truly realise this latest shift in consciousness it is necessary to extend our thinking beyond redistribution or equality. It involves a movement to life beyond survival and a world where lack is impossible, unless chosen as an experience. Economy and finance are all about scarcity and in particular distribution of scarce resources, and so ingrained are those beliefs that the total absence of lack is quite literally beyond our current imagination.
Not only is money the arena in which the old paradigm still wields the greatest power it is also so poorly understood by nearly everyone, particularly the Emergent consciousness, that it is likely to be the last domino to fall. Banking is simply a money laundering operation. Banks issue non-existent money in the form of debt to people whose task in the system is to convert the debt into real wealth through their labour and creativity. For too long there has been little option but to focus energy on "winning" the money game, hopefully achieving enough flow or accumulating enough money to feel a degree of freedom from the system. However, frustrating as it is, that system has held, and continues to hold a tight grip on nearly all of us. Our attempts to escape it merely feed the insatiable beast.
So how do the Emergents make the current monetary system irrelevant?
The real answer to this lies in a redefinition of wealth, reflected in an individuals sovereignty, a desire for personal power as opposed to power over. I do not claim to know the mechanics of this but I can see two possibilities which seem to offer the greatest potential if only in a transitional stage.
The first of these possibilities is the rapidly expanding arena of Crypto-currencies. In their purest form these new digital currencies are an Emergents dream. The current monetary system is the perfect tool of centralised control, stripping the individual of their sovereignty and creating incredible imbalance in the power structures. The Crypto-currencies operate on a peer to peer basis with no intermediary and no central control. It is already possible to totally circum-navigate the banking system with Bitcoin and even by-pass cross border capital controls. These currencies connect the creators and their labour with one another without any parasitic interference. They return power to the individual.
However, without an equivalent shift in consciousness, these new digital currencies will simply replace the old with the same underlying motivating factors of fear and greed. This is already evident as "smart" investors jump on the Crypto investment bandwagon. I have watched the conversation in that space change from liberation to accumulation. Bitcoin billionaires are establishing investment funds and there is a real danger that the potential of the empowering block-chain technology gets swallowed up in the old consciousness.
As if to emphasise my point Goldman Sachs today announced plans to establish a Bitcoin trading operation. At the same time the IMF declares that this technology could replace national monies and even puts a question mark over the "fractional banking model as we know it". When institutions such as Goldman Sachs and the IMF start sniffing around keep your hand on your wallet. In the post script I describe Jamie Dimon's (CEO of JPMorgan) take on Bitcoin, which he regards as a fraud, and Jamie certainly knows all about fraud!
The second potential was expressed by Mehran Keshe. He has announced in his recent teachings the imminent establishment of a Keshe Foundation Bank. Keshe claims to have the technology to create material from plasma, and his process could produce limitless quantities of gold to back his banking operations. Members of the Keshe community could freely withdraw all they need and deposit according to their ability.
There are many obvious questions about these claims. In particular, if it is possible to produce any amount of gold you wish, then gold would cease to be an asset with which you could back a monetary system. Gold's only value is scarcity. Remove scarcity and it has no value. Why bother producing gold at all? Why not simply produce food, shelter and energy?
In his defence Keshe has always recognised the potential chaos that his free energy systems would create in world economies if introduced too quickly. I believe his suggestions should be regarded as transitional in nature.
Once again, the problem of imagining how a system works without scarcity seems to scramble our circuits. How would your life be different if you had all of your needs met? This is a question worth exploring at this moment in history. What would you create and for what purpose? What would motivate you? Beauty, curiosity, love?
The challenge Keshe acknowledges is the one that faces us all and that is how to elevate our consciousness beyond the attachments to the physical reality whilst remaining in form. How to challenge the assumptions of lack which seem to be foundational to our relationship with the material reality.
I believe the Emergent consciousness will forge a path into this unexplored territory through a natural desire to give and be of service, and the process of giving fuels their expansion. As those at the frontier push the limits of human and material technology the integrity of their motivation will in time render the tools and expression of current measures of wealth as illogical as they are irrelevant. In fact it is the integrity of their motivation which will ensure the Emergents are indeed the architects of their future.
It has been said that the meek will inherit the earth, now may just be their time.
Be patient. Be integrous in your intention. Be Emergent.
With love
Bill
P.S.
Oh dear Jamie.
If you want a demonstration of how the fading paradigm operates you only have to look at the week of Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan. Last week Jamie launched an attack on Bitcoin, declaring it a fraud and a scam. Now to give him his due, Jamie is an expert on fraud and criminality as a quick glance at JPMorgan's violations since 2010 demonstrates.
To put Bitcoin in perspective its current market capitalisation is around $55bn and while this sounds significant when compared to the $28bn paid in fines by JPMorgan since 2010 it is clearly small potatoes. Imagine how much Jamie and his merry band of thieves and takers made on those schemes if the fines were $28bn, and add to that the value of undiscovered or ignored schemes which have, and probably still are, netting further billions.
To compound his apparent idiocy (compounding is much loved by bankers, it is the mathematics of slavery) Jamie said he would fire anybody trading Bitcoin for being stupid. It turns out that rather than fearing dismissal his European trading desk were taking advantage of the Jamie induced collapse in Bitcoin's price and were the fourth largest buyer of "Bitcoin Tracker One" an ETF following the collapse in price of Bitcoin. Perhaps Jamie's fraud accusation was part of a fraud .
This is the nature of the old economy. Financialisation, parasitism and fraud. If the monetary system is the lifeblood of the economy it has sepsis. This model is unsustainable and pleading to be put out of its misery. Its up to us to make this model obsolete, although its doing a pretty good job of that itself.
Bill