The Economic Crisis – Your Best Investment Advice
"How Economics Work
One morning, a Russian man wandered into a hotel in a village and announced he was interested in a room for the evening, and left a $100 deposit, but said he wanted to check out other lodging first. The hotel owner pocketed the money, and remembered he owed the cook $100 and paid him straight away. Meanwhile the cook owed money to the butcher and gave him the $100. The butcher owed money to his girlfriend, and paid her. The woman then ran to the hotel and paid off her outstanding bill with the $100. A few minutes later the Russian man came back to the hotel and said that he had changed his mind, and the hotel manager refunded his money. Meanwhile, everybody in town was paid off. This is how economics is supposed to work.
The best way to rob a bank is to open one.
During the worst of the financial crisis, US banks dumped their unproductive assets onto the Federal Reserve in exchange for newly printed cash. Banks then loaned this newly printed money to the government by purchasing US Treasuries. The Federal Reserve created more than a trillion dollars, and dropped its discount rate to almost zero, allowing banks to borrow money very cheaply, and make fortunes! But what happened to you and I?
Your Best Investment Advice
What is a spiritually conscious person to do? In finances the term ROI is used to mean Return On Investment. Shamans believe in a different kind of ROI, which is Return On Illumination. As you become enlightened, the less you are at the mercy of greed and fear, the two forces that drive the world financial markets. You experience freedom, and from this place of freedom you are able to make wise decisions about your life and destiny. For the shaman, the more you clear your old stories and imprints and shift your karmic and generational patterns the more light that fills your luminous energy field (LEF)." Alberto VillaldoI thought this was great when I read it. I also thought that the word 'enlightenment' needed an update. You see at its most esoteric, it means having the experience that we are all just particles of light. This is probably the deepest truth of all. This has traditionally been available to very small sections of the public who have been willing or able to dedicate their entire lives to meditation and the search for truth. As such, most of us have seen it as a distant dream or not even a reality. But there is a lot of different stages of enlightenment that we often discount.
For instance, the moment we get that "aha" experience of understanding something, we have touched enlightenment. All of us have that, and the more we seek understanding, the more of it happens. Understanding about anything leads to understanding of the nature of reality if we keep at it. The moment when someone says something to you and you 'get it' is a form of enlightenment, no matter what the topic.
Ignorance is the opposite of enlightenment. The less we inform ourselves, the less enlightened we will be, because in the end, quantum physics shows that 'light' is 'information'. The more informed we become, the more enlightened we are capable of being. But that means we have to not make valued judgments about the information we receive. Rejecting some information because we don't like it leads to bias. We must become an observer of information. Once there is enough information received, it starts to form up into a pattern that shows us a whole correlation of truths and that is when we get the 'aha'. The 'aha' is a felt sense rather than a thought and points the direction that our souls energy field is most compatible with. The more' aha's' you get the deeper your understanding of life and yourself because you see more and more patterns. They are indeed everywhere. At some point, they start to make 'mega' patterns. That is when we become aware of the big universal picture.
Still, as they say, a journey of a 1000 miles begins with the first step, and for me that points to the openness to and seeking out of information: about ourselves and everything else. Thanks Wikileaks
Of course there is a next step, and that is what each of us choose to do with the information we receive. As we approach a very important astrological year ahead the most I could wish you all blessed with is enlightened (informed) paths forward towards your individual potentials for your way forward is always towards your potential.
Bless you all. Jay (Sparrowhawk) Ray
