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Recession? No, not at all.

Rejuvenation #101

Time for a smile

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There is no Recession - it's just the Dinosaurs Dying

It is a considerable numbers of years now since there has been anything at all resembling something called "The Economy." Economic activity has now become so complex that it is impossible to measure at all and public pronouncements about boom or recession mean nothing; they're just announcements of the dying dinosaur's blood pressure.

It is fascinating to note how the evolution of mankind has paralleled the evolution of the planet. The first signs we see of humanity in the fossil record show of isolated units wandering with no discernable purpose; just so is the very early history of life on land.

Much later, the lizards began to appear and, over time, became steadily bigger and bigger until the dinosaurs came into being.

Now, a dinosaur had one and only one purpose; to get bigger. This meant that their food needs became daily greater until the point was reached at which the energy expended moving their enormous bulk was greater than that which they could gain by moving to a new food supply at which point, they died.

The dinosaurian highest perception is, "Give me Food so that I can get bigger." Nothing higher than this existed for them at all. This is why they had such small brains. This small brain is what they "passed on" to us in the form of the cerebellum (also called the reptilian or hind brain). The cerebellum concerns itself exclusively with the gratification of physical desires (basically, food and sex). The cerebellum has no awareness whatsoever of any higher possibility than selfish, personal, physical gratification.

The next stage in the development of the planet was the mammals which brought to the World the awareness of family, mutual assistance and group purpose. The self-extinction of the dinosaurs whose "greed" led to them becoming too big to be viable created the space in which mammalian awareness could flourish. Here we also see the gathering into herds and flocks for mutual assistance and ease of breeding; just so began the civilisation (or citifying) of mankind.

This is the area into which mankind is now moving and, for this higher purpose, the dinosaurs must make room and so they are dying.

The early tribal and later city societies were, of course, dominated by dinosaur awareness, i.e. I must get bigger. In each tribe, therefore, one had to be bigger than everyone else and consume the best of everything. Then one tribe had to be bigger than all the others and then one state etc., etc.............

As time went one, first religious empires were created and then, as they collapsed, military empires and, finally, commercial empires. Each, in turn, tried to continue their completely selfish growth way past the point of equilibrium, heeled over and died. It is the death throes of the commercial dinosaurs which we are now observing.

A new sense of purpose, of higher awareness has awakened in mankind. No more does dinosaur "how can I use my money/abilities to make more money, i.e. become bigger?" thinking function. This period in mankind's growth is over. Now, the prime functioning motivation is, "How can I use my money/abilities to make a difference, to help others grow, to end misery?" All undertakings, be they commercial or otherwise, based upon this mammalian outlook are in accord with the awakening human awareness and, thus, are likely to succeed.

Since the Second World War we have seen a rapid growth of the third and last dinosaur type - the commercial dinosaur. Those of us who study and keep an eye on such things have been saying for some time that they have passed the viable size and can now only collapse and die. Most banks and many giant corporations have been bankrupt for some years. A few weeks ago, this knowledge became public.

Many of those presently holding the reins of power are still fixed in dinosaur thinking and, so, are unable to resolve the present problem. The commercial dinosaurs are no longer viable and rushing our lives blood to them to help them survive just a few more months is not what mankind now needs. Mammals do NOT need dinosaurs: To the contrary, we need the dinosaurs to go and give room for mammalian consciousness to express itself. Just let the dinosaurs die; they're going to soon anyway and there is nothing that anyone can or even should do to hinder it.

The commercial dinosaurs, in their greed to own and to feed upon everything in sight have shattered the previous economic structure and forced the development of a much more sophisticated, mammalian economy. Present economic activity is in five prime areas:

1)     The commercial dinosaurs

2)     Natural and alternative healing

3)     Self development

4)     Ecological technology

5)     The "black" economy (black, presumably, meaning "in the black", i.e. commercially viable because ill-trained bureaucrats are not invited.)

2 to 5 are going through a massive boom and have been for some years. Growth rates of 40% per year have been seen and, especially 2 & 4 may well show growth rates exceeding 100% in some years.

All in all, less than a fifth of all commercial activity comes under point 1 and this share will rapidly decline in the near future. Using their condition as almost the sole indicator of economic health is, therefore, completely misleading.

Additionally, telling us that the death of the dinosaurs is bad news for all is arrant nonsense for, in truth, it frees each of us from slavery to them and gives us each the room to express our true selves.

The interesting thing will be when this mammalian phase is over and we, somehow, must surpass ourselves! I think I'll re-incarnate to look at that.

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