THE REAL VALUE OF MONEY

Money represents energy. Dealers would like you to believe otherwise. That is how they make their profits. Catch-phrases like ‘market-forces’, buying trends, hedge-funds, consumer confidence are all designed to give the money lender an air of authority. So you don’t question the very nature of the whole financial system. But the catastrophic economic mess the […]

Wisdom and Technology

Technology, the fusing of science and commerce, has probably been the single greatest contributor to shaping the modern philosophy. We cannot hide from the fact that the development of technology was driven by mechanization, mass-production and there-after big business. This is causing an ever-widening split between knowledge and wisdom. Even today there is a belief that a knowledge-driven economy is more powerful […]

The Role of Art

Art can be described as the symbols and crafts that define a society, culture, and civilization. It is that by which we can learn about a people’s way of thinking. From prehistoric cave paintings to the contents of Tate Modern in London, humans have communicated their observations via painting, sculpture, music, literature, and rituals (from […]

Creative thinking as a Social System

The Human intellect has a certain way of being aware. This is different from the awareness of being Human as opposed to being aware of a horse or a tree. Out of an entire community of people, there may be one or two that have this type of intellect. Then, due to the way humans […]

What is the meaning of life?

Whatever you do in your life, your actions cause a change in the system. This is the nub, the essence of the question “what is life’s purpose?” Or “Is there meaning to life?” Your actions are; spontaneous, reactive, planned or dictated. When you choose a lifestyle that merely “tows the line” of the society you […]

Mental Syntax and the “Difference”

One of the many things the Nagual Don Matus had right was that what we call Reality is a product of our mental syntax. We describe Individuality as a quality of being human. We even look for differences in identical twins. But to arrive at the qualification “different”, we really mean they have many similarities. […]