“From each according to his ability to each according to his need – that’s communism. That’s also a potluck.
Sean’s Monologue: The Case Against Capitalism
Today Coup Save America talks with Beth Green, a fascinating and intelligent woman who wears the many hats of author, intuitively-guided counselor, teacher, spiritual activist, composer, workshop leader, original thinker, and a catalyst for change.
According to Beth, “My life is full of horrors and miracles – there is no in-between.” She introduces herself by sharing her early experiences as a tiny activist, who, despite the setback of a serious illness continued to make political waves throughout her youth. Listen to learn about Beth’s letter to the New York Times that got her expelled from an Ivy League college.
Sean and Beth discuss the differences in activism between now and the 1960’s and the stigma associated with the label “socialism.” Beth attests that we are brainwashed from an early age and trained to compete for everything. She explains The Ego – an awareness of the individual existence – and how we must shift our consciousness before we can effectively mobilize for change. We need an inner revolution based on oneness, accountability, and mutual support. Beth sums it all up in one sentence when she says: “The purpose of the economy and society is to meet the needs of the people and the Earth.”
Beth talks about “The New Declaration of Independence” that can be found on Change.org and reminds us that it is American to abolish our government. She and Sean talk about how “It’s a lonely soul that’s caught up in competition” and “You cannot clean the air over one home in Los Angeles.” They give a shout out to mutual aid organizations.
Beth offers her insight on why people are depressed and explains more about how the ego has an infantile consciousness that needs to be taught better. She speculates with Sean about the positive roles that our egos might play, then she shares a simple question we can ask ourselves to help us make good life decisions. Beth also describes how to truly make an amend to someone you’ve wronged.
Beth goes on to explain about the spiritual awakening that completely changed her understanding of a higher power and her approach to activism. Listen to the story of her “inner voice” that even Beth admits that most people will not believe. In the end, she tells us, “Beliefs are just beliefs. They aren’t reality.” A person’s belief system changes as they grow and evolve as a person, and “we co-create reality in a subtle dance of intention and allowance.” How do we build a new consciousness? By talking to everybody and questioning everything, of course!
To conclude the show, Beth reminds us that “If you are not well, you don’t think straight – If you’re stressed, then you’re frantic.” She reiterates the many FREE resources that she offers the world for hope, healing, and a path to a better humanity.
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Beth Green
Author, Counselor, Musician & Spiritual Activist
: Beth Green is an intuitively-guided counselor, teacher, spiritual activist, composer and workshop leader, an original thinker and a catalyst for change who also launched a career as a professional improvisational pianist at the age of 76.
But this is just the beginning. Beth is also a original social commentator. She’s been a blogger for the San Diego News Network and the Huffington Post and now hosts two livestreams a week on Facebook (facebook.com/grannyrockson) and YouTube (@BethGreenTV). Despite her having been chronically ill since the age of 15, Beth’s work is prodigious, effective and constantly evolving. Yet none of this describes her. Very simply put, Beth Green is intuitively guided in all things. And that is the secret of this amazing woman.
Born of working class Jewish parents in New York City,1945, Beth has always been acutely aware of the intense suffering on the planet. From the age of 9, and at great personal cost (including being expelled from an Ivy League women’s college), she became a dedicated social activist, engaged with issues ranging from anti-nuclear proliferation to income inequality, the Vietnam War, racism, social justice and workers’ rights. At the age of 16, she wrote a letter to the NY Times expressing her concern about nuclear proliferation, and the letter spread around the world. It was even featured on the cover of a Pete Seeger album. At the other end of her political activism, from 1974-78, she was the West Coast Coordinator of the Wages for Housework Campaign, which pointed out the role of “women’s work” in the eco… Read More
