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Wild Nature, outside commercial civilization, runs on gift economy ("freely give, freely receive"). Thus it is balanced.
Commercial civilization runs on thought of credit and debt ("knowledge of good & evil"). Thus it is imbalanced. What nation
can balance its own budget or environment? Gift Economy is Faith, Grace, Love - the core message of every religion. The
proof is inside you: Wild Nature is your True Nature, crucified by commercial civilization.
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Hercules Chasing Avarice
from the Temple of the
Muses
(1516-17 CE) Design by
Baldassare Tommaso
Peruzzi
Jesus driving
moneychangers &
merchants from the
Temple.
Engraving by Gustave
Doré
Sadhu of India
Sadhu of India
The greater blessing to
all those living moneyless
in the world without
publicity
Call me Suelo
Suelo
Fruita, Colorado, United
States
I lived totally without
cents since Autumn of
2000 (except for a
couple months in 2001)
until the Spring of 2016,
when I started caring for
my aging parents,
managing their finances.
For 15 years I didn't use
or accept money or
conscious barter - nor
did I take food stamps or
other government dole.
My philosophy has been
to use only what is freely
given or discarded and
what is already present
and already running
(whether or not I
existed). I don't see
money as evil or good:
how can illusion be evil
or good? But I don't see
heroin or meth as evil or
good, either. Which is
more addictive and
debilitating, money or
meth? Attachment to
illusion makes you
illusion, makes you not
real. Attachment to
illusion is called idolatry,
called addiction. I simply
got tired of
acknowledging as real
this most common
world-wide belief called
money! I simply got tired
of being unreal. Money is
one of those intriguing
things that seems real
and functional because 2
or more people believe it
is real & functional!
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Wal-Mart Schmalfart
Wal-Mart wants to build in the Moab area. Many folks are saying it’s inevitable, that there’s nothing Members
we can do but throw up our hands. Many say that if Moab's Grand County doesn’t welcome Wal-
Mart, neighboring San Juan County will, and Grand County will lose both a tax base and its Followers (2149)
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businesses. Never mind that both San Juan County and this county will lose most their small
businesses and most the money will flow out of the area. This is Wal-Mart’s common tactic, pitting
counties against each other, then leaching them all.
The no-end-in-sight growth of the capitalistic cancer seems unstoppable, omnipotent. A few people
have commented to me that my visions of a moneyless world are naïve & idealistic. I often think so,
too.
Am I Naïve? Am I a Realist?
But now I put out this question: is my life being driven by ideology or reality? What I know and can
only know is what’s in my self, what brings me unspeakable peace. And that peace is Reality, because
I know it. If this were only a belief and not knowledge, it would be just an Ideology.
Yes, today I’ve had an epiphany about the Real and the Ideal.
Real is what is. Ideal is thoughts about what was, will be, or could or should be or have been. When
Ideal becomes what IS, thoughts become crucified, and the Ideal resurrects as the Real. The ideal and
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the real merge as One, even as bread merges with the body when eaten.
Somebody told me I should have a plan for this envisioned moneyless world. But there can be no
plans in any brain on how a moneyless society could function. If there could be, it wouldn’t be Popular Posts
moneyless. It can only function by giving up mind-control and resting in simple faith, in trust.
Everyone who truly follows their own religion will know exactly what I am saying. Money by its very My Summary of Why I
nature is mind control. This is where I am called naïve. Indeed I am. Live Moneyless
Happy April Fool's
Eve! My very first
How can we trust people if we can't give up control of them? Every parent learns that an untrusted
blog entry ever! I once
child becomes untrustworthy. Trust can only be born from trust, even if you have to forgive the had a website on
untrustworthy 70 x 7 times. living moneyless - but
then zapped it, for
several r...
And why, in its Grand Sense of Humor, has the Universe spread religion by the hands of money-
worshipers to every corner of this world – religion that at its very core spells out the principles of a Fickle Fun
moneyless world? What a hoot. I’m not just talking about the money-worshipping Christian I'm now in Missoula,
institution, but all the world religions. At their core is the key! I've even recently been astonished to Montana.  Mark
realize this key at the core of Mormonism! The Book of Mormon is the most ingeniously absurd book Sundeen, his fiance,
Cedar, and I have
I've ever read, and Joseph Smith the divine comedian. been on the road
together, doing this
I've spoken my ideology. And can you see this ideology dissolving into Reality, which cannot be book tour thingy in
Lo...
spoken?
Male,
Can you see behind my ideas that I am a Realist? I have often held that if every person became real, Femal
e,
balance would automatically return as it is in the wild, natural world. (Yet, we can never return to
Giver,
animal nature, but a likeness of it, with new, uniquely human awareness. How do I know this?
Recei
Practice the core path of your religion and you’ll see for yourself). ver
and Money Economy
If every person became real, money would cease. You can't make money Lots have been going
on and I haven't had
cease with Reality following. You must first become Real, and then money time to think about
blog posts for a while. 
ceases as Reality comes. Why do I say this? Listen, because it’s so simple it I've had quite a few
may astonish you: visitors staying with ...
Prostitution: Real or Illusion? Ode
Let’s take a look at prostitution again. You pay a prostitute to “make love” to you. You know the act is to The
Holy
not real, you know that neither you nor the prostitute is being real. You’re paying for illusion. It’s
Invisi
artificial love. The “love” is an idea, not a reality. We all know ble
deep down that we can only love and be loved out of purely free Hand
will – spontaneous, free, unpaid for. Love cannot exist any other of the Free Market
way. If it is not free it is not real. Ode to The Holy
Invisible Hand  of the
Free Market Oh Holy
If you stop paying the prostitute, that isn't going to make her love Invisible Hand of the
you, either. You must first love her and she must first love you, Free Market, we adore
Thee above all, and
so that the idea of you paying her becomes totally revolting. This
we sacrif...
is why I am not for the abolishment of money. Money is not the
evil, it is our not being Real, illusion, that is evil. Patria
I am not for the abolishment of money, but I am for money going rchy,T
errori
obsolete. Money cannot be abolished, but money can go
sm &
obsolete, vanish, if we simply be real. Why? Because money itself Mam
is not real, but only a belief, an illusion. mon
I'm still in Fruita,
Colorado, caring for
Ponder this: Nothing Real is evil. Nothing that Exists is evil. Nobody who is real is evil. Nobody who
my aging parents. It is
Exists is evil! Only illusions and actors can be evil. heart-breaking,
watching their bodies
Now extend this principle of prostitution to every particle in the universe. Do you let things and minds fade. It's a
...
(anything !) come your way naturally, freely, spontaneously, or do you have to pay to make what you
want happen? Do you trust that everything you need comes your way in its own good time, or do Transi
you lose patience and pay for it to come in your own controlled time? Do you trust or do you bribe? tionin
Do you think the only way you can get what you need is to pay for it, to go in debt to get it? Or do g to a
New
you think the only way you can "get it" is to rape? If this is the only way to survive, then love is a
Life
myth and there is no reality. Yes,
I'm still alive.  Yes, it's
been over 4 months
Why does love forever elude you? since I blogged. I've
been clueless what to
“Love is patient”. If you lose patience and think the only way you can get what you need is to pay for say. My life has gon...
it, to manipulate it, then love forever eludes you, reality forever eludes you, and the universe to you
The
becomes impersonal and meaningless. You prowl the dark streets for prostituted love, forever
Mone
chasing desire never fulfilled. You become the cynic, and your beliefs in the universe are self- yless
fulfilling. All occurrences and people become untrustworthy in your self-fulfilling prophecy. And Tribe
your ego gloats, saying, "See, I was right, and you and your naive spirituality were wrong." And Beco
mes
indeed you were right. Your belief has created your "reality." Anybody who has recovered from Reality
clinical depression knows this principle. It's been weeks since
I've had net access. 
Neither you nor the prostitute can be real. Neither you nor anything you pay for can be real! Still little time to write
here. Darby, MT The
moneyless tribe is
Again, Why Do I Live Moneyless? now reality, dre...
The Physics &
Why do I live moneyless? Because I have no more strength for the world of artificiality, no more Spirituality of Gift
strength for the world of ideology separate from reality! Why should I want to return to clinical Economy
depression? Yes, I am a realist! All I want is the real and to be real. It takes work to hold up a prop, an Here's my debut
act. It is Rest to be Real. blog/vlog, after over a
year sabbatical of not
blogging!  And I must
Instead of using the misused and twisted word, “God”, I am now using the word Reality. Hear Oh admit I feel excited
Humanity: the Reality your Lord is One. You shall love Reality with all of your heart, all of your soul, about publishing this
video, &...
all of your mind, and all of your strength. And the second commandment is like it: You shall love your
Neighbor as your own Self. There is NOTHING but Reality. Ponder that. How can I love my neighbor Blog Entry Deleted
if I can’t recognize my neighbor as Real, and how can I recognize my neighbor as Real if I am not For the first time in all
Real? Become Real: This is our only mission in life. As the old Sting song says, “Be your self, no my blogging, I've
matter what they say.” The one who is ashamed of being Real will be shamed before all creatures, no deleted a blog entry -
my last one, "Bearing
matter how many props he hides himself under. Las Cruces". I've been
in medit...
Become Real, become Reality.
The
Evolut
Impersonal To the Impersonal. Personal To the Personal. ion of
the
We think of the universe as impersonal. We are persons, part of the Universe, aren’t we? Isn’t the Trinit
y of
definition of person a being with Free Will? Does the universe have free will? We exist, don’t we; and Agriculture, Money &
we are part of the Universe, aren’t we? And isn’t the only Real person the person who doesn’t have Usury
to be paid to act, coerced to act? And isn’t the only Love the need that comes in its own sweet time   The Evolution of the
for free, un-coerced, unpaid for? When we become Real, the whole universe becomes Real. “To the Trinity of Agriculture,
Money & Usury You'll
Pure all is Pure.” Thus, Real is synonymous with Love. And Love is Personality. There can be nothing likely not find the
Real apart from Love, and there can be no Love apart from the Real. And Love can only be given and ideas in this 20-
taken freely, else it is not Love! In other words, the Real can only be given and taken freely else it is minute video anyplace
else....
not Real!
Real means “Royal” in Spanish.
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My Friends Around the
World in the Moneyless
Movement!
Heidemarie
Schwermer in
Germany
Mark Boyle in Britain
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Raphael, Nieves,
Benjamin, Camille,
Nicoli from Europe
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Finland
Öff Öff in Germany
Blogger confusion C.J. Colwell- A Twenty
First Century
American Nomad
I'm trying to figure out how to put my very first post, My Summary of Why I Live Moneyless on the
Soja Kruse in South
sidebar. It's my very first post, in the archives (click on March 31, 2006), and I want to always keep it
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clear.
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Holland
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who want to live
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[I put a revised edition of this blog entry into my website "Living Without Money"]
"Moneyless In Moab"
indy film by my friend
Wail, you inhabitants of the market district! Gordon, Spring 2006
For all the merchant people are cut down; BBC Radio Interview,
All those who handle money are cut off. Fall Equinox, 2009 (6
(Zepheniah 1:11)  min)
Denver Post
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I had a nice thanksgiving dinner at my friends', Damian
& Dorina. She made an incredibly delicious vegetarian nut loaf.
After dinner, we discussed different philosophies and such. Then a friend brought to my attention,
and not at all in a nice way, that I tend to interrupt and dominate the conversation. I have always
thought of myself as a listener who doesn't talk much. And I like to think of myself as "aware." But I
had to concede that he was right, though. Sometimes I get excited about stuff I'm learning and tend
to forget about others. Just when I think I'm getting it together, I find I'm not. Knowledge isn't
enlightenment. In fact, as I keep saying, it veils us from enlightenment. Anyway, I've been licking my
ego wounds a lot since. And just that fact of still feeling wounded shows a great attachment to this
ego that I thought I had pretty much overcome.
That's also a problem with blogging like this. You can only see words, not my person. And it's easy to
present ourselves as flawless to the world when we write.
Comment Reply Becomes Blog Entry
I started writing a reply to a comment by "Angeldust" after "My Summary of Why I Live Moneyless".
Then I decided to just go ahead and make it a blog entry.
It's time to see the Bible in a whole new light. It's time to shake up tired, sleeping JudeoChristian
religion out of its materialistic stupor. This might just blow you away.
Angeldust brought up the Beast in the book of Revelation, the Beast who has 7-heads, the AntiChrist
that end-of-timers like to talk about. So I started tracing this 7-headed dragon back to the very
serpent in the Garden of Eden. Here's a taste of the mysteries:
Serpent Coiled Around the Tree, Serpent Coiled Around Pole In Genesis 3:13
Eve says, "The serpent [nahash*] deceived [nasha*] me." The
Hebrew Bible is filled with plays on words totally missed in
translation. The word nasha* means both 'deceive' and 'lend on
interest,' or 'be creditor'. (In Strong's Lexicon, 'deceive' is Srong's # 5377 & 'lend
on interest' is 5378, which are identical)*. This nasha is found in 1Sam 22:2,
Neh 5:7, Psa 89:22, Isa 24:2, all of which, like the Koran,
strongly denounce lending at interest).
Now look at the Hebrew word for snakebite, nashak
[Strong's 5391]* , which
also happens to
mean both 'lend'
and 'receive on
interest' (Num 21:6-
9, Deut. 23:19, Prov.
23:32, Jer. 8:17,
Amos 5:19, etc).
'The serpent bit
me,' Eve says. 'The
serpent charged me
interest,' Eve says.
Now the word for serpent, nahash is also a wordplay with nasha. Nahash also means 'divination,' and
also 'copper' or 'bronze,' the basic currency [Strong's 5174 & 5], just like our English word 'cobra' is
related to 'copper'. You can see this play on words taken into the story of Moses lifting up the Bronze
Serpent in the wilderness.
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So Moses made a bronze [nahashet] serpent
[nahash], and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a
serpent [nahash] had bitten [nashak] anyone,
when he looked at the bronze [nahashet] serpent
[nahash], he lived. (Numbers 21:9)
If a serpent had bitten anyone can literally be
translated, if a serpent had become creditor to
anyone...!
Now it gets even more intriguing. a varient spelling of nasha [# 5375],
pronounced the same, means 'to lift up, bear up, carry, be exalted, bear
sins, atone for sins.' And the related word for 'debt' is nashi [5386]. Now you can see clearly what
Jesus is referring to when he says, As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son
of Man be lifted up. (John 3:14)
This word nasha is used first by Cain in Genesis 4:13, "This punishment is more than I can bear
[nasha].' And the word 'Cain' itself is a pun on the word canah, which means 'purchase'! Again, the
play on words:
And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have purchased [canah]
a man from Yahweh." (Gen. 4:1)
Now we can see why there is a Jewish interpretation that Cain is
actually the son of the Serpent! He is the son of purchase, of credit &
debt, while Abel is the son of Grace.
Mayan Ouroboros
The Seven-Headed Dragon
Next, in the story of Cain, you see allusion to the
7-headed Leviathan
(Hydra, Beast) with
the 7-fold
vengeance of Cain
in Genesis 4:15 &
24. Now it is clear
that this credit-and-
debt 7-head Serpent
is poking his heads
up in Deuteronomy
28! He is Leviathan.
'Leviathan' shares
the same root as
'Levi,' meaning "to
twist, bind, join [3878 &3867]. Again, notice the word-play in the passage that speaks of the birth of
Levi, the father of law:
Now this time my husband will be bound [lavah] to me,...' therefore he was named Levi." (Gen. 29:34).
Levi was the father of the tribe of Levi, the Priestly Clan, the establishers of Levitical Law, starting
with the Levites called Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Law is Thought of Credit and Debt. Law is control
of Credit and Debt. The Levitical Law, as all law, was given to manage people under Thought of
Credit and Debt, a way of keeping disease in check until the cure comes - the cure of Grace. Just as
Krishna speaks of transcending the cycles of Credit and Debt, transcending the perpetual
reincarnation of Karma, the old Hindu Law, through crucifixion of the ego, so speaks the Buddha, so
speaks the Christ.
Leviathan is the Hebrew word for the Canaanite Lotan, found in Ugaritic texts, where he is slain by
Baal:
“When you smite Lotan, the fleeing serpent,
finish off the twisting serpent,
the close-coiling one with seven heads."
( KTU 1.5:I:1-3, D. Pardee in CS, 1.265)
Then the Bible quotes this Canaanite text, saying
Yahweh slays Lotan/Leviathan:
IN that day Yahweh with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isaiah 27:1)
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. (Ps 74:14)
Land of Canaan, Land of Commerce
Leviathan is the Serpent of Canaan. Canaan means trade, or commerce in Hebrew. Here again we
see the play on the words for 'Cain' & 'purchase'. The land of Canaan, called Palestine and Israel
today, was wedged between two great superpowers, Babylon and Egypt, and two great continents.
This made it the land of Trade - the land of war, oppression, and deceit - the products of Trade. And
it was out of this that the rage of the Bible is born.
Now you can see, more and more, studying both the Bible and history, that the Canaanites were not
a literal race of people, but were the Spirit of Merchandise that possessed the people. And the very
theme of the Torah is to wipe out every vestige of Canaanite from the land. The later Jewish prophets
confirm that this is so:
Wail, you inhabitants of the market district!
For all the merchant people [canaanites] are cut down;
All those who handle money are cut off. (Zeph 1:11)
And there is no merchant [canaanite] any more in the temple of Yahweh of Hosts in that day!
(Zechariah 14:21)
And Jesus' clearing the merchants from the temple is a direct act-out of this Zechariah scripture.
Wiping out the Canaanites.
Yes, the mystery is that the Levitical law is to become fulfilled, to become obsolete at the End of
Time, which is the Eternal Now, the Day of Yahweh. Money/trade serves its purpose and becomes
obsolete. All written law becomes fulfilled, obsolete.
Money and law simply cannot exist in the Present, in Reality! This is not opinion. This is simple
observation, if we but look inside.
It's interesting that, in the Christian Bible, the Greek
word for money is nomisma and the word for law is
nomos, sharing the same root meaning "to parcel out."
There is no need for law when there is no money or
barter, and there is no need for money when there is no
law - for both are one and the same - control of credit
and debt. When you start trusting Nature again "to
parcel out", that vengeance, repayment, belongs to God, not
human ego-mind, then Balance comes, as it already exists in
the infinite Universe surrounding our little bubble of
"civilization". And this is the very theme of Christian
theology: freedom from written law and taking on the law of
the heart, which is love. Crucifying the Ego, which is
Thought of Credit and Debt.
It is about giving up the ego to
the cross, lifting up Moses'
serpent on a pole in the
wilderness, the Lamb breaking
through the Seven Seals.
*If you want to confirm these word studies, you can go to www.blueletterbible.org to look up the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic
words of scripture passages, or www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm for Hebrew-English interlinear Tanach
(Old Testament), and www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm for Greek-English interlinear New Testament. The
Blue Letter Bible uses Strong's Lexicon, so I've put in Strong's numbers to make it easier for you to look up.
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T h u r s d a y, N o v e m b e r 2 3 , 2 0 0 6
Dia de Gracia
Feliz Dia de Gracia.
I like the Spanish name for this holiday, because it shows this is a celebration of Grace, of Gratis. You
can't feel Gratitude for something that you "earned". Gratitude is the sense of unmerited favor, of
Gift, and every particle of the Universe, outside our money-mind system, runs on, by, and through
Gratitude. Look into any wild creature's eyes and see its burning fire for yourself.
I'm all excited. Somebody left me a comment with this link:
www.utterpants.co.uk/notpants/madmoney.html, which I just added to the link bar to the right.
It's a blog entry I've been wanting to write, and now I don't have to do it because this Michael
Dickinson already did, and I couldn't have written it better! You gotta read it, and you'll see these
ideas on money aren't my own hair-brain ideas or opinions, but a universal truth that another
witness is tapping into.
.............................
A Message for Materialists/Scientists
Now I want to write from a "materialistic" viewpoint, this time not for folks who follow the religion of
Evangelical Christianity, but for folks who follow the religion of science and materialism.
So you believe that we all came about by chance, that the universe is a hodge-podge of random
reactions. So you believe that Natural Selection brought us from an amoeboid to a rodentoid to an
ape-oid to a homo sapiens. This is a fine and true religion. It is the result of simple observation, just
as the ancient faiths are. And I maintain that if everybody in the world but believed (practiced) their
own religion of simple observation, our world would fall back into balance with the rest of Nature,
and we individuals would fall back into balance with our own natures. But let me point out that you
most likely do not believe your own religion of science, just as most self-proclaimed Buddhists,
Orthodox Christians, Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Taoists, Sikhs, etc. do not believe their own
religion.
Simply put, faith is abandoning yourself to chance. Chance is the random interactions of credit &
debt, positive & negative, outside human mind control. If you believe Chance brought us from a dust
particle to a human, brought us thus far, why do you now not trust Chance to carry us further???
Why can't we trust that balance will occur if we but give up consciousness of credit & debt, if we but
give up control of balance of positive & negative? When has a negative charge ever NOT been
naturally met by an equal and opposite positive charge? When has a death ever NOT been naturally
met by an equal and opposite life? Why do we continue to not trust that a "bad" deed is naturally met
by an equal and opposite "punishment"? Why can't we, who call ourselves scientists, trust our own
science, like an infant, that "Vengeance belongs to Chance, Chance will repay", not to our minds that
can't even balance a budget. Why can't we trust that Nature is perfectly Just. When have wave crests
ever NOT been met by equal and opposite wave troughs? If Female were not met miraculously by an
equal and opposite Male, then life would cease. A positive coincides with a negative. If Coincidence
ceased, the Universe would cease. Why do we think Coincidence, called Miracle by the religious, is
an exception, rather than The Rule?
The Money World Blocks Evolution
Now I'm going to say some seemingly hard things. But you know they are true. Money and
possessions side-step chance, putting a block on Evolution, skirting around Natural Selection. We
think we are avoiding Death by accumulating money and possessions, by stockpiling positives and
squelching negatives. But all we are doing is building up our own demise. The negatives will come
back on us in a tidal wave, to bring themselves back into Justice with the positives we've horded. Isn't
this what the Koran keeps saying? Isn't this a theme of the Bible and the Dao De Jing? Isn't this basic
science?
Why are we as a species nursing prolonged suffering from year to year, generation to generation, in
the name of compassion, while Nature abhors prolonged suffering, knocking it off in Just Natural
Selection before it can even establish itself? Mutations are naturally balanced with Order in the Wild
World. But they are heaped up in massive imbalance in our Domestic World. And we pass them
down, in ever larger masses, from generation to generation. Then people like Adolph Hitler arise and
think they can re-establish the Balance, and they make it way worse. The erroneously call it Social
Darwinism - but Darwinism it is NOT. Darwinism is Natural Selection, not Human Mind-Control
Selection. Darwinism is Faith in the Law of Nature, not faith in the laws of human mind-control.
Hunter-Gatherers Our Example
I like how the Inuits (Eskimos) of the past (and maybe still the present) lived in such balance with
Nature, that when one became old and too lame to be happy, to contribute to the tribe, she would
voluntarily go sit on an ice float cross-legged like the Buddha and wait for a polar bear to eat her up.
Missionaries thought this barbaric and put an official end to the practice. Now the Inuits are so
happy with their booze and chronic illness and their oil money. When you read accounts of
anthropologists who studied the Inuits before Missionary money "saved" them, they are totally
astounded how these tribes living in one of the harshest environments on earth could be so
constantly happy.
The Kung (Bushmen) of the Kalahari, like the Inuits, lived in another of the harshest environments on
earth. The Kalahari doesn't even have regular surface water, and the Kung only carried bows &
arrows. The rumor among the civilized was that these Bushmen were poor souls continually
suffering, slaving, scratching out a living from the harsh desert. Then anthropologists went in to
study them, and were astounded. The Kung were, in fact, the most studied of all hunting-and-
gathering tribes. And anthropologists found that they only worked 2 to 3 hours a day, and the rest of
the time they spent in leisure. But even that is bogus, because I can testify that when you live
without money, there is no distinction between work and play. Watch any wild animal and you'll
know what I mean. Don't watch money-funded propaganda nature flicks on TV if you want an
accurate view. Go out and see for yourself.
Slaves of Civilization are struggling and suffering, not for food, but to maintain possessions and
fictional bank accounts and appearances. And such slaves can't imagine that life could be any other
way, so they believe nature is cruel to justify their own cruelty against both themselves and others.
Yet, I Am Not a Primitivist!
I am not really a primitivist. Human inventions come from the same Creative Source as leaves and
flowers and chimpanzees and electrons come. Do you know who invented the automobile, the
television, the microchip, the rocket, the piano, the paintbrush, the wheel? Chances are you don't.
But you know who got famous marketing each of those things and pushing them like drugs for profit,
don't you? I had this realization once when I worked at a homeless shelter in Boulder, Colorado. One
of the residents was an inventor of machine parts. Presently, he was working on a better sewing
machine bobbin. He was doing it for the pure joy of creating - and you know he wasn't doing it for
money or fame. The greatest works of art are in temples, done by the obscure for the obscure,
simply for the pure joy of doing. Work and play and creation and reward and joy are all One in the
Present Moment.
Last summer I talked with a Nepalese Buddhist in Portland, Oregon about these ideas on living
moneyless. He got all excited and immediately started envisioning people building cars purely
because they wanted to, making computers from a place of pure joy, building cities from instinctual
creativity - all within a purely gift economy. Nobody owns anything and all things are shared. And
everything balances out as in Nature, because our true selves are Nature. He had the look of a child
as he envisioned this "naive" world. Naivete is our only salvation. All great things begin with the
"impossible" vision. With faith all things are possible.
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The Now Testament
Another beautiful fall day around Moab.
In a previous blog entry, I wrote of my friends, Gordon & Kay, coming to visit at the end of last May.
What I didn't mention is that Gordon came to make a short docu-film on living moneyless. He
finished the film, & has an webpage intro & teaser for it, which I finally was able to get into. It's at
www.moneylessinmoab.com. The music it starts with is some jamming I did on the "Freenotes",
which are pentatonic-scale xylophones installed in a park in Moab that anybody can bang on -
thanks to Moab's very own Richard Cook, who installed them years ago. Of course, free music on
free instruments on public land is right down my alley.
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FOR EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS:
Okay, now, this is written for Evangelical Christians, and has a lot of Bible-quoting. It's my "95
Theses" I'm tacking to the Evangelical church door, challenging the very foundations of this
institution:
The Word
It's been a quiet & exhilerating last few days in the canyon. You know, when you become still, and all
thoughts & words leave your mind, this is when you find that the same Indescribable Calm that is
within you is the same Indescribable Calm that upholds all of Nature. Your mind cannot see reality
until all words, all thoughts cease, and your mind becomes like a child's - a blank slate. You don't see
things through the filter of judgement, of words, but just as it is. You see that words do not reveal
Reality, but veil it. With words you believe in God. But without them you know God. "Be still and
know that I am God," the Psalms say. And you see that this Indescribable Calm is the Source, like a
Seed, from which all forms of Nature sprout, and to which all forms return again. And these forms of
Nature are no different than the thoughts & imaginations that arise spontaneously in your mind. It's
an exhilerating realization. Yet words & imagination can never, ever grasp it. You can never, ever
grasp God, Reality, with thoughts, with words, with imagination.
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
(1 Corinthians 2:9)
Now, looking within to this Law written on your heart, this is where you see that the very Heart of
Christianity is the very Heart of Buddhism is the very Heart of Hinduism is the very Heart of Islam.
Because this Calm is beyond time & beyond possession, it cannot be contained in human memory. All
we have are words, messengers, that tell us about it, but the words, messengers are not it.
Yet, how can I tell you about this No-thought if there isn't one point of contact between No-thought
and thoughts, between No-word and words? There must be one Single Word that mediates between
words and no-words, between Heaven & Earth, God & Human, Reality & Illusion, no? It's like the very
infinitesimally sharp tip of a pyramid that goes from stone to no-stone, into the sky. It is the very
Chief Capstone. It is the One Word that mediates between Reality and Thought (Illusion), that is both
Reality and Thought - both Reality and Illusion. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with Reality, and the Word was Reality. . . . And the Word became illusion and dwelt among us
illusions. When you discover the Infinite Calm of No-Thought, something drives you back to the
world of thoughts. It is a desire to take the message to others. Perfect No Thought becomes
imperfect thought, that it may gather up all of us who are lost in thoughts and bring us back to No-
Thought. Our minds are lost in thoughts, and all we like sheep are gone astray from the Eternal
Present (YHWH). So the Eternal Present (YHWH) becomes illusion in search of us, to draw us back.
Buddhist masters know exactly what I am talking about. The Buddha, from the sense of Eternal
Compassion, relinquishes Nirvana to go back as the Bodhisattva to gather up all of us souls lost in
thought.
This is the One Word, One Mediator, between Eternity and Time (Kosmos, illusion). If you look
within, you will know what I am saying.
"Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?"
(2 Corinthians 13:5)
Professed Christians look in the past and in the future and up in heaven for Christ & the Kingdom of
God and the End of Time, but never within, never Here & Now. Having been raised Evangelical
Christian, I know that most Evangelicals are obsessed with Jesus in the past and Jesus in the future;
and they are obsessed with proving past creation of the world and future end of the world. They love
everything but the Present.
"Then He also said to the multitudes, "Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately
you say, 'A shower is coming'; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, 'There
will be hot weather'; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth,
but how is it you do not discern this present moment? Yes, and why, even of yourselves, do you not
judge what is right?" (Luke 12:54-57)
"Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered
them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or
'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."
Then He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the
Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' Do not go
after them or follow them. For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to
the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. (Luke 17:20-24)
The Love of Money, the Worship of the Letter, the Idolatry of Evangelical Christianity
Now we come back to the subject of Money. Money represents things past, things future, but never
the Present. Images represent things past, things future, but never the Present. Words represent
things past, things future, but never the Present. These words you are reading right now are
illusions, unless you can't read. Covetousness (Greed) and Idolatry are one and the same, according
to the Bible (Colossians 3:5, Ephesians 5:5). Idolatry is clinging to illusion, image. Idolatry is the mind
lost from the Present, and is the root of all evil.
Evangelicals believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, and that to question this is sin. And
we were told that there is no salvation apart from the Bible, just as fundamentalist Muslims believe
about the Koran. From a child, I was quoted this verse, to show that faith comes by the Bible:
"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17)
But then one day I actually looked up the context and it blew me away:
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed:
"Their sound has gone out to all the earth,
And their words to the ends of the world."
(Romans 10:17-18, quoting Psalm 19:4)
Then I looked up the quoted Psalm 19 to get a clearer picture of what this "Word of God" really is:
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language
Their voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world."
(Psalm 19:1-4)
Whoa! I thought, all my life I've been taught that this "Word of God" is the Bible, when the Bible itself
says that this "Word of God" is not a book, but is the Utterance of Nature, beyond speech, language,
and voice, and this Word is spoken to all the world!
All Evangelicals are also taught these words of Jesus:
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then shall the end come." (Matthew 24:14)
This is why Evangelicals want to get the Gospel out to the ends of the earth, so that this world will
end. And Jesus also states:
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature". (Mark 16:5)
But then we have this verse:
"This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven"
(Colossians 1:23)
The Gospel already has been preached to every creature? And Jesus said the end would come when
this happened? Then I looked up the original Greek word for creature. It is ktisis, which means every
created thing! How on earth can a human preach human words to every created thing, every rock,
every clod of dirt, every robin, every atom??? And how is it that the Psalms keep speaking of the
heavens & earth and everything in them hearing the word of God? And how is it that the Psalms
speak of the heavens & earth & everything in them singing praises to God? Hello... somebody look up
the word animism.
According to the very Bible, this is the Gospel According to Nature, not a book.
The New Testament
When I say New Testament, don't you think of a book written with ink on paper? But this is not what
the Bible says the New Testament is. Look up all occurences of New Testament (New Covenant) in
the Bible, and see what I mean.
"You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all persons; clearly you are an epistle
of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets
of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward
God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our
sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the New Testament, not of the
letter but of the *Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (2 Corinthians 3: 1-6)
The first mention of the word New Testament is in "The Old Testament" book of Jeremiah (31:31-34).
And this passage is quoted in the "New Testament" book of Hebrews (8:7-8). It says that this New
Testament is not written with letters, but on the heart. It is the Law of the Heart. And this, Hebrews
states, is the goal of Christ, to bring to obsolete the imperfect Old Testament, the letter written with
human hands, and bring us the New Testament, the Law written on the heart.
Now what is strange, is that the Bible talks about the Law already written on the hearts of the
Gentiles (non-Jews, non-Christians).
"For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be
justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these,
not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their
hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending
them, on the Day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ
Jesus." (Romans 2:13-16)
Now we see that the non-religious (Gentiles) already have the law written on their hearts! They
already have the New Testament, the Now Testament, which is already preached to every creature
and is the end goal of Judaism and Christianity! And in the very end sentence of the above passage,
we see that this is happening in the Day of Judgement, the Now, the End of Time!
Yes, New means Now. Both words are of the same root. This is the Now Testament. These words I
am writing are Old Testament. As soon as I write, my words are past, they are old. As soon as a word
enters my memory, it is a thought, out of the Present, old. All thoughts, all words, all letters, are Old
Testament. And all words are illusions which fool us. No words are Reality, except the One Word that
cannot be spoken, the One Name that is hallowed. The opening verse of the Tao Te Ching says,
"The way that can be described is not the Eternal Way.
The word that can be spoken is not the Eternal Word."
To say any written words, anywhere, any time, are inerrant and eternal is idolatry. The very core
doctrines of Evangelical Christianity are idolatrous, as are the very core doctrines of fundamentalist
Islam and Mormonism. And idolatry can produce no truth. Idolatry can only produce destruction. It
causes war, environmental degradation, pollution, poverty, and self-righteous bigotry. See for
yourselves. Am I wrong? "The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."
Jesus' message was aimed at the fundamentalist Jews of his day, the Pharisees, who clung to the
Bible as their source of salvation, believing it the literal, inerrant Word of God, and who also were
"lovers of money". Idolatry & covetousness always go together, for they are one and the same ("Now
the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him." {Luke
16:14}). Now, with new understanding, read what Christ says to these fundamentalists:
"You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His word
abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. You search the Scriptures, for in
them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing
to come to Me that you may have life." (John 5:38-40)
Now, if you want to know truth, not just believe truth, you need to turn this computer off and put
away these and all words of illusion and find the Stillness within, the Now, the Reality, "the Peace
that passes all understanding." It's not enough to believe in God, "Be still and know that I am God."
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