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Findorn, CO2 Emissions & the Banks
Errol Weiner, May 2011
Estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) show that last year saw a record ‘fastest-ever-rise’ INCREASE in CO2, despite the worst recession in 80 years and government policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gases. Most of these increases came from emerging economies like China, but there is evidence that the ‘western’ world ‘exported’ billions of tonnes of emissions to poorer countries.
Another report (The UK ‘Guardian’) revealed that the banks have returned to their pre-2008 greed-ridden policies, including conning the public with fancy adverts about their ‘new’ (= really old) policies. The ‘super-rich and ‘rich’ sector of society has in fact lost the least amount of money since the 2008 economic meltdown (about 4% losses compared to huge losses in all other sectors).
So what does this say?
That attempts to change the larger ‘outer’ world (re CO2 gases, global warming, climate change, etc) are largely futile?
China is building a new coal-fired station every week and hundreds of new airports (The airline industry is back on its feet and purchasing hundreds of new planes).
The emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, South Africa (and all of Africa and S America) are not going to ‘live simply and ecologically’ when the numerous desires of their people are only now starting to grow and grow.
Can we in the ‘west’ tell these people that they have no right to purchase all the material goodies of life that we have purchased over the years? And all these goodies (cars, computers, cell phones, houses, etc, etc, etc) require electricity and all manner of materials and so…
And the banking and finance industry controls all the above and knows this, so it is once again resorting to its dangerous greed-ridden money-making policies that created the 2008 economic meltdown.
And why not! It knows that if it goes down again Governments will bale it out because Governments have to because without the banks this financial-material system could not survive, and people would be out of work, and so it goes.
All attempts to change this system have failed, and as it continues to grow and expand so too will CO2 gases and so too will global warming and climate change…And this means that the dreaded 2% increase in global warming cannot really be prevented, and so…
In the beginning and end result the major problem with the human race (and thus too individuals, couples, families, society) is the wholesale ‘imbalance’ between the inner/spiritual and outer/material living process, between the development of ‘consciousness’ (inner life) and the creation of forms (outer life).
The outer life of ‘forms’ has run far away from the inner life of ‘consciousness’ (meditation, silence, knowledge, understanding, spiritual-psychological education, life purpose and meaning, the evolution of consciousness) and this is the real disaster.
The failed attempts to control CO2 (despite all the talk, articles, conferences, billions of $/£/E’s, etc, etc) and the banks is sure evidence that ‘outer’ changes are not the answer to the real fundamental problem facing humanity (It is not a ‘world’ problem. The ‘world’ is fine – a few million years to the ‘earth’ is but a blink of an eye. It is a ‘human’ problem).
And in Findhorn, a Centre established for the very purpose of creating this ‘balance’, the very same mistake has been made, with forms (especially houses and the excess comfort zone security of ‘houses’) taking far grater precedence over the ‘development and expansion of consciousness’.
Why did this occur? Because Findhorn was supposed to develop and expand from ‘within > out’ and thus be a true ‘pioneering’ Planetary Light Centre, but it lost this ‘inner golden cord’ and allowed the ‘outer’ world to influence its understanding, development and evolution.
Why did this occur? Because to evolve from ‘within>out’ it is necessary to be (spiritually) ‘inwardly secure’. The original founders of Findhorn were spiritual initiates and thus ‘inwardly secure’ (and visa versa), but over the years this type of human consciousness became more and more ‘watered down’. Findhorn, more and more, was run by ‘inwardly insecure’ people, who thus looked ‘outside’ themselves (to the ‘outer’ world) for answers. And they got them, but this only increased and covered up (unconsciously) the lack of inner spiritual development and thus too increased the ‘inner insecurity’.
And, as a natural result, forms became more and more important than the expansion and development of consciousness, and thus the imbalance increased.
In fact Findhorn put more and more time and energy into ecological concerns and less and less into the expansion and deepening of consciousness, and ‘building eco-houses’ became far more significant than ‘building consciousness’ and thus too ‘inner security’.
The fact that CO2 emissions have increased ‘to the greatest degree’ in 2010 is sure evidence (literal and symbolical) that attempts to change the ‘outer’ world and the ‘outer’ climate is not the real answer to the real problem.
It is the ‘inner’ world and climate that has to be changed, and this is the major task of humans and the major purpose of human evolution.
This requires a great deal of ongoing daily ‘inner’ creative work, and it is this creative work (the Great Work) that is sadly and tragically missing in modern times. China, India, Brazil, S Africa and most of the world are only now becoming involved in the expansive materialism of the western world, and this is not going to stop.
The human lower ego still controls the vast majority of humanity, and desire is the major trait of the ego.
- ‘Desire brings suffering’ (the Buddha) but the lower ego loves to suffer (even though it constantly complains about this dis-eased condition) and so it will not give up its desires.
- FEAR breeds desire, but how many humans are prepared to really face their deep-seated fears and thus too insecurities?
Even the vast majority of so-called ‘new age’ people are not prepared to face their fears and insecurities. If they did they would choose to not get trapped in excess comfort zone ‘form’ living and concentrate upon expanding their inner consciousness.
Disaster from Latin means ‘to be separated from the Stars’ and we all should know what the ‘Stars’ symbolise.
To avoid disaster we have to ‘re-connect with the Stars’ and we all should know what that means.
How can one truly and authentically ‘live simply and ecologically’ if one is inwardly insecure? Fear and insecurity will constantly invade ones consciousness. Only ongoing ‘inner work’ can counteract this imbalance. And when one is about to ‘pass on’ (to higher more elevated worlds) what does one take with one but ‘Consciousness’.
One cannot take ones eco-house with one.
Errol Weiner, May 2011
