Spiritual Capital is the Real Gold
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OK does that make sense to people? Do most people understand this and recognize the urgency of transcending?
So, I want to talk a little bit more about, now, what we have lost. OK. Before all of this began, pretty much the whole world was turned into a capitalist system—right: globalization, etc.—and capitalism has had a psychological effect on human beings. For one thing, it’s a profane system, a secular system, and we have been indoctrinated for over a hundred years in a belief in scientism, in materialism, consumerism, and an ever more dumbed-down educational system that has caused us to lose our curiosity for higher truth, and we have also seen the corruption of the religious institutions, that have caused us to justify our cynicism and our turning away from the traditional values that were the cornerstone and the source of strength and meaningfulness in human culture. So I want to talk a little bit about value.
So, I am going to refer to what I have coined The 73 Axes of Axiology. Now, axiology is the study of value. It’s a long-known, let’s say, a sub-discipline of philosophy. For some, it’s even a sub-sub-discipline of ethics, but for others axiology is primary and ethics derives from that. But we can also call it The Dao of Complete Capitalism.
OK, so my contention here is that the problem is not capitalism per se, although what capitalism has done is shifted from the Source of value, which in the classical world was “The Good”—literally, Plato called it “The Good”—in ancient Greece the Good or the One is the Source of all value—everything derives from the One. And so, that which is most in alignment with the One, with the goodness that derives from that ultimate reality, gives us the understanding of what is valuable at the phenomenal plane of life, because it is all considered an emanation from the ultimate Good. And the Good, then, at the second level becomes the good mind of God, or the demiurgos, and the demiurgos creates let’s say, the blueprint of reality—what Jung would call the archetypes of reality—he would call it the “archetypes of the unconscious”. But, really, it would be the superconscious of the mind of the God, or the mind of the One, that then creates copies in the form of nature; nature in its “formed” mode: Natura naturata as Spinoza calls it, versus Natura naturans, which is that level of the blueprints of what forms can appear in the ecosystems of the actual world. And then humans, in our culture, create copies of the copies. You know, we create gardens, and we create buildings, we develop architecture that’s in alignment with what we perceive to be the laws of nature, the Fibonacci Series, and all of the other ways that we have understood nature to be coherent and expressive of beauty, and of truth, that we then express in cultural forms. And these are the simulacra of those archetypal blueprints at that Platonic level of mind, forms, and of ideas that are reached by the sages, who then download them and deploy them as cultural artifacts and ideas that can be used in a practical form.
So, that was value—but then when capital, capitalism, came in, value became capital, and it turned into wealth. And wealth is always something that is related to power, to utilitarian purpose, and to egocentric perspective. So, wealth became the new form of value, and wealth pertained to individuals, that they could transfer to their families and descendants if they wanted, but now value was privatized. And in the old cultures there was a commonwealth, but now private property deprives the people of that commonwealth, for the most part, and there is just individual wealth, and a struggle for individual wealth and power.
So, we have over-valorized economic capital, and because we are now in a situation where the economies of most of the world are bankrupt, economic capital is vanishing. The US dollar which is still technically the reserve currency of the world, is fast losing its value.
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Yvonne Peters
28 Sep 2020Yeah, u did a good job with breaking Capital down down down. I like to think of it simply. Capital, like Marx said, is and what makes one a Capitalist is owning the tools of production. And where I see this could go, is truly to “have” or to “be.” “Being” in other words. Capitalists and workers will be come to a stand still so that can be the starting point of “Being.” And a few Conglomerates dont have value without labor. Labor creates all value as Marx said. And I say, and since I was a member of the Socialist Labor Party back in the 70’s (which is Marx’s only true Socialist party), that we need a total revolution in the psyche for there to be any real change on this plane of existence. A society that doesn’t live for profit but fullfillment for all. I said before, true Socialism “implies the advancement of the masses.” By that revolution in the psyche. And yes, like Christ said store up your treasures in heaven. To be in that place where we can say too, “I have meat to eat that ye know not of.” True Self reliance.