The Debt of gifting is gratitude, and so we see both gifting and gratitude are aspects of grace which is love in action. Hence with graciousness there is no actual loss or debt at all, only reciprocating love.

Science is the be all and end all of half of The Cosmic Code of Wisdom and Grace.

Religion is a speck of dust in the galaxy of love and grace.

The power of graciousness is its transformational  effect on power and control.

Integration: The process of Wisdom itself; the combining of only truth(s), only workabilities, only applicabilities, only solutions and only the highest ethical consideration for any given personal situation or temporal systemic condition

Wisdom:  The process of integrating  the truth(s) etc. of apparently opposite viewpoints, factors, theories, ideas, paradigms in order to create/envision/experience a third more unified and holistic reality temporally-physically, mentally-emotionally or philosophically-spiritually-consciously; Wisdom is always and  by definition a thirdness, a moving on from mere contending opposites/orthodoxies; a deepening, ascension and expansion of knowingness-self knowledge-consciousness;

Unity-Oneness:  a combination of states, factors or temporal systemic conditions wherein all of these are aligned with, essential to and synergistic-ally operant upon each other in such a fashion that they can be conceived of as a holistic single state

Duality: the state of twoness, two separate and/or opposing factors, ideas, theories, states of mind, a problematic state of mind characterized by idea-counter idea, emotion-counter emotion, effort-counter effort, intention-counter intention, two parts of the basic Cosmic Code, the general state of humanity and of the temporal universe perceived by them

Trinity: a state of threeness, reductionistically, three separate factors, wholistically, three intimately related factors, examples: the Hegelian Dialectic of Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis, electricty, that is a positive and  a negative charge interacting and the resulting energy of electricity, the state of personal grace which most essentially is the complete integration of Space, Time and Self Awareness, the totality of the trunk, the branches and the roots, in other words a tree;

Process: a sequence of ideas, states or actions, a continuum, regarding consciousness, continuousness itself

Trinity-Unity-Oneness-Process: a description of the state of personal grace, the ultimate integrated/integrative state of both the quantum and temporal/physical universe; the actual state of the temporal/physical universe and reflectively the actions of self awareness/consciousness within, toward and away from it (the temporal/physical universe); the integrative reality described by The Cosmic Code; each aspect of The Cosmic Code/a trinity-unity-oneness-process is a reality unto itself and simultaneously an integrative aspect of the trinity’s wholeness

Grace/The Personal State of Grace/Components of the State of Grace:  Bothness continually integrated to the point of thirdness-transformation and oneness-unity; a major if not the major trinity-unity-oneness-process; one’s own best reward; love in action in the temporal/physical universe; the state of personal grace which most essentially is the continuous  complete integration of the trinity of Space, Time and Self Awareness in other words hereness and nowness and youness; God’s Grace, which is his loving intention toward  the individual;   economically, the new monetary paradigm that unifies economic theory and breaks up the current monopoly monetary paradigms of debt only, loans only and for production only.

Start, Change and Stop:  the immutable process of the temporal/physical universe; a major trinity-unity-oneness-process; economically, the three general steps of the productive/economic system and the process that every product or service follows in its journey within and through to the end of the economy at retail sale which is also where all costs for said products or services are terminally summed

Consciousness: awareness itself; what enables the expression of Love….and everything else, what Love creates and builds

Love:  a state of affinity, closeness, care, attraction for and toward; the primary purpose of Life; the creator and builder of consciousness; the only thing that has essential value; the ultimate wisdom-integration

Spirituality:  essentially the truths of religion shorn of dogma and the need to hold onto such; the continuing process of wisdom, integration, plus love and consciousness; a natural and native condition of Man; the unchained and as yet unfinished melody of science

Religion:  a useful, even beautiful tool, but a poor lifestyle;  a binding back of important civilizing tendencies…often along with a few not so important ones;

Physical/Temporal Universe:  the apparent state of ultimate reality; a definite reality,

Quantum Universe: ultimate reality; a so called universe which is undoubtedly not a mere quantity but actually a trinity-unity-oneness-process

Science:  the wonderful and essential discipline for deciphering apparentcy;  the not yet fully conscious conclusions to be derived from observation of the temporal/physical universe; two parts of The Cosmic Code

If you want to be conscious create and keep creating Love.

In other words Love and Loving, that is Love and Love in action, Grace, is the ultimate Wisdom and the ultimate means of consciousness.

Spirituality exists, whether one considers it transcendental or completely natural. Is it scientific to not consider what exists?

And if you do consider it,  and consider that Wisdom is the integrative process, would not integrating both the transcendental and natural spiritual viewpoints be a kind of ultimate scientific and spiritual viewpoint? I think the logical process says yes.

And the existence of and intention to love….the ultimate reality and action.

Why? Because if you keep on integrating upwardly you eventually get to spiritual/religious considerations, and the word religion comes from the latin religare which means to bind back, and in the case of economic theory that would be binding back the universal spiritual intention of love into any policy considerations of such theory. Funny thing about spirituality….its actually an essential, I would say the most essential aspect of a truly pragmatic and truly workable economic solution.

Just be sure to integrate religion with love. That way you avoid the dualistic contentiousness of one wisdom tradition versus another. In fact you can choose whatever religious tradition you want to, but make sure you integrate love into your beliefs and graciousness will be the result.

Because you’re then trapped in opposition and contention only.  And being so stuck inevitably degenerates into ego involvement in opinion, conflict and resistance to the other. But, you say,  “a third opinion is subject to these same things” and you’d be right. And that is why understanding what an actual integration is, which is the combination of of only truths, only workabilities, only applicabilities, only solutions and only what is ethical for the individual….is so important. And of course beginning with the conscious intention to love is the first step.

It is this integrated scientific, philosophical and loving/spiritual process of refinement that can guide us forward to a genuine third and unifying future.

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Me:  Does not the unworkability of orthodoxies on both the left and right make an integrative third alternative philosophy and policies the wise direction for economic theory?

An integrative third way that enhanced the lifestyle of the individual and also the viability and competitiveness of small to medium sized businesses while breaking up the monopoly powers of finance and dominant powers of corporations with global reach seems like the intelligent route toward the future.

PD:  Part of the reason why Hillary had such a bad campaign strategy — where she did not present a message to save income and jobs for blue collar workers — perhaps because economists like Krugman were for free trade and they were providing Hillary with economic advice

Being for free trade when the other nations are using the same technology but using child labor, longer hours, lower pay, no safety environment for workers, permitting pollution to spill out of factories merely to reduce the price of the product for consumers is a non progressive view of the economic system.

DM:  In my Brit experience, the equivalent types to Paul tend to support policies that they think will benefit ‘ordinary working people’, of whatever class or colour. The problem is that on some of the issues you raise, they seem to be wrong.

There may also be some cynical types about, but I give Paul the benefit of the doubt.

Me:   So what policies would enhance both the individual and small to medium sized business viability and that even large corporations couldn’t resist?

KZ:  So quite literally anything that inhibits homo sapiens from using their imaginations to create a communal way of life is a threat to the survival of homo sapiens.

Me:  I could not possibly agree more with this attitude. Imagination is the quality that orthodoxy lacks and is also one of the signatures of scientific and cultural break throughs. And I think that’s exactly what we need.

KZ:  I find little mention of anything akin to “justice” in any of the economic theories. In democratic societies the results of democratic processes such as elections are described as just and reasonable. But in those same societies the results of market operations are also considered just and reasonable. How can this occur since these two results are incompatible. Decisions in the two instances are based on wholly antipathetic beliefs and values.

DT:  As the modern (quantitative) forms of democracy and markets were developed by the same people and amount to the same thing (winner takes all) I am with Craig on this one. Justice amounts to equal exchange, but need and ability to meet it act in opposite directions even if they are quantitatively equal, and in reality peoples needs are usually both qualitatively and quantitatively different anyway. Wisdom, then, is not to pursue justice but to give freely and be grateful if one receives back freely, for then goodwill and trust are likely to be sustained. “To each according to his need, from each according to his ability”, indeed, but what’s missing from that is its motivation. Self-sacrificing love – giving what one can or forgiving with no strings attached – is needed to start the process and restart it when it breaks down. Most of us get that from our mothers, and need to be grateful for it when pride, ambition or despair obscures our minds.

Me:  If we’re trapped in Dualism we’re really and fatally trapped, because we’re then trapped in opposition and contention only. And being so stuck inevitably degenerates into ego involvement in opinion, conflict and resistance to the other. But, you say, “a third opinion is subject to these same things” and you’d be right. And that is why understanding what an actual integration is, which is the combination of only truths, only workabilities, only applicabilities, only solutions and only what is ethical for the individual….is so important. And of course beginning with the conscious intention to care, to love if you will, is the first step. And this is no parochial religiosity only, simply an integrated/integrative statement that this underlying intention inherent in every major wisdom tradition….is an essential aspect of any actual solution in any human sphere of activity, most especially one that effects everyone like economics

It is this integrated scientific, philosophical and loving/spiritual process of refinement that can guide us forward to a genuine third and unifying economic future.

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Regarding econometrics and economic theory:

Me:  What if we considered and applied a concept whose nature was not only process/continual change, but also at the same time included the elements of additivity, linearity,opposition and the thirdness of synthesis? In other words a trinity-unity-oneness-process like for instance the Hegelian dialectic. (the Marxian variant is also a trinity-unity-oneness-process, but being thoroughly stuck in Dualistic contention with capitalism fails the integrative test for process and synthesis as does finance capitalism fail for the same and other reasons) Finding and applying a concept that includes and integrates all of these aspects could advance econometrics and economic theory.

KZ:    How long can they continue this before either the tensions this creates or the policies that implement it tear the societies apart?

Me:  “How long can they continue this before either the tensions this creates or the policies that implement it tear the societies apart?”

Short answer, not long, especially seeings how “the signs” are mostly bad and geo-political brinksmanship wed to continuing economic downturn rhymes so well with chaos and war.

All the more reason to consult and integrate not only science but also Wisdom in our search for economic cures. “Upping our game” in such a manner could remedy and reverse these trends. But we have to be willing to look at and utilize both.

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Me:   It seems to me that we need to cultivate an integration of rationality and graciousness, both individually and systemically. Developing such an integrative mindset could turn us in the proper directions of both scientific progress and ethical ascension. If we had a model for integrating the truths in opposite factors and concepts the thirdness of both individual and systemic wisdom would become more apparent and attractive to us. Intellectual fragmentation is part of the problem, and the fragmentation of intellect from long observed ethical considerations is probably the core problem that keeps us from recognizing both individual and economic progress.

KZ:  Unfortunately, modern humans have shown themselves much better at war and killing than at wisdom. And science has manged to weaponize the entire world. But I still hope you are correct in the goal you set.

Me:  I don’t disagree with that historically, but I think an awful lot of that was the result of economic scarcity, enforced financial austerity and a politics focused on power while lacking actual wisdom.

Technology has capably eliminated the first for many and solving the problem of distribution via policies that broke up the second would enable modern economies to be stable and underdeveloped ones to create the abundance we have. As for politics, if we had a prep school for all political candidates that educated them about the policies that thoroughly rectified the financial austerity above for both the individual and enterprise and how history looks kindly upon leaders who integrate prosperity and peacefulness, perhaps we’d get better leaders….or at least ones that had the input of such wisdom and concern.

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Regarding slavery and production in pre-civil war America:

Me:  Ethics is an essential, is THE essential aspect of any human system because systems were made for Man, not Man for systems. Unfortunately economics has been plagued by an ethics biased toward production as opposed to distribution. Maybe if we examined the curiously glaring monopoly financial paradigm of debt, loan and for production only and balanced and integrated a monetary paradigm of gifting into it, capitalism could begin to evolve again instead of devolving toward conflict and the chaos of war.

Deep, deeper and its test.

Steve Hummel 12/09/2016

Love is the core/essential experience of Life and Grace is its expression. Master these two and you’ll have the consciousness of God.

Steve Hummel 12/09/2016