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Thanksgiving For Time's Healthy Harvest

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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 ecologically balanced, ubiquitously transparent, gooey to more scientific-reductive touch, 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 [Yang-power] prosperity is another man's [Yin-flow/function] poverty." [And, therefore, the prosperous man's reverse-co-falling flow/function yin-poverty issue as well.] Co-arising with co-falling abundant thanksgiving-it-forward harvest of eco-centric consciousness.

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