About the World Real Crisis

[Juliana]

I just came across a video that many of you have probably seen but I wanted to share it anyway, with a short "thinking aloud" reflection. The Canadian girl, Severn Suzuki, spoke at UN Earth Summit in 1992, almost 20 years ago. In her discourse she points out very clearly that our main problem is egoism, and I add that though hard, that's actually the only lesson for us humans to learn.

There is great alarm in USA and the rest of the world because of USA's economic crisis, but the real crisis has been installed in the world many years ago. As we breath there are people dying in several countries, for the most varied reasons: war, hunger, extortion, abuse, and they have been dying for a long time, but the media is not interested in showing that. For some reason, it doesn't sell very well...

I think that as human beings, trying to move towards the perception and experience of truth, we have the responsibility of looking at facts more carefully and objectively, being suspicious of any kind of brain washing propaganda. USA is going through an economic crisis that my country (and probably every country) has faced several times, but not being able to sustain certain standard of life is not really a crisis. There is a much bigger problem underneath the surface, and we shouldn't get sidetracked.

So, what can we do about it?

I'd like to share with you a comment I received this morning from Dan Noga, which I think is priceless:

"Many of the world's largest problems are simply the cumulative effect of the personal decisions of billions of people. We look to the government, for example, to force a change in environmental policy, while some of us are unwilling to make voluntary changes in our own lives. In reality, no governmental force is truly necessary to bring about these changes. Corporations are vast and tough to contend with, but we forget that they, too, are subject to the will of the people. They are made of people. They depend on our energy (in the form of money from outside or the effort of people inside) to survive and we are the ones who give it to them. The problem is, in order to effect dramatic change at the large scale, many if not most of us would need to adjust our own lifestyles just as dramatically, but our egos cling to the conditions and lifestyles we are used to. Our egos refuse to budge, and to the ego, many of our conveniences appear "necessary" when they truly aren't. This is one of the challenges for humanity to face today. Transforming the world means transforming ourselves."

For those of you who haven't seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire I strongly recommend it.

[Charles Del Campo]

Wow, im highly impressed with your esoteric declarations in your blog. I see you are deeply dedicated to humanistic causes. I agree with your philosophical and theosophical discussion about the need for higher consciousness, yet science has developed while out spirit has decayed.

As Helena Roerich declared in her Books volume I & II, its all contingent with the evolutionary progress of humanity that we will be able to enter the next manvantara cycle.

Che"..si algun dia estas por Miami, te invito a una Parrillada!
FRC Charles Del Campo :.32
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[AngieMom57]

"There is no danger that dauntless courage cannot conquer; there is no trail that spotless purity cannot pass through; there is no difficulty that strong intellect cannot surmount. For those who win onwards there is reward past all telling-the power to bless and save humanity." HPB

[Katinka Hesselink]

BTW: it is not just an American economic crisis. This is about banks all over the world needing government support. The UK housing market is just as bankrupt as the one in the US is. The Dutch housing market is in better shape, but only because there's such a shortage of houses.

But yes: egoism is the main issue. Another issue is people not taking general economic laws seriously any more when many people aren't.

[Katinka Hesselink]

Yeah - isn't that video great?

Here's more about Severn Suzuki (where she's been since, other video's with her etc.)