Is There A Connection Between Spirituality And A Global Financial Meltdown?

Money and God: are they connected?

I was sitting at home watching one of the TV news magazine shows and they were talking about the global economic meltdown that had occurred over the previous few years.

They detailed how we literally were days away from a complete collapse in which consumers would be unable to withdraw money from their banks; how there wouldn’t be funds for businesses to make payroll; how all financial systems worldwide would screech to a halt.

I’m watching this, thinking to myself, how the hell did this happen?  Whose fault was it?  Was this the work of George Bush?  Does fault lay back further, for example, Bill Clinton?  George Bush, Sr.?  Or even Ronald Reagan?

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So I began, in earnest, to research the causes of the meltdown.  And the more I peeled back a layer, the further back it took me.  And then I discovered something even more fascinating.  The causes of the entire global economic meltdown could be explained, and easily understood, by anyone who has studied Kabbalah.

I know…it sounds crazy.  Is that really possible?  What is Kabbalah anyway?  In one sentence, Kabbalah are the non-physical laws of the universe. The Kabbalistic laws that I will discuss in relation to the global economic meltdown are:

1) the desire to receive for the self alone

2) planting seeds and the disconnect caused by time, space and motion

3) correction

4) restriction

5) curtains

6) bread of shame

7) and the reality of the 1% versus the 99%.

In order to understand current events, we need to focus on past events and in this particular case, the history of Kabbalistic principles.

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We are not born with a clean slate

Before we begin with 52,000 years of world economic history, I want to discuss

the first Kabbalistic principle, the desire to receive for the self alone. 

Kabbalah teaches us that we are not born tabula rosa -- with a clean slate. Rather, we are born with a “tape recording” of sorts -- remnants from previous lives.

One of those remnants is the desire to receive.

 

Kabbalah, by the way, literally means 

"to receive." 

We are hardwired with the desire to receive, it is part of our DNA. 

 

 

Touch an infant's cheek and they will turn towards the touch with their mouth open, to receive food. It's called the root reflex.

One of the ways we test to see if a newborn is "normal" is called the Palmar Grasp Reflex. Touch the baby's palm and it grasps your finger.

 

There is nothing wrong with the desire to receive. 

In fact, Kabbalah teaches that receiving is a necessary component of sharing.  

If you have a problem receiving, odds are you have a problem giving. 

BUT when the desire to receive is for the self alone, with no intention of sharing, Kabbalah teaches that chaos is inevitable.  


Keep the concept of "the desire to receive for the self alone" in your mind, as we take our journey through the economic history of the world.

BARTER NETWORKS

Now, let’s begin at roughly 50,000 BC where the first economic activity is evident with barter networks -- 

 
I trade you this saber skin for that trinket of sea shells. 

However, it’s not 
until 10,000 BC 
when we see the first truly significant event in economic history,the domestication of plants and animals. For the first time in human history, people were tied to land. Economies with tradable goods began to develop.


Another significant development during this Neolithic Revolution was one of the
most extreme examples of the desire to receive for the self alone-- slavery. 

Prior to this period of history, specifically with hunter/gatherer cultures, there was no
economic advantage to "owning" another person. 


While the concept of slavery is repugnant to most human beings today (I say "most" because it is estimated that 30 million people worldwide are still enslaved today), the fact is that slavery was
commonplace among many societies around the globe throughout history.

MERCHANT CAPITALISM

Around 2,000 BC we see the earliest recorded activity of long distance merchant capitalism, conducted by the Assyrians in Mesopotamia (modern day Northern Iraq). 

The Assyrians had an early and crude form of capitalism whereby merchants would buy goods and resell them for a profit. This merchant capitalism greatly expanded during the Roman Empire and the medieval Islamic world during
the 9th Century and more so during the 12th Century in Medieval Europe.
 

Another early form of capitalism was money lending. 

Money lending was almost exclusively between private individuals, and mostly wealthy individuals.  
Very simply, one person would loan money to another person, and charge interest. 

In Ancient Israel, it was against the laws of Moses to charge interest to other Jews, but it was okay to charge interest to “strangers.”

  

At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which was a council of Christian bishops convened by the Emperor Constantine, Canon 17 was enacted.

Prior to Canon 17, Canon law forbade clergyman from engaging in usury-- defined at that time as charging interest of any kind. 

However, Canon 17 allowed Clergy to charge 1% of interest per month or 12.7% per year. This law was later extended to the laity. 

Subsequently, Popes abolished all secular laws allowing usury, and if you accepted any interest you could not receive sacrament or a Christian burial. It was deemed “detestable to God and man to charge interest. Similarly, interest is also forbidden by the Quran under Islam.