I just watched Tavis’s panel discussion on CNN which included Suze Orman and Michael Moore, as well as several other luminaries in the world of social change.

Their political and social understanding was considerable, but they all lacked a full spiritual insight into the causes of poverty–and the solutions–to my mind.

What they didn’t seem to understand was that we live in a PSYCHOLOGICAL Universe. One that includes (but is not limited to) everything to do with poverty and wealth. They are both states of mind. The only thing that wealthy people have that poor people do not is a sense of personal power and a high degree of self esteem that allows them to feel that they deserve everything they can get and more.

There is plenty of everything to go around. And it will not take taxing the rich to get it. But it will take a shift in consciousness in everyone’s mind who does not have enough–or just wants more. It may also take a shift in the minds of the rich as well, for some of them are ignorant as well as to exactly how they actually became rich!

Some of the wealthy are under the misapprehension that they have to get money away from the populace and some think they have to keep it away from them as well, in order to have all they want. But truly, that is not how they got it or keep it. Again–they got it by feeling deserving and powerful.

There is endless abundance in the Universe. Money is psychological–it is just self valuation and valuation of others along with a sense of personal power.

Some of the panel members did mention the importance of having pride and self esteem towards the end–most notably Majora Carter–the only black woman on the panel.

She seemed the most right brained of all of them. Many low income people are right brain dominant, which causes them to feel that they do not fit very well into the prevailing paradigm of our culture–which is left brain dominant. But despite this “disadvantage”, they can still create all the wealth and “stuff that they want” AND in an even better way than the left-brainers have done so far.

Most people seem to believe that hard work or intelligence or force is necessary to get money. It is not. And this confusion has led way too many people to become overwhelmed by their efforts to earn a living.

We do not need to EARN a living. It is our birth right. We simply need to “ALLOW” a living.” This is explained well in the book “Ask and It Is Given” by Esther Hicks.

As is pointed out in the book the first thing a person must do to expand their income is to stay away from blame and anger towards the rich — or at least to move quickly beyond the anger. For if they want to be rich also, they must have good feelings about becoming rich and other people who are rich now.

I would hope that should Tavis do such a panel again, that he would include one of the many excellent spiritual teachers of “The Law of Attraction,” for an understanding of that is where the true solution to poverty lies.