Transforming Economics with Positive Thinking

Malthus was wrong. The planet's economic systems based on Malthusian principles of scarcity are a lie and a deception. This is one of the root causes behind the world's woes. If humanity learned the power of positive thinking we can eliminate war, famine, disease, oppression and the disparity between the wealthy ruling class and the poor working class.

Thomas Robert Malthus thought that the dangers of population growth would preclude endless progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".

Current world leaders teach that the, "First rule of economics is that there are limited resources and there are never enough goods or money to satisfy everyone." This is what Malthus declared at a time when there was barely a billion people on the planet. Now there are over 6 billion people with a majority living with access to resources that Malthus could not have imagined.

How could Malthus be so wrong? The simple truth is that he did not understand the very basic principle of innovation and Human ingenuity. Human's ability to discover the generalized operating principles of Universe and apply them in the creation of artifacts that do ever MORE with ever LESS physical resources is what Malthus did not understand and what the world political, financial and oil-wealth based tyrannies continue to perpetuate as the greatest deception Humanity has had to overcome.

Utopia or Oblivion: the Prospects for Humanity
By R. Buckminster Fuller

Why is Humanity taught to believe in this lie? It is because Humans react with fear and aggression when they think that there is not enough resources for everyone. Humans driven by fear of scarcity are easily controlled and organized into competing camps.
Nations, banks and oil companies who control access to the world's "limited" physical resources need to perpetuate the lie in order to secure their power base.
However, the real resource is and has always been intellectual attainment. Sometimes referred to as "mind over matter" or BRAIN POWER it is humans' ability to ever more with ever less physical resources, that is the ultimate power base.

Students have come to America for two centuries in order to gain the best education in the world. In the past, 90 percent have stayed and added to the intellectual resources of America, founded great innovative companies, and added to the power and success of our nation.

For example, consider the following entrepenuers who helped to build Silicon Valley:

• Andrew Grove, former Chairman and CEO Intel Corporation, born in Budapest, Hungary, graduated University of California, Berkeley.
• Pierre Omidyar, founder and Chairman, eBay, born in Paris, France to Iranian immigrant parents, graduated from Tufts University, net worth $5.5 Billion.
• Salar Kamangar, CEO of YouTube, created the company's first business plan, born in Tehran, Iran, graduated from Stanford University.
• Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, Google founder, born in Moscow, graduated from Stanford University, net worth $15 Billion.
• Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder, born in Taiwan, graduated from Stanford University, net worth $1.15 Billion.

The 1999 report Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs "finds that immigrants account for one-third of the scientific and engineering workforce in Silicon Valley and that Indian or Chinese Chief Executive Officers are running one-fourth of all of the high-technology firms in the region."

These entrepeneurs created vast information enterprises from nothing. These companies now influence the entire world. This is the proof that BRAIN POWER is limitless and that the power of the earth to provide subsistence for humanity is boundless. 

Sacred Geometry, Metatron’s Cube and Merkabah Connections

Sometimes isolation and solitude catalyze the greatest feelings of connection. This is not a paradox. It is about simplicity, being able to listen through the static, filtering meaning from the noise. This is why a cave, a bowl or the center of a sphere is an excellent location for meditation and for accumulating jnana. These forms present a uniform interior to our minds allowing our body/mind to relax. These spaces provide a refuge that protects us from negative energies and shield us from distractions. We are open to the entire universe, yet we do not feel threatened. In fact, we feel at home and protected.

Triacon Plan View - An Alternate View of Metatron's Cube
Copyright © Thomas J. Greenbaum

This is also what sacred geometry provides. We can visualize ourselves in the center of the mandala (the Chariot, the Merkabah) and feel at home amongst the lines, arcs, triangles, circles, tetrahedrons and spheres. It may not take an overt mental act or visualization method to do this. If the geometry reflects truth, beauty and symmetry it is easily and naturally accomplished. Truth, of course, is the most difficult aspect to achieve.

"Know the self to be sitting in a Chariot, the body to be the Chariot, the intellect (buddhi) the charioteer, and the mind the reins." --The Upanishads

Having established a locus for our mind within the sacred space/geometry, connections occur without the interference of overt metaphors or symbols. We can listen/feel the most subtle vibrations, like a spider in the center of its web. Once centered in the grid/web looking inside and looking outside we become aware of a unity of form and function. Consciousness merges with the sacred geometry and the fractal nature of awareness arises. Micro/macro views are self-similar resulting in harmony, balance and equilibrium. Connections arise spontaneously between all nodes on the grid; no single node is dominant, all nodes vibrate together.

Engraved illustration of the "chariot vision" of the Biblical book of Ezekiel, chapter 1, after an earlier illustration by Matthaeus (Matthäus) Merian (1593-1650)

In contrast, our mundane awareness is not easily balanced. Each connection we experience competes for our attention/energy. Each node fights for dominance over the others. Life is a discordant cacophony of overt signs, symbols, messages and mythologies with contradictory meanings. Consciousness cannot settle into any locus. Awareness does not feel centered and does not realize the self-similar fractal nature of phenomena. Looking inside yields one view, while looking outside we something totally different; alien and threatening. Although the view outside is disturbing we cannot take our attention from it. After a while we are afraid to look inside.

The opportunity/potential of the Lotus Bowl, Metatron's Cube, or any sacred geometry is that it can become the Chariot of God, the Merkabah. These forms may become vehicles for individual consciousness to connect with our Buddha nature. They transport our mundane consciousness to realms of enlightened awareness - the Pure Realms. During these states of expanded consciousness we open ourselves fully to being connected to all possibilities. We arrive to sit on our Lotus Throne, cup one hand to our ear and listen to the vibrations of the cosmos, the music of the spheres, to the songs of all beings - while in the other hand we gather precious Amrita, the elixir that will make us immortal.

Milarepa - Great Yogi and Kagyu Saint