HUMANOMICS: A Whole Systems Approach to Economics From An Energy-backed Currency to A Consciousness-backed Culture through Redefining Profit Split, Croatia – July 12, 2012 Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D. www.PsychoNoetics.com HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Redefining “profit” is a key to shifting the system Consciousness PROFIT Economics, culture, and ecosystem 2 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How economics forms consciousness and vice versa Gold and fossil fuels are units of scarcity Reflecting and creating scarcity consciousness, narrow self interest Alternative and renewable sources of energy are units of abundance Reflecting and creating abundance consciousness, whole-system awareness 3 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Currency backing toward abundance consciousness Moving away from fiat currencies, the gold standard, and even fossil fuels = Moving toward a sustainable and renewable energy-backed currency = moving away from fear and scarcity consciousness moving toward an abundance consciousness Energy, like consciousness, is infinite 4 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” REDEFINING PROFIT 5 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” REDEFINING PROFIT A proposed solution to corporate irresponsibility and the degradation of the human environment 6 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Corporations have many things in common with living systems • They operate at a profit in order to survive. • They consume and compete for resources. • They transform resources, thus adding value. 7 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Unlike living systems, capitalism and industrialism tend to be ecologically negative. 8 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How do we fix the system? 9 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How do we fix the system? By redefining profitability 10 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How do we fix the system? By redefining profitability …and moving from narrow self interest to enlightened self interest 11 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Profit is defined by double entry bookkeeping Income – expense = PROFIT INCOME EXPENSE 12 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” THIS IS NOT A REAL PROFIT! • Only from the limited perspective of the economic system • Not based in global ecological reality • Subsidized by humanity and the commonwealth 13 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How do we change the way corporations define a profit? 14 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How do we change the way corporations define a profit? • By monetizing whole-system contribution and whole-system consumption 15 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” How do we change the way corporations define a profit? • By monetizing whole-system contribution and whole-system consumption • … and moving from double to quadruple entry bookkeeping, adding a column to each side 16 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” REAL PROFIT tracked by Quadruple Entry Bookkeeping Income Income for the (for the humansphere corporation) (system contribution) Expense (for the Corporation) Expense to the humansphere (system consumption) 17 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Taxation and rewards to influence corporate decision-making • System negative Taxed for real costs to the system • System neutral No adjustment • System positive Rewarded for contributions to the system 18 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Profitability redefined! • Taking the whole humansphere and global ecology into account 19 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Redefining profit shifts corporate motivation toward the goals of Natural Capitalism in a way that Triple Bottom Line does not Triple Bottom Line Accounting Quadruple Entry Bookkeeping Introduces a conflict of interest into corporate motivation Aligns the interest of the corporation with the interests of the whole system HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” With profitability redefined… Human nature and the drive to corporate profitability are both redirected to favor the larger global system. 21 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” With profitability redefined, the economic advantage shifts to… New technologies, professions, industries to evaluate global impacts Re-education and redirection for the humansphere Corporate altruism, humanitarian and ecological awareness 22 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” A global problem requires a global solution • A multilevel governing system • Local and national autonomous jurisdictions • A federation at the planetary level for global issues 23 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” Fiat currencies backed by fiat cultures Fiat currencies ‘Fiat’ cultural values Narrow self interest & survival consciousness 24 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” “The Nazis killed the God in themselves.” ---Elie Wiesel The present economic system kills the God in us all. 25 HUMANOMICS: “From an Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture through Redefining Profit” With profitability redefined... from consumption profit to contribution profit We bring out the God in ourselves. 26 By redefining profit, we change the system and shift consciousness at all levels toward Enlightened Self Interest …the realization that our individual survival is dependent on the survival and stability of the planet Thank you… Questions & Answers ? For a copy of this presentation and the paper behind it, please visit www.humanomics.us Jeffrey Eisen, Ph.D. PsychoNoetic Science Institute (PSI) 36 R Street NW – B Washington, D.C. web: www.psychonoetics.com blog: www.drjeffeisen.com e-mail: drjeisen@drjeffeisen.com Music: The Mother Song, www.ArielEisen.com