Hi friends of Openhand
I have the feeling sometimes that when we speak of the economy here at Openhand, there's a kind of 'glazing over' of weary eyes... "What's this got to do with our spirituality?" I hear you ask, "What's this got to do with our bright new dawn?" In a word, it has EVERYTHING to do with it. Every event reveals a hidden code guiding us to the truth; nuggets of gold revealing the true path to follow. So if you need to prop up slightly heavy eye-lids please do so and tune in for a few moments. It could be vitally important for your spiritual future...

it is Industrial Agriculture
If like me you've been watching the heart rending images of the earthquake victims in Haiti, you might be wondering why life suddenly seems to have come to a grinding halt there? Yes there's been devastation, but why are the Islanders unable to quickly respond to it? It's all about society's lack of resilience. Over the last 200 years, Haiti has been swallowed into the Developed Nations food and energy machine, so if disaster strikes, there's little to do, but sit around and wait for help. To me, global inter-dependency based on Industrial Agriculture is the greatest human disaster of our time. We would all do well to heed the synchronistic warnings...

Yes we can!
Was it really only a year ago that Obama swept to power on a wave of "Yes we can euphoria"? Gosh, the clock is really ticking! And just twelve months later, a mere blink of the eye, his poll ratings in America have dropped to 50% and are still falling. So much so, that a strong Democrat seat held for many years by Teddy Kennedy, has now swung back to the Republicans. People are already beginning to speak of a 'lame-duck' President, that he might now struggle to push through much needed policies. So what went wrong? Why did the gloss so quickly peel away? In my view, it is all down to highly misplaced expectation and forgetting that the only real way to change our world, is not by fumbling with external effects, but the internal causes. The only sure way of changing our world is from the inside out...

The world needs something much more powerful than hope
So world leaders have come and gone at the world climate change summit in Copenhangen, dubbed by some "Hopenhagen". And what will history record happened? Well, a toothless, watered down deal was brokered that does nothing. After Arnie promised to save the world, Clinton promised bundles of cash (from who knows where) and world leaders traded insults between the negotiations, what are we left with? Well for me, I'm actually positively encouraged by it. Sound strange? For me, the worst possible outcome would be some kind of luke warm deal that promised a mediocre cut in emissions which meant everyone would keep on consuming happily ever after and feel good about themselves in the process. A mirror is very clearly being shown for all to see. What is it saying?...

Time accelerating to a stand still
When I awoke I had a truly profound experience. Early one morning on a hotel roof top in Las Vegas (of all places!), I was watching the sun come up over the distant horizon, the darkened purple becoming first indigo then orange as it rose majestically to fill the sky. I found myself unfolding. The inner and outer worlds melted blissfully into one. In the blink of an eye, the sun filled the heavens. Time for me had accelerated and simultaneously ground to a halt. Are you having similar experiences? Do you find the days seemingly getting shorter? Do you have less and less time? Yet sometimes, does the moment seem to stretch to eternity? Well if these things are happening there's absolutely no need to go and see a doctor. You're beginning to ascend...

Reflecting on the truth
We often speak on this website how synchronicity speaks to us both in our personal lives and on the world stage. Sometimes synchronicity is a bitter pill to swallow, but I ask you, if we know something is blatantly wrong, should we not bite the bullet, see ourselves clearly in the mirror, and drink that bitter pill down anyway? Particularly if it leads to greater realisation, honesty, healing and truth? The synchronicity I'm referring to right now is the shooting of 13 people in an American Army base by an American solder, an Army Major no less. So how can reflecting on this bitter pill help to heal?...

Hi Openhanders everywhere,
Have you visited our "The Clock is Ticking" section on Openhandweb? I've always maintained that to see the truth of what's really going on in our world, we must read between the lines and watch for the apparent chance coincidences - the synchronicites - for it is here that the real truth is revealed. Synchronicity is the benevolent objective hand of the universe speaking, laying a trail for us to find our way home. The interesting synchronicity that jumps out at me right now is President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, NASA's 'bombing' of the Moon and the collapsing dollar. How on earth are they interlinked and if so, what is flow of events really telling us?...

Are you all out, or all in?
At the Tate Modern in London yesterday, thousands of celebrities and everyday people alike gathered at the site of the vast former power station to offer their pledges to cut green house emissions. There were promises to "turn my heating down", "fly less", "love jumpers", "eat less cheese" and "learn to ride a bike". The idea is to cut emissions by 10% in 2010. As heart-warming as it may well be, I also find myself slightly amused by it all! Surely in this 11th hour, the question is not are we 10% committed, but are we a 100% committed? Are we just dipping our toes or plunging right in?...

Bird flu, swine flu, whatever next?
So what exactly is going on with this so called 'swine flu'? Doesn't it all seem a tad strange to you? Like something doesn't feel quite right? Do you get that queasy feeling around the level of the solar plexus? Well I certainly do. Back in April, way before the first cases of swine flu were reported, Benevolent Consciousness drew my attention to several video reports on youtube about some very curious goings on in the USA. It seems preparations have been made for this curious flu pandemic long before the first cases were ever recorded...

Credit crunch over...resource crunch begins
So what will our collective history show as humanity's response to the credit crunch? That we saw it as a last minute warning on the unsustainability of our current society? That we should completely restructure the way we live to bring it back into line with Gaia and her natural eco-systems? NO!!! Instead we decided to print more money and accelerate the industrial consumption machine. The result is we're heading even more rapidly to a global resource crunch of water, food and energy over the next few decades. Here at Openhand we've long encouraged people to question the long term viability of our current society, to go within, transcend the limitations of time and space, and unfold into the new paradigm which exists here and now all around us. The clock is ticking, there is no time to delay...