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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOregon governor Kate Brown signs bill in August 2021. Next to her are climate change activists. Image credit: Oregonlive.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n So \u2013 the human race must face the memes it has created over the millennia, which are stored in what Jung called the collective unconscious. These things don\u2019t magically go away until they are confronted and transcended. We\u2019re seeing that now in the financial realm, as the world\u2019s finances are essentially on the verge of meltdown. The budget situation in the US, in which the debt ceiling must be raised by September 30, is affecting all investors in the world who hold dollar-denominated securities. Exacerbating this is the potential $320 billion collapse of the huge Chinese real-estate company, Evergrande. Moreover, Janet Yellin, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, announced in September that if the US does not raise the debt ceiling again (this is like putting more debt on a massively overdrawn $29 trillion credit card<\/a>), the US will begin defaulting on its debts on October 15th, and the government will have to shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Update: On September 30, Congress passed a Continuing Resolution to increase the debt ceiling until December 3rd, when the problem will have to be faced again. Nothing has been confronted, nothing has been solved, the can has just been kicked down the road.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The world has now reached a financial denouement, which will hopefully be the precursor to a spiritual denouement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A huge battle is now being fought in Congress, as Democrats (who control the entire government) want to \u201cspend\u201d $10 trillion this year \u2013 a $5.2T budget, a $1.2T \u201cCOVID relief\u201d bill (already passed) and a further $3.5T \u201cinfrastructure\u201d bill. (I put \u201cspend\u201d in scare quotes because there is no funding for a good portion of it. The Fed will simply print more money to \u201cfund\u201d the spending).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where will this end? I\u2019m hoping, in finally facing the fact that the world is in a gigantic debt bubble that must collapse. Once it does, the world will have to decide how to properly run its finances. This will, I hope, lead to a more rational financial system. The financial scare will force people to look inward and ask themselves what kind of a world they want to live in. And what kind of leaders they want to elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will force people to look beyond the commonplace; to look past business as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In legends and myths (and human history) it\u2019s always \u201cthe bad guys\u201d who cause problems. \u201cIf only we could get rid of these horrible people our system could work.\u201d Societal collapse is blamed on the fact that there is always, in any human group, a few percentage points of the population who are sociopaths and psychopaths. The rise and fall of civilizations is explained by \u201cthe good guys\u201d building society up, and \u201cthe bad guys\u201d tearing it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is fallacious, I think. Societies on earth rise and fall not because there is an inveterate part of humanity that is inherently evil, but because we haven\u2019t yet devised a rational and sustainable way of organizing our societies. If we did, this \u201cbad guy\u201d portion of society would disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The difficulty lies with the uninspected meme structures within the human collective consciousness, most of which are based in materialist concepts that deny the true nature of the human being. Over the millennia, we have built up self-destructive memes and beliefs that have simply become accepted: It\u2019s perfectly OK to smash others to get ahead, when someone attacks you, you have to attack them back, and on and on. These memes all have one thing in common: human-on-human violence and hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The solution is not in the physical, action plane (let\u2019s start a war or take to the streets or pound someone on social media to redress our grievances). It\u2019s in the mental and spiritual plane. Until humanity accepts its divine origins, and begins to confront the meme structures and the negative energy and activity that comes from them, we\u2019ll continue to see the future reflect the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The human race can no longer afford adolescent beliefs such as materialism and atheism, unless we want to devolve back to complete barbarism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t think that is going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People are fed up with thousands of years of low consciousness and negative energy. That\u2019s why we\u2019re seeing millennia of old karma being resolved. It\u2019s in the news every day; it\u2019s in your face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The human race is on the path to higher consciousness. But first it must confront its dark past. The financial meltdown is just one aspect of this confrontation, but the solution is the broad recognition of mankind\u2019s divine origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve come as far as we can with the old meme and belief structures. What used to be thought of as \u201cpie-in-the-sky,\u201d woo-woo thinking is now a necessity. Spirituality and religion are the most important attributes the human race has at this time. We cannot lose them in a tidal wave of technocracy, statism, and materialism that is sweeping the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The evolution of consciousness is the single most important matter on the planet right now. It is a point of departure to a new world where life is celebrated and people have the freedom to realize their full potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the September issue we talked about going beyond good and evil, and dark and light. 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