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Economy & Karma

When thought enters capital: toward a free economy.

The Balkans and the French Connection — The Adriatic Sea, a northern arm of the Mediterranean, forms the western boundary of the Balkan Peninsula, washing the shores of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania.

The Balkans and the French Connection

The moment when traditional, localized underworlds evolved into parallel economic superpowers capable of influencing global politics.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

On Profession and the Transformation of the World — Consciously met, the technological world becomes a training ground for higher faculties

On Profession and the Transformation of the World

Human beings will no longer merely manipulate external matter. Reality itself becomes responsive to spiritualized will.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 4 min read

Vocation as Spiritual Path (III) — Christ does not call humanity away from the modern world, but through it...

Vocation as Spiritual Path (III)

The future spiritual world is not built apart from ordinary life, but secretly within it

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

Vocation as Spiritual Path (II) — When human consciousness enters work intentionally, labor becomes transformed

Vocation as Spiritual Path (II)

Human labor does not merely transform the outer world materially — it gradually spiritualizes substance itself

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Vocation as Spiritual Path (I) — Consciously developing a spiritual understanding of our work creates future worlds

Vocation as Spiritual Path (I)

Modern life has become is the mechanism by which we develop the necessary independence and soul-strength required for the future

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Rusland, en de herconfiguratie van het wereldgebeuren — Door Rusland buiten het beeld van het wereld-gebeuren te stellen, is het Amerikaanse wereldbeeld in onevenwicht, en daarbij komt een defecte eenzijdigheid aan het werk.

Rusland, en de herconfiguratie van het wereldgebeuren

Als Rusland zijn ware gelaat zou tonen en deel zou uitmaken van een verenigd Europa, zou dat inderdaad de economische en culturele dominantie van het rauwe Amerikaanse kapitalisme fundamenteel uitdagen.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 13 min read

Rusland, en de huidige aardolie schaarste — Globale olieverdeling verstoord.

Rusland, en de huidige aardolie schaarste

De dynamiek van de jaren '90, hoe chaotisch ook, was er een van hoop en participatie. De huidige dynamiek is er een van apathie en overleving.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 13 min read

The Dutch and The Loved Form — Over time, necessity becomes style, and style becomes pleasure.

The Dutch and The Loved Form

In the Dutch context, what appears outwardly as neatness, results from a way of inhabiting the world that has become pleasurable, the more care it receives.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 4 min read

The Threefold Metamorphosis: Dutch, British, American — The moment a system extends beyond the sphere in which its moral force is actively lived, it risks becoming extractive

The Threefold Metamorphosis: Dutch, British, American

How can the love for precision and relatedness to the world around become the precision needed to keep meaning within a global system?

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 5 min read

From Inner Discipline to Autonomous Systems — Wealth circulates at first within a moral atmosphere that did not yet define it

From Inner Discipline to Autonomous Systems

The smallness of a territory does not restrict—it intensifies.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 4 min read

From Moral Attitude to Institutions — At some point, the system no longer asks why, only how to continue

From Moral Attitude to Institutions

With the founding of the Bank of England, trust is no longer primarily personal or cultural, it becomes systemic

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

Dutch Savings and the Bank of England — The means become autonomous from the inner intention

Dutch Savings and the Bank of England

The Bank of England, founded around 1694, was not just funded by a direct “transfer” of Dutch money into England.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

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