Every human being is self aware to one degree or another. It’s the nature of the species. The degree to which they are consciously self aware varies depending on many different factors including level of integrated personal experiences, personal gift, habit, degree of distraction, misunderstanding/opinion about the experience itself, choice of mode of thought and of course happenstance/luck. There is much confusion and misunderstanding  about, and even bias against the experience as well. Self awareness is most essentially your awareness of consciousness itself. It is not ego or any other compiled, constructed, attained, maintained or synthetic product of one’s mental world. There is a stripped bareness quality to consciousness described by the zen expression of a mirror where not even the breath is condensed upon it. The experience of Grace is often described as “the incredibly powerful and humbling experience of God’s Grace falling upon one. I am not here to validate or invalidate anyone’s experience or beliefs. I would however like to point out that we are all made in the image of God and so the spark of the divine is necessarily within each of us as human beings, and thus the experience itself is logically valid. I am simply saying that it is a very, very  self empowering and beneficial experience….and that it is an experience anyone can and should be aware of for those reasons alone.

I also write this entry is to illustrate the sameness of self awareness/consciousness and the experience of Grace, and to point out that it is not necessarily to be equated to the intelligent, the accomplished, the reverent, the orthodox or anything else. It simply is, and anyone can experience it, and when they do it is generally a life changing experience. There are also degrees of intensity of the experience of Grace, Self awareness, Consciousness as well as levels of integration of the aspects of the experience within oneself.

Furthermore, as three of the major aspects of both the definition and experience of Grace and the classical and correct goals of economics are balance, equilibrium and flow, a higher consciousness of this fact is supremely logically important. After all A = A denotes logical alignment so the applicability of Grace is logically relevant to the study of economics.  Now this does not mean that we are to think that modern economies naturally tend toward equilibrium…they in fact do not;  what it does mean is we need to look for and discover the deepest, most fundamental reason(s) why the economy is not in equilibrium….and then craft policies that will result in the greater stability and freedom that economic balance, equilibrium and flow would insure.

Likewise the hallmark of increased consciousness is mental clarity, focus and integrated understanding of whatever personal and/or temporal issue is at hand. That in fact is an excellent description and definition of Wisdom at its pinnacle expression and ability. Again, as logic is expressed in the syllogism A = A, so the experience of Grace, Self Awareness, Consciousness and the pinnacle of Wisdom are all essentially the same thing. 

Often, the truth is that the degree to which one is unaware of the characteristics of Grace, Self Awareness and Consciousness and the benefits of same, the less self aware/conscious one actually is, and so one could be extremely erudite, accomplished, etc. and still be missing this essential experience. The sad truth is that the combination of modern distraction and all too often a modern bias against what is seen as a religious pursuit works against the mental focus and discipline often required for these experiences, as well as against a general interest in them at all. The biblical quote appears to apply to our modern world: “Thinking themselves wise, they become fools.”

In other words those costs must still be paid for by businesses….by continually including them in their prices….otherwise that business is headed for destroyed/obsolescent productive capability without the ability to replace them without incurring even more costs….and so most likely bankruptcy.

And of course the individual must pay for these additional costs as well…despite there currently being no systemically costless monetary way of increasing his income in order to be able to liquidate those costs/prices and thus enabling the system to approach an equilibrium….or a higher disequilibrium where total individual incomes would exceed costs/prices and thus the individual and the economy would tend toward increasing freedom/free flowingness.

The best economists now embrace complexity, or attempt to and fail to make sense out of it, rather than look at the empirical monetary data found in the three and four dimensional cost accounting statistics that every business compiles, recognizing the disequilibrated economic relationships and conditions there and crafting policies to correct it or even reverse its trends toward more freedom and free flowingness. Recently some economists have waded through the bulk of this complexity and come to the same conclusion as C. H. Douglas came to by empirical examination of the data, namely disequilibrium. As Grace is achievable by both the clarity of an intense and focused experience of conscious awareness of self in the midst of the constant flux of possible thoughts and experiences in the moment, and also the clarity achieved by observation, integration and cognition of truth, either of the subjective or objective routes to such clarity is possible. The one (subjective) is generally the much faster route to cognition as it is less ponderous and cautious but again, either way can be the route to the same insight.

However, the true test of economists and economic theories is the policy recommendations they make  as a result of their conclusions which generally monitors their view of themselves and others as well as their personal sense of ethics. And that is where an awareness of Grace as in graciousness becomes so very important.

[ ( Individual Monetary Entropy  X  Individual Monetary Non-entropy)  X  Higher Non-entropy of Increasing Grace/Freedom ]

[ (Debt  X  Monetary Gifting)  X  Grace as in reversal of descending entropic vector toward ethically ascendant greater individual economic freedom and systemic free flowingness ]

The Economy is inherently in a state of harmful, enslaving monetary disequilibrium. Its vector must be reversed toward a higher disequilibrium ratio characterized by total individual incomes exceeding total costs/prices and hence toward a more freeing and ethical system.

Freedom is a continuous state of both personal and/or systemic free flowingness and thus is a verb, a process above and ascending from the mere duality of  freedom versus entrapment. So should its personal philosophy and systemic policies be ascendant.

Mankind loves rules and being right and correct, and this is all well and good….so long as it doesn’t harden into smallish, austere and obsessively judgmental  concern to be right in one’s own mind. This applies as much to scientific orthodoxies as it does religious ones. Grace is flowing. It is not being “hung up” on rules, but neither is it some blithe, shallow and facile attitude toward  morals and ethics. Thus it is simultaneously depth of thinking and the ability to resist the vice of obsessive seriousness. It is this “dualistic yet integrated bothness” aspect of Wisdom that enables the thirdness-oneness aspect of Grace to become reality.

The most prevalent category of humor is known as “the reversal” that is a release of laughter as a result of the comparison of the obvious and the absurd or the true and the untrue as in satire. These are the dualistic yet momentarily integrated bothness aspect  of Wisdom, and are universally understood as a healthy experience and personal characteristic. Integrating Loving and laughing and knowing when to employ both or either is a human art, and being a flow, a process, leads to the pinnacle thirdness-oneness experience of Grace.

Please Ellen, you are free to use and speak about this plan, but if you would please cite me I would appreciate it.

My thinking is fully aligned with Social Credit philosophy and policy and I give C. H. Douglas his full due, its just that I show how the linguistic and psychological concept of Grace in all of its aspects is relevant to economic and monetary theory. I have also shown in my Wisdomics/Gracenomics posts and soon to be book that the concept of Grace is the not fully conscious thread that binds all of the leading theorists and reformers and their policies together. I think I deserve credit for that thinking, that cognition and the policies that would logically follow from it.

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Public Banking makes so much economic sense as in efficiency that, so long as private banking is still allowed, even if basically neutered as I see its only role, IMO opinion is guilty of either being bought or being woefully ignorant. David Graeber has enumerated how banking as a business model has been corrupt, destabilizing and domineering for the last 5000 years. Who in their right mind would suggest that we leave it in control of the money system and the economy??? Now Public Banking requires regulation as well, but with a sovereign entity having the final say about its creation and distribution, that has mandated policies that set the individual free, that create and are the definition of an economic equilibrium and that align with the concept of grace as in benevolent sovereignty….what’s to worry about except eternal vigilance which regardless is a part of an honest life anyway.