The red blood cells have had enough. The price of oxygen keeps going up and the profit margin is down. Also, there are no days off. There are talks of layoffs and possibly a general strike.
The white blood cells on the other hand get better compensation and rarely have to work. Mostly they just patrol the area and hang out in case any virus comes around. They are prone to abusing their power because they are secretly funded by the lungs.
The lungs control the oxygen supply and are in the business of gouging everybody. They keep getting richer while everyone else is barely scraping by. The heart is becoming weaker and the brain is getting stupid because there’s no funding for maintenance. All the money is being syphoned off by the lungs. Much of it goes into vaccines and other defense spending.
The idea of money is tied to the concept of separation – the feeling that Michael, Sandra and Kate are separate entities. This is an illusion. We are separate only in the sense that the lungs are separate from the heart.
The parts of our body seem to have found a way to cooperate quite nicely without the artificial burden of a financial system. This is not to say that our body is without governance. Government can loosely be said to reside in the mind (inaccurate but for the purpose of this metaphor we’ll run with it), though various parts of the body (the stomach, the penis etc.) can hijack the agenda from time to time.
In most bodies, this form of governance seems to work quite well, though this is not universally true. In some instances the parts do fall into dissonance. In such cases serious health issues result.
Money has no intrinsic value. Legal tender functions as a medium of exchange for as long as people are willing to honour it. One day, when all the world’s money is concentrated in the hands of a single individual, the people will collectively opt out of the game. Money will cease to exist.
Imagine the day we wake up to the realization that we are one. Our current reality will resemble a really confusing, vaguely disturbing dream. It seems to me that the changes are already all around us, but most of us are subconsciously resisting them. We are heading into the great unknown, and it’s a little bit scary. That’s why things keep getting uglier and darker (on some level), though they are getting much brighter on another.
As Janis Joplis sang: “Freedom’s just another word, for nothin’ left to lose…” We still have houses and cars and mutual funds – perhaps we have to lose everything before we are ready to let go of a a way of life that is coming to an end.
“But wait a minute”, someone is heard to exclaim. “We still need money to exchange goods and services”.
Explain that to the three trillion cells in your body. They exchange goods and services each and every millisecond without the need for financial instruments to do it.
Money exists in a world of scarcity. We have created no shortage of shortages. Not enough food. Not enough water. Peak oil and so on. In this kind of environment we need money to sort out who gets to feast, and who must starve. The system is barbaric and one day (soon) we will surely outgrow it.
The alternative is that we create a world of plenty, with enough food, enough clean water and enough energy for everyone. This is both possible and necessary for our continued survival.
It may be hard to imagine for a lot of people, but one day we will realize how superfluous money is.
Of course I can make no claims to know what the future will actually look like. As with anything I write, these are just rambling thoughts. However, if I had to place my bets, I would guess that in pondering the possibility of a brighter future, most of us vastly underestimate just how different that future will have to be, for life to continue on this planet.
Are we ready for change, or is fear of the unknown holding us back?
You Can’t Eat Money
Tags: abundance, money, wealth
Money does not exist. On some level we all know this to be true – and the thought scares us to death.
The essential problem of money – the lesson we have set ourselves up to learn – is to be able to differentiate between abundance and wealth.
Abundance is absolute. Wealth is relative.
I have two anecdotes to share, to illustrate how common it is for humans to confuse wealth with abundance:
For my first year of University, I had to commute daily by car. My University was plagued by a shortage of parking spaces so students would arrivie early for classes and and line up in front of B-lot waiting for other people to leave. One day I was stuck so long that I missed the exam I had come to write. When I finally got to the front of the line, I vented my frustration to the parking attendant.
Unsympathetic, she said to me: Perhaps you should have come a little earlier.
But if I had been earlier, someone else would have had to wait longer for their spot. Her solution to the problem did not address the shortage of available parking spaces. Her solution addressed my problem – but only by shifting it onto somebody else.
On another occasion, I saw a TV commercial in which a police officer was endorsing “the club” – a device which reduces the likelihood that one’s car will be stolen. I wondered – why would a police officer be enthusiastic about the club? The club does nothing to address the issue of car theft. The club is effective only because most people don’t have one. Let those people lose their cars first.
Most humans on this planet spend much time “making” money. But money does not contribute to abundance. We all have more and more money, but this money is worth less and less.
When we feel constricted, we always seem to believe that the solution is to make more money. But this attitude is responsible for our woes in the first place. We have become so adept at making money that we are literally drowning in it. The only problem is that all this money is not really worth anything.
This subject is never far from my mind. I firmly believe that the days of money are numbered. Soon we will stop using money and marvel at how easy it was to break the habit. It will seem easy when we look back on it, but it doesn’t feel that way from our current perspective. We are in a stuck moment – the last gasp of money.
I have often tried to inspire people to imagine a world without money. I wanted to illustrate that such a world is easily possible. What’s more difficult, is convincing people that money is not something we really want. After all, we all have money and it makes us feel rich. Doesn’t it?
Actually money does not make us feel good about ourselves at all. Predominantly, if you ask people, they would tell you that they do not have enough money. If you asked them about food to eat, clothes to wear or gasoline for the car, they would reply that all their most urgent needs are met. But when we turn the focus to money, the feeling immediately shifts from abundance to lack.
Money makes us feel poor because we always wish we had more. Is it really so strange to suggest that the time has come to give up our obsession with money?
I don’t think that money was always a bad idea. The problem is that money no longer functions the way it was originally conceived. Nor are we the same humans who invented money. We are the same beings, perhaps, but we have evolved. It is likely that at some point in our history, money served humanity. Perhaps it even served us well, but this time has now passed. Not only will money longer be able to serve us in the future – it will literally not survive our current shift into a higher state of being. Therefore it has to either disappear, or else transform itself into something new – something that may resemble money in some ways but functions very differently.
In this moment, we are still buying lottery tickets, (mistakenly) believing that we seek wealth. Wealth can serve us only if we believe ourselves to be separate from everyone else. As we re-awaken to our connection to spirit, we can’t help but become aware of some form of universal oneness. As this shift continues to unfold we are realizing that the time has come to relinquish wealth in favour of abundance.