This is a brief section from Pamela Boyce Simms's Substack essay, Don't Look Down. Look Beyond: A 'New Rules' Opportunity for Economic Transmutation. You can read the complete essay at https://substack.com/home/post/p-195564056

Economies are people, not statistics and algorithmic predictions. The nature of an economic operating system reflects the level of internal self-awareness and quality of consciousness of both its architects and subjects—myriad interconnected subsystems of people with beliefs and expectations who go about meeting their needs, working, producing, and consuming.

The economy to which we are subject, including those holding the power to manipulate it, isn't a detached external entity that toys with our lives. It's a reflection of how aware we are of our total interdependence. Our consciousness creates it.

As per Mandelbrot's fractal principle of self-similar patterns repeating across scales in nature (and Indra's Net 2,500 years earlier), the consciousness of people who comprise an economy is reflected in the economic environment they either create or enable—consciously or unconsciously. Economies, composed of and driven by architects and subjects alike, behave just like other organisms in nature. Every part at every scale contains the whole. Separation is an artificial construct.

That's a tremendous amount of creative responsibility we hold, whether we're conscious of it or not! At the micro level, a positive shift translates into consciously deciding how we spend, what we demand of our work environments, how we treat each other, how we allow the power brokers to treat us, how much we'll tolerate, and how much we'll continue to enable exploitation. Our individual beliefs, choices, and repeated behavior patterns in aggregate reverberate throughout and shape the fractal pattern of the framing economic system. As individual consciousness shifts at the micro level, so does the macro economic environment in which we live.

When corporations and the majority of the population are hyper-competitive, driven by greed and the need to dominate, that corresponding base level of consciousness precipitates an exploitative, extractive system.

When we the people who animate the economy consciously decide to share resources, work collaboratively, and care for our communities, we create the conditions that produce a regenerative economy prioritizing the collective good.

Shall we own up to the current situation we're living through in order to integrate the lessons and rise?

Pamela Boyce Simms, CEO of Singularity Botanicals and the Community Supported Enlightenment (CSE) Network, is a culture designer. She uses neuroscience techniques and applied consciousness studies to guide clients through systems disruptions. You can read her essays and subscribe to her Substack at https://pboycesimms.substack.com/