Herd mentality rules in financial crisis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080930/lf_nm_life/us_financial_psychology

Interesting yahoo article. And I have to add, the herd mentality is what's been going on since the beginning of time. What's really there, beneath all the reactions upon reactions upon reactions to some perception that once occurred? We'll never know until we question EVERYTHING and see for ourselves.

 

Herd mentality rules in any crisis, not just financial.

But eventully an alpha male or female comes forward and establishes order.

That next step should worry us, because I believe this "crisis" to be engineered just for that purpose.

Anti-Christ anyone?


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Herd mentality has been ruling in everything, crisis and otherwise, in every arena of human existence.

yes, that's a typical pattern in history.

it's quite possible and even probable that the crisis was engineered, but worry? what for? not anymore about this than about anything.

As popular as it is to attribute this to a single person (even if a particular person assumes a high leadership position) the antichrist really isn't a personal phenomena. Neither is the christ. None of it is personal... it just appears to be.

 

I guess that's fine if you've no interest in seeing someone who is actually responsible held to account.

The crowd needs to be placated. If they didn't know there was a "recession", they'd probably accept a little flux in prices now and then, and weather the choppy waters fine. The hysteria surrounding these "crises" of faith in finance fuels the problem, exacerbates it, and makes it harder to get out of.

 

I know who is responsible. I am.

 

Read some of my other posts. I'll tell you what Anti-Christ is. It's basically 50% of creation, as this is a world of duality.

But yes, there is no singular being named Anti-Christ.


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This is simply not true. This isn't a world of duality, it only appears as a world of duality to an insane mind. Or rather it is experienced this way due to complete identification with thought... which is INSANITY.

50% of creation is the anti-christ? Not so. A seeming split and separation: untrue. "I am different from you"- type thinking, some are evil/some are good... all untrue. Nothing like that is going on. There's only sanity/insanity, and it is experienced collectively. There's NOTHING personal in any of it. Any appearance of "personal" is entirely superficial.

When a particular "person", or what appears to be a person, is no longer manifesting a separate identity then sanity is allowed to flow freely and uninhibited there, in that space, in the cell of the ONE organism.

 

Thank you for so beautifully illustrating my point.

I climbed a yogic path to get here. I understand your point of view more than you may appreciate.


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sanity/insanity still sounds like duality to me.

 

That's because we're using language, which is ALWAYS dualistic by its very nature, to point to non-duality. If you focus on the language you'll miss what is being pointed to, every time.

 

darn.

well it isn't the first time I didn't understand one of your posts.

 

Nonduality can't be understood, at least not with the mind in the typical sense. Do you see what is being pointed to?

 

I have an understanding of it, but only within my own terms. Usually when I hear someone else talk about it, I don't see where they are coming from, even though we are probably on the same page.

 

That may be so. Maybe it's easier to clarify where I'm NOT coming from. If there's some kind of confusion about some of my posts, feel free to question. I don't mind.

 

You're welcome. So... you climbed a yogic path, and yet you got here anyway?

 

If you like.

I'm not responsible for it, though. I have nominal debts, I live fairly frugally, I am not a foolish, greed-driven pig for financial products, I do not play the stock market, I do not run a bank... am I leaving anything out?

If you want to feel responsible for the current financial situation I can't stop you.

But then, if you think you're responsible, that pretty much disqualifies you from being one of the guilty parties right now, who are all exemplifying the difference between "blame" and "responsibility" rather well.

 

The US was built on Christian ideology, same with Rome. The way the US will fall, will be the same way Rome fell. Only this time around, a larger power will takeover, along with a new monetary system. If it could happen, then it will happen.

 

There was an African empire, possibly Sumeria, that apparently fell largely because of hyperinflation. Makes you think, doesn't it?

 

Thinking is beyond my means.