Sunday, December 11, 2011

Omnius Manifesto mischaracterizes money

In his essay, Energy-backed Currency, Eisen gets money wrong right from the top:

The problem with money is that it either has to have intrinsic value in itself, like gold, or it has to be backed by or exchangeable for something that has intrinsic value. The abandonment of this principle, and the worldwide move to fiat currency, money freely printed and backed only by the soundness of the country or bank that issued it, has been brought the world’s economies to the verge of collapse in short order.

First, the earliest money systems were a means of accounting for value, not currencies like gold and silver that act as a store of value. There is no value without human beings. In the natural world, animals and other living things do not use a “circulating medium” (as Jefferson called money) to get what they need. Societies based on money as a means of accounting for value last much longer than societies based on money as a store of value, because commodities can always be cornered and manipulated.

When Eisen says we need “sound money,” he reveals a predisposition for the bankers, who currently control the system. “Sound money” has always been a bankers code phrase for the FAUX fiat money creation process in which the paper currency is never backed by more than 10% of its outstanding value in gold. Ron Paul uses this term as well. Who do you think controls most of the gold on the planet? The same small group of people that control the central banks and once-sovereign currencies. Replacing our current charade with this charade would change nothing.

The original 13 colonies in America had their own banks and printed their own money. When Benjamin Franklin went to London, he was horrified to see beggars everywhere and debtors prisons. When asked how they dealt with poverty in America, Franklin replied there wasn’t any. “How could this be?” he was asked. He explained that the colonies printed their own money (in a certain proportion to the ever-increasing value created by human labor). The British bankers then ordered Parliament to prohibit this practice and forced the colonies to trade in British gold and silver coins, which were scarce, of course. This created a depression in the colonies and is the main impetus behind the Revolutionary War.

Fiat currency doesn’t work when private banks control it and charge once-sovereign nations interest to use it.

Evolution means putting people at the center of the system, not commodities. All the spiritual masters teach this. Moses drew a line in the sand, worshipers of the Golden Calf on one side, worshipers of G-d on the other; Jesus said, “You cannot worship G-d and mammon.”

Putting people at the center means basing value on labor. Capitalism put capital at the center. That is why human needs and ecology take a back seat to profit.

What will it be?

Friday, December 9, 2011

Omnius Manifesto misses the mark

Here's a simple, but by no means complete, critique of the Omnius Manifesto, based on a single statement contained in the fourth paragraph of the introduction to that document:

"We can try to change human consciousness, but the truth is we are not going to succeed very well if we neglect to change the system that forms it."

Response: As shown in Solomon's Proof, everything in the universe comes from light (quanta), which itself is an iteration of what physicists call the Singularity.

Human consciousness is the result of the evolution of light into highly complex iterations of itself. While human consciousness is affected by its environment, it is, at its root, a product of the Singularity.

The Singularity is the omnipresent state (single dimension) in which everything is the very same thing (and which contains the potential for all phenomena). The only consciousness in this state is unity (being).

As Solomon's Proof shows, the next step in human development is conscious spiritual evolution. Whatever practice one uses to improve their consciousness, the fundamental basis is the state of unity, or pure being.

Singularity, or Supreme Being, is the source of all things. If we want the environment in which we live to change, this must begin with a change in consciousness.

Light consciousness in human beings (and all vertabrates) begins with the heart, the first organ to form and the center from which life is maintained (see previous post). The significance of the heart being the manifestation of light in human beings is that, just as all spiritual masters have taught, Love is the key to our well being.

Consider what the popular phrase, "Think globally, act locally," metaphorically implies. Transformation begins within us, in our hearts (the brain develops from the heart); or, as Solomon's proverb (23:7) puts it, "... as a man is in his heart, so shall he be ..." The Beatles said the same thing: "You tell me it's the institution. Well, you know. You better free your mind instead."

So, change begins with consciousness and consciousness changes the institutions. This is consistent with the message of Occupy Wall Street, which stresses decentralization. Changing institutions and relying on these inanimate objects to change people is backwards.

To be sure, we are not denying that there is a dialectic between consciousness and institutions, but in the new world in the making, people need to be valued above things (institutions, money, etc.). By definition, capitalism puts capital above all things. That's why environmental degredation, war, and poverty are justified by economic excuses.

What we envision is a world where human and spiritual values determine the nature of institutions. This begins with enlightened human beings.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Thrive, the film: A review

There is a lot to like in the Thrive movie. Foster Gamble had the time and money to follow his interests and he put together a compelling set of facts that largely define our existence in this universe and on this planet. However, in his conclusion, where he lists what is to be done, we see that a gap in his understanding of the torus leads to an incomplete vision of human potential.

Basically it boils down to this: early on, when Gamble is giving examples of how the behavior of the torus is manifested throughout the universe, he never mentions the heart.

The reason for this seems to be that Gamble came to the torus through his study of the sacred (two and three dimensional) geometry that was left to us by ancient civilizations, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial. This seems to limit his understanding of the torus as a four-dimensional (topological) phenomenon.

Instead, www.solomonsproof.com/ conceives the torus as describing the behavior of quanta, which reveals a number of factors that are not addressed in Gamble’s torus.

For example, consider that light has the properties of a particle and a wave at, apparently, the same time. In Gamble's and his subject matter expert’s (Nassim Haramein of the Resonance Project) steady-state model, the torus appears to be a constantly regenerating wave. In order to behave as wave and a particle, Haramein’s model must be altered to expand and contract, as well as turn inside out, to wit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKKzfkj76c

Once these adjustments are made, the torus once again meets its topological requirements as both a sphere and a doughnut, not just a doughnut as in Haramein’s model.

This not only explains how light (quanta) is both a wave and particle, but it gives us a model that reveals how, as the complexity of matter develops through the compounding of light (evolution), the heart is a perfect representation of light.

The heart, of course, is the first organ in vertebrates (the brain develops from the heart) and the body develops around the heart in a toroidal fashion. So, the heart and circulatory system as a torus (see illustration below) turns out to be the central message: it tells us that light (quanta) expresses itself in us through the heart. As http://www.solomonsproof.com/ shows, conscious spiritual evolution is heart-centered and leads to sharing--just as all the spiritual masters have always taught.



Blood circulation from the human heart as a Quantum-Torus.The heart is the first functional organ in a vertebrate embryo, thus signifying that Love is the basis for our existence.


But Gamble never mentions sharing. Instead, after an excellent analysis of how private control over the money creation process has led to a multitude of problems, he ends up proposing an economic and political program that could just as well have come from Ron Paul: End the Fed; create “sound money”; and let the principle of non-violation of persons and property be our guide to individual liberty!!!

As you may know, there are a couple of very different groups that agree on ending the Fed, including the American Monetary Institute (AMI), which heavily influenced Dennis Kucinich’s bill (the NEED Act), Ron Paul, who believes in “sound money” (currency supposedly backed by gold), and the Public Banking Institute, which is critical of both AMI’s 100% reserve requirements on bank lending (which would cripple economic expansion as value increases) and on Paul’s update of the bankers’ scam of pegging a currency to a commodity (gold) on which they have cornered the market.

Gamble mentions alternate currencies and moving money to community banks and credit unions (good), but never touches on public banking, which means he is proposing the continued use of interest as a means of creating new, debt-based money, instead of credit-based money.

Here we are on the verge of the next evolutionary step in human development and Gamble’s proposal never addresses the unsustainable effects of charging compound interest on money (which should be a public utility, just like power). Yet previously, he suggests that we should have "free energy," based on prototypes of devices that tap into the principles of the torus. If power should be virtually free, except for maintenance (including capital improvements), then why should we be using interest to charge for money?

As all the spiritual masters have taught, interest is a crime against humanity. Why? Because value is created by human beings, not by abstractions and inanimate objects! Without human beings, natural resources are used according to instinctive needs, and rarely are inter-being transactions accounted for by using objects that are independent of the resources involved. In layman’s terms, this means that plants and animals do not generally use money or other objects as a “circulating medium” to trade with others.

How do human beings create value? Through their labor! If an hour of labor is worth $10 and you and I work 8 hours, then we each have created $80 of value. If you loan me $10 received in this manner and charge me interest, you are deflating the value of our labor and inflating the value of this abstraction, money, that we have agreed to use as a means of accounting for our labor. In that instant, you put money above people. This is the nature of capitalism—capital is at the center of the system, that is, money (and profit) is valued above people and the environment. This is exactly what spiritual texts mean by “worshiping false gods.”

Gamble justifies a system based on these false gods by arguing that individual rights supersede all other rights, because bad governments have used "group rights" to enslave people. Hmmm. Bad governments have also used the term "liberty" or "individual rights" to do the same. As Huey Long once said, “Of course we will have fascism in America, but we will call it democracy!”

Ultimately, the only protection we have against our shadows, our lower selves, is to evolve. Unfortunately, the economic solutions that Gamble proposes are more about protecting his investments than protecting anyone’s rights. He extols his solution as containing the best of both liberal and conservative practices, as if these inside-the-box philosophies, both of which are now captives of the banking cartel, have any relevance to a more evolved universe built upon the lessons derived from the quantum-torus, including its heart-centered manifestation within us.

It’s disappointing to see someone come all this way and not get the key piece.