Fool's Gold

Okay folks, settle in for a lively discussion.
The mention of fool's gold, or pyrite, came up in our discussion group after one particular lecture during the Living Gold conference.
We are starting to realize more and more that the pursuit of money for its own purpose, or immoral purposes, is a "fool's errand". Millions of dollars are exchanged, gained and lost every day on the stock market. A person can be a millionaire on paper, but in reality this means nothing - it is only numbers. It is not a good thing to invest in stocks simply in the hope of increasing one's monetary assets. It means you are receiving something without having worked for it yourself, and in many cases, you don't know and don't care how this stock increases, or dividends are earned. You don't care if it means that other people end up losing their jobs, if it ruins the environment, what long term effects this operation has on future generations. You are separated from the operating and functioning of the company involved. It's like buying a lottery ticket and hoping you will win, it is money you are hoping will somehow magically appear out of nowhere, sometimes for the most selfish and materialistic of reasons. We have all heard the saying, "you can't take it with you." This is fool's gold - the wish for money and material things simply for their own sake.
In the case of Canadian mining interests that are in fact ruining the environment and violating human rights, what can be done? First and foremost, we here in Canada have freedom of speech without fear of being shot at (usually). This means we can speak out, protest, inform, proclaim what is happening. If there is anything a company hates, it is bad publicity. We have the opportunities and possibility to do this, whereas it cannot be done in the area it is actually happening, for fear of reprisals.
Secondly, there can be a healing approach to the damage being done. We know from Dr. Emoto's work, that it is possible for a group to come together and "heal" bodies of water. We know also that the work of our congregations is a very special kind of healing, not just for the members, but also for the region and country in which they live. A spiritual kind of healing which can manifest itself also in the physical world.
Lastly, each of us can work on our own spiritual development until we come to the realization that we are all connected on a higher level, and more and more, even on a physical level. What we think and what we do, really "matters". This sounds a little like Zen or Buddhism, doesn't it? We in the Western world are still discovering and learning how to incorporate ancient Eastern wisdom. Not just from a religious context, but even a scientific one.
Here's a very interesting quote I just came across the other day, by John E. Mack, M.D., Pulitzer-Prize winning author and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School:
"..we are now witnessing a coming together of science, psychology and spirituality after centuries of ideological and disciplinary fragmentation. Both modern physics and depth psychology are revealing to us a universe in which...all that we can perceive around us is connected by resonances, both physical and nonphysical, that can make the possibility of universal justice, truth and love more than just a utopian fantasy."
Next blog, good vibrations and resonating.
Cheers
Sparky