In Western materialist culture we are born into a mindset that could be termed a "mineset" or a paradigm built on a value of personal property in particular land ownership. I the West we consider this the measure of wealth and prosperity. In fact the former president of Rutgers college declared that this covetous mineset was the key to "civilizing Native Americans. Merrill Gates stated: “We must make the Indian more intelligently selfish before we can make him unselfishly intelligent. We need to awaken in him wants.
In his dull savagery he must be touched by the wings of the divine
angel of discontent. Then he begins to look forward, to reach out. The
desire for property of his own may become an intense educating force.
The wish for a home of his own awakens him to new efforts. Discontent
with the teepee and the starving rations of the Indian camp in winter is
needed to get the Indian out of the blanket and into trousers — and trousers with a pocket in them, and with a pocket that aches to be filled with dollars! ”
An communal mindset that is found in most aboriginal people as well as Acts Chapter 2 could be termed the "ourset". This thinking defines wealth by the community small (neighborhood, village, tribe) and the community large ( all the two legged, four legged and every created thing that we experience a rich balance as we provide for one another in the circle of life).
So you tell me who has found the true path to prosperity and abundance?
| The MINESET or |
| The OURSET! |
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