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Global Belief System

When talking about a global belief system, the personal beliefs of most of us only play a small part. To determine, to any great extent, what beliefs are at a global level, you have to look at those who exert great influences in the day to day workings of our world. To be even more specific, it is the dominant drives of the dominant people in the world governments, business, and religion.

With governmental, business, and religious belief systems, as with a personal belief system, you look at how they act, what they do, how they choose to interact or not to interact with others. You also look at how they treat everything around them, and not just how they appear to act or treat things. The results of the actions of governments, business, and religion cannot be hidden, at least not for long if you're paying attention. The evidence is the condition of the world. Governments as with those in government, in business, and in religion call themselves "leaders" today, but where are they leading us? Do you like war, pollution, overpopulation, disease, hunger, poverty, crime, the depletion of the Earth's natural resources, etc.? Why is this happening if they are trying to make things better and they are directing things? Why do we let these things happen? Who is responsible for these tragic conditions? Could it be these world "leaders"? Perhaps in part, but before any blame is laid on any one group, answer this: Who can lead when no one chooses to follow? All of these things, in fact everything in life, is a choice. Why do we make such bad choices, or allow such bad choices to be made?

Let's look at this a different way. If the driving force within the world governments, businesses, and religions is the same as in individuals, and it is, the results will be the same, only magnified. Which brings us to the Trap.

The Trap

The Trap is one of the results of the global belief system we currently have, a magnification of the worst in our personal belief systems. There are many parts comprising this trap, many of which are so integrated into society they have become invisible. The strangest part is, it's a trap of our own making that we seem to have forgotten about. So, in this case, the first step in escaping this trap is knowing that it exists. Humanity is in a trap. Some of the people on whose teachings the world religions are based knew it. They tried to warn humanity of the dangers of the social model or paradigm they were living within. It is the same trap we are still in today. If you do not believe you are in a trap, think about people who have tried to go against the established way of doing things. Think about the hard fought battles to change things that are wrong (women's suffrage, civil rights, equal rights in the workplace, etc). Then think about jobs, mortgages/rents, credit cards, car payments, taxes, the need for two or more incomes, no time to spend with family or friends, the requirement of money for everything you want or need, attitudes of society regarding the clothes you wear (fashions), your social standing in other people's eyes and so on. If you still don't think you are in a trap, think about these things:

What would happen if you suddenly didn't have any money, job, or position of any kind?
What if you couldn't pay your bills?
Suppose you owned a company or even a large multinational corporation, and, quite suddenly, people stopped buying your product or all of your products.
Would some of the people you know still treat you the same way?
What if you had a devastating illness, which quickly took all your resources, reducing you to poverty?
Do you truly know the people closest to you?

Now take some time and think about the following questions:

What would the world be like if people did not have a desire for monetary, or material wealth, positions of power, or the control of others?
What if we wanted only what we truly needed?
What if everything we truly needed was freely available?
What if humanity started valuing life, all life, above monetary, or material wealth, the desire for obtaining a position of power, or the control of others?
What if the control of the self was all the control that was ever desired?
What if everyone was looking out for everyone else instead of just themselves?
Would anyone in such a society go hungry, be without a decent place to live or clothing?

If you compare the world we have chosen to live in, to the one we could have, what does this tell you about the global belief system?

It tells you that wealth, power, and control which are virtually the same in this world, are sought after without regard to human life, the environment, the quality of the life of others, or the condition of the Earth itself? It also tells you that economic systems (money) puts people in positions of power, control, influence and leadership that should not be.

What is it that leads people to desire these things so strongly that they would have such little regard for not only themselves, but everything else?

If we keep on this same path, what will be the price we will pay?

Is the cost of our technological achievements, and way of living worth the price of our eventual extinction? This may seem like a rather strong implication to make, but consider the pollution produced by the processes and technology that maintain our "standard of living", starting with the power plants that run the factories.

Waste from nuclear power plants
Heavy pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants
Waste and runoff from chemical plants
The dumping of toxic waste in our oceans, rivers, and lakes

and the list goes on.

Then also consider the pollution created by some of the products or devices we use everyday:

Plastic and polystyrene in land fills
Exhaust from cars, trucks, buses, planes, trains etc.
Vast amounts of nature destroyed by being paved over to provide roads, parking lots, runways, etc..
Toxic out gassing from materials used in the construction of homes, furniture, buildings, carpeting, home or office decor (vertical blinds, adhesives, polyvinyl chloride, chemicals used in our clothing)
Toxic chemicals used in homes and offices (solvents, cleaners, paints, etc.)

Then there are the repercussions we feel from our consuming, which are many:

Loss of forests because of packaging and paper production, which again reduces our air quality and increases the desertification of our world.
The loss of farms and natural wetlands to housing developments, causing the loss of unnumbered plant and animal species.
The generation of huge amounts of gaseous and solid waste, that pollute our air, water, and soil. The air, water and soil that are necessary for, not just health, but life, period.
The fishing industry removing vast amounts of life from the oceans, which are proving too toxic to eat anyway.

We have become a cancer on our own world, much of what we are doing is also having an effect on our global climate, creating even more problems.

The rising temperature of the oceans, killing off vast amounts of coral.
The melting of the polar ice caps
Toxic chemicals detected in rain water all over the world

These horrors reflect our global belief system, where the seeking of monetary or material wealth, positions of power, and the control of others go on without regard for anyone or anything. These desires and viewpoints of individuals created the model or paradigm from which our societies are based. Looking at our current world conditions, have they taken us in the right direction?

Not all technology is bad, but there are better more environmentally and ecologically friendly ways of doing things. We are also capable of developing new technologies that are not harmful, and much safer in their use, but these are not looked into and developed because of economical reasons. We don't need to go back to the stone age, but we do need to show wisdom in our decisions and actions.

Whether we want to believe it or not, we have placed ourselves in a trap by our own actions, beliefs, and viewpoints. Knowing of the trap is just the beginning. The second step is to recognize what the problem is and assess it, so a key can be found to escape the trap. If you agree that there is a problem and want to know what it is and how to solve it, more questions must be asked. Then you must be willing to take the proper actions to correct the problem at its source.

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