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MONEY, PSYCHOSYNTHESIS AND PLANET EARTH

The final statement of the United Nations agency FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) at the world conference on hunger in Rome (Italy) 1996, was that there is hunger in the world not because there is a lack of food, no!, but because the people/country who suffer of hunger don't have the money to buy the food.

So, if we are somehow concerned about the whole of our planet, we have to deal, at least at a personal level, with the topic "money". But may be it is better just to speak in the I-form (and not as a "we") for I can communicate only my personal experience and because I am the only responsible of my own life and what is right for me doesn't necessary mean that it is also right for the others.
So, personally, I am concerned about our planet Earth and I worked and I am still working on the topic money from a psychosynthesis and spiritual point of view. I want to share here with you some of my experiences and thoughts. 

Francesco Viglienghi in its article wrote about "imagining oneself to produce income". This is a very important issue for me too. 
This ability to produce income is crucial for the poor countries and it is a big challenge. Think about Africa, such a rich continent in its potentiality but such a poverty at the actual level. The personality level of Africa - as an example of how we can apply psychosynthesis to the "growing whole" of the planet (in analogy to the title of the book of Molly Brown) - is poverty. This is the actual status of the continent. This is what we see. This is the visible level of personal consciousness. If I draw the psychosynthesis egg-diagram, we are in the middle part of the psychosynthesis egg. But in the transpersonal dimension (the upper part of the psychosynthesis egg) there is richness, a lot of richness. (Reserves of diamonds, of gold etc...). Isn't the challenge or the aim to bring to the personal level what is in the transpersonal level? What's then the meaning of life? Just to live in the transpersonal dimension? Or also to manifest here and now, i.e. in our visible personal level, this transpersonal dimension? This means that if there is richness in my potentiality then I could manifest this richness in my life, so that the personality level of the earth grows too.

I have this image: in the sky (the transpersonal level) there are a lot of clouds, which carry water (clouds are water at the vapor state). But down to earth there is no water at all, every thing is starving because it is not raining since such a long time. There is dryness. So, what we need to do, is to bring the water from the vapor state to the liquid state and to make it become rain! Then the food, the plants will grow. Then the landscape will change, our visible dimension.
I repeat: this is the challenge: how to make from clouds rain??? How to make from my potentiality something visible and real at my personality level? And .... to bring rain there where there is dryness, not where there are floods!

As I look at myself being interdependent with the planetary situation - meaning that what happens on Earth affects also myself (I consider myself an interdependent cell of this whole organism) and what happens to myself affects also the planet - and as I consider my being also like a small sun system, with an inner sun (the Higher Self) and an inner planet Earth (my personality level) receiving the rays from the sun and manifesting in that way life on my small earth, I made following considerations: I asked myself which was the contribution I was giving to the global manifestation of richness on earth. Well, my personal contribution was poverty. My personal level was contributing with poverty to the personal level of the planet Earth! Of course I was not suffering hunger and I had enough money to buy my food, but in a different way it was poverty. I was saying so often that I didn't have enough money for that and for that. So, my manifesting the quality richness (the energy of the third ray) was biased: it was poverty. And I knew that I can choose how to manifest at my personality level this quality. As Francesco Viglienghi reported, Assagioli showed us that will is linked to choice. The will, the capability of choosing, is the primary function of the personal self, the I. Viglienghi stated also that we can discover new patterns and attitudes in the choice we make. So I asked myself: Do I want to manifest the quality richness on earth as poverty? I felt a link to all the suffering populations on our planet and I felt a big pain. This happened some years ago. So I decided to choose: I want to make a contribution for richness on earth, for richness also in my personal miniature planet Earth.
It was making peace with money. My idealistic-mystical subpersonality made peace with my materialistic subpersonality (which was held so long prisoner in the dark basement of my inner house). (I think this war between spirit and materiality is a collective heritage of religion). I made so many subpersonality work talking with banknotes, identifying myself with them. And I felt my very deep horror and my very deep panic (on the surface I couldn't feel that) in front of them. And don't think they were answering me at the very beginning! Why should a subpersonality answer me, if I have hated her and oppressed her so much? But I didn't stop talking to her. She didn't talk, but I talked to her. And then one day the banknote answered me. She told me her name. She told me her aim, she told me her quality. And so, slowly slowly, I built a new relationship with her. I changed my attitude towards money: I started to love it, to accept it, to value it. My idealistic-mystical subpersonality was trembling so often regard that, and I had to reconnect more and more often with my personal self. I knew it was a matter of choice. And I knew that a stage of will is reinforcement and choose again and again and again.

Actually money is the energy of the material visible world. If I have money I can change things, I can change the visible things. And visible things are the personality dimensions. Money is an energy flow. The energy of the third aspect of manifestation: Brahma (see Alice Bailey). It is the energy of the Earth. It is the energy of the third ray. Do I want to use this spiritual energy? Do I recognize in money its spirituality? Do I recognize in money its transpersonal quality? Do I permit to the subpersonality which manipulates money (we all have such a subpersonality, because we all manipulates money in one or another way!) to appear on the scene of my life and play there its best role? Or does it stay behind the curtains....
And is the actual role played by this subpersonality the role given to her by the Higher Self? Am I improving myself for playing better and better this role? 

Having money in our world, means to have the power of changing things in a very visible manner. Do I want that power? Do I want to use this kind of power? Do I trust the energy money? Do I want to make profit? These are significant topics in our world, in our time, and they are also very dangerous. Because they are afflicted by so much tragedies and horrors. Viglienghi wrote: "Money, an energy that is at present greatly impure after centuries of misuse". 
But the core issue is: Do I choose to handle with this energy in its pure form to heal myself, ourselves, our planet? Hunger, poverty are illnesses of our living organism, the planet Earth. 

Money is a powerful tool and enough money means enough food. Do I give to myself, to my personality level (my small own planet earth), enough "food", enough energy? Or are there hunger and poverty in some far parts of my small own planet? If I choose not to manipulate at big levels money, this doesn't free me to look at my personal money flow and its quality in my personal life. And even if I choose poverty in the outside world, this doesn't free me to look at the flow of this spiritual energy within myself and to look if there is a misuse of my spiritual energy somehow in my energetic structure.

Our Earth is crying. Can you hear that cry? Can you hear her shout? Can you feel her anger - all the aggressivity of the world? It is a way of manifesting her shout. If you don't feel it, can you see it at least? Growing whole means growing WHOLE, in my entirety. It means that all single parts are connected, that when I breath, this oxigen is transported every where, till the single individual cells, without exception. It means that the food is transported every where. The blood circles every where. And the growing of consciousness means to widen my self-identy. It doesn't matter how many times I widened my self-identity. There is always some more circles to include. May be the concern with money is the biggest challenge for people being on a spiritual path. It is to include in the self-identity the poverty, the aggressiveness, the cheating, the manipulating (and much more...) as all biased manifestations of the spiritual material energy, which cries for becoming released and which strives for appearing in its powerful effectiveness in bringing love, beauty, richness, food here on earth. The power of changing our visible world is in the hands of those who manipulate money and richness. Do you choose to give your contribution too? There is a lot to do.