We spend so much time dealing with the microscopic details of our lives, we don’t spend a great deal of time looking at its larger landscape.  Our eyesight is thus affected and the apertures of our eyes don’t know if they should shrink or dilate.  No wonder we’re having trouble seeing straight!  So we wobble between perspectives, yet interestingly, such wobbling becomes good exercise for the brain, eye and mind.  Ultimately a well-exercised eye can open the doors of perception, as Aldous Huxley wisely reminds us, if we follow the thread from soma to psyche.

Too many spend time only in the micro-realm and get dazzled by the sunlight outside, or the macro-realm and forget to do their dishes. Either extreme is out of balance so we’re always looking to hit that sweet spot where when in one realm, we haven’t forgotten the other.

When we plan our lives, or for the life of a nation, we have to make sure we and our people are nourished day to day, and that nourishment will be available over the next few decades as well.  As the Native People of Turtle Island say, “we make decisions today bearing in mind their effects over the next seven generations…”  Talk about perspective and deep seeing.  Or being visionary and looking into the future based on a deeply-felt or held belief, exemplified in Martin Luther King’s powerful statement that resonates in our souls decades after he said:

“I have a Dream….”

Monday night’s Improve Eyesight Roundtable is designed to give both practical advice on how to creatively and usually naturally address eyesight issues as well as understanding the psycho-somatic, total biological perspective of how emotional conflict can literally influence the function of the eyes and their ability to see.  The two realms are wholly integrated but typically our society, unfortunately, doesn’t “see” this, indeed, a serious blind spot which we intend to illuminate in our Roundtable, so I hope you can join us.

Yes, in addition to PRN on Mondays, last week marked the beginning of another weekly radio program of mine, this time on Blog Talk Radio.  The player is right on our Home Page at www.abetterworld.tv so please come listen live, follow us on Twitter and right on BTR.

While many topics, just as ours on PRN, will be discussed, this radio show is intended to address the much-needed transformation of consciousness in the business world and economy.  From casino and crony capitalism (which is actually very socialistic as they don’t do much business without a good government subsidy, tax benefit, federal grant, Congress-for-Purchase Program,legal pardon or bailout) to Conscious Capitalism, the program offers examples and education about Conscious, Compassionate Capitalism, which at base, cares about people and planet, and accords with natural principles such as zero waste, cooperation and prosperity based on Mother Earth’s time-tested fruitful experiments conducted over the course of millions of years. Its opposite, currently in place but being displaced, is literally rending the fabric of our Democracy and decimating our eco-system,  It is a dinosaur and is on its way out. This show is offering to help it find the exit.  It’s time to mature into a full, responsible, conscious human being or perish.

Socially Responsible Business, socially-conscious investing, green, sustainable business practices, wealth-building through service and philanthropy are the main subjects at hand.  I am looking to elucidate how Home-Grown Capitalism can work for all people, not just for the few. Responsible, sustainable, humane practices in business with a moderate profit model as needed, can take us far in social transformation.  The implementation of these presupposes a psychological and emotional maturity we would all wish adults would have. If we reach for it to fulfill these values, we may just break out of our boxes and get there!  This new radio show nudges us toward this.

Upcoming guests will be Jason Apollo Voss, one of the top investors and money managers in the country and author of The Intuitive Investor, and Jacqueline Miller & Heidi Alber, anthologists of Heart at Work.  (yours truly has a chapter in this book.)

We will have call-ins and we will also be discussing intelligent political remedies to the bi-polar pathology of a Two-Party System, such as the independent Justice Party with Presidential Candidate Rocky Anderson (www.voterocky.org and www.justicepartyusa.org). To hear my interviews with Rocky Anderson on PRN, go to: www.abetterworld.tv/a-better-world-radio and scroll down.  To have a sound and viable economic system and an ethical, sustainable business model, we need a political system that works, and the psycho-emotional maturity of our elected officials. Getting back to understanding Service & the Oath of Office.

Join me for the Wednesday radio show in addition to Monday’s show on Progressive Radio Network, and of course the Cable TV show on Tuesday evenings.  Each can be heard or seen from www.abetterworld.tv.  And please comment, give feedback, and join us on Twitter, FaceBook and comment right on our site–it helps us to grow.

For over a year now, Mitchell, invited by Arianna Huffington, has been writing for the Huffington Post. The subjects range from how to deal with stress to socially-conscious lending, from challenging hydro-fracking to how to develop sustainability, green-thinking and humanity in the new-paradigm corporation & society.

Then there is Mike Adams’ www.naturalnews.com which is another place where I’ve published articles on Health, Stress, Total biology and Wellness, a site that tells so much about what’s really going on in our society, you really don’t want to miss it!

Go to: www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin for a list of all the blogs/articles and

Yogi Berra was one of the great philosophers of the 20th century.  And catchers. And as a philosopher and catcher, he clearly caught everything. Nothing escaped his mind or mitt. And wit and wisdom such as his are in great demand right about now, because the people with their hands on the controls have no control!

Indeed, it’s like a baby out of the crib, who has crawled into the Oval Office in his roundabout, playful way and found the Red Button that sounds the alarm to begin a nuclear attack on our enemies.  Odd, our own elected representatives are now passing legislation that treats us, yes US, as their enemies, but we are their employer!  What’s wrong with this picture?  They are nobody without our agreement!

Did you say “enemies”? Yes, our enemies!  Wait a minute, just a minute…who again, are our enemies? Ah yes, the immortal words of Pogo are clear: “We have found the enemy, and the enemy is us!” 

Indeed, we are our own worst enemy–our ignorance, greed and confusion, our reptilian impulse to violence, acquisition and self-interest to a fault–and, conversely, we are also our own best friend once we wake up to what friendship is about.  It’s about love, comradery and loyalty, yes, loyalty to truth. It’s the old feedback loop.  Who tells you the things that others won’t?  Your friends. And may they say what they must kindly, humorously and diplomatically, yet effectively!

Indeed, we need to be able to tell ourselves about our greatness, our brilliance, as well as our, oops, weaker side, darker side, that side that’s afraid of the shadows, hides and unwilling to recognize our own what we may call ‘ugly’ side, the fears, envy, jealousy, insecurities, fears of rejection, success, worthiness, abandonment and plain old “not being loved or lovable..”  They’re just feelings!  They’re not ‘true’ except that they feel true for periods of time.  They’re just feelings, as psychoanalyst, Dr. Robert Assagioli, founder of Psychosynthesis, one of Freud’s inside group reminds us.

OMG!  Why on God’s Earth would I be talking about this, when it appeared that I was going to talk about pushing buttons in the Oval Office?  Have I strayed?  How about that there wouldn’t even be a Red Button in any office that would start a war of any sort if we all were more aware of our insecure side nesting fears and feelings of unworthiness.

The problem isn’t in feeling these uncomfortable, disconcerting feelings, it’s in making believe that they’re not there, and dunking into that famous Egyptian River, “De Nile…” (sp…).  That’s the problem. And denial has a suppressive energy, and anything suppressed contracts, which means eventually it wants, by dint of physics, to expand.  And if it expands too much too fast, it explodes.  And it tends to explode into explosive feelings about some kind of ‘enemy’ out there, when in fact it is our denial of our feelings, all of them, that is our enemy.  We then project onto others, into groups, ethnicities, individuals, etc.

article of corporation

And if you’re a government or a corporation (which are people, right?  You doubt that?  Go ask the Supreme Court!  They Know!  They’ll set you aright!), you project these unaccepted, unacknowledged, unprocessed, misunderstood feelings onto The People!  And the People become public enemy #1.

Do you see how confusion from ignorance builds?  It becomes perceived as “REAL”. This is the disentangling that Buddhist Psychology, in its first stages, is largely about.

Charlie Chaplin, a person.

As a result, the wealthiest amass even more and become afraid of everyone and everything else because they fear losing it, but what they really fear is much deeper than that–they fear, I suggest, themselves and their own unprocessed subconscious Self.  It appears as fear of ‘us’, or of anything else, but that’s just the mind’s ruse. That’s the “Maya”, the appearance, not the reality.

So our future ‘ain’t what it used to be’, because fear runs the present and steers the future down its narrow confines, its ridiculous, immature, childish paths.  IF the present were filled with love and brotherhood, Sacred Stewardship as a principle of relating to Self and World, ahh, then we’re talking, then we’d have an expanded future, an evolving future, as most deeply, I believe, we would all most want it.  Full of fun, wisdom, art, culture, play, self-expression, intelligence, neural and spiritual development, creativity and technology in service to man’s growth instead of in service to surveillance and suppression.

The good news is that there are many who are not of the 1% exactly, perhaps the 5-20%, who are not locked down in fear, reptilian-brain based, and are building businesses based on principles of Sacred Stewardship (the book is on its way…), which are all about being in harmony with Nature, with other members of our species, and developing an economy based on humane, sustainable, socially conscious values.  It’s alternatively called “Conscious Capitalism, Compassionate Capitalism” and involves then the idea of “socially responsible investing”.

There are millions of people who find this very worthwhile, much more worthwhile than the business paradigm of the current Capitalism which is really “Kill-or-be-Killed Capitalism”.  I differ from Marx completely, though I appreciate his work, because I don’t think there’s anything ‘inevitable’ about Capitalism at all, except that it will always persist, because there’s something very ‘natural’ about it.  But it doesn’t have to be ugly and self-serving in a harmful way.  It can be guided by “Enlightened Self-Interest” as well as deep feelings of wanting to serve, and still be successful.  But instead of making a billion, it might be 100 million, or even 10 or 1 million.  But many more people will benefit, the environment won’t be harmed but possibly improved, and the “Happiness Factor” will be off the charts.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Is it Capitalism?  You bet! It’s just not “Kill Capitalism” but “Conscious, Compassionate Capitalism”.  And this is the direction in which we are moving, and consciously moving our society.  This week’s radio show with Stuart Valentine, one of the pioneers in this kind of approach to business, will be discussing this with me at length.

And the TV show this week is with Lillian Firestone, author of The Forgotten Language of Children.  I have known Lillian most of my life, first and foremost as a family friend but also as a spiritual mentor during my early days at the Gurdjieff Foundation.  She is a spirited woman, with a life rich with story, colorful tapestries, wisdom and experience, a taste of which we’ll get in this interview. I have known her family most all my life and I have been the better for it.  In order to create a better world, to help lift people out of the confusion referenced above, we need to educate them early according to sound, natural, humane values and principles.  The Gurdjieff Work contributes to that and Lillian, as a facilitator of this Work for so many decades, discusses this eloquently in her book, the subject of the TV interview this Tuesday evening.

For over a year now, Mitchell, invited by Arianna Huffington, has been writing for the Huffington Post. The subjects range from how to deal with stress to socially-conscious lending, from challenging hydro-fracking to how to develop sustainability, green-thinking and humanity in the new-paradigm corporation & society.

Then there is Mike Adams’ www.naturalnews.com which is another place where I’ve published articles on Health, Stress, Total biology and Wellness, a site that tells so much about what’s really going on in our society, you really don’t want to miss it!

Go to: www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin for a list of all the blogs/articles and