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Economics

Economics, which is a way we share goods and services to fulfill need, is increasingly becoming a major focus for our soul-based spirituality. Without having basic needs taken care of people do not have the means to express fully who they are. Their focus is on survival rather than on creativity and serving others. Poverty diminishes one’s humanity.

Traditionally economics has been a way of fulfilling the needs of the community. The word ‘economics’ means ‘taking care of the household of the world’. The idea of using economics as a means to fulfill individual desires at the expense of the community is a relatively new and distorted idea of economics. It is based on the notion that economics is for pleasure, rather than for fulfilling need. Personal pleasure puts an emphasis on the individual and creates separative thinking and action. It also supports the idea of controlling, dominating, manipulating, using and abusing, which is clearly evident in modern economic systems.

Robert Sardello shows great concern about the distortion of economics and its link with psychology in his book, Facing The World With Soul. He says that economics has replaced soul as the governing force of the world. He says that there is a direct link between capitalism and modern psychology, both beginning at the same time.

Since traditional psychology is limited to the ego and the individual, with its selfish exclusiveness, so too economics has become a selfish pursuit causing suffering for many through deprivation.

The principle of sharing, which is the foundation for the new economics emerging with the development of soul consciousness, will arise along with the realization that we have a responsibility to care for one another through the way we conduct our business, our economics and all aspects of our social relationships.

Addressing this responsibility, Sardello writes: “The psychic starvation brought about by removing soul from the world produces insatiable greed, for when the world is no longer surrounded with soul a vast emptiness intervenes that must be filled… The reduction of soul to economic psychology has made the world sick… We are provided with an opportunity to enter into a new age of the soul, a new care of the world soul.”

The creating of a soul-based economy will fulfill needs and empower people, enabling them to fulfill their purpose in life, making a contribution to society and the world. This is our responsibility.

Exercises: 1. In what ways do you think we can introduce soul in our economic world? 2. How can you contribute to re-introducing soul into your personal economy and relationships?

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