Archangel Michael and the Dragon, an Imagination Distinguishing Evil The cosmic forces that bring about human death are not there for the purpose of killing us — death is a secondary consequence of forces necessary for the development of the Consciousness Soul. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 8 min read
In some distant future spider-like creatures will be crawling over the earth. Solving the Problem of Evil Thoughts which remain abstract, automatic, purely intellectual and disconnected from living spiritual reality will eventually acquire objective existence. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 8 min read
Renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The Autophage Economy: How Exploited Legal Defects and ‘Asset Gabs’ Are Isolating America The OCC grants conditional approval for World Liberty Financial, a bank owned by the President’s family, to manage USD1, a private stablecoin. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Depending upon our political and cultural orientation, other associations may arise. Economy & Karma Thinking What We See: Awakening to the World Economy We have to be able to follow a product backward toward the conditions of its production and forward toward the needs it will eventually serve. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 10 min read
The container ship is particularly powerful because one cannot really think it while remaining at the level of the object. How to View the Global Economy If admiration were the starting point, and not an actual result of a proper approach of world-economy, that would be a disastrous flattening of such an approach. What is here being conveyed is thus much stronger. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 4 min read
Modern economic life consists of billions of such encounters, most of them so ordinary that we scarcely notice them. The Economy as an Organism of Mutual Help Together they form one of the most intricate structures humanity has ever created: a worldwide organism in which people continually do things for people they do not know. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 11 min read
To enter the social organism does not mean surrendering one's individuality or conforming blindly to a flawed system. From Critic to Participant By stepping out of abstract isolation and into practical participation, society ceases to be a distant concept. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
Admiration is the capacity to recognize genuine human capacity, skill, and service when it appears. Recovering Admiration By directing our attention exclusively upward toward hidden centres of control, we become hyper-perceptive about real or imagined manipulation, while simultaneously becoming completely blind to goodness, competence, and cooperation on an immense scale. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
Beneath the surface of formal contracts, civilization is sustained by acts of spontaneous, reciprocal help. The Economy as an Organism of Mutual Help (B) When we approach economic life with an attitude of openness and trust rather than pure transaction, we leave room for unexpected mutual service. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
There is a fundamental distinction between the financial economy and the real economy. The Real Economy Beneath the Economy (B) Economic life is not a machine consisting of fixed components. No single centre commands the world economy; its intelligence is entirely distributed. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
There is a way of looking at the modern economy in which almost everything appears problematic. The Invisible Competence That Holds the World Together (B) No single person understands or controls the whole process, yet the process works. We live within an immense structure of distributed human competence. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Economic life continually connects this individual center with an ever-expanding human periphery. The Real Economy Beneath the Economy Sich hineingliedern therefore means something more than joining or participating. It suggests articulating oneself into a larger whole: finding a place within an organism where one's particular capacities can become active. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 10 min read