Charles Eisenstein quote from p. 122, Sacred Economics, 2011, Evolver.
I have been finishing up Sacred Economics during this time of fall harvest and thanksgiving. I have enjoyed this read especially as I add in vocabulary and analogy from my background in Permaculture Design and Community Development. Eisenstein's economics of a more beautiful world follows the ecologic of health, like a richly embryonic egg-yolk pulls its developmental compost from environmentally vulnerable, ubiquitously transparent, gooey natural norms. So, this gives me cause for regenerative thanksgiving, in this Earth-optimizing time of Co-Falling and Co-Arising Harvest. One illustration, my additions in brackets: "The money [health] system we have today is the manifestation of the scarcity mentality that has dominated our civilization [and threatened our wilderness Commons] for centuries. When that mentality changes, the money [health] system will change to embody a new [eco]consciousness. In our current [competitively unhealthy] money system, it is mathematically [and logically] impossible for more than a minority of people [and species] to live in abundance, because the money [health and beauty] creation process maintains [yet also struggles with] systemic [economic and political power] scarcity. One man's prosperity is another man's poverty." 0-sum, win/lose health v pathology me v you mind v body yang v yin man v woman 1 v 0 full v empty transcendent v immanent commodity v humanity competitive all v nothing value system Ignoring Earth's ecologic of cooperative empowering health care, like a richly embryonic egg-yolk Commons pulling in developmental compost from environmentally vulnerable, ubiquitously transparent, gooey win/win enlightened bicamerally intelligent norms Individual ego-static Left languaged passions AND individuating eco-ecstatic Right languished co-pleasures like thanksgiving and joy and boundless compassion for others as for ourselves loving others as health-wealthily co-invested as win/win possible in this TaoCommons Time in this sacred vulnerable and transparent EarthEnvironment Doing our win/win best to sing and speak wealth's passionate wisdom while dancing and acting health's co-pleasuring rhythm.
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