IMO my Wisdomics-Gracenomics is the initial first step in a combination of your three areas. Graciousness as in loving action is the ultimate wisdom, and strategically applying it as the new monetary paradigm of Gifting at the single universally participated in point in the entire economic process (retail sale) would enable us to evoke and self actualize gratitude for a gift. Thus transforming economics from an errant, frustrating and aggravating experience for the vast majority into the first temporal universe system (that again everyone must participate in) to naturally encourage spirituality/wisdom.

From my blog just now:

The Looking Life: The Secret of Inner Peace and Happiness Is…

…counter intuitively, to stop thinking and start looking at whatever is in your immediate environment until you see/directly experience it as if for the first time. The clutter of one’s accumulated mental chatter is the stickiest wicket of past sub-optimal experience and the wrong direction for awareness to focus on because enlightenment is the experience of being able to be in the present moment now and now and every next moment continually like you forgot you did during “the wonder years” before you learned to habitually abstract almost everything. Its why zen buddhist monks gaze at walls and the experience of god is actually your awareness nascently integrating directly with the electro-magnetic flux that is all around us continually. God is omni-present supposedly and so is the electro-magnetic flux. Get it?

Gestalt/Wisdom is freedom and happiness. Science is its interesting and useful but ultimately entrapping cousin.

Discover the present paradigm and the problems it causes/reinforces

Decide to think in terms of solutions not just problems. In other words not just in terms of dualities/problems, but integrative thirdnesses greater onenesses of the problematic duality

Contemplate the aspects of the natural philosophical and psychological concept and experience of grace which is BOTH the active mental and temporal universe form of love

Apply the relevant aspect of grace to the system(s) needing change in the most efficacious way possible with policies that implement those aspects both mentally and temporally

Broadcast these policies and their effects, be open to evolving the policy program and rebutt and/or if necessary ignore any orthodox or palliative objections to the program

Point of the course: To discover that the concept and experience of grace is:

1. the integrative and unity of opposites factor in every historical paradigm change
2. the superlative human ethic and beneficial human experience
3. the very trinitarian intellectual process of Wisdom/paradigm change
4. the way out of obsession with problems/dualities, egoistic clinging to orthodoxies that do not resolve and an increasingly monopolistic reductionistic method of Scientific inquiry which is wonderful, necessary and intellectually delicious…and is a wholly contained set within the digestive tract of the superlative method of inquiry known as Wisdom and
5. ultimately to discover that mental and temporal grace is THE solution because grace is the ultimate resolving concept and experience for any and all problems both systemic and personal.

I am no admirer of Trump. There is much more truth in the left perspective than the right, no doubt about that. However, I’m not just a leftist, I’m an integrative liberal. By that I mean I’m for the integration of opposite perspectives that creates a true synthesis/thirdness greater oneness of problematic dualities. This is the very mental and temporal universe historical phenomenon of paradigm change.

The problem is BOTH the monetary, economic and geo-political systems AND the fact that civilization is a mere patina upon our animal origins. Until we confront the necessity of creating the above mentioned mental and temporal thirdness greater oneness our problems will persist, and the key starting point is the current monopoly monetary paradigm wielded by Finance because both the economic and psychological beneficial effects of that change will be implemented at the universally participated in point in the entire economic process which is retail sale. Arguing is not solving. Integrating opposites including the opposite states of mental and temporal universe IS

1. the monetary paradigm concept for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt Only and
2. the price paradigm of Full Price Only as in the burden for the individual agent ONLY to pay full price

Before fiat money and the inventions of double entry bookkeeping, digital technology and a central bank these paradigms would have been difficult to implement, but now with those tools its as easy as 1, 2, 3 namely the double entry bookkeeping operations of equal debits and credits that sum to zero.

The concept of Debt Only is a monopoly paradigm designated by the word Only, and is exactly like the Roman Catholic monopoly paradigm of Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments Only which The Reformation challenged and overturned. Finally, as all new paradigms have historically been in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm that means the new monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of new money is Strategic Monetary Gifting.

The price paradigm of course is also a monopoly concept by virtue of the word Only, and with the same tools as above the new paradigm of Shared Price Responsibility can easily be universally accomplished also.

Finally, all new paradigms have been the integrative resolution of opposite concepts (a duality) and the creation of a new more workable, applicable, truthful and beneficial thirdness greater oneness (a trinitarian phenomenon) via the discovery and strategic application of the operant present outness/outnesses. Example: geo-centrism to helio-centrism via inversion of the positions of the earth and the sun (and the additional realization that orbits are eliptical not perfect circles).

I don’t disagree that Trump’s tarrif policies are crude, rude and chaotic. They are. However, the solution to the historical problem of geo-strategic instability and proneness to violence throughout human history, as Michael himself has excellently enumerated, lies elsewhere. That solution is for

1) ALL countries to awaken to the current and civilization long monetary paradigm concept that all new money must ONLY AND MONOPOLISTICALLY be created and distributed as debt thus, the concept of DEBT ONLY

2) and then also awaken to the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting with

3) the primary policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale and also

4) a full policy program that stabilizes the new paradigm and enables many other individual benefits and socio-economic, ecological, energy and political problem resolutions.

…is set up to make the world safe for Private Banking with their monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money AKA Debt ONLY.

Throw off that fetishized framework of steaming horseshit and implement the new paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting, and also implement a sane and ethical system of taxation with known and enforceable barriers that actually would enable tax cuts and hence even more abundance and true freedom for both individuals and enterprise…and you’d have the greatest beneficial paradigm change in human history.

Run Ravel with strategic monetary gifting distributed at retail sale with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy there. Also, why assume that government deficits have to be zeroed out with only debt. Change the law so that both bonds and simply money as a gift can be strategically distributed to fund the government. You could also just amend the FED’s charter and have them create money as a gift to distribute the monies of the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale. Lots of other monetary gifting policies that create much more general abundance, enable tax cuts, supercharge rational action on energy R & D and necessary ecological changes and last but not least would raise the emotional tone of society instead of inflicting constant stress on everyone. Why not?

…is to one degree or another a glib as in shallow and incomplete “answer”.

Monetary austerity is not the answer. Monetary abundance that simultneously implements beneficial deflation via a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale and at the retail point of Finance, that is your loan payment, is the answer.

The current FED charter re-inforces the monopoly paradigm of Finance AKA Debt ONLY and hence that charter is the problem. Enabling The FED to fund the above and other aligned policies resolves the problematic effects of the current monopoly.

You can know every jot and tittle of your particular religious orthodoxy, but if the active form of love, that is graciousness, is not in your heart and mind, you’ve missed the point and the greatest experience a human can have.

Likewise, if you are an atheist or agnostic and can analyze every issue to the nth degree, but you neglect to self actualize graciousness you have also equally missed the point.

Contemplating and self actualizing the natural philosophical concept and personal aspects of grace IS THE EXPERIENCE AND THE POINT. DON’T MISS THE POINT AND THE EXPERIENCE.