THE ETHICS OF OUR TIME

Ethics are the reason behind the law. Ancient laws were made in support of ancient ethics, and we still keep many of them around. But although mankind hasn’t changed in many ways, there have been many, many changes to our world. It used to be taken for granted that one would earn a living as one’s father did. Can you imagine? It was taken for granted that one would marry. It was taken for granted one would marry someone in your shared race, religion and culture. It was taken for granted that you would produce offspring and they would do exactly the same. These things are no longer supportable. In addressing the ethics of our time, we must consult together to determine what is best for us all. And these are issues that WILL be solved, either by reasoning cooperation or by our silence. How will our present sciences and religions help us know what to do? Today, New Age Spiritualism:

NEW AGE SPIRITUALISM

New Age Spiritualism is not really all that new. Since the 1800s, there’s been a new type of paganism, usually based on the oldest type of animism, that is, belief in “pure ethereal spirit…diffused throughout nature…thought to animate all matter.” Helena Petovna Blavatsky, one of the more famous founders of the doctrine of Theosophy (late 1800s CE), held that “All religions are attempts by the “Spiritual Hierarchy” to help humanity in evolving to greater perfection.” Clearly, this has not happened unless perfection can be equated with technology. But this New Age Mysticism may have provided a much-needed relief to those who were no longer comfortable in the bosom of conventional religion. This “new” or substitute religion has a lot more freedom, imagination, and individual input is more respected. That can make it a very pretty trap.

Listen, anyone can take an “inner journey” of the imagination and become queen of the hedgehogs with a crown of diamonds and with the right cues may even be able to find and sustain healing there (sometimes with the right combination of “offerings” and physical, mental or musical routines). But this experience comes strictly from your self and whomever is talking, drumming, etc. NOT from the “spirit realm.” There is no more evidence of a spirit realm than there is of angels. Spiritualist schemes are so vague and have been discredited so often it's amazing that people still buy into them. But maybe it’s the next step after religion, where you at least begin to explore your own mind – there are some amazing things in our minds. Technology now allows us to see almost “into” the mind (without yet having any idea what “mind” is). It show us that whether we see an actual rose or are asked to remember a rose, exactly the same places in the brain light up. So “who” is it that’s deciding one is real and one is remembered? Whoever or whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to be in the brain, but only in the mind.

Lately some spiritualists are preaching about a “Secret” which can make you wealthy beyond your imagination, so long as you can sustain the intention to gain it. But, the only people I see “imagining themselves to wealth” are those who are selling something.* We don’t live in a paradise, and dreaming is not a “super-power.” Here’s how you get wealth:

1) Inherit it
2) Win it
3) Marry it
4) Steal it
5) Work really hard for a really long time
6) Save more, no unnecessary spending – or fun
*7) Find something you can get cheap and sell high

That’s the Secret.

Bottom line; it's okay to put some thought into your day, but your intentions won't change the laws of physics or the balance of the economy.