Human society is profoundly sick. In fact, it poses a threat to human beings and our physical and mental well-being. It is impossible to feel well if the society forces us to live and work in an erroneous way. Without changes to our socio-economic structure, we can expect no fundamental changes in our lives, and Keppe’s Analytical Trilogy offers a probing analysis of economics – and some solutions to our troubles.

We hope what we’ve posted here will contribute significantly to helping us live in a more just, equitable and conscious society. Do let us know your thoughts.

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The Dialectic: Work and Capital (A Complementary Pair)
To earn from capital without working is theft; and to work without sharing in the capital involved is slavery; in both cases, the result is an imbalance. For example, the United States became the International Bank, and allowed its industrial and agricultural productivity to fall, with the result that the nation is now in total decline. (Read more here)

The Economy Will Not Develop Correctly Until It Is Based on Reality
The economy is not just a game for dozens and dozens of human beings to play at Stocks and Shares or Monopoly, with exciting peaks and troughs, living in a fantasy world. The economy is part of reality and can only be developed correctly if it returns to its true origin. It must be wedded to work, to human achievement, if peace is to return to humanity. (Read more here)

Trilogical Enterprises: Sociotherapy Through Work
The first opened in 1984 in New York City, but were soon spreading to London,Stockholm, Helsinki, Lisbon and São Paulo. All of them had certain characteristics in common: financial stability and/or constant growth, satisfied workers and very happy clients and customers. (Read more here)

Excerpt from Thinking with Somebody Else's Head Podcast with Richard Lloyd Jones and Dr.Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco
Money is not the motivation for people to produce a work of quality. This is more linked with the essence of man, which is pure action. And if we cannot accomplish what we would like to, if our ideals cannot be put into practice, we really get physically, mentally, spiritually sick. Our society is sick because it is impeded from developing its real path, which is to live a balanced, prosperous, esthetical, beautiful, healthy, ethical kind of life. (Read more here)

Excerpt from Thinking with Somebody Else's Head Podcast with Richard Lloyd Jones and Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco
What dominates life on this planet is inversion, psychological inversion. So we can not see a man or a woman acting spontaneously for the good of other people. Selfishness dominates, envy dominates – envy in terms of not wanting people to enjoy the goods and richness and this beautiful paradise we have in our hands. (Read more here)

Excerpt from Thinking with Somebody Else's Head Podcast with Richard Lloyd Jones and Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco
There are things to be fixed, to be restored, to be created, inventions to be put into practice to improve the quality of life. So, humanity is getting poorer and poorer. This idea that the first world is growing and experiencing economic growth, this is pure illusion. This is deception because in reality what we see is that humanity is becoming poorer and poorer. (Read more here)

Stock Market Crashes are an Important Warning Sign that the Economy is on the Wrong Track
The most dangerous economic idea for society has always been the desire to live without working – either using speculative means to survive (like interest and stock investments) or relying on the privileges of birth (nobility, family wealth, etc.). In fact, this is the kind of lifestyle that causes a person to become totally alienated. (Read more here)

The Source of Consciousness is Correct, Real and Esthetic Action
Those who refuse the conscientization process, that is, who do not want to see the truth about themselves, are by the same token unwilling to put themselves into action. So what is generally called laziness is the attitude of rejecting what is good. (Read more here)

Thinking with Somebody Else's Head episodes

Our sister podcast, Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, is the place we turn to frequently to understand what’s wrong with our current economic view. Check out their 3-part series on the Economic Crisis here...

Behind the Economic Crisis I
It’s not the first time we’ve seen big money bailouts in our economic history, of course. Financial crises have been with us since the stock market was invented. But let’s not forget that everytime the market struggles, there’s a ton of money pumped in to shore it up. Public money. But this time, there’s a lot of resistance to it. Could it be we’re finally waking up? (Listen here)

Behind the Economic Crisis II
It’s still hitting us hard. Markets are down, foreclosures are up. Shanty towns are springing up in southern California. We’re officially in recession, it appears. And what got us here varies depending on which side of the political argument you listen to. The only problem with that is … it’s a little difficult to get at the real root causes. (Listen here) 

Economic Crisis III – Psychoanalysis of Society
We’ve got change in the White House. And in the tennis ATP rankings. A change in Madonna’s marital status, too … for what that’s worth. Not that those last 2 mean much. And whether the first is truly meaningful remains to be seen, doesn’t it? (Listen here)

If you thought there couldn’t be anything good about the stock market’s fall, this should open your eyes a little:

The Stock Market Crash’s Silver Lining
Hundreds of years before the meteoric rise of Cisco Systems or Qualcomm stock prices, Semper Augustus tulip bulbs were selling for the price of a house in Holland. Tulipmania was in full swing in the 1600s, and it looked much like the dotcom madness of the 1990s. It crashed eventually, of course, but caused little  lasting damage. Could the same
thing be true today? (Listen here)

And there’s a whole lot more here:

Redefining the Relationship Between Work and Capital
It’s a philosophy deeply entrenched in our North American view of life: make your money work for you, leverage your investments, make money while you sleep. But hidden behind these strategies is a massive trap. Money, which is supposed to be a means, has become the ends. Today, capital is more important than your mother. (Listen here)

For something a little more therapeutic related to work, especially useful work, our analysis of a middle-aged guy searching for relevance in a work place that no longer wants him is fascinating, too:

Honoring our Inner Ethics
Values. Principles. Ethics. The greatest of human beings don't short-change theirs come hell or high water. "I lose everything if I lose my self-respect," might be the philosophy underlying that. And I think it's important to remind ourselves that there is no such thing as flexible ethics. By definition, ethics are something absolute. No relativity there. And this can make it very difficult to adapt to our modern society of moveable values. (Listen here)

Promise Land
And if you want to really know what’s going on in the economic crisis,our colleague, Gilbert Gambucci, has put together an incisive scientific dissection of the thing. Extraordinary and illuminating. Essential viewing for all of us. www.promiseland.info

Work and Capital
And of course, the source of all our Healing Through Consciousness programs related to true economy is Keppe’s monumental book, Work and Capital. (Must reading, here)