Religion/Spirituality is as natural as the grass, the rocks and the trees because it has been around….forever, or at least as long as Man has been conscious. Stop trying to ignore it, invalidate it, bitching about it or substituting half assed counterfeits of it. Embrace it, live it, let it profoundly deepen and broaden your every experience by imbuing it with love and graciousness. That’s when you’ll find your way home and the way out of the idiocies that will confuse and hypnotize you with their untruths, half truths and endless contentious debating of same. And apply natural spirituality to science so it escapes the same orthodox and dualistic trap it has fallen into. Good science is open minded science and the signature of scientific breakthrough is the integration of the scientific method with an aspect or aspects of consciousness. Wake up! Break up your intellectual, scientific and spiritual fallow ground and discover and practice the third way. It’s the way out of the boring trap so many of you have fallen into.

Steve Hummel 12/01/2016

One is as integrated, i.e. mentally flowing, emotionally loving and behaviorally gracious   as their ideas, emotions and actions are aligned with the concept and experience of Grace. This is because we are an integral part of nature and the native and continuing natural state of the cosmos is also the state of grace, that is utter integration on the so called quantum level.

To the degree that one holds dualistic opinions without recognizing that a third more unified and whole viewpoint is possible is the degree to which the individual is “hung up in” an unintegrated state of mind. This is not to suggest that there is no ethical code in the cosmos or that action to stop unethical behavior is not important. All realities are real, it’s just that some are more basic, more primary, more ethical and more whole, and the reality of the wisdom and experience of Grace is the pinnacle reality.

Steve Hummel 11/30/2016

Me:  Wilders and every other populist pol, while understandably upset about the sorry economic state of their nation and of the poor leadership of their elites, have not penetrated to the core problem that holds all of the frustration and lack of genuine progress in place. That core problem is not just the government or some other human interaction issue that will basically go away if the core issue is actually addressed. The real problem is the monopolistic financial paradigm of debt ONLY.

It’s not the crack pot issue of interest which only has a particle of truth to it. It’s not fractional reserve banking or the FED’s policies and follies both of which also have a particle of truth to them. It’s that the banking and financial powers will not allow monetary gifting to be sufficiently integrated into the money system so that the economy flows prosperously, and individuals and businesses are freed from the monopolistic dominance of debt ONLY….and they stay free as innovation and AI increasingly erode aggregate individual incomes in the immediate future.

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Productivity IS deflationary…primarily to aggregate individual incomes. The problem is, as depreciation costs of accumulating capital increase so does the lower bound of price also rise, thus squeezing profits and eroding individual purchasing power. Rather than insisting that austerity wring even further pain out of the individuals and businesses in the economy the solution is graciously abundant monetary gifting with a dividend and cost savings with a retail discount. If you just look at it from a humane and freeing point of view the third alternative to rigid orthodoxies on both the left and right becomes apparent.

MS:  Fractional reserve lending, massive expansion of debt, and Fed insistence on inflation in a productivity-induced deflationary world is “the” problem. Your proposal to solve the problem by more government mandates (giving away free money) is seriously misguided.

Debt increased exponentially increased when Nixon closed the gold window. Your half-baked, non-solution of giving away money does not address any fundamental issues I raised. Your further statement “No one has to pay for it, the money would be created out of nothing exactly like virtually all of our money is now. The difference would be that it would be GIFT of money equally distributed to every citizen or every citizen 18 and older,” is so preposterous and tiring, that I deleted it.

I am really tired of debating your nonsense. Start all over with a reflection on the problem. “Gift” money mandates are pure stupidity. It promotes “something for nothing” perpetual-motion madness that does not work in the real world.

I do not have the time or the energy to debate such nonsense with you endlessly. Any subsequent reference by you to giving away money as the solution will be deleted without comment.

I have been very patient, but this is it.

Me:  All of your “solutions” are structural issues. Ideas and generally held ideas as in paradigms are a priori and more powerful in their effects. Sorry, ideas trump structure because they go to the heart and core of problems.This has been known for a long time and is not just my opinion. You can ban me and run from that truth if you so desire….but it won’t change the truthfulness of it.

The truth is also that I’ve posted here for many years, been almost entirely ignored by you except the occasional mistaken outburst like calling me a communist so no big strain on you, and been derided and mistakenly called a socialist since the beginning by your commenters. So who’s the one that has endured anything and been the patient one here?

MS:  Please Think before promoting nonsense.

Question: In a deflationary world, what happens to the price of input goods to businesses?
How are they hurt?
Where is the price squeeze on businesses?

What is the real problem here?
Answer: Just what I said: central bank mandated inflation ion a deflationary world and fractional reserve lending.

You keep promoting ridiculous solutions of giving money away.

That’s it.
I am done responding.

Me:  If the system is inherently price inflationary because costs inherently exceed incomes with which to liquidate them your “solutions” are a faster route to collapse and chaos. The problem is you look at the economy from an orthodox viewpoint which ignores the ADDITIONAL costs of ever increasing and depreciating concrete capital. It’s a shallow and incomplete assessment. Sorry. Orthodoxies stop looking at changes and modern economies have changed a lot since Smith and even since Menger and Von Mises. Sorry.

What Britain obviously needs to battle the EU are policies that will guarantee their economic stability and sovereignty….from both tyrannical finance and political duplicity with same. And seeings how a policy of a universal dividend in addition to whatever one made via work for pay would solve the chronic problem of scarce individual income and a retail discount would resolve the chronic problem of inflation by creating continual deflation, they seem to fit the bill rather nicely. This would also de-throne finance as the dominating and manipulating power behind all governments by integrating the paradigm of monetary grace as in gifting into the debt based system thus ending finance’s monopolistic powers. The philosophical (not necessarily religious, although that is obviously fine as well) concept of grace comes around every couple of hundred years and tries to help free man. If we’d simply think in terms of third alternatives to dueling and half true orthodoxies…we’d make a lot more actual progress.

1.  The reality of the temporal universe
2.  The reality in one’s mind at whatever level of integration it currently is and
3.  The reality of one’s unitary consciousness….whether fully integrated and/or realized or not.

Wisdom/Integration being the process of becoming more and more conscious, if you’re not consciously integrating everything you see, do, feel and think, then you are by definition and to one degree or another unconscious. And as grace is the pinnacle and active experience of consciousness, integration is the route toward Wisdom, fuller consciousness and grace as in graciousness.

Steve Hummel 11/28/2016

The world is unconsciously and obsessively in an increasing state of contention and its effects. We see the signs of disintegration all around us financially, economically and politically. We will be reaping the whirl wind if we do not consciously integrate the particles of truth and workability in the opposing ideas, theories, parties and systems that now contend with each other so that we can have actual solutions to our problems not disintegration or palliation of them.

An awakening to the necessity of Wisdom, Integration as Wisdom’s process and knowledge of the rules and guidelines of Wisdom/Integration is urgently needed. 

The Cosmic Code: The Model For Deep Everyday Wisdom For The Individual and Our Systems

Me:  You’re getting closer to seeing what I’ve been saying for a long time here. Competition, innovation and AI in profit making systems will insure a titanic loss of jobs and hence aggregate individual incomes. A universal dividend will then be absolutely necessary, and a retail discount to prices will integrate price deflation into the system which is the bulwark against the giantism and monopolism of corporations who might be able to raise prices at will.  Integration is wisdom. It’s the only way to save profit making systems.

Better get on my bandwagon. When my book is published you and Keen are going to look like intellectual pikers.

MS:  Stop this universal dividend shit, and self-promotion of your blog

Me:  Fine Mish. When you FINALLY realize that demanding employment ONLY as the solution…..is unconscious socialism in view of the inevitable effects of competition, innovation and AI…maybe you’ll remember that I’m the one who has continually suggested INTEGRATION of both employment and gifting into the system….instead of ignorantly and obsessively demanding the tired old orthodoxies of capitalism and socialism NEITHER of which has all of the answers.  

Keen is so obsessively into de-bunking General Equilibrium theory that he can’t see that he himself is still stuck in accounting equilibriums and you are so stuck in “there ain’t no free lunchism” that neither of you can see that if you used the concept of gifting intelligently and integratively you could both come up with an entirely third more workable alternative theory that won’t leave you looking like schmucks…..when impending disaster is upon us or someone makes the simple yet comprehensive suggestions I’ve advocated so long….and everyone sees how stupid it is not to implement them.

Fine. I’m sad about it, but also extremely tired of you and Keen’s unconscious lack of willingness to integrate ideas.

By the way I haven’t posted my blog url since you told me not to, and even if I did or mentioned my book in my posts…your putting me on moderation would mean they’d only get deleted anyway so that criticism is irrelevant. My posts on your blog are simply my (generally gracious and polite) means of trying to penetrate your mind with common sense and wisdom. Don’t look now Mish, but generally anger is a sign that someone’s truth has hit a nerve.

MS:  Hey look at your silly threat to make me look like a “piker”

[ (Conscious Naturalism x Conscious Supernaturalism)  <–>  Conscious Cosmos/Cosmic Consciousness ]

This is the description of The Cosmic Code. It includes all three basic realities (Duality, Trinity and Monism), their internal and temporal reflections, actions and interactions, how the twoness (Duality) is integrated in order to become a Trinity-Unity and how the Unity (Monism-Consciousness) is integrated/continually integrative at every level and sphere of the cosmos.

All thought, all actions and all non-actions in the temporal universe and refusals to think in integrative ways can be described by these states and their potential integrative combination…or lack thereof. The Cosmic Code can describe any reality integrated or not and thus is a theory of everything (TOE).