Have we turned the corner?

This week Nouriel Roubini aka Dr. Doom, one of the harshest critical voices on the economist front, found a way to see a light at the end of the tunnel of recession and said we will not go into depression.  The markets were frisky and frothy and would not give up their euphoria that started when rumours of the toxic asset purchase plan first surfaced a few short weeks ago.  The Dow has moved from 6500 to 8000 in that time.  Those who bought the relative junk of General Motors and Shitibank at around $1 per share 3 weeks ago made triple their money.  Treasury Secretary Geithner is insisting that this is workable without disaster a necessity.

However, master trend analyst Gerald Celente is predicting Great Depression or worse levels by 2012, with 25 % unemployment, a commercial real estate crash, ghost malls with the only possible salvation the discovery of some new form of energy equivalent to the discovery of fire.

Who knows?  If you were betting you would have to go with the trend master, because trends are the most reliable way of predicting future events.  But with the relative ignorance of this present moment in history, all bets are off!

Across town, so to speak, the young musician brothers Benjamin and Daniel Stewart have followed up their Zeitgeist-like Esoteric Agenda with another internet video movie entitled Kymatica.  In this one they step forward, stepping on fear into the Warrior’s World … seeing the human struggle for wisdom and in the end seeing the essence of that struggle.  They urge us to recognize that the world we see is a reflection of what is going on inside of us and relate to our own dark shadows, rather than project our anger onto a world we cannot understand without the clarity on the other side of that transition.  Voices like these that urge us to take this moment to heal ourselves from our own ignorance and fear rather than to  see excuses outside for sinking into despair, are a welcome, refreshing and ultimately hopeful sign that a spiritual renewal is beckoning.  There is a koan-like suggestion in the middle of this movie that we are not who the State would like us to think we are, that YOUR NAME capitalized is not really you at all unless you go along with this bizarre residue of naval commercial law.  This is definitely worth the time to view and contemplate.  Kymatica