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The Spiritual Dimensions of 'OCCUPY WALL STREET'
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Forfatter:  jbji [ 31 okt 2011 03:39 ]
Titel:  The Spiritual Dimensions of 'OCCUPY WALL STREET'
Hi,
Am still here, because I do have
a few things to contribute with.

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Dr. Guldal and Eric Allen Bell (founder of http://www.GlobalOne.TV)
identify how our great many commonalities are often obscured when we focus on our differences.
They use the example of the Occupy Wall Street movement to illustrate how when people
look for the threads that bind as opposed to the words or thoughts that divide, significant actions
can be achieved. As people wake up to what is wrong in the world today,
a current has started buzzing, pulsing; it is creating a shift.
People are increasingly feeling empowered and encouraged to turn inwards and then, with their clarity,
join the collective to address at a foundational level the many struggles plaguing the world
- greed, poverty, hunger, environmental ruin, national hostilities and the underlying grief of the faith
we've lost in our future. It is the power of the collective consciousness amplified that will lead us forward.


The Spiritual Dimensions of Occupy Wall Street
by Eric Allen Bell

See:

http://vimeo.com/31324773

Regards,
Forfatter:  QuaZ [ 31 okt 2011 16:18 ]
Titel:  Re: The Spiritual Dimensions of 'OCCUPY WALL STREET'
Thank you! :-)
Forfatter:  Paul Muad Dib [ 02 nov 2011 15:10 ]
Titel:  Re: The Spiritual Dimensions of 'OCCUPY WALL STREET'
I don't know if you speak danish, so I will try to respond as... englishable as possible.

First: the OW-movement consist of a small group of young radicals. Second: when people use force they are often acting out of frustration or desperation. That is not a sign of spirituality, but of psychological strain.

Also it is a well studied phenomena that people who feel left out or let down seek to religious rituals and form paranormal beliefs. There is a remarkable overlapping between religious people and people who believe in other paranormal phenomena. Some finish psychologists have documented that these beliefs correlate with a certain type of thinking (intuitive, emotional thinking). Most often believers make category errors more often than nonbelievers. In other words: you mix shit up.

I am not saying that OW is at bottom retarded (though I believe it might be), but simply this: it is an act of frustration, not of inner power. Group behaviour is not typically traceable to strong individuals. People join crowds to feel comfort and social bonds, and to forget themselves for a moment. OW is a bunch of teenage treehuggers. They will stir up the waters in EB and newspapers like that for a couple of days more, then they will need more money from their parents to stay out all night, which forces them to 1) go home or 2) get a job. Then everybody will forget them. Those who are not forgotten are the ones that don't talk about the holistic nature of human animals, or about the need for loving trees, but those who raise objections and point towards solutions or alternative routes and explain why and how in a language we (who are not already part of the group of likeminded goons) understand.

Oh, last thing: occupying a workplace (thereby risking to fuck up private peoples lives and the communities affected by them) is not finding threads that bind together. Maybe a 150 kids found some threads (tree hugging and fear of illuminati), but they sure launch frontal assaults without starting the whole talkitalkipart. I dunno their deeper motives or further plan, maybe because they focused on their gimmick too much or maybe because the gimmick is it.
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