While adjusting myself towards having a more balanced view of the Event, I have been investigating and investing in cryptocurrency. Some cryptos bridge between the old Fiat money system, and a new economy. Certain cryptocurrency coins have been created from a motive to benefit the Whole, and that feels to me a step aligned with my vision for earth and humanity. Tom Baldwin (in the 4400 series) said, 'If you want to start a new world, first you have to destroy the old one, and disrupting the economy is a pretty good way to start.' A commenter wrote, 'What we are experiencing now is a controlled demolition of the economy.' Use my referral link to sign up for Crypto.com and we both receive benefit (50 USD added to both of our Crypto dot com wallets.) With their debit card, and other well-designed features, Crypto dot com makes cryptocurrency affordable, accessible to the beginner, and flexible as a bridge to the old money system ~ for a smoother transition. In the event you reach the site without my link, you can still plug in the referral code for our mutual benefit: djrhwfb35w . Please contact me with questions. I balance my views on the economy with the Inner Flame meditation, which returns my focus to the Eternal Spirit. Nina, Thank you! We share similar feelings. May I reprint your post on the Whole Human site? ~ Gary Nina Pavlovic So i hear economy is crashing? Nothing will ever be the same again? Good, it was about time. My reality, my dreams my visions, are completely non-materialistic. Meaning, even though i am living in the now and am a part of this system that is how it is, because it is shaped by our indoctrination & beliefs systems of false gods and idols.... I am holding no attachments to the material world no matter what happens. Because, no matter how advanced technologically we think we are and become even more so in the future... be careful you do not lose your precious days turning into a degenerating machine for making money. For the machines that end up thinking instead of you. There is nothing in our material world that equals the freedom once you let go of the need to pile up the things that end up owning you. Constantly exposing yourself to the mass media and the sickening culture of greed & envy will ultimately shape your reality in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your soul purpose and life calling. None of this makes sense in a spiritually aware life. ✨🕉 Posted by Alexis Waldorf These are rough times. Then again, times are always rough for someone. If not for us, then for someone else. And according to the Stoics, that means they’re rough for everyone. What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee, Marcus Aurelius wrote. Meaning: we’re all in this together. Our fates are all tied up with one another. This has always been true, but never more so in our lifetimes than during this pandemic. Worldwide quarantines, hyper-contagiousness, disease vectors on every content—all of this together has made that fact undeniable and relevant beyond simply surviving the virus. Homelessness isn’t just an unpleasant blight on an otherwise beautiful city, for example; it’s a roiling public health crisis. Income inequality isn’t just an economic debate; in a time when the safety of the many depends on the ability of people to stay at home as much as possible, suddenly it too is a public health crisis. A Stoic can’t just throw up their hands at these intractable, difficult issues. We can’t just say, “Oh the government has tried and failed, smart people have tried and failed, it must be impossible to solve.“ No, a Stoic needs to respond like Alan Graham did in Austin, Texas. When Alan saw the rising homelessness issue in his city, he didn’t despair. He started helping people, delivering meals through Mobile Loaves and Fishes. But he wasn’t content to just service the problem. He wanted to solve it. So he created Community First! Village, “a 51-acre master planned development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.” Within the Village, there is also Community Works, which provides micro-enterprise opportunities to previously homeless people so they can make a living, learn new skills, and build lasting relationships. It isn’t just about a roof over someone’s head; it’s about fostering a community. He’s personally taken hundreds of people off the streets—and he did it with more than just charity. He did it the Stoic way: By empowering them to do it for themselves. We’re all in this together. Each of us has agency in this life, even through adversity, even when bad times or tough problems have befallen us. Our job as citizens and as leaders is to seize our own agency, and help others realize their own. In this, we help them and ourselves. We help the hive by helping the individual; and by helping the hive we protect ourselves and the people we care most about. One person can change history. One person can make a difference, for better and for worse. Is this pandemic itself not proof of that? An example of the self-fulfilling prophecy of small thinking, defeatism, and cowardice by leaders across the planet? For thousands of years, from Zeno and Cleanthes (who were quite poor) to Marcus Aurelius and Seneca (who held great power) the Stoics have fought against the tendency to think small and to give into hopelessness. They have stood up when things broke down. They have tried to do their best to help, to make the world a more just place and to ease suffering where they saw it. Each of us has to do what we can, for ourselves and for our community. That’s not just our job, it’s in our own self-interest. By Ryan Holiday. I subscribe to his daily newsletter that I read every morning before starting my day.
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