Another thoughtful post. I’m of the opinion that our problem is a combination of mis-chosen epistemology (abstraction instead of gnosis/knowingness) and a modernist culture that is distracted from distraction exacerbated by that very choice of abstraction. In essence we are not a comtemplative society and never actually have been really…but we’re still headed in the wrong direction largely because the increasingly monopolistic modernist mindset of Science/Reductionism Only goes undiagnosed when Gnosis/Knowingness/Wisdom is the way out and the way home.

Don’t get me wrong I’m four square for science, particularly the kind of science that leads to scientific breakthrough, namely open-minded science, but abstraction-orthodoxy has eventually corrupted every religion and so robbed us of gnosis. As I like to say: Science is interesting, necessary and delicious…and it exists entirely within the digestive tract of Wisdom.

This is also why I’m passionate about the new monetary paradigm of Grace as in Monetary Gifting because its an opportunity to transform participating in the economy at retail sale from a frustrating experience into an everyday and universally participated in opportunity to evoke grace as in gratitude for a monetary gift. Culture is what we create within ourselves every day…
but what if we CONSCIOUSLY found ways to evoke a relevant aspect/experience of grace in the everyday activities of all of our systems? Perhaps the Renaissance of all renaissances.