Re: Mind's Eye Spirituality

It is impossible to untangle the dependency as it is re-enforced by
governments and society and completely beyond the power of the
individual- frankly, the aim of power majorities is to disable the
Individual.

On May 2, 10:05 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In terms of RP's accountable spirituality we might understand a duty
> to express dissent in the daily details of our actions.  We could all
> be doing the following, but aren't.
>
> Support the decentralized, non-market economy
> Stop participating in financialization
> Redefine self-interest to exclude debt-servitude and dependence on
> consumerism and the Central State
> Act on your awareness that the nature of prosperity and financial
> security is changing
> Stop supporting distant concentrations of capital that subvert
> democracy by using their gargantuan profits to buy the machinery of
> State governance and regulation
> Stop supporting the debt-and-leverage based financial aristocracy
> Transfer your assets out of Wall Street (City of London and offshore)
> and into local enterprises or assets that do not enrich and empower
> Wall Street.
> Refuse to participate in consumerist status identifiers and the social
> defeat they create
> Vote in every election with an eye on rewarding honesty and truth and
> punishing empty promises
> Stop supporting inflationary policies such as "money creation" by the
> Federal Reserve and Federal deficit borrowing
> Become healthy, active and fit
> Embrace self-directed coherent plans and construct a resilient,
> diverse ecology of identity and meaning
>
> Suitably adapted the above could lead to material conditions of a very
> different spirituality.  I agree with RP and think we could make what
> he says a very practical politics.
>
> On May 2, 2:44 pm, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Spirit in the sense of the Absolute , God or Nature.
>
> > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, James <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/1/2012 11:50 AM, RP Singh wrote:
>
> > >> As everything is predetermined it follows that everything is done by the
> > >> spirit , which makes all actions spiritual. But that has no meaning , so
> > >> we may say that that the word spiritual is obsolete and we should
> > >> distinguish between good actions and bad actions , good people and bad
> > >> people , scrupulous people and the unscrupulous. Also the definition of
> > >> the good and bad changes from clime to clime , but generally the
> > >> definition of good and bad is universal if you look at it with a
> > >> humanitarian eye. Thus spirit , being all-encompassing, goes into the
> > >> background.
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> > > Spirit in what sense RP? I am compelled to respond but don't want to sound
> > > foolish, and not haggling for a definition.- Hide quoted text -
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