<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Kerry<div><br></div><div>speaking as someone who frequently feels a sense of 'pushing water up a mountain with a fork', one answer to your passionately posed question is actually full of irony...</div><div><br></div><div>... for thousands of years, humanity has been self-organising into tribes in search of protection from the uncertainty of life, power and influence and indeed their very survival. Those tribes are today labelled bankers, lawyers, politicians, experts.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite all the distain for consumerism and the disgust at endless bad behaviour of some in those tribes, the numbers of young people who see being a banker, lawyer or any other influential expert, as a career path continues unabated. Why? Of course I don't know exactly why, but I have a sense that, many more feel that security for self is a priority over better quality for all and they may even feel bad about that, they may spend a good proportion of their lives doing something they hate deep down, but they go that way anyway and may even stay there for a long time.</div><div><br></div><div>Open Space is a wonderful way of inviting those in who are ready to change in their own time wherever they are in their life. And we all add to the momentum which will help the wake-up call to go 'viral'.</div><div><br></div><div>warmest good wishes</div><div>Amanda</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 20 Apr 2013, at 10:51, Kerry Napuk wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Listers<br><br>Thanks Raffi for introducing SACRED ECONOMICS.<br><br>If we can find a way
to get rid of money by reinventing the way we exist, the banksters will
disappear along with all the greedy and selfish people who have
accumulated the world's riches on the backs of others through the
shibboleth of globalisation. There is something disastrously wrong when
the three richest people have more wealth than the poorest 48 countries
in the world. How did 0.5% of the population amass 38% of the world's
wealth when 68% of the population have only 4.2%? <br>
<br>How can capitalism, which depends on consumption economics to create
more and more growth, continue when the earth's resources are finite
and the environment is ravaged to produce yet more wealth for the few.
In our hearts we know the old system is bankrupt and corrupt, so
something must change. Eisenstein's book is one attempt to look at what
the transition might involve.<br>
<br>For some years I have believed there is another way we can move away
from production and consumption of quantity by focusing on quality,
making and doing things that last and allow people to feel good without
using more and more precious resources.<br>
<br>Do you have any thoughts?<br><br>More specifically, does Open Space have a role to play here? How do we get from Bruce opening space from his park bench in deep winter to transforming the world?<br><br>Peace<br><br>
Kerry<br>Edinburgh<br><br>PS For more conversation with Charles Eisenstein, ust
click on the 12 minute film which will take you to YOU TUBE. The other
two films are further conversations with Eisenstein.<br><a dir="ltr" title="Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs&playnext=1&list=PL5D65912B81EB9D7B&feature=results_main" target="_blank">Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein</a>
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<span>by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/777Bluewhale" dir="ltr" target="_blank">777Bluewhale</a></span>
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</div><div><ul><li><div><span>•</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs&playnext=1&list=PL5D65912B81EB9D7B" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr">Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film</span></a></div>
<span>(12:09)</span></li><li><div><span>•</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKLXx6ZCcw&playnext=1&list=PL5D65912B81EB9D7B" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr">Sacred Economics - Charles Eisenstein Part 2</span></a></div>
<span>(9:22)</span></li><li><div><span>•</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4LsktuiaOU&playnext=1&list=PL5D65912B81EB9D7B" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr">Sacred Economics - Charles Eisenstein Part 1</span></a></div>
<span>(10:35)</span></li></ul></div><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D65912B81EB9D7B" target="_blank">view full playlist (3 videos)</a></p><br>
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