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from Wikipedia: Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, main character of Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps“I just don’t see how we can overcome greed,” he said pensively, reluctantly. He wanted to believe it was possible, but evidence stacked up to the contrary during his years of attorney work with people running corporations.

He has plenty of company.

Startling (and popular?) as it may have been in the movie, “Wall Street,” to hear Gordon Gecko declare that “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” it’s more interesting to me how often I have heard people with religious affiliations bow to greed’s tight grip over us. No matter that religious institutions around the globe profess God’s power to transform us so that we need not be conformed to this world, when it comes to greed, lots of people doubt that we can create an economy or society that is not shaped by greed.

I believe we can break out of greed’s illusions. It requires moving into a different terrain of consciousness. In the topography of consciousness where our society currently functions, ego and its preferrence for MultiEarth economics and lifestyles prevail. Greed wins out. BUT, when we follow a path of maturing into our fuller spiritual capacities, we move beyond ego-identity, and move into the consciousness of our greater Self. In this identity lodged in a more whole Self, OneEarth economics and lifestyles are preferred. Greed loses out. It’s replaced by the deeper, non-ego joy of being in relationship with all of Creation. There we get that sense of “Ahhh, for this I am born.”

Share your thoughts, please, because the book I’m now writing tells how we get to these greater capacities of consciousness that lie far too dormant in our psyches (souls). Writing about such capacities has to get past the drag of the current greed-spackled economy. Your comments are sure to help overcome the drag.