Abstract
The word “economy” can be traced back to the Greek oikos meaning “house” or “household” and refers to the intimate management of our daily lives. This may offer a clue to the core of the economic oppression that has become the epidemic of our time. We can point to global systems of exchange, look at inequities, injustices, and the unbelievable irresponsibility of entire nations. Ultimately, however, it is our own households and our ongoing energies of exchange that has become deeply imbalanced and off center. Instead of focusing on the macro-impossibility of how to fix a broken system, the work of author, teacher, and spiritual activist E.H. Rick Jarow begins with the premise that “We are the system.” If the world’s economy has become unmanageable, it is but a reflection of our own misalignments: with Source, with Self, with the Natural World and its rhythms. Jarow, drawing from Neo-Confucian, Daoist, and North American Earth-based “traditions of immanence” shares ideas and practices around body, mind, and spirit cultivation that can lead us to reconsider community, relationship, and economy. Through self-examination, guided exercises, and the science of “energy management” we can learn to realign our system and abide in both peace and dynamic purpose and passion in the midst of the global market place.
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Environment, Energy, Transcultural Humanities, Consciousness, Economy, Praxis, Immanence, Nature
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