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To conclude
his two part series, Adrian Glamorgan offers these
seven steps to sustainable consumption
So – climate change is happening, peak
oil is happening, water shortages are happening,
even world food shortages are stalking abroad
and pricing up the local counter, and the folk
at international meetings are saying, “let's
do something”: but don't mention consumption
too prominently.
 Why
relegate sustainable consumption? Because it's
hard.
Because the free market can't work out how to
solve "the greatest market failure in history",
climate change, except by letting those failing
free markets have more of a go at selling more
things – getting "carbon trading"
happening, yes, but also encouraging us to keep
buying, to keep the world economy afloat, and
global business-as-usual on its supercruiser keel.
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we advance further down the pathway to explore
the holistic industry and all the enrichment it
offers us in so many ways, we all trip up from
time to time.
And, from my chats with people here and there,
it seems an understanding of what “soul”
really means is one of those stumbling blocks.
Of course, it’s also called the “mind,
body and soul” industry and the first two
seem easier to grasp, even if we fall far short
in our endeavours to still the chattering mind
and honour the temple of the body! Soul, though,
is a more elusive thing!
There’s the understanding that it forms
the bridge between our earthly body and the universal
spirit that’s central to most esoteric teaching,
our personal path to God; there’s also the
sense that it’s related to lifeforce or
maybe it is even life itself as suggested in that
old word “anima”; and, of course,
we understand the sort of music or art that comes
alive for us on a personal level because it has
soul.
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behalf of us all, Eric Harrison poses the ultimate
question: when we die does our soul live on?
When Shakespeare said, "To thine own self
be true", he was quoting a proverb that had
its roots in ancient Greece. "Examine yourself,"
said Socrates, who argued that self understanding
is essential for happiness and the pursuit of
any knowledge whatsoever. It is little exaggeration
to say that all of Western psychology and science
starts with Socrates' little phrase.
When I look at myself, however, I see an endless
cavalcade of sensations, emotions, memories and
habits within in one everchanging body. I seem
to be too big, too complicated, too disconcertingly
variable to nail down in any meaningful way. And
yet, despite all this, I still know exactly who
I am. I will never mistake myself, nor be mistaken,
for any other human being.
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