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The waste of resources is first recognized because of its material effects at the physical level, but there is a psycho-emotional basis that underlies all physical plane activity that has heretofore gone unrecognized. As greater quantities of material accumulate in the environment in the form of waste, people are induced to “conserve” physical resources, while the true cause of the generation of waste remains unsought. Humanity fails to realize that the movement of physical plane substance is due to the constant agitation of the psycho-emotional nature of the person caught in incessant and reactionary mental and emotional activity. The waste of resources, then, is due to the fact that humanity has not yet learned to “conserve” and to consciously direct its psycho-emotional resources through awareness, collective planning, and recycling on an individual and global scale.
The first step to conserving material resources is to become aware of how and where the psycho-emotional resources of humanity are being used. It is obvious how and where physical resources are used: sky-scrapers can be seen rising against the skyline. Factories, schools, hospitals, suburbs, malls and shopping centers likewise can be seen bustling with various forms of activity. All of these activities and endeavors incorporate material resources and result in waste. What is seldom realized is that it is possible to observe the same phenomena occurring on the psycho-emotional plane. As a person thinks, as he focuses his psycho-emotional resources, he conducts some activity in the world, all while integrating material resources into his thought. As a person does not generally consciously manage his thoughts, he is constantly integrating material and therefore continually casting off forms of thought in the nature of errands and other endless activities. It is these formsof thought that are the byproducts, or waste, of the constantly shifting play of the psycho-emotional nature.
As humanity unconsciously integrates material into its thought, there is no clear, unified objective that guides its activity; there is no integrated and unified thought at the collective, psycho-emotional level that acts as a determinate of how or where material resources are used at a regional, national, or global level, and that is why there is such unimaginable and needless waste. Not only do people subconsciously compete to integrate material into their thought at the national and global level, but also members of the same household compete for resources as each attempts to raise those forms that are symbolic of his individual thought. The purely selfish use of resources is due to the fact that the individual, functioning through the collective, personalized thought of humanity, has not yet learned to be inclusive in thought and expressive through Love. As each person seeks to serve himself through his thought, it is these thoughts of selfishness that continue to define the face of objectivity by confining unimaginable resources in terms of life, labor, clean water, and air.
Humanity needs to recycle these extant forms and activities and therefore release the materials currently confined to completely selfish endeavors. On the physical plane, old, extant forms are broken down and the materials diverted to the creation of new forms of beneficent purpose. Plastics, metals, rubbers, electronics, and a plethora of other material objects can be recycled, that is, made to appear again through association with another cycleof thought. It is these materials and resources liberated from their current forms that can be redirected to the fulfillment of the united, loving purpose of humanity. On the psycho-emotional plane, outmoded psycho-emotional energies are intentionally withdrawn from their forms, such as outmoded ideologies, broken down, and the psycho-emotional materials thus re-directed and re-cast into new ideological expressions that will carry humanity successfully into a new era of purpose-full endeavor.
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To conserve resources, a plan that enjoys the cooperation of collective humanity must be instituted. Planning means creating a budget, a psycho-emotional budget of where and how we spend our psycho-emotional resources. It is through managing our thought through planned and conscious activity that we control the integration of material resources and therefore limit the production of completely superfluous thought-forms or activity. If humanity simply reduced its superfluous psychological and emotional activity and held itself still through the practice of meditation or concentratedthought, only a fraction of the resources once integrated in selfish endeavor would be used for the maintenance of the global community.
The first goal of humanity is to unite psychologically and emotionally in purpose. Once the resources of the world are turned away from or dis-integrated from personal and divisive use and integrated in united, loving purpose, the resources of the world can then be directed to the creation and maintenance of a global infrastructure based in and united in Love. Once humanity focuses its psychological and emotional powers and directs its material resources through united, loving purpose, then, collectively, humanity will raise those forms that will lead to a new age of cooperation in which humanity will employ its powers solely to release those forms of Universal Brotherhood into materiality now latent in the Mind of God. It is through directing our psycho-emotional resources through consecrated purpose that the chaotic and sporadic movements of humanity will ultimately demonstrate as Love in Activity.
Cristo L. Bowers is an intuitive counselor and meditation instructor in the Ann Arbor area. He is also a regionally published writer and poet. His personal website, along with various published writings, can be viewed at www.thelightonthepath.com. He can be reached at cristobowers@yahoo.com
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