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Financial health and Natural Law

March 27, 2009

This website is about natural health. However today I want to talk a bit about financial health.

I am writing this page to warn you about an impending economic collapse which I believe is about to take place in the United States, so that you may prepare for it, and thus "avoid the danger which has not yet come." - "Heyam Dukham Anagatam."

I am not an economics "expert" anymore than I am a health "expert". My only qualification for writing these web pages is my ability to discern whose opinion I should pay attention to, and then synthesize those opinions. I am not as smart as a lot of people on the internet, but I am smart enough to know who to listen to.

It is my goal that by the time you have finished reading this page, you will have determined to start preparing yourself for the economic tsunami which is to come to the U.S. and you will have been given some useful information on how to start preparing. The key to surviving the coming economic collapse in the U.S. will be to become self-sufficient.

First I will summarize in the next few paragraphs what I believe is going to happen, then I will go into greater depth about how and why I believe it will happen.

Let's lighten things up a bit.

After spending a lot of time over the past several months reading on the state of the U.S. and world economy, one thing has become painfully obvious to me: we adults have made a giant mess of our world economy, our world environment, and our planet has a whole.

I believe one major reason for the mess that we're in is that THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE. Perhaps we should let CHILDREN run this place, because children seem to be a lot closer to Nature than we adults are.

Something profoundly devious happens to a human being between the time he or she is born, and the time he or she ends up spending the better part of the day greasing up the cogs of an out-of-control economic machine as a blood-sucking Wall Street derivatives lawyer.

Too much stress accumulates in the nervous system, perhaps?

I am tired of reading about the mess that we have made of this world.

I want to be in the presence of... GREATNESS.

You know what my favorite moments in life are?

When a group of grown-ups is sitting around the dining room table, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a child innocently blurts out A TRUTH WHICH EVERYONE IN THE ROOM IS AWARE OF, BUT REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE OPENLY.

A child popping the adults' bullshit bubble. That gets my blood flowing.

If you believe every economic statistic that the government puts out, if you believe every word you hear coming out of "experts" on cable television, I'm afraid you're in for some rough times and a rude awakening some day.

The components which are included in the indexes which measure inflation, for example, as reported every month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are modified from time to time, for one reason or another. Think about it: the more the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation index goes up, the more costly it is for the government to fulfill its social security obligations, which are adjusted for inflation. It would therefore seem that there is an incentive for those inflation numbers to be understated, thus keeping the social security benefits and numerous other contractual obligations lower than they might otherwise be.

Presidential elections are won and lost based on perceived growth in the nation's Gross Domestic Product. Most people do not know, however, that for the calculation of the GDP, the inflation rate must be stripped out. Therefore as an example, an announced 4% GDP growth may be trumpeted as an economic success story. However strip out 5% inflation out of a GDP number rather than say, a reported 1.25% inflation rate, and positive growth becomes sluggish to zero growth.

Toxic diet, toxic loans, toxic media, toxic everything

Right now, the media is talking a lot about how the U.S. government is taking steps to "remove toxic loans from the banks' books". I find it interesting that the media uses the word "toxic" when describing a good chunk of the balance sheets of U.S. financial institutions, because here on healingdaily.com we talk a lot about "detoxification". Cleansing. Removing what is unnatural and not supposed to be there to begin with.

Could it be that, here in America, we have been doing the same thing both to our bodies and to our financial system? Namely, loading both our bodies and financial system up with crap over all those years?

Could it be that we Americans have been, for years, violating the natural laws of ECONOMICS with as much vigor as we have been violating the natural laws of HEALTH? Could it be that trying to fuel economic growth using unsustainable levels of debt creation and ever-expanding consumption fueled by more and more borrowing and debt, is now resulting in the giant house of cards collapsing?

America's addiction to debt

The orgy of debt and borrowing is coming to an end, and now everybody's hungover and craving their fix.

Back when I used to drink, I would go through periods when I would drink between 1 and 2 pints of pure rum on a daily basis. I know what addiction is about.

Soon, just like the drug pusher who eventually refuses to sell on credit any more drugs to a junkie who clearly has no money left to feed his addiction, China - which holds over $1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries and which has been subsidizing America's addiction to oil and consumerism, will one day refuse to buy any more of our government securities, will refuse to lend us any more money. On that day, America will realize that it is, for all intent and purposes, bankrupt.

What we are witnessing right now is the end of the American Empire. Oh, America will go on, of course, but it will be a different America. More humble, for one. And wiser.

This will be a good opportunity to learn and grow, however like most experiences we have in life which help us mature and grow, there will be some pain involved. A LOT of pain,in my opinion.

Helping the rich elite on Wall Street

Right now, instead of letting the marketplace sort out the losers and the winners, which is the natural CLEANSING PROCESS which capitalism is based on, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury are taking steps which help mostly the rich elite on Wall Street, and which will eventually bankrupt us as U.S. taxpayers, as well as our children and our grand-children, for generations to come. Mr. Bernanke is going to continue to print money until the U.S. dollar is devalued, because he knows that the monstrous U.S. National Debt can't possibly ever be paid back.

Other countries have done this before: when the level of national debt becomes unmanageable, you either have to default on the debt, or inflate your way out of the debt. Neither of those "solutions" is a good way to make friends in the world.

Our unsustainable approach to life, whether we look at our energy consumption, or borrowing way more than we are producing, are being reined in by Mother Nature. Either we align ourselves with Evolution, or we suffer, even possibly perish.

Mother Nature has a way of making us evolve in spite of our wanting to go our own way. Mother Nature also always has THE LAST WORD.

"Violation of Natural Law is the source of suffering in life", Maharishi Mahesh Yogi tells us.

Perhaps what is needed is for us to return to a life which is closer to Nature. Just like our bodies get sick when we stray too far from what Nature needs, our economies get sick when they are based on unsustainable behaviors.

The way to get the BODY healthy again is to return to a way of living which is in accord with Mother Nature's Laws. Perhaps the way to become healthy again, in terms of economics and money, is to remember what Nature wants. She will evolve no matter what, with or without us.

Here are some of the steps I'm taking to prepare myself for the coming U.S. economic collapse:

- I increasingly grow my own food. - I mainly use a bicycle to get around. I save money, I'm healthier, Mother Earth thanks me every time the wheels complete a turn. - I buy my herbs in bulk at mountainroseherbs.com. - I just read Dmitry Orlov's book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. Orlov grew up both in the Soviet Union and in America. He has witnessed first hand the economic collapse of the Soviet Union. I devoured Orlov's book and I think he is brilliant. - I am buying a rollable solar panel charger for my iPhone. This way, should there be a prolonged power failure, I will be able to recharge my iPhone using the sun, send emails, make phone calls, Google information on the web (as long as the cellular tower still has power!) To be honest, this rollable solar panel charger for my iPhone is probably also a subsconcious-driven attempt at convincing my son that his dad is "as cool as James Bond". Wait a minute, I'm getting old. I meant, "as cool as Jason Bourne". - I cut my own (and my son's) hair. Now you know why I look the way I do in the pictures on this website. - I am looking into exchanging my U.S. dollars for gold coins. Gold will keep its value as the U.S. dollar is devalued. In fact gold and silver and other commodities will most likely rise in value as the U.S. dollar loses its value. And finally, I practice Transcendental Meditation daily. "TM in the AM and the PM." Practice TM for 20 minutes morning and evening, which is a total of 40 minutes per day, and gain hours each day in terms of productivity. Practicing TM is a net gain in terms of productivity. Transcendental Meditation is at the basis of it all for me. Contacting the source of everything is the ultimate doorway to self-sufficiency.

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