“Spirituality and the stock market”…. sounds like polar opposites, doesn’t it? For most, the “stock market” brings images of greedy, “win-at-all-cost” types of people. People who will run over anyone to make a dollar. This of course is in far contrast to what one would consider spiritual; the holy, loving, giving, selfless types of folks. However, the stock market trading experience, for me, has been much more than a money making endeavour. It has taught me things about myself that I don’t think I could have learned in any other profession. It has forced me to deal with myself. Be honest with who I am and what I want. It has taught me patience and humility. It has taught me to forgive and forget. It has shown me who I am. It has taken me down a path, not of greed, but of a spiritual awakening.
Spirituality and the Stock Market
10 08 2009
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Wow! What a great and unique topic for a blog. I am looking forward to your words of wisdom.
What do you think of Hollywood always portraying CEOs, bankers and traders as heartless evil doers?
Thanx Geo! I appreciate you stopping by the blog. I am a believer that the media that we subject ourselves to has an influence over our reality… whatever that media may be. Also, I think hollywood, aka the film industry, is a reflection of mass thought (s). I am a firm believer in the law of attraction and feel that movies are made because they were asked to be made (through daily thought) by a group of people. The more popular the movie… the more folks who asked for it. So, in that respect, I feel like the public has a fear of folks with money (or even money itself… you could even stretch that out to power as well), and thus create films (through the asking of the universe) that reflect that reality. Do you feel hollywood has a vendetta for the financial industry?
Spoken like a true guru! Yes, I do believe Hollywood (I am generalizing) has a vendetta for the financial industry.
Coincidentally, not 10 minutes after I made my first post, Neil Cavuto went on a rant about the latest hit movie, G.I. Joe. Even in this movie, the villain was a rich businessman. Wouldn’t you think that a movie about a super army soldier would have a terrorist ringleader or some sort of nuclear bomb holding despot or dictator as the villain? Perhaps even an evil alien or something?
I recall the remake of the Manchurian candidate had the bad guys as a large corporation instead of the leaders of a foreign country as in the original story.
Concerning your point about the public getting what they want, I believe they want action and adventure in their movies. Hollywood provides that and then sneaks in their anti-capitalistic views.
Rumor has it that they are making Atlas Shrugged into a movie. Perhaps we are now in an age where capitalist have been maligned so much the public is looking for a CEO hero…
Interesting observations! And yes I do agree that I see much hate for the “rich man” theses days in all types of media be it movies or books or magazines or blogs. But, again, I think the public (net sum of thoughts on the subject) is calling for the reaffirmations of their beliefs that being rich is evil. There is a massive financial overhaul going on at the moment across the world. And the sting of the economic downturn is hitting alot of folks right between the eyes. They are looking for someone to blame and the rich man, the one who is seen as controlling the money that they are losing, is the target. This [the rich being to blame] is not my opinion of course but my observation of the public’s observation.. haha. But, my point I think is that I do see a slant in the way the financial world is portrayed in certain media outlets, for example fox news, cnbc, etc “loves” the rich man and is fighting against what they see as “class warfare”. Hollywood is just the otherside of the coin.
While I am a practicing capitalist (who is working hard to be rich someday), I do not like to watch CNBC or FBN. About 30 minutes of financial talk is about all I can bear.
Have you seen a toning down of the rhetoric on CNBC due to pressure from NBC and General Electric?
hahah! that is awesome.. I am a financial professional and I dont watch them anymore either. No, I cant say I have seen the “toning down.” In what ways?
Well in the early days of the housing bust it looked liked the folks at CNBC were in the lead in opposition to the mortgage bailouts. Something about “folks having to carry the water for the folks drinking the water” or something like that.
I had read on the internets that Zucker (who runs NBC) and Immelt (who runs GE that owns NBC) called those CNBC folks on the carpet and told them to chill or else.
Of course you can’t believe everything you believe on the internets, except of course the stuff in this blog.
I have to say, I didnt hear anything on that. But, thank you for your kindness regarding this blog! hahah
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