ECONOMIC CRISIS and FINANCIAL MELTDOWN & The Senators
Question: It seems that stars of presidential political theater have been reduced to bit players as the economy takes center stage. So many people are now facing grave financial hardship. 600,000 jobs have been lost this year. How can one make any sense of this current crisis that has threatened the underpinnings of the United States financial markets with consequences for the entire world marketplace?
Answer: When people are not concerned about the lives of others, are not concerned about the well-being of their neighbors, are not concerned that their actions may harm others, you have greed. When such people band together and perpetuate this mentality, individual greed can become institutionalized. This is a form of fear. It shouts out at you from media headlines. "Follow me!” Fear whispers in your ear. "I will keep you safe". Eventually everyone starts running for the exits in fears footsteps.
Question: Are there larger lessons beyond savvy investing and risky mortgages to be found in this crisis?
Answer: A crisis presents an opportunity to learn. Lessons can be learned on many levels. When a crisis is noticed by all of humanity, then global lessons may be possible. One cannot live in Truth and choose greed at the same time. Truth means choosing love. To make another choice is a lesson.
Question: Both Senators McCain and Obama have to varying degrees tried to place blame on each other and on other surrogates for the meltdown of the financial marketplace. With all the sniping going on, who is to blame for this debacle?
Answer: Within these performances, once again, is symbology. Anyone who has ever thought of benefiting from another’s misfortune, or who has thought of taking advantage of another’s plight shares responsibility. When these personalities perform on the stages of finance and politics, attempting to assign individual blame can be seen simply as empty theater. Truth and deeper meaning lies elsewhere. The precept of loving one’s neighbor as oneself extends to all realms, including the financial and political.
Question: What should the role of government be in all this?
Answer: From the perspective of All-That-Is, government’s role exists within the duality of Truth and illusion. The degree to which governments exist in illusion may be measured by the consistency with which they lurch from crisis to crisis. It is with these crises that the larger lessons occur. Providing these lessons is part of the illusion of leadership, a lesson that can clearly be seen now more than ever before. When government evolves to the moment when a true spiritual leader can assume the mantle of leadership, the time for crises such as these will have passed. It is then that government will move to Truth and leave illusion with its manipulation and control to history.