Commerce is based on the earliest written law, the law of Hamurabi, which is the law of the sea, and of war. It is fundamentally a competitive or adversarial stance with our fellow beings. We are encouraged to extract as much life essence as possible from each other. It is time to make the radical reframing of commerce according to the root of the word, which I read as com merce, or with mercy. The sacred gift economy is how we treat family, and ultimately we are all members of the royalty of the heavens. We are all cells in God's body. The more I can give of the abundance which is given me in this life, the happier I am, and the better I make the world I live in. The commercial assumption of scarcity as the basis for the market economy can give way to a foundational well spring of abundance when we find our vocational calling, in which we have unlimited supply of our unique special gifts, the product of having faced and overcome the unique challenges given each of us in this life.
Education works better with active minds seeking truth than with a top down curriculum and a prescription for no child left behind, which translates to no child gets ahead. Experiments in Socratic education show better learning by placing the locus of control more in the hands of the learner. With thought, orientation and actions more centered in the self and the expression of natural curiosity, rather than the teacher as an externally imposed authority, there is less adaptation and related loss of physiological flexibility, as seen for example in the classic Cheshire study in Connecticut. Even myopia rates were documented to go down among students during the period of innovation.
Medicine today is largely ruled by the incentives of corporate profits. The pharmaceutical industry is the most lucrative in the world. There is every incentive for suppression of negative observations about drugs, and every opportunity to do so, since funding comes from the manufacturers, and there are no requirements to make all data available to the public. There is a saying in statistics that figures don't lie, but liars figure. Statistics itself was never intended for application to treating humans as population statistics. It was designed for treating a field of wheat or a herd of sheep, but we have become its sheeple. This great toxic experiment of modern monopoly medicine traces its roots to the Flexner Report, which showed the Rockefellers and Carnegies where to get the best return on their money as they looked at expanding into (taking over) the field of medicine. Actually, the Rockefellers started out in the medical field, with rock oil (petroleum) being sold as a cure-all medicine. It beat out snake oil through viscious villification of the competitor, but today we know that all the coal tar based drugs do not cure disease, but only add a new layer of allopathic disease to our bio-body suit's akashic karma cleaning laundry list. We also can know, if we care to take a second look at what we believe we know, that snake oil turns out to be the highest known source of essential fatty acids. Go figure...
Law is not true law that can be broken and thereby falsified. Natural law is fundamental law. Man's law, beginning with that of Hammurabi, is merely a code of behavior. It is the will of the lawmakers, whoever and wherever they may have been. It is a selectively enforced taxation, or destructive force, a sanctioned use of violence against those who would find some creative, locally adaptive self-governing way of living. Farmers are the most notoriously difficult to govern by remote central authorities. Natural law is a different kind of authority, operating always and everywhere in the same way, though we as yet fail to fully grasp its ways and means. God's ways, after all, are not man's ways...
Even Newton's 'law of universal gravitation' is not a true law in its current formulation. If it were, there would be no levitating M-state spirit minerals and no enraptured saints levitating or flying, of which history shows us multiple examples including Theresa of Avilla (1515-1582), Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663), Paul of the Cross (1694-1775), Gerard Majella (1726-1755), Gemma Galgani (1878-1903), and Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968). The fullness of natural law, while it encompasses that which we know and call gravity, obviously also encompasses a more rarified polarity which can be called levity. It is a greater portion of this levity that we here seek before our biological body suit finally succumbs to its destiny with the grave.
To more closely approximate our model of the world to the truth of natural law, we must keep our eyes and minds open to the outliers, the data points that defy the curve, the irreproducible events, the mystical truths of our experience that our hearts and minds cannot deny, without denying the nature, beauty and sanctity of the gift of life itself.
When the first European sailing ships anchored off South America, they were invisible to the native people on shore. After a few days, only the shaman could begin to make out something that appeared like a tree in the water. Over time, more elements of the ship became visible as new concepts were produced by relationship of these new observations with past experiences. We are blind to all that we as yet have no way to conceive.
When the hole in the ozone layer was first measured in Australia, it was invisible. For many years. Each time a data point showed zero ozone, it was a data point that failed to fit the normal data distribution curve, and so it was discarded, being seen as merely a sign of some measurement error, chalked up to a malfunction is some part of the apparatus.
To this day, many of the big questions in our understanding of life, the universe, god, spirit, healing and everything else remain on the sidelines, on the back burner, in the closet or swept neatly under the carpet. In reading and applying this book, I invite you to open your thinking and contemplate the fullness of the truth though we cannot absolutely know it all in this life. I invite you to invite your future self to be present here now in you, with you and through you as collaborator, guardian and guide in your quest for healing not only of your body's ills, but of any false limitations that have been imposed upon your thinking and your soul.
The ego tracks the arrow of time forward as it seeks its center in the midst of eternity, ever knowing the limits of the past and seeking the unbounded future. The future self sees all with attentive care, knowing and infinite patience, seeing with clarity and perspective. It is the authentic presence of the integrative momentary essence of consciousness that has the ultimate power to synthesize meaningful blossoming of life and universal love in this transcendental and eternal now. We are awakening to the fullness of our selves as masters of this inheritance of the full vortex function of time. Our transcendent essence emanates through our assemblage point, that unique point of the singularity of our perspective, like that sought by Archimedes, that allows us to move the fractal world of our conscious co-creative awareness, the world inhabited by the soul.
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