THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

'Out of 88,000 practicing acupuncturists in Europe, 62,000 are medical
doctors.' In Britain, 42% of all doctors routinely make referrals to
homeopaths. In France, one third of all family doctors prescribe
homeopathic remedies, as do 20% of all German doctors. In most
European chemists, there is now at least as much shelf-space
dedicated to herbal medicines as to pharmaceutical drugs. In Asia,
scientific and public health interest in acupuncture had already
started in the 1950s. More recently other traditional approaches such
as the Ayurvedic medicine are growing in popularity, again as
complement to Western Modernist techniques.
In short, each one of these vends separately is often dismissed as a
'quirk' or an insignificant 'fashion' by Modernist opinion leaders.
However, when considered together, the pattern reveals a major shift
towards a re- honouring of Yin values in all aspects of society. It
affects all domains. The pattern includes such disparate phenomena
as the growing concerns about the environment, holistic health
practices; chaos theory in physics, the replacement of hierarchical
structures with networks (such as the Internet and virtual
organisations); the bridging the Cartesian split between matter and
spirit, and the women's emancipation movement.
These shifts can be observed in men and women alike. But again,
the most striking of all is that in each of these domains the pattern is
repeated, while the meaning of the whole is missed. Thereby the
significance, the speed and the scale of this mutation is often missed.
2. The Information Wave
This is the one wave, which does not require us to look below the
radar beams: all mainstream media channels are saturated with news
about it. No further explanations about it are therefore necessary,
beyond what was already discussed earlier (Chapter 3). Suffice it to