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Recently, Judith and Jim, over at Bridging Heart & Marketing asked an important question on their blog. “do you like to be called ‘traffic’?” They where referring to… (read more)
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In my Sources for Cashflow post, I briefly describe why I have decided to focus on utilizing the cashflow quadrants of Self-employment and Business (and what distinguishes these two in Self-Employment vs Business) as my primary FA-O (first attention-outer) aspect of my overall Alchemical Wealth Building Strategy. I am focusing at this time on Internet Marketing as my primary strategy for both of these.
There are several reason I have chosen Internet Marketing as my first venture into the FA-O (first attention-outer) aspects of Alchemical Wealth Building
First many of the common methods of Internet Marketing lean towards Alchemical Business (& Alchemical Marketing) values to begin with. For example…(read more)
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If you pay attention to advertising, you will notice that the vast majority of it attempts to make you feel disempowered in some way and then lead you to believe that their product will remedy this disempowerment. No doubt this is in accord with studies of advertising psychology and been shown to be an effective method. However I have no doubt that if given a product that actually adds value to peoples life or is of genuine benefit then a creative person in touch with their heart can find ways to design highly effective advertising that refrains this kind of tactic and, more then that, actually benefits anyone who comes in contact with it whether or not they buy the product
One of the root goals of an Alchemical Marketer is to develop marketing strategies that … (read more)
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My FA-O (First Attention-Outer) wealth building strategy is currently focused on a blend of the self-employment and business quadrants (see sources of cashflow). While someone is self-employed is usually considered to have a business, the idea suggested in this distinction …(read more)
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As Global Alchemists, Alchemical Wealth Builders engage all 4 quadrants of Skillful means. In terms of wealth building, in regard to FA-O strategies(first attention-outer: basically actions in the world as most people see it), creating cashflow is foundational. Robert Kiyosaki, in his Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom
The Global Alchemical Template can be applied to each of these to engage them in a way that expresses the alchemical intention. I am initially …(read more)
Defining Sustainability
One of the main goals of Systems Alchemy is the transformation from unsustainability to sustainability. William McDonough say in The Hannover Principles:Design for Sustainability
“The concept of sustainability has been introduced to combine concern for the well-being of the planet with continued growth and human development. Though there is much debate as to what the word actually suggests, we can put forth the definition offered by the World Commission on Environment and Development: “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
In its original context, this definition was stated solely from the human point of view. In order to embrace the idea of a global ecology with intrinsic value, the meaning must be expanded to allow all parts of nature to meet their own needs now and in the future.”
I think that adequately conveys the gist of what sustainability means in the context of of Systems and Global Alchemy.
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At its most essential Alchemical Business is concerned with identifying what kind of paradigm business must operate from be an entirely positive force in world and expressing this paradigm into the structure and operation of every single aspect of business.
While there are many specifics elements that this paradigm needs to have…(read more)
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Business is itself composed many systems such as marketing, human resources, accounting, intra-community (the community of the people in the business), inter-community (relating the ‘external’ community both local and global, including customers, suppliers, “competition”, the communities in which the business operates), to name just a few. Many of these … (read more)
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The Phrase “Alchemical Wealth Building” can be parsed in two ways-‘Alchemical Wealth’ building as in the building of “Alchemical Wealth” and Alchemical ‘Wealth Building’ approaching building wealth in an Alchemical fashion. At first glance these might seem like different things however it is not possible to be an alchemical ‘wealth builder’ without first and foremost being an ‘Alchemical Wealth’ builder.
Alchemical Wealth is the treasures no thief can steal and no moths can eat. It is what you get from authentic inner alchemy- inner transformation. Wisdom, compassion, unconditional happiness, unconditional bliss, true freedom- these are examples of Alchemical Wealth.
One cannot even begin to build external wealth in an alchemical fashion until one at least intellectually understands that no kind of external wealth (be it money and that which it buys, relationships, achievements, “power”, recognition or even health) can actually be a source of true happiness. To the degree that ones aim at building wealth is based on the mistaken belief…(read more)
Systems Alchemy is the aspect of Global Alchemy that is concerned with the systems and structure that shape human interaction with each other and the environment both individually and collectively as communities, businesses, nations and the whole of human civilization on Gaia. This includes but is not limited to business, education, community, social outreach, jurisprudence/law, government, industry, technology, utilities, science, religion, entertainment, parenting, medicine/health care, activism, agriculture, “The Arts”, construction, design, architecture, think tanks, economics, and social culture.
On the Visionary Heart Alchemy Blog I said one of the main ‘objects’ that it is the goal of alchemy to transform is consciousness. This is true of Systems Alchemy as well as Personal Alchemy. This on some level refers to consciousness of the humans that make up or participate in the system and I will come back to that in a moment. However systems have the equivalent of consciousness in and of themselves. That is the Paradigm that shape their formation and activity. Every system is designed, and built within the context of a paradigm which also guides its activity and the interaction of its parts with each other and the whole with other systems. This paradigm is usually not explicitly known as it so subtle and pervasive, like water is to a fish, yet it dictates every aspect of the system in just the same way an individuals consciousness shapes every aspect of the individuals life.
These Paradigms can be very narrow in scope or very wide in scope with many smaller ones nested in its scope. For example any given medical facility will have its own paradigm it operates from. For the majority of the medical facilities this paradigm will be largely in accord with the allopathic paradigm which is fiercely defended in America by the AMA. While this is changing, most of even the more holistic facilities are still largely defined by the allopathic paradigm. The allopathic paradigm is nested in and informed by an even larger paradigm which has been the dominant paradigm of human civilization for along time now (aspect of it have been with us for centuries) and is a pervasive influence in the form and function of all of the above mentioned systems. It is adherence to this paradigm that has us on the verge of a massive breakdown of both the environment capacity to support us and the systems themselves. The systems that are structured from this paradigm are inherently unsustainable because the tenant or views of reality are on the continuum of relative truth very far from the absolute end of the continuum. Basically they are, for the most part, completely dysfunctional and those that aren’t completely dysfunctional are of limited functionality with that functionality rapidly diminishing in the face of a rapidly changing context. Said another way, even what aspects of the old paradigm had some functionality in the past are rapidly loosing functionality on the global stage. I call this the ‘lead’ paradigm that Systems Alchemy must transform if we are to move to global long term sustainability.
This paradigm has at its core a lack of recognition of our interdependence with each other and the environment as well as a lack of recognition of non physical dimensions of reality and their function in our life. Some of the key words that elaborate on or reflect this ‘lead’ paradigm are: unsustainability, scarcity, greed based capitalism, isolation, Machiavellian, limited resources, dog eat dog, fundamentalism, materialism, (fundamentalist materialism), dogma (as in dogmatic fixation) , fear, selfishness, uncompassionate. domination, ownership, conquest, staunch individualism, cultural homogeny, killingry, military industrial complex
The ‘gold’ paradigm that must become basis for which are systems are formed and operated has the recognition of our interdependence with each other and the environment. and awareness of the deeper ‘spiritual’ dimension of reality Some of the key words that elaborate on or reflect this ‘gold’ paradigm are: sustainability, deep ecology, stewardship, cultural creative, holistic, the great turning, synergy, integral, heart-centered, visionary, value adding, systems thinking, compassion, altruism, activism, co-intelligence, interdependence, interconnectivity , seventh generation, renewable energy, human rights, real wealth, livingly, education, community
Because all of the various human systems are interdependent to create true transformation in any we must transform them all. The only way to transform them all is by transforming the dominant paradigm that is at the basis of all of them. This leads us back to transforming the consciousness of individuals because the paradigms that are in operation on the world stage are egregores held largely in the consciousness of the individuals (though mostly in the unconscious part of the individual consciousness). who live out the paradigm. Paradigms are dependant on individuals to hold them in order continue having infliuence, however they take on a life on their own and being the subtle back drop of the reality we inhabit they propagate themselves by the enculturation process we go through. Thus we inherit paradigms as we grow up. To transform paradigm dominance requires sufficient numbers individuals to hold the tenants that define the emerging paradigm within their consciousness. This is why Personal Alchemy is the basis of Systems and Global Alchemy.
In addition to being sustained by individuals, the root paradigms are also sustained by the paradigms of individual systems and the systems themselves. That is why it is meaningful to work transforming the paradigms of individual systems and the systems themselves even though these transformations will not be sustained until all of the integrally connected systems are transformed.
Every individual who, through their own developmental process, their own Personal Alchemy, begin to embodying the ‘Gold’ Paradigm, shifts the dominance of the world paradigms towards the ‘Gold’. As they express this ‘gold’ paradigm in their interaction with the Systems they are involved with, those systems begin to shift and thus further the shift as well creating greater potential for more people to shift towards the Gold Paradigm.
According to the research of David Hawkins, describe in his book Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
While simply embodying the gold paradigm passively shifts the paradigm, the art and science of Global Alchemy as expressed through Systems Alchemy accelerates this process through active engagement in systems transformation. The gold created through alchemy is not ordinary gold is known as alchemical gold. Alchemical Gold has the same quality of transformation as the Philosophers Stone that created it. Thus the ‘golden’ systems and paradigms created by Global Alchemist application of the Philosopher’s Stone of the Visionary Heart through the application of the Global Alchemy Template are manifestations of Alchemical Gold that transform the systems and individuals they come in contact with. Thus it will take only relatively small number of Trained Global Alchemist to create a very dramatic shift in Paradigm dominance that will cascade through out the individual but integrally connected systems that shape our interactions with each other an the environment.