This is why reformers at best accomplish little change and always end up palliating the problem reformers want to resolve.  This is also why the real basis of problems, unethical and/or outmoded/unworkable paradigms, tend to remain unresolved until they fester and engender the over reaction known as revolution. Thus history is largely a long string of failures only very occasionally punctuated by the actual and significant progress  known as paradigm changes.

We live at a time when the paradigms of Finance have not evolved for over 5000 years; and the paradigm of reductionistic science, namely that temporal-physical reality is the only true and ultimate reality, has reigned for over 300 years and generally refuses to validate let alone integrate the significance of consciousness,  even if it is considered an entirely natural phenomenon, into a coherent whole.

Both of these lingering old paradigms are resolved by separate aspects of the concept behind their mutual new paradigm grace as in monetary Gifting and grace as in a dynamic trinity-unity-oneness-wholeness-process.

….are re-discovering Wisdom.

Scientism and the economic fallacy that we are homo economicus instead of homo sapiens, wise and discerning man, are crumbling.  Yes, there’s still plenty of folly and arrogance to spin off and be dramatized in economics and in scientism, but the re-discovery of Wisdom in its fullness is IMO on the rise and can continue to strengthen, deepen and broaden our lives. And all it will really take is the realization that you can say shit and still find personal salvation because the contemplation and cultivation of grace/graciousness is the universal solvent of every rigid mental duality and the route to true unitary understanding and joyous inner freedom.

Democrats detest Trump and under their breath most Republicans probably do the same. They’re both right to dislike the third rate populist intellect Trump espouses. Problem is both orthodox liberalism and orthodox conservative/libertarianism can only muster at best a second rate intellectualism. Wisdom has always been a closer, discerning integrative look at the the truths in opposites so as to find the thirdness and greater oneness that results from such an integration. That dynamic difference is not the typical mealy-mouthed compromise or poison pill amalgam that merely engenders further conflict without progress which both parties have honed to a near science, and again neither is the false third rate populist counterfeit of wisdom that Trump stumbles around in. The closer look, the honest, objective look sans the arrogance and bias that so often attends orthodoxy…that is what wisdom is.

Saying that macro-economically the system requires continual borrowing to prevent recession/depression and that the systemic costs of the resultant continual borrowing is the problem (Keen), is exactly the same as saying the system is inherently cost inflationary (C. H. Douglas) and that policies must counter that fact. So Keen has unconsciously rediscovered Douglas’s insight from almost 100 years ago. I’ve told Keen numerous times over the last several years that I thought his de-bunking of neo-liberal DSGE economics was worthy of a Nobel prize, and I stand by that, but if it is somewhat ego deflationary that someone discerned and declared the same thing before him…that is beside the point. Perhaps Keen could accept the Nobel and graciously cite Douglas’s  Social Credit and myself as the integratively philosophical and temporal policy extender of Douglas’s thinking with Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Sadly, any significant change is likely to be glacial or even third rate populist intellect and so regressive. What economic and monetary reform actually needs is a mass social movement akin to MLK, Jr.’s civil rights movement in the USA in the 60’s. Because aggregate individual income is inherently scarce in ratio to total costs and so total prices 90% of successful business is marketing. We need to sell monetary abundance to those people whose interests dovetail with it like students, the small to medium sized businessman….and probably 75% of the general populace. That’s the only effective way to get terminally orthodox economists and terminally power craving pols focused enough to act.

The Mind is both a window and a filter, and self awareness, if rigorously pursued by any of the world’s major wisdom traditions, removes both.

Steve Hummel 10/05/2017

….that’s three that is and can be.

….that greatly stabilizes and focuses consciousness, experience and, if philosophically and policy aligned, does the same for systems.

The following excerpt also confirms the Integrated Duality Within an Integrative Trinity-Unity-Oneness-Wholeness-Process description of The Cosmic Code.

From the article

Confirmation of Quantum Resonance in Brain Microtubules

In between a rock and a hard place? Find the middle way  

As more and more nonlocal quantum mechanical phenomena are discovered within the biological system, Hameroff’s and Penrose’ theory (as well as other researchers who are investigating this new frontier of science) is accumulating tangible empirical evidence, so that models of quantum consciousness are transitioning from beautiful theoretical constructs – to demonstrable facts. What’s remarkable about Hameroff’s as well as Haramein’s model of consciousness is that they find the middle ground between two extremes: the spiritual / metaphysical perspective on one side, in which consciousness is primary and cannot really be explained scientifically; and on the other side the scientific / materialist perspective, in which consciousness is an epiphenomenological illusionary state that emerges from the complexity of neurons and plays no part in the dynamics of the Universe at large. Instead, what we call consciousness may not only arise from the dynamics of discrete physical events of the quantum spacetime manifold, but play an intrinsic role in the ordering and dynamics of the Universe as well.