Spiritual reflection on the elections


The elections are behind us and leave behind a shattered political landscape. The political blocs have disintegrated. What does this mean? Here, different thought about it. For me the main question is whether there is more spiritual depth.

Has our country become more aware of its responsibility for the future and well-being of our people? What are the criteria to rate this? The voter has clearly become more articulate, more critical. This is an important feature of increased awareness and inner freedom. The voters have shown more responsibility and have been able to bring down strongholds of power.

The pursuit of power and possession, for money, are the two biggest stumbling blocks for a spiritual depth and the well-being of a nation. That the elections have been able to get down the power politics is therefore a great advantage. It is striking that the Christian parties, who are expected to be bearers of spiritual inspiration, also have fallen. The question is whether too much entangled in power?

Money and austerity were the most important points of discussion have been. Money and debt repayment is certainly important, but it does not touch the heart of the matter. Ultimately it's human to human well-being. Money is not this more than agent, but was often the aim of the policy emphasized. I think there were clear signs of spiritual innovators, but they were divided among the various parties. Thus their influence was too weak.

In the first place, the question is what we want as a nation, that is our collective well-being. That is the meaning of our life and the meaning of the state. Spirituality comes to life at the deepest level of our existence are, where we all have a consistent form and one. That is the basis of sustainability. Was little talk about sustainability in the party programs. Sustainability is not just about power of nature, but mainly by mental sustainability of humans as spiritual beings.

Most discussions in the elections were not about what we as human beings and as people want to be but we want to have, especially more money, more income, more wealth. But what we have we can easily lose again. What you are you will never lose. Sustainability is just that what we are as people, as family, as a people. It is supported by a broader context at the deepest level of our existence.

Power and wealth are eventually always set. Only spiritual forces hold mode and can keep a community together. Plato describes the power of democracy as a force that leads to disintegration and anarchy. Then comes the call for a philosopher who lives and thinks in terms of its level and capable of the people back to coherence. We have a new generation of political leaders with profound spirit.

Sincerely,

Paul de Blot
Professor of Business Spirituality
Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Prof. Paul de Blot SJ
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  • 12 November 2010
    Prof. Dr. August J. of Eick permalink

    Dear Mr. De Blot,

    In response to your column, I make you this attention to a file in which you may wish that there was and now is. The point is, after the last election, government formation, respectively, "not forget to continue to sit down" but a "new start through the tunnel of the government formation" to make necessary innovation that surpasses the government's plans from floor. With regard to this last I speak of the "religiaal citizen" and a new social order that is created due to a different monetary system: the Linear System Funding retaining the economy within the social primacy. The file reference is "FILE EGT".

    In the eyes of the citizen religiaal this innovation remain stabbing in the tunnel at the end of which no light. The "restart" idea is a powerful conception for man's awareness of values ​​with the means to defend them self. This is included in the conception of "religiaal citizen".

    Besides that I share your concern about the future that is ruinous to the cuts even less rosy, I would pick up on your suggestion that commenters on each other will react. The file "handed over to anyone who wants it going" is so inviting. And that goes for yourself in the first place.

    FILE EGT refer to the available two explanatory APPENDIX articles in circulation are:
    1. POLICY "HOUR": RESTART THE TUNNEL VD cabinet formation.
    2. THE "TRUMP" THE INNOVATIVE "AFTROEFWOORD".

    With regard to the first article there is a "retrospective preview" which I will follow late.

    The democratic culture is familiar to "genie out of the bottle" to emerge and the popular will to fertilize it so along the sliver of history at the end of the tunnel, the light is lit.

    Sincerely, on behalf of "the citizen religiaal"

    August J. of Eick
    Pa, the virtual Affairs Ministry of EGT
    PO Box 3034, 3760 DA Soest

    ================================================== ==========
    Retrospective PREVIEW
    at
    POLICY "HOUR": RESTART THE TUNNEL VD cabinet formation.

    The presentation of "tunnel" in the sense of "government formation" is a strange normalitair option, but this option is strange society saddled after the recent elections, respective ¬ corpse cabinet formation.

    A tunnel to accept that within this darkness reigns with hopefully a light at the end.

    The austerity measures taken by the new government let darkness come upon the land. The strange thing about the "strange option" does not work but more surprising is contrary to the reality of despair.

    Reason for a "new start through the tunnel of the government formation" to avoid the evils of the present crisis to retaliate with the evil of anti-crisis measures, but "the evil to outdo" with a renewed reflection on the "mixed strong defense" of religiaal the citizen.
    .
    A new start through the tunnel of the cabinet formation to the above model is built on the Eco Grammar, the basic language functioning of the social organism. The citizen is religiaal history of the "Eco Trans Grammatical Identification". The reference is FILE EGT.

    FILE EGT collects "symbolic characters and references," compacted to documents intended to guide the relaunch. Especially wearing the DOCUMENTS Documents EGT the title that the motto of the relaunch reflects: "The citizen in trouble / Religiaal the Burger discussed." The subtitle reads: "a meta-political existential therapy against the unspeakable uneasiness."

    Has not the civilian crisis democratized? That is, the crisis from the inside caused a financial crisis that has become the "dramatic scene of the citizen, now everywhere say in having that" the prince no harm know ", in other words" in trouble is. "

    The religiaal citizen is "raised by" absolvatie "Circular of the existing monetary system for a Linear System Funding. The innovative aftroefwoord is "absolvatie" new compared to "absolution" for ancient religions and has nothing to do with "earthly (money) business."

    FILE EGT conducts the "Restart" to the Trans-Capitalist Social Order arising as a result of the reorganization of the money system. The Religiaal Burger spans the distance between citizens and politics and provides an EGT-Populism in the constitutional case of a Ministry of EGT Affairs that "the establishment and management of the Linear System Funding" to his responsibilities.

    SECTIONS FILE EGT at the path to this new order as the common solution to many social issues of today and make a universal religiaal citizen engaged in the challenge that the current era by society. The following Sections have already been nominated and others are optional depending on how the religiaal citizen calls for "participatory as (religiaal citizen) democracy" responds to the detriment of the citizen bringing into disrepute "in participatory democracy":
    • The Globalization Section.
    • The Europe Section.
    • The Poverty Point.
    • The Environment Section.
    • The Senior Section.
    • The Energy Section.
    • The Migration and Integration Section.
    • The Ideologieënparagraaf.
    • The Standards and Value Section.
    • The Citizenship Section.

  • 1 September 2010

    Dear Paul,

    In the politeia explains Plato's famous cave-text that everyone are equal based on the small piece that "he can see and understand. The beauty of this formation is precisely that it is in the cave bar and apparently angry at may draw near!

    Plato meant in my opinion that the inhabitants of the cave together "their" truth should tell, as the blind in the description of their elephant. The opposite is true, every person involved or indirectly holds more attached to his own understanding of what an elephant is. The reflection indicates a largely individualistic society shot through with only weiig need things to share. Plato saw that in the affluent, but deeply divided, Magna Greca also, and called for greater mutual understanding and cohesion.

    Not spirituality, but the realization of solidarity is important to the survival of this economy to guarantee. Before the environmental movement hijacked the term, even hot 'sustainability'.

  • 30 July 2010
    Prof. Dr. Dick Bouwman permalink

    July 30, 2010
    Dear Paul,
    Following your spiritual reflection on the elections (15/6), below my reflection on your writing:
    You write:
    - "The voter is articulate clearly become more articulate, more critical. This is an important feature for increased awareness and inner freedom. "
    What I see is that the voter has become non-shade darker. So the degree of development of awareness and inner freedom (especially in a spiritual sense) I is not happy. Also wonder if the voter matured. The magnitude of the rise of the voter supplies a no proof ..
    - "The voters have shown great responsibility and have been able to strongholds of power to tear down."
    To the bastions of power to tear down a (spiritual) revolution. Look at the developments in the formation of right '. This is actually the classic rusty story, in which party and party political interests and not the welfare of the people prevail.
    - "It is striking that the Christian parties, who are expected to be bearers of spiritual inspiration also have fallen."
    If the Christian parties (and I think even in the first place to the CDA) are the carriers of spiritual inspiration, then I think we 'spirituality' to re-define.
    - "The question is whether those parties too much entangled in power."
    Politics "has never been anything but 'the game for power. Ethical considerations when it really matters, are rarely made. There are Christian parties no exception.
    From your next paragraph I walk with you .. ". Thank you! "
    Finally
    Visionary and organic thinking whether we are talking about the structure of our society, our education or our interpersonal relationships is not "just" far away. We are provisionally locked with each compartmentalized thinking and conceptual and linear thought patterns. Obviously, because it feels so familiar. We are so afraid of real change.
    Sincerely,
    Dick Bouwman
    man

  • 2 July 2010
    Prof. Dr. Hein de Vries Robles permalink

    Dear Mr. DeBlot,

    It strikes me every time at how little your critical readers.
    That they who swallow hogwash to me onvoorstelbaaar.

    For a few points to highlight:

    1) Quote: "The pursuit of power and possession, for money, are the two biggest stumbling blocks for a spiritual depth and the well-being of a nation."

    Without power, possessions and wealth, we would not be able to travel across borders to look and the knowledge of the world to us to pick.

    It's always the rich and powerful of the earth who have facilitated spiritual deepening. It is from Financieele richness that spiritual development and could be funded. By the grace of "overproduction" and prosperity created space for other things.

    A nation? The nationalist thinking is the development of the internet dying.
    And fortunately, not a moment too soon.

    It is also not the welfare of the nation, but for the welfare of man. What led to that first we have, in various failed experiments in world history can be seen. Fortunately, most regimes where the individual is sacrificed without looking to the nation in the civilized world in the past. And you are such "social" pricipes for? You will find that for "the Dutch Nation" (by) the population must be sacrificed?

    Quote: "The first concerns the question of what we want as a nation, that is our collective well-being. That is the meaning of our life and the meaning of the state. "

    The meaning of our life we ​​decompose from the collective?

    In other words, you posit here an assertion that is demonstrably not correct shown and also from a human-centered philosophy utterly immoral.

    And you want to give direction to the "spirit" of business?
    Or are you people mentally ready to live for the company (/ collective)?

    2) Quote: "Power and wealth are eventually always set. Only spiritual forces hold mode and can keep a community together. Plato describes the power of democracy as a force that leads to disintegration and anarchy. "

    Sustainability is the most ridiculous argument that non-used word in these times.
    Het is het argument van de aartsconservatief om iedere verandering in de wereld tegen te houden. Natuurlijk vallen macht en rijkdom op den duur uiteen en vinden een nieuwe coherentie. Net als de democratie.

    Maar dat dat naar anarchie zou leiden. Misschien in de tijd van Plato. Anarchie ontstaat als de overheid zijn aanzien en macht verliest.

    Meer “duurzaam” is de I Ching , het boek der veranderingen. Het gaat om overgangen en transformaties in een steeds ontwikkelende en vernieuwende wereld.
    Practische lessen en observaties van lang geleden over hoe de wereld in elkaar zit en mensen functioneren. En over het feit dat het enige wat het zelfde blijft is dat, binnen de natuurwetten, alles verandert.

    Dit in tegenstelling tot het utopische denken van hoe de wereld zou moeten zijn.
    Ook als dit tegen het wezen der dingen ingaat.
    In mijn optiek het zinloze gefantaseer van een kleuter, die zich niet bewust is van de beperkingen van de realitieit om zich heen.

    En dan ten slotte de roep om een nieuwe leider………………………….
    daar ga ik niet eens meer op in.

    Of toch wel.
    Om even bij uw beleving te blijven (letterlijk). Wie had u als rolmodel in gedachten?
    Stalin ? (Politieke zuiveringen)
    Hitler ? (Etnische zuiveringen)
    Mao ? (Culturele zuiveringen)
    Kennedy ? (Ideeele (Varkensbaai/Vietnam) oorlog)

    Om eens een paar “groten” te noemen.

    I'm curious.

    Maar eigenlijk ook niet. U bent opgegroeid in een immorele wereld met acceptabele totalitaire regimes en hebt zonder daar bij stil te staan de sociale basis principes ervan omarmt.

    Jammer , maar helaas.

    Regards,

    Hein de Vries Robles

  • June 21, 2010

    Dear Paul,

    Nice words, even in the comments.

    For the government formation in this particular time in history, it mi less to the different contents, but more to the right intention, motivation and attitude towards awareness of the "teamwork".
    From a position where you really want to hear what is important and why the other party, willingness to agreements to watch and key samenwerkingsinspiraties to each other to speak, substantive differences most easily be overcome and all contents (with left and right aspects ) just as a stronger program come out on top!

    = Attitude more important than content and content = important than form (usually)

    I Rutte, Halsema, Pechtold and Cohen all people with a very flexible attitude to life and transcending spirit and wisdom, to put together a very inspired and innovative government to form.

    Ines Schouten St Maartenszee

  • 18 June 2010

    Thank you Paul. Very nice! I can totally relate. It is my view too much short-term solutions from self-enrichment and thought instead of connecting the greater whole. Thanks for the clear wording.

    Heart Regards,
    Vonny Nuijten

  • 17 June 2010

    Dear Mr. De Blot,
    Well what can I say to those truths which gives us every time. I can only enjoy it.

    But the responses that your idea around the core values ​​of our people gives rise to amaze me and make me seem a bit angrily. For there is talk of a crisis and the path we follow in order to come out.

    I think there is no example of a crisis. We keep fooling ourselves by saying that we do things differently to a crisis. This saying gives us an idea of ​​healing, of strong leadership, but ultimately it feels no different. Where do we fix it? What do we do differently than before, before we were sick or in crisis before we landed?

    No, the essence is not seen, the essence is intrinsically spiritual, personal leadership and compassion for each other the only thing that can make us happy is not seen.

    We think that if we arrange things well we can escape the feeling of who we are, and we can drink from the feeling that we are. A momentary rush that we eventually will lead to a situation which we call crisis.

    But the word crisis means watershed moment of real change.

    My question to some, is: Have you ever experienced a crisis?, Yes? Congratulations, and what has it brought you, what have you learned, how much wiser you become?

  • 16 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Reza permalink

    Dear Paul,

    I agree with your story.

    Plato with his anarchy ... what is it comparable to harmonic dualism?
    For people just realize that everything is consciousness and we therefore it is easier to achieve change.

    Any change follows an awakening. This crisis is a good example. We become hope-I-aware how we should not want or do. Every man will agree separately and yet there is something that ensures that humanity does not.

    The message is so simple that it seems impossible to achieve.
    Basically you have nothing to do. The only thing is to live from love and goodness. The story tells of one. One. Light, God, Father, Father and Mother, etc.

    In a world of there is no dualism. There is no coming and going because you're always al Everything we know is already there It just re-discovered. We do not learn. That is not the intention and not as impossible as it is made with love. Love is not subject to a value judgment. There are exist also no values ​​in a world of a.

    You and I and others are part of that one and we contribute to that one. So what do we were, are and will be alive. Whatever happens or what anyone says.
    The world of a God or the world or the world of light. It does not matter what name it is you are one with this world.

    In life you were born. This is like being part of. When you were born you were a part. At the same time did you contribute. In the beginning it is that is not a lot of. Usually full diapers. Later still when you wear. Precisely which help you should not approach the trend of everything that you need to have or that you do that one contribution. Contributions should not multiply but share. If you share you multiply also. It's weird but true.

    It is not intended that material things are fairly distributed because there is no such thing as a world divided into equal. Everyone has the same. It is the intention the world of a to recover. The world of the people is one.
    Now it is easier to understand that when you kill someone or hurt, you actually kill yourself or hurt. Hence the saying. What you do not want .....

    God we could and perhaps we should replace it by the word life. Everything we can see, life and everything that we can not see is life. All the 'vacuum' is also life. Or God. So people who say that God is everywhere, is saying that life is everywhere.

    The saying splits a stone and you will find me referring to as described above. The wind, rain, sun, snow, everything is life or God.

    When you realize that everything is life and the realization that you know that life, you're able to not having to undergo the living but to live. Life is predestined. That's because everything is already there. Nothing is made. Everything is.
    Hence remember.
    You can not learn or do. That is pointless. At least pointless, it is actually wasted energy. Take advantage of life. And life is you.

    The circle is round again. Life is a circle. A three-dimensional. A Bol.
    The question of what happens when squaring a circle is not answered. Let alone if we have a square ball. With a little imagination you can imagine that the (infinite) outer edges to the center draw. The ball goes into itself and comes to expression. It lives from themselves. The center of the sphere can be compared with terms such as, Zero Point Field. Akashic Field. Crisis Point. Repentance. Birth. Mortality. Rebirth. Choice. Everything.

    It makes no sense to ask yourself what happens. It just happens al why time does not exist. The time that we experience is negligible when compared with the time frame over which the big bang did. There is really only one time.

    Always. You are forever. You live always in the now. Hence, you now can look to the love for yourself and if you ask-what-not really need the Kingdom will arise. The Kingdom can see you. But not the King!

    That's you!

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Gert permalink

    Yes, that would be nice, one or more true spirtuele leaders. But that's not the whole story. Thus we are not. Because it involves the growth of awareness of people. Without awareness and remain spirtuele leaders crying in the wilderness. I read about interesting things on http://www.spirituelepolitiek.web-log.nl .
    , Inter alia, gives the following.
    .
    "Can and should you do that through politics can and should stimulate that through politics you really want to achieve? The values ​​and standards-story example of the Balkenende 2007-2010 is ultimately not really collective "landed" in the hearts of men?
    .
    If you already want to do then you will need as a political leader 'for life'. Every time show that behind these so-called urgent matters an underlying interest or cause. So look beyond your nose and that each spread. In light and love.
    This requires 'predecessors' in light and love in the world and from "wisdom" to respond. So no "burden" (more) have their own "ego" (those pesky "I" who is always trying to push forward).
    That is "light and love that they are therefore able to keep the (political) world of dualitei and polarization. That calls for 'wise' people from peace, balance and love themselves vulnerable and open to willing and able to make to give and to receive. Also feedback. From this open attitude to want to look in the mirror, to pick up signals and want them to learn.
    Only in this way, a 'predecessor' hold its own in the world of politics, where unprecedented powers and forces are at work when people get caught up soon.
    .
    In our country lives more than 16 million people. Each unique individual human being. All in various stages of consciousness. There is not a recipe to say 'so it can'. If you want all you have to appeal to people in different ways to take steps in their development.
    More importantly, each individue free and continues to personally from their own inner conviction or not steps in turn. There "must" do anything.
    And last but not least, we should be pulling, pushing and tugging to things that are in the cosmic system many light years just naturally unfold?

    Finally in this context a message from the guest of People and Spirit that this appealed to me. I therefore place it here integrally.

    Robert, 09/06/2010 1:58
    "I do believe you have different ideas than the political establishment. My experience is that you are not aware by something from outside. You become aware by yourself just to go inside. Aware of the world around you comes from the consciousness from your Self. But then you have to get your self, and ultimately that means that out of your head you have to get in your Self. You're in the unit and you experience things energetic, which is the only way to be aware because that is about verbinding.Die connection is so energetic and for that you get yourself whole again be. Consciousness means that you yourself can feel and that is again about energy. In duality there is no energy but emotion, energy is stationary, and even that is suppressed. From my own experience I can say that just because you are petrified remains. So that rigidity must first be loosened again and restores the unit to be able to feel again. "
    "To achieve that, a man by his own fears and emotions are going so that his energy to flow again. IN THAT can only human development and that is the way of the soul. "
    "The only thing the outside world does is trigger and flip me so I can go through things. And that's the only way. You people are not aware because awareness is yourself. You can tell people anything but if they are unaware they feel it yourself. That leaves the words alone. "

    Robert, 09/06/2010 2:35
    "Politics is not able to solve something. There are no solutions, there are only developments that lead somewhere. If you want to do something to solve an end and this can not continue because developments must go through to not come to stand still. ""

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Francis permalink

    hear, hear

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Rob Dry permalink

    Dear Mr Blot and readers ...

    Money is not just energy, energy you can put things in motion? Whether that movement loving and constructive or destructive is correct ... that makes the energy called "money" which is nothing, money is ... the people who are committed to appropriating course, what makes it all according to their motives and causes the use of money light or darkness ...

    And power is not only something that emerges as anywhere else impotence and / or denial or created? Everything you are is more dependent on their own coloring.

    In my opinion, these are only two players on the court, just as lust, greed and unfortunately very strongly represented in the Netherlands, traditional Dutch stupidity ... Players on the field. I do not see them as obstacles to a spiritual awareness or development, the stumbling blocks are formed by the people involved get to work from sick motives. Money and power can be great forces that great good could be applied toward world peace, world food, world freedom .... but alas ..... nothing like that ....

    Spiritual awareness will not even through religion or politics can arise. If that could happen would be that long ... religion and politics is because there are people who seek power and money and through religion and politics is amply available, and then you and you may be best oerdom (Balkenende with his fuck drug-shirt for example, the developer star of the carpool lane, the HST, etc etc etc), even sexually total cut (priests and pastors who are children of offenses), also I may. In religion and politics often find it quite a lot of stupid people doing stupid things, and then once someone comes over with great and inspiring innovative ideas than he or she is likely to be silenced ....

    N my experience spiritual awakening plays almost no role in what the voters have shown. Most voters are just the program and the hypocrisy of certain political figures sat where they stand. So they choose a different, a different story, a different color ... but renewal will not occur because the system remains the same including the motives of those who operate the system and maintain. There is essentially nothing has changed ....

    This spiritual awakening is already underway just want you to really integrate spirituality then you understand that nothing in the long run from coercion is permanent, nothing from unfreedom can persist, not for profit soil provides for real change. And so the path of awareness provisionally remain outside politics and religion as well that once bastions of power and that just the two stumbling blocks to spiritual awakening in the way ...

    Will it ever otherwise, yes, that will happen as soon as someone without power vibration, without profit, without the other mandatory thing to want to lay ultimately in politics or in a religious stronghold "ends", not because he or she wants but because the continuity of life drop him or her there ... not from ego but from Spirit .. and then be careful that there is not another randdebiel as Volkert of the G. starts shooting ... who knows .... it may be that spirituality in politics or religion can trickle ....

    Rob Dry

  • 15 June 2010

    Dear Paul,

    Met plezier lees ik elke keer weer je columns, en brengen deze me op nieuwe gedachten, bijvoorbeeld om de zaken eens van een andere kant te bezien.
    Met jouw hoopvolle stuk over de verkiezingen ben ik het echter prettig oneens.
    Natuurlijk wens ik ook een samenleving waarin wij met elkaar voor elkaar verantwoordelijk zijn- en waarin macht niet tot uitbuiting leidt maar tot een wereld waarin er voor iedereen een aandeel geluk beschikbaar is.
    Mijn waarneming van de verkiezingen is, dat de uitslag bepaald niet het resultaat is van meer denkende (en meer voelende) mensen. Ik ben geneigd om eerder te zeggen in tegendeel.
    Ook deze verkiezingsuitslag is in hoge mate het resultaat van de media en massacommunicatie. Kenmerkend voor dat resultaat is dat er een beeld wordt geschapen, dat een politicus met een goede performance -bijvoorbeeld de betere debater- ook beter leiding kan geven.
    Het is mijn ervaring, dat dat meestal omgekeerd evenredig waar is.

    In deze beeldvorming rond leiderschap zijn een aantal mythes en opvattingen over 'de goede leider' actief. Jammer genoeg worden die heel weinig geanalyseerd of aan de orde gesteld.

    Laat ik het zo samenvatten: er zijn wat mij betreft te veel politici uit op macht, en te weinig op het dienen van de maatschappij, de bevolking.
    Verlichtend vind ik de visie van Robert Greenleaf hierop- en die zou voor ieder kabinets- en kamerlid verlichte lectuur moeten vormen. En dan gaat het niet er om, dat daar eens over nagedacht wordt, maar dat er daarnaar gehandeld wordt.
    Jammer genoeg is daarmee een paradox voor leiderschap gemaakt, want leiderschap is natuurlijk nooit iets doen omdat een ander iets zegt!

    Sincerely,
    Eckart

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Ben permalink

    Dear Paul,

    Met hetgeen je beschrijft ben ik het hard(t)grondig eens.
    Geld en macht zouden niet het doel moeten zijn, maar een vreedzame samenleving, waarbij het materiële nivo van ondergeschikt belang zou moeten zijn.
    Dank voor je wijze woorden, wat vast staat is, dat Nederland gezien de relatieve aardverschuiving bij de verkiezingen rijp is voor verandering en dat is zeker een winstpunt.
    Sincerely,
    Are

  • 15 June 2010

    Verregaand eens met uw analyse van de lectorale (aard) verschuivingen die we meemaakten ; ik maak u er op attent dat de partij waarop ik stemde en waar ik ook lid van ben : de partij voor Mens en Spirit precies in haar uitgangspunten heeft staan , wat u ook aangeeft —
    Helaas is zij in het media Geweld te weinig zichtbaar geworden en gebleken ; ruim 26.200 kiezesr brachten hun stem uit – niet genoeg voor een zetel ; maar we gaan door – Wellicht kunt u ook uw invloed aanwenden…

    cfr http://www.mensenspirit.nl

    Alle Goeds

    Vr. Groet vanuit Zaltbommel

    drs Joep Beliën

  • 15 June 2010

    Mooi schrijven. Er is idd veel veranderd sinds de kiezer heeft gesproken maar of de gekozen partijen dat ook hebben begrepen durf ik te betwijfelen.
    Rutte houdt wijselijk zijn kaarten op de borst, Wilders rampt op zijn tam-tam om het CDA te lokken en de mannenbroeders van de SGP hebben nog voor er überhaupt is van een akkoord ligt al hun gedoogsteun uitgesproken.
    Wat willen wij als samenleving? Ik vind dat een interessante vraag waar ik met mezelf hele filosofische gesprekken over zou kunnen voeren want het is een vraag die me al jaren intrigeert. Wat willen wij als samenleving voor de toekomst van onszelf, ons land en onze kinderen.
    Het antwoord moet ik u helaas schuldig blijven, ik heb voor mezelf nooit geweten wat ik wilde en dat is nog steeds zo. Wat ik wel weet is dat het compleet anders zal moeten maar hoe daar kan ik dus geen antwoord opgeven.
    Ik kan wel zeggen meer duurzaam, milieu bewust en dergelijke maar dat zijn slechts holle woorden die vaak worden gebezigt door politici en die mi kant noch wal raken omdat ze veel te vaag zijn. We zullen het dus allemaal gaan zien wat het wordt, ik kan niet meer doen dat vertrouwen op spirit.

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Ad de Regt permalink

    Dear Mr. Blot,

    Refreshing that in the problematic result of the verkeizing the hopeful element of the erosion of power blocs like. How painful crises and chaos are also sometimes / often? This shows the process from which innovation emerges. Or as Buddhism says "In confusion dawns wisdom." Let's hope that enough people are aware that the confused situation in which we live. And then that visionary leaders (Harteveld) are required. This can be the inspiration of Jesus (Wierda), but fortunately there are at this time also many other resources. Let us find strength in their synergy.

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Matthijs Vermoolen permalink

    Money seems to become means to an end. But money is pointless if it is not is used for anything. Hoarding, or speculation on the movement of cash flows, adds nothing to zivols. It is time that in addition to the existing welfare-oriented system creates a system where welfare by the government and control information will be used. And that this is formed a clear vision and accountability. What do we want good care, safety etc. really achieve? And how does the Prime Minister during his weekly interview us explain what progress, instead of just reacting to the delusional (sense) of the day.

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Judith permalink

    Dear Paul,
    thank you for your wisdom. As always you inspire me again. Thank you for everything you drop in our world. I am grateful that a few times at close quarters could make.
    Sincerely,
    Judith Beers

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Marcel Harteveld permalink

    Hello Paul,

    Dat zijn de ware woorden die er toe doen. We hebben visionaire leiders nodig die vanuit echte menselijk welzijn een koers uitzetten. Het materiele is niet datgene waar het echt om gaat. Het immateriele mag ruimte gaan krijgen. Het is dan de balans tussen beide die er toe doet en het verschil maakt.
    Hoe belangrijk het ook is aan recessie te werken kan het niet alleen welvaart zijn die de enige drijfveer is.
    Rupsje nooitgenoeg mag zich gaan transformeren. En ervaar wat er dan ontstaat. We zijn er aan toe. Het mag ontvouwt worden.

    Marcel

  • 15 June 2010

    Dear Mr. Blot,

    Uiteraard ben ik het weer met u eens. Of het nu om de politiek gaat, het bedrijfsleven of de mini-organisatie, het gezin dus. Steeds vertroebelt geld de beweegredenen van de mens. Men heeft zich afhankelijk gemaakt van dit element maar zeker ook van de wet. Wat See & Act in de praktijk uitdraagt is dat men zelf weer de regie in eigen handen neemt, uiteraard ondersteund door wet & geld. En niet andersom, want daar is het mijns inziens misgegaan. Er werd voor de verkiezingen constant gesproken over de zwevende kiezer. Is het niet zo dat juist de kiezer weet wat hij wil, maar de politiek zweeft?
    Vriendelijke groet uit het zuiden,
    Meitie van den Bosch.

  • 15 June 2010
    Prof. Dr. Hans Kalff permalink

    Dear Paul,

    De oplossing voor een nieuw kabinet is nog ontieglijk ver weg.
    De democratie geeft aan dat iedereen zich waar dan ook mag groeperen. Zo zijn we in Nederland extreem verdeeld. We leven in moeilijke tijden (zoals iedereen altijd roept, maar dat ter zijde.
    De beste oplossing is een zakenkabinet, dat orde op zaken kan stellen. De politieke stromingen moeten dan een stapje terug doen. Hun wensen zijn niet of nauwelijks uit te voeren.
    De crisis moet volgens mij door experts worden aangepakt; niet door politieke heethoofden.

    Hoe dan ook we zullen zien hoe het afloopt, maar reken niet op een spoedige uitkomst
    Far from
    Hans Kalff

  • 15 June 2010

    Mee eens dat macht een groot struikelblok is voor spirituele vernieuwing en dat ook de christelijke partijen wel eens in macht verstrikt konden zijn geraakt. Juist jl. zondag heb ik deze thematiek besproken in een toespraak in http://www.vianova-amsterdam.nl . De vraag is natuurlijk wel waar je dan je inspiratie voor een nieuwe spiritualiteit en een nieuwe manier van leiding geven vandaan haalt. Zelf heb ik jl. zondag gewezen op Jezus Christus.

    15 June 2010

    De kiezer heeft gesproken, de kiezer heeft gelijk.
    De professor heeft gesproken, de professor heeft gelijk.
    Jammer, dat de professor niet vooraf aan de verkiezingen gehoord is.
    Het gaat niet alleen om de vraag wie we willen zijn, en niet wat we willen hebben.
    Het gaat nog meer om de vraag, hoe zorgen we dat die spirituele inspiratie weerklank krijgt in het politieke debat van vandaag.
    Hoe laten we los wat we hebben?



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