Well, the talk all over the news today was about how the stock market is crashing, and the US dollar has dropped to 2/3 of what it was only a short month ago, down here in Australia. Just like the housing bubble burst a year or so ago. I’m going to cop a bit of flak for this I’m sure, but while this morning my thoughts were along the lines of “great, everything’s on sale, including the stock market. These are the times when fortunes get made, as well as lost”. Tonight, after a truly deep post by one of my favourite bloggers, Steve Pavlina, I’ve revised my opinion. Now, I think this is a healthy part of the evolution of our world consciousness.
Steve’s article talked about how shallow the pursuit of money has become, and how it’s fear that is behind all the pushes to shore up these financial companies that, let’s face it, I believe just got too greedy and went beyond the boundaries of healthy business practices. I agree with him 100%. Money IS just a medium of exchange, and the pressures we’ve all felt to try to get as much of it as possible have been leading us to elevate it’s value way beyond what it actually is. The truth is, exchange of value is not only perfectly possible without it, but more meaningful.
So, maybe this market ‘correction’ is about us getting a better idea of what we’re actually chasing, instead of fixating on the symbols of currency. Maybe it’s just that enough people have finally cottoned to how empty money is, in terms of value, that we’ve reached the 99th monkey and we’re questioning if it’s true worth is anywhere near what we’re constantly told it is. Maybe, and this is a big one, this is a point for people to ‘get’ the bigger picture of what the difference between money and value really is, so they can walk away from chasing the almighty dollar and start re-focusing their efforts on creating a better world.
Do I think the markets will collapse? No. There are too many people who believe in money and the financial world for it to disappear. It will still be there, even if a lot more people have lost their previous blind trust and faith in it. For most people, the alternatives are just too scary to go for. If you look at it, though, the levels the market has ‘crashed’ to are about the same, for a few key stocks I looked at, as a peak value a few years back – at which time everyone was cheering the very same prices. Oh, and any number of people have since been bemoaning the fact that they didn’t buy them back whey they only cost… Wonder how many of those people are buying now? Not many, I’d bet.
I’m sure over the next few months there are going to be a lot of people who panic and give in to despair, much as I’d like that not to happen, but I’m equally sure that for a few others who swim against the tide, they’re going to find themselves 6 months down the track holding significant fortunes. It happens that way. It’s never the masses going with the mob emotions that benefit, because they allow the tides of fortune to push them out of the way of the opportunities that a market like this opens up. Some people will become financially very rich out of this, just as usually happens in recessions, and more so, depressions. But I also believe that there’s others who will see the higher levels of a ‘lesson for humanity’ in this and will become spiritually rich out of it, instead. I hope to be one of them. What about you?
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