About me

Imants Kins

I have a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia (1973) and a Masters degree in Futures Studies from Curtin University of Technology (2001).  My thesis proposal for the Masters degree was titled, “Will corporations of the future only seek to maximise shareholder value?”  This work has evolved into four years of research for a book on how corporations will destroy capitalism unless an authentic market system is created.

For the past few years I have been Executive Chairman of ABM Resources NL, an exploration and mining company based in Perth, Western Australia.  Over the past 30 years I have worked as an economist in both the government and private sectors. After graduating from the University of Western Australia I was involved with helping to create from the ground up, a consumer protection arm of state government, and have also worked in the areas of: housing, industrial and resources development, tourism and industrial relations.  For some years I worked as a public servant advising state government Cabinet Ministers, and with the City of Fremantle concentrating on the City’s overall strategic planning and local community economic development.  In the private sector I headed up a company developing an $800M petrochemical plant, and was advisor to a venture capitalist interested in chemical production, property development, and energy projects.  I have completed feasibility studies for mining projects and due diligence for investors and share brokers.

My life and work have been unimaginably enriched since a serendipitous meeting with visionary philosopher and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen in 1999 in France.  In 2003 I became seriously committed to his teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment.  Subsequently in November 2004 I organised an Authentic Leadership seminar led by Andrew Cohen at the Australian Institute of Management in Perth, Western Australia.  I introduced the seminar with a presentation on key global trends.

 I read widely about society, the universe, how economics fits into society and am always looking for interconnectedness between what appear to be disparate disciplines.  What could connect the Wall Street Journal to the New Scientist to the New York Review of Books?  It is exciting to discover emergent patterns across apparently disparate disciplines.  Through this ongoing investigation I have found that everything is connected in some way and at some level and this discovery is at once both humbling and liberating.

I have established a large data base that I add to daily.  Working in a diverse range of industries as an economist has provided me with extensive knowledge and perspective on the application of economics in everyday life.  This process has made me increasingly aware of the very real need for transformation of perspectives and values if the true potential of human beings is to be unleashed and further developed.  This becomes evident when you discover we are all, with our unique self reflective awareness, there at the cutting edge of the evolution of consciousness and culture.

Gandhi said to transform the world, we first have to transform ourselves. My belief is that I must change the way I identify myself as a separate individual to having an allegiance to the deepest part of who I am - and that is awareness or consciousness itself.  I have found that part of myself through practicing the evolutionary spirituality teachings of Andrew Cohen – both in meditation and in engagement with likeminded people.  The aim is always to assume a liberated position in life – to respond from that deeper ego less place rather than from past conditioning.  That place where there is no self consciousness, and no doubt about the sacredness of life and why we are all here.  The challenge is to consistently express that deeper part of myself when going about my daily life .  Interestingly I am finding that as an economist that liberated posture to life provides new insights into the nature of economics, and how economics can evolve in this infinite and wholesome context.  This website has been established to share and evolve these insights with others.