Wealth

I have been increasingly focused on the questions of ‘what is wealth? How can it be created? this week. I have realized that I cannot wait any longer, and that I must take urgent responsibility for what I want to do. What I desire doesn't exist yet, and I have to create it. I don't know how I will do it, but I can try. The goal is to create value, to create ‘good works', to enrich the lives of others. I feel that I will only realize my highest potential as a human being once I am creating original value in society.

I just finished reading ‘The origin of wealth' by Eric Beinhocker. Some key points that stuck for me are

• Wealth causes something to move from high to low entropy. That means that wealth creation results in an increase of order.
• Wealth creation follows an evolutionary pattern of unfolding. New wealth strategies emerge through differentiation, amplification, and then replication.
• Ways of generating wealth emerge for a while, continue then break down through periods of change.
• Wealth is the creation of valuable information (in the mind layer).

I had some other perspectives on wealth.

• Adding value enables greater freedom and more efficient use of energy.
• Giving people more choice gives them greater degrees of freedom.
• Value enables people to ‘unlock' energy within themselves.

Perhaps the greatest wealth is then the greatest freedom, which is enlightenment. When you realize your true self, then you are liberated, free and without restriction. Everything appears as being ok, ie there is no sense of felt resistance to what is going on. There is continually that experience of freedom, openness and spaciousness, which is what people ultimately want.

• Even if I was tremendously wealthy, then I would be limited by the body, by old age, by movement, by health, by my environment. I would never really be free, and if I got caught up in my limitations and perceived them as preventing me from experiencing a better life, then I would feel confined and frustrated. There would be little I could do about these conditions.
• However, when I relax my grip on conditions and boundaries and return to my identity with my true self, then I experience spaciousness, ease and lightness, which is really what I want from wealth in the end. I want the ease to be unrestricted.
• Wealth creation then has two major approaches. First, liberation of human energy through making use of other energetic sources, such as eating pre-packaged food and driving a car. This enables greater degrees of freedom in the world of form. Second, ultimate liberation of energy which is the freedom of the self, a return to the pure potentiality of the true Self.
• Technologies which provide liberation of the self are a way of creating value, e.g. Big Mind, meditation, Holosync, Shadow work, F.I.T, Integral Theory
• Maybe I can amplify (use) these modules.

What would a subtle energy economy look like? An industrial economy creates wealth through machines. An agricultural economy creates wealth through the production of food. An information economy creates wealth through useful information that lets people do different things. A subtle energy economy would create wealth through bringing subtle energies into the world? Releasing energy though subtle energy?

• I am trying to understand this process. It seems that kundalini energy is not released; rather, the chakras open up and energy streams into the body, attempting to circulate through it and around it. Spirit is the source, the beginning. What would it mean to increasingly tap into that source and use that energy and power.