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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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Since I’ve been house-sitting in town most the winter,
I’ve taken advantage of it, changing my tune a lot, Members
from my usual contemplative philosophy, to getting
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involved in activist movements (like Occupy Moab). Next
Our latest endeavor is a petition to the City Council of
Moab, Utah to pass a resolution that declares
corporations not people and money not speech, as
part of a nation-wide movement to amend the
constitution [Move to Amend]. I made both a paper
non-official petition and an online one for us to present
to the Moab City Council this Tuesday, January 24th. I
made the online one, intended only for locals who
couldn’t sign the paper one, but it turns out some
people in various parts of the world are signing it! Oh, well, I thought, that’s good, too,
because it shows Moab the world is watching. What the heck, now I might as well open up
the petition for everybody (like you) to sign, right here:
Moab City Council: Resolution Abolishing Corporate Personhood and Money As Speech
Let Moab know you’re watching us!
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Now... for my brainstorming-philosophizing: Somebody recently emailed me about finding it hard
to be optimistic in such a tragic world. What to do? Popular Posts
Optimism is Faith, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. My Summary of Why I
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Pessimism is Faithlessness, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Happy April Fool's
Eve! My very first
I keep coming back to Spirituality, because the most powerful and successful movements for blog entry ever! I once
had a website on
social change, whether for good or for bad, have been religious. Religion is usually bad. But living moneyless - but
let’s focus on the small bit that’s good, because, as you will see if you read on, small good then zapped it, for
minority overpowers big bad majority. I'm not talking religious denominations or institutions, I'm several r...
talking states of mind.
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I'm now in Missoula,
Life's principle is to focus on the one sperm that makes it to the egg, not the millions of others Montana.  Mark
that are doomed. Sundeen, his fiance,
Thus, my focus here is on the tiny minority, the True Triumphant. Cedar, and I have
been on the road
together, doing this
Look at the leading Abolitionists, like Harriet book tour thingy in
Tubman. Look at Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lo...
George Fox. Look at the movement against
Male,
Apartheid in South Africa and Poland’s break Femal
from the USSR. What motivated them? e,
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True religion is, by its very nature, unshakeable
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Optimism in the face of seemingly infinite and Money Economy
Pessimism. I'm not talking fake smiles and bury- Lots have been going
Mohandas Gandhi head-in-the-sand ignorant bliss of false religion. on and I haven't had
time to think about
blog posts for a while. 
Spirituality is the Faith of the small against seemingly impossibly-large I've had quite a few
Harriet Tubman
odds. Faith is Optimism. Faithlessness is Pessimism. No movement, visitors staying with ...
no revolution, can succeed for long without this Optimism.
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Without Optimism, a movement is spineless, cowardly, pathetic. Nothing succeeds without
to The
Faith. Faith is even the very essence of all scientific discovery. Even so, such Optimism always Holy
appears foolishly naïve and childishly small to everyone but the Sprititual Mind, and this Invisi
seemingly small childishness against the immensity of Pessimism is what makes the triumph of ble
Hand
this Optimist so splendid when it happens. This Optimist plays out our deepest yearning, our
of the Free Market
cultural mythology. Ode to The Holy
Invisible Hand  of the
Free Market Oh Holy
Yes, this Optimism is the Essence of our most valued myths and fairy tales in every culture in the
Invisible Hand of the
world. My cynical Pessimist self thinks myth and fairy tale is silly fiction, and uses this as
Free Market, we adore
argument against my Optimist self. Little does this Pessimist know he is only adding to the Thee above all, and
splendor of the Optimist in her potential triumph! we sacrif...
Yes, the Spiritual Mind knows Myth and Fairy Tale express truths too deep for any pragmatic Patria
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science to ever grasp. This is because spiritual understanding is not theory, but direct errori
experience, direct knowledge, beyond thought (beyond symbol, beyond words, beyond images). sm &
Mam
Because it is beyond symbol, the symbols (stories) that point to it appear fantastic, as fairy
mon
tale! Scientific theory is wonderful, but it can only be theory, can never go beyond thought
I'm still in Fruita,
(symbol, words, images), can never be direct experience, can never truly be knowledge (gnosis), Colorado, caring for
direct understanding. my aging parents. It is
heart-breaking,
watching their bodies
Examples of Humanity's Ancient Mythology: and minds fade. It's a
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Our Power to Overcome
(you will recognize them, because they are our shared humanity): The
Mone
yless
(1) The small, insignificant peasant turns out to be the Prince in disguise who comes to
Tribe
rule. There are countless variations of this myth/fairy tale all over the world. Beco
mes
(2) “The stone that the builders rejected has become the Chief Cornerstone (or Reality
It's been weeks since
Capstone).” Jews, Christians, and Rastafarians readily recognize this one.
I've had net access. 
Still little time to write
(3) The unassuming pauper goes through here. Darby, MT The
unfathomable trials, beating all his strong and moneyless tribe is
now reality, dre...
glorious competitors, to triumphantly win the hand of
the Princess. Transi
tionin
(4) The little guy (eg David) slays the Giant (eg, g to a
New
Goliath).
Life
Yes,
(5) The unassuming man slays the Dragon (this is I'm still alive.  Yes, it's
one of the most common and ancient and world-wide) been over 4 months
since I blogged. I've
been clueless what to
say. My life has gon...
This mythology is the very manifestation of our biology and
The Physics &
physics, the very principle of all of existence: Spirituality of Gift
Economy
Here's my debut
blog/vlog, after over a
1) A cottonwood seed, so tiny it floats in the air, flies year sabbatical of not
on random currents with no plan, to then fall into the blogging!  And I must
ground as dead, and resurrect as a giant cottonwood admit I feel excited
about publishing this
tree. video, &...
Cottonwood Seeds Blog Entry Deleted
(2) One single bacterium or virus can enter the body For the first time in all
( my blogging, I've
of a giant and conquer it.
deleted a blog entry -
my last one, "Bearing
(3) One single spark can mean the flaming end of an entire forest. Las Cruces". I've been
in medit...
(4) One split atom has the energy to blow up a city.
The
Evolut
(5) One single sperm cell, against millions of competitors, goes through incredible ion of
odds to reach the egg to become a life form unfathomably greater and more complex the
Trinit
than the original sperm cell. And you, yes you, were one in millions who made it to the y of
egg! And you were the egg! Agriculture, Money &
Usury
Yes, the Sperm Cell journey is the eternal   The Evolution of the
Trinity of Agriculture,
myth of the Pauper going through trials to win Money & Usury You'll
likely not find the
the hand of the Princess, the Egg. ideas in this 20-
minute video anyplace
else....
Now my Pessimist side, void of Intuition, can only calculate. He can
take several samples out of millions of sperm cells that are headed
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to the egg. And each of his samples can contain thousands of sperm cells. He can scientifically
prove that every single one of those thousands of sperm cells are destined for death, doomed. ▼ 2021 (2)
Why? Because none of his many samples happens to include that one and only sperm cell out ▼ February (1)
of millions that will reach the egg! He can with full self-assurance say that he statistically and ▼ Feb 15 (1)
scientifically proved that all sperm cells are doomed and life is hopeless!
The Evolution of
the Trinity of
This is the comical trickery and essence of all of Life: Tiny Optimism triumphs over seemingly Agriculture,
impossibly huge Pessimism. Life would not be life without seemingly impossibly huge Money...
Pessimism!
► January (1)
Optimism is Faith, ► 2020 (4)
Pessimism is Faithlessness: ► 2019 (3)
Both go together ► 2018 (7)
► 2017 (4)
My little person is Optimism, the Very Essence of Life. My Big ► 2016 (1)
Tyrant is Pessimism, the Very Essence of Death. But Optimism
► 2015 (6)
can’t be Optimism without Pessimism. Life can’t be life without
Death. The Stone that the Builders rejected can’t become the ► 2014 (14)
Chief Capstone without being rejected! This is why the Stone ► 2013 (16)
says, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.” All Life and ► 2012 (14)
every particle in the universe is playing out this One Myth, this
► 2011 (11)
One Drama, the essence of every story we tell, every movie we
watch! Little Optimism faces off Big Pessimism and triumphs. ► 2010 (18)
This One Myth touches our “interesting” sensor more deeply than ► 2009 (17)
any other story. The Small is the Divine in disguise, and even appears to be defeated, even to
► 2008 (9)
the point of death, only to resurrect to overcome the Big in the end. Then we all clap our
hands and cheer with tears in our eyes! You know exactly what I'm talking about. ► 2007 (13)
► 2006 (13)
I once told a religious person that gay people were “the stone that the builders rejected,” in the
same way that African Americans, or any oppressed people, are the stone that the builders
rejected, eventually becoming the Chief Cornerstone. This person was appalled I could say My Friends Around the
World in the Moneyless
such a thing, telling me I was blaspheming, because, he said, this “stone that the builders
Movement!
rejected” refers to Jesus, who was rejected, killed, buried and resurrected as King. But,
according to this person’s own logic, if he really believes, as he says, that Jesus is God and God Heidemarie
is Omnipresent and non-changing, wouldn’t Jesus be Omnipresent, the Non-Changing Essence Schwermer in
Germany
of All Life and All Creation? Doesn’t his same Jesus say “I was hungry and you did not feed me”
Mark Boyle in Britain
or “I was in prison and you did not visit me”? Isn't his whole point that he is right in front of your
face and you don't recognize him? elf Pavlik on Euro
continent
Raphael, Nieves,
Benjamin, Camille,
Nicoli from Europe
Tomi Astikainen from
Finland
Öff Öff in Germany
C.J. Colwell- A Twenty
First Century
American Nomad
Soja Kruse in South
Africa
Adin in South Africa
Julez Edward in
Holland
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The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved: Moneyless World - an
they are Jesus in disguise. information site about
people around the
--Mother Theresa world living
moneyless, and
resources for people
who want to live
moneyless
"Moneyless In Moab"
Not knowing my transcendent nature as Sovereign Lord of all indy film by my friend
beings, Gordon, Spring 2006
fools condemn me as a man BBC Radio Interview,
(Bhagavad Gita 9:11) Fall Equinox, 2009 (6
min)
Mother Theresa Denver Post
Viewing all things with equal regard
holding real, live Jesus in the flesh Slideshow
he beholds the Self in all beings
and all beings in the Self.
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and sees everything in me,
to him I am never lost. Posts
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worships me abiding in all beings
lives and moves in me,
no matter how he live and move.
He who, by likening himself with others,
senses pleasure and pain for all as for himself,
is deemed to be the highest yogi. (Bhagavad Gita 6:29-32)
The person in me who can’t recognize that an oppressed Mexican immigrant or gay person or
an abused puppy or a Third World sweat-shop child are Jesus also can't recognize that Jesus is
a piece of rock that becomes the Chief Cornerstone.
And he cannot recognize that Jesus is the Buddha and the Krishna and the Muhammad and the
Lao Tzu that he rejects. In fact, his own religious dogma that appears to be pro-Jesus, his
religious intolerance, is the very spirit that crucified the Jesus he claims to honor!
An adult who abuses a child loses all conception that that child grows to an adult to haunt him,
the stone he rejects becomes the chief cornerstone. His intolerance of Buddha, Krishna,
Muhammad, and Lao Tzu is his inability to recognize that Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, and
Lao Tzu are actually one and the very Jesus he claims to honor.
However, it is his intolerant mentality, his Pessimism, that makes Optimism Optimism, his Death
that makes Life Life, his Battling that makes Triumph Triumph. Again, the one who rejects the
stone is the one who pushes the stone to be Chief Cornerstone.
What is Interesting Is Truth, What is Boring Is False.
What Is Good Tastes Good, What is Bad Tastes Bad.
Now you might think that by Truth I mean our usual definition of fact, which is idea. No! By
Truth I mean Principles. No brain on earth can ever know facts, only theories that parade as
facts! Science imparts theories parading as facts. Myth imparts Principles. Theories can only
be believed. Principles are known, directly experienced. This turns around what we've been
taught all our lives, that science is fact and myth is belief. If you meditate on what I am saying
here, you will know the truth, the Principle.
Even if you define myth as fiction, I say that fiction, by the very fact it is interesting, is proof that it
is Truth, imparting Principle. If fiction didn’t convey eternal truths, it wouldn’t be interesting,
wouldn’t be a good story. What is not interesting is not Truth.
In the same way nutritious grass tastes good to a deer and toxic plants
taste bad to the deer, so we, in our natural state, know that what is
interesting is good for us. In our natural state, good food and truth tastes
good and bad food and falsehood tastes bad. Truth is interesting and
falsehood is boring. Do you get bored in Church?
Now when we depart from our natural state, entering addiction, we start
thinking crappy commercial fast food is good and mind-numbing corporate
TV and malls and megachurches with slick manican ministers are
"interesting." We think they are interesting, but we don't experience that they are interesting.
But if you really know yourself, you know that you never enjoy food you are addicted to. If you
enjoyed it, you wouldn't be addicted to it! Addiction is grasping for an idea you think about food
or drugs that you once experienced or want to experience. Your mind is never on the food you
are addicted to, never enjoying it. You know what I am talking about.
How Did We Get Into This Addictive State?
This brings us back to our myth of our Fall From Grace, taking on the Thought of Credit and
Debt (Good and Evil), which I talk about in
Our Fall From Grace: Our Departure From Gratis: The Beginning of Money
and
The Seven-Headed Dragon: World Commerce.
The Serpent in Eden, giving the Fruit of the Thought of Credit and Debt. And he grows into the
Huge Seven-Headed Dragon of Commerce, his Kingdom of Babylon controlling the whole
world. He seems impossibly, infinitely powerful. Just looking at him fills you with Pessimism,
hopelessness, because he is Pessimism Incarnate.
Now We're Back to the Myth of the Little Hero Slaying the
Impossibly Powerful Dragon!
Yes, we’re back to the Seven-Headed Serpent, the Dragon
of Commerce. The Dragon of Pessimism who gives birth to
Pessimism in your very soul. Is it hopeless? Or is
this another replay of the infinite Myth of little guy Optimism
conquering impossibly huge Pessimism?
Yes, hark back to the cottonwood seed becoming the tree.
Ugaritic depiction of Hark back to the spark creating a forest fire. Hark back to
Baal vs Lotan
the one sperm among millions reaching the egg. Hark back
(who becomes Leviathan in the Bible)
to David slaying Golliath. Hark back to the ancient world-
wide myth of the little guy slaying the Dragon.
Little tiny you is up against the seven-headed Dragon,
World Commercial Corporatocracy of Addiction and
Oppression, which poisons and kills everything it
touches. Now you must decide if the ancient Myth of the
Dragon slayer is just a silly story or not. Or is it Eternal
Principle? Now you must decide if the essence of
Biology is a lie or not.
Hercules vs the Hydra
Okay, I admit, I have a part of me that doubts, too. That's
what makes this so damn scary and exciting, what makes it so interesting! If we knew for
certain, this Drama wouldn’t be so on-the-edge-of-our-seat so scary and exciting, would it?
Which do you choose, Optimism or Pessimism? Either one you choose, you are part of the
Grand Drama.
Arch-Angel Michael
vs Seven-Headed Dragon The Seven-Headed Naga Subdued,
no longer being served,
but being servant to Vishnu:
the sign of Enlightenment
Revelation's Queen of Heaven
vs the Seven-Headed Dragon
The Seven-Headed Naga Subdued,
is no longer being served,
but being servant to Buddha,
the sign of Enlightenment
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Re-Genesis
Since I don't know when I'll next have a chance to blog, and I'm feeling inspired, I'm writing a pretty
long post here, reviewing principles I've been writing and talking about the past few years, all
crystallizing together here.
But before I get started philosophizing, here's what's happening in my life now, an update on the
"moneyless tribe" and possibilities of meeting up with us, and a re-cap of what's been happening the
past few weeks.
The "moneyless tribe," 
meeting at the Rainbow Gathering again
Right now it's just me, Steph, and Jake camping in the canyon, as well as Freebird (who is camping
near us and hanging with us a lot, but using money).  Steph, Jake, Freebird, and I plan to leave for the
Rainbow Gathering here in Utah sometime this week, and maybe others around Moab will join us.
Brandon left to visit his family with plans of hooking back up with us at the Gathering.  Govinda left
for good back to Australia.  And Jake is the newest newcomer.  He didn't know about me or this 'tribe'
and just randomly bumped into us while hiking a couple weeks ago.  Then he decided to bike back
down here from Salt Lake City and hook up with us.
I kind of gave up on the "moneyless tribe" last Fall, and decided no more planning for it.  I figured it
will happen organically if it's meant to be, or it won't.  When I let go, it started arising again on its
own, though fluctuating.
Since folks ask how to find us, we'll have a "moneyless tribe" camp again, with a sign and directions
posted at the gathering, like last year, so people can find us.  And I really don't know what's going on
after the Gathering.  We might head to Oregon or we might stay around this area, or who knows. 
Depends on the consensus of our group.  See consensus here if you're not sure what it is.
I put "moneyless tribe" in quotes because I don't like the idea of us having an official label.  We're not
really called anything.  Just people who love each other and don't use money.
Any of you who hooks up with us must have zero expectations.  Randomness and zero expectations
are the ultimate driving force of this lifestyle, and the seeming lack of direction can be frustrating
when you've been programmed by Babylon to have every minute of your life planned and scheduled
and filled with incessant talking and "doing something."  Incessant talking seems to be the biggest
epidemic among especially white people.  If you can't be content with doing nothing or randomness
or silence, then don't come.  What appears as lack of discipline (defined by Babylon) is our discipline. 
The discipline is living in the moment, accepting what is, and loving each other unconditionally.  And
it's a time of healing for us who need healing.  Some folks come and leave because they think they
might be a burden on us with their "hangups," and that makes me sad, because healing hangups is
what this is about.  Don't be so absorbed in yourself to think you're the only one with hang-ups.  We
all have our hang-ups.  Also, expectations can be shattered realizing we do have hang-ups too. 
Boosting each other through thick and thin is called life.
The link between money, agriculture, conventional religion, 
and our violation of nature
Last night I did my last radio show at KZMU Moab Community Radio for a while, maybe for good. 
I've enjoyed DJ'ing there so much, it's hard to let it go.
Between Cullen and me, we got about 2/3 of my shows recorded.  I'm hoping to get them available
on the internet when there's a chance to work on it.
My topic last night was "THE LINK BETWEEN MONEY, AGRICULTURE, AND OUR VIOLATION OF
NATURE".  My talk was an attempt to illustrate that our money, agriculture, religion, and their
violation of nature, is not a lack of knowledge or proper programs or systems, but a simple
manifestation of our not being authentic, a simple manifestation of having impure hearts.  Here I'm
going to expound on what I talked about last night.
First, I referred to Jared Diamond's The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, Lierre
Keith's The Vegetarian Myth, and Michael Quinn's Ishmael.  In bringing up Lierre Keith's The
Vegetarian Myth, I don't necessarily knock vegetarianism or vegan-ism, but I want to point out that if
you do it for the purpose of avoiding killing, you're mistaken.  If you're doing it for the purpose of not
supporting factory farms, that's a good reason.  But if you're eating from conventional agriculture,
you're supporting just as much destruction as if you were eating factory farm meat.
What we must realize is there isn't a single life form that exists without the death of another.  We
cannot eliminate death any more than we can eliminate negative-charge particles.  It's about finding
the beautiful balance between life and death, not eliminating death.  And, as Diamond, Keith, and
Quinn point out, the evidence is overwhelming that mass extinctions, environmental devastation,
chronic disease, malnutrition, class-ism, sexual inequality, and overpopulation came with the advent
of agriculture.
Agriculture and money arose from the same mindset
My point is to take this deeper to show that agriculture
and money arose from the same mindset.  I have a hunch
that money and agriculture arose simultaneously as a
direct manifestation of our spiritual mindset, our lack of
faith in the very most basic law of nature.  Again, I call it
thought of credit and debt, or "knowledge of good and evil",
our fall from Grace, in our Judeo-Christian tradition, and
"stealing fire from heaven" found in countless other traditions all over the world.  The stealing fire
from heaven is a way of describing our attempt to control the flow of energy and to possess it.  It is
our lack of faith in the current of energy, the currency of nature, trying to control and possess it. 
Our currency, our money, is not energy, nor the flow of energy, but simply our attempt to control
that flow. 
Money and agriculture, as well as conventional religion, represent not doing for the sake of doing,
but for the sake of future reward, future fruit.  Sow for the purpose of reaping in the future.  Work
for the sake of a future salary.  Be good for the sake of a future reward in heaven or because of fear
of punishment of hell.
Pay Myself vs Pay-It-Forward
In true hunter-gatherer culture, as well as in all wild ecology, there is a pay-it-forward system.  One
sows, another reaps.  A bird eats a berry with no sense of payback to the berry tree.  She reaps what
others have sown.  Then she poops out the digested matter as well as the berry seeds, planting and
feeding and fertilizing other creatures, who reap what she has sown.  And they continue this perfect
pay-it-forward economy, all with no thought of barter or prices or economics.  When you are
authentically yourself, you are nature, and you have no attachment to the fruit of your actions.  You
have no ulterior motivation.  This means you do for the sake of doing, not for future reward.  Your
reward is in doing.
On the other hand,
every interaction of nature is a perfect, simultaneous barter
At another level, the level of the present moment, you are participating in a perfect, unconscious
simultaneous barter.  Every interaction in all of the universe is a perfect barter, simultaneously in the
present moment.  Everything is paid for, everything runs on perfect justice.  
I am talking the law of physics.  For every force, there is an equal and opposite force, simultaneously
in the moment.  For every action, there is an equal simultaneous reaction.  For every positive, there
is an equal negative.  For every wave crest, there is an equal wave trough.  This is the most basic and
simple law of all the universe, the law behind all laws, the simplest to grasp.  Yet we somehow lost
faith in it and cannot grasp it!  This law of physics is also the law of biology and of social interaction. 
If I cannot see that your giving to me is my giving to you simultaneously, if I cannot see that your
doing a service to me is simultaneously my doing an exactly equal service to you, then I am living in
delusion!  The only possible impetus for inventing money and conventional agriculture is delusion,
the delusion of not seeing this most basic law of the universe.  
Vengeance is mine, I repay right now, says the Law of the Universe.
So, what do we do?
So, what do we do?  The simple answer is, be authentic, be yourself, and all will fall into place.  If I
am myself, I won't do what I'm paid to do but will do what I know is natural for me to do.  If I am
myself, I well not give in to anybody or any system telling me to go against my own nature.  That
might mean quitting my job, quitting my religion, quitting my bank.  Simple, but daunting to do.  It
might mean I get crucified.
On a larger scale, what could happen?  Right now in the world we have a massive agricultural and
money system and out-of-control overpopulation.  Do we, must we, go back to hunter-gatherer
living?
Permaculture
Let's refer back to a blog post I wrote here on November
15, 2011, To Be Yourself Is To Be Perfect
I'm feeling in my bones that permaculture is a key
to bring in gift economy, for whole populations to
live moneyless.  I've never honestly cared for
traditional agriculture, which I'm sure arose with
money and barter, and was the beginning of our
imbalance.  My ideal has been the hunter-gatherer
model, which obviously wouldn't work today
without a major die-off of people.  That leaves us
permaculture, which is about creating a self-
regenerating system, not only of agriculture, but of everything connected to it. 
Machinery is generation.  Life is regeneration.  
This got me super excited, taking the principles of permaculture into social
interaction:
Generation is generosity (which we see as a virtue).  Regeneration is re-generosity -
Gifts that keep giving.  Generosity is a thing of artificial institutions.  Re-generosity is
a thing of living communities!
Generosity has a sense of self-righteousness, self-credit.  "I did my good deed for the
day", stacking up credit points.  
Re-generosity is perpetual giving, such as breathing, having no thought of credits or
debt.  You don't expect praise for every lungful of carbon dioxide you freely give to the
world, you just egolessly do it.  And you don't feel guilty about every lungful of oxygen
you take. Generosity comes from stores of excess, from possession.  In re-generosity,
there is no possession, only perpetual flow. 
It makes no sense to "own" air in your lungs. 
When you own nothing, there is no effort in giving, no sense of self-righteousness. 
Life is not a charity, it is constant giving.
Permaculture is allowing everything to be its natural self, for greater efficiency and
productivity with minimal effort, as all of nature works.
Re-Genesis
As I was re-reading what I'd written above, another epiphany hit me:  
Regeneration is re-generosity is re-genesis!  
We are in a culture, an agriculture culture, an agri-culture, a money culture, and a religious culture
that thinks linearly, not cyclically.  We are in a culture that sees a genesis and an end, with no
regeneration.  And it cannot recycle its own waste.  We are in a culture that sees a linear scripture of
Genesis and a Revelation, a creation and a final apocalypse.  Nothing regenerates, nothing evolves,
nothing recycles, everything has one beginning, regresses, then ends, capoot.
We sow a seed, it grows, we wait for its fruit, we harvest it, and it is over.  Unlike a wild plant, it does
not regenerate itself.  It is not self-sustaining.  It does not recycle.  Its driving force, its motivation, is
extrinsic.  It needs an outward force to keep it alive.  It does not have the wherewithal to live on its
own.  It is weak, and it imparts its weakness to us.  We are a weak and immature culture.
Extrinsic or Intrinsic Motivation
And we are what we eat.  We cannot find our motivation from within.  Our motivation has become
extrinsic.  This principle is the theme of this speech I gave last May, on video here (You are your own
diploma, you are your own currency). Yes, our motivation has become ulterior.  Ulterior means
further, future.  Ulterior is something far away in space and time.  Our reward is no longer in doing. 
Our reward has become far away in space in time. 
Created in the Image of Reality
When our motivation is ulterior, we are not authentic, we
are not real, we are not ourselves, we are not the Image of
Reality.  The Image of Reality is Reality.  Reality creates us
in Reality's own Image.  Anything else is an idol.  Idol is
illusion.  What motivates us is what we worship.  We are
what we worship, an idol, ulterior motivation, fake,
illusion.  What we worship is what gives us energy, our
driving force, our food.  This is my body, take, eat.  We are what we eat.  We are our agriculture.  We
are our money.  We are our deluded religions.
Our agriculture does not regenerate itself.  It is not permaculture.  It is in battle with nature.  It
violates nature.
Myth of the Eternal Return:
Regeneration
And our conventional myth does not regenerate itself.  It is
linear, like our agriculture and our everyday thinking. 
Mircea Eliade pointed out how "primitive" cultures
worldwide, unlike modern western culture, have a Myth of
the Eternal Return.  The Creation is ever repeating, yet
Ever Now, and people enter into this Creation in religious
ritual. 
Our Suicidal Myth of Self-fulfilling
Prophecy
Our world does not regenerate itself.  It is artificial.  It is
not a Re-genesis, but began with a one-time Genesis.  And, after linear time, like our agriculture, it
will end in an Apocalypse-Armageddon.  We have made our world such a prison, such a living hell,
we rub our hands together in awaiting our Apocalypse Armageddon.  We are making this Apocalyptic
Armageddon happen in self-fulfilling prophecy.  Except that we cannot recognize that our
Armageddon is subject to the cycle of nature, thus we live in a perpetual Armageddon, a prison of
hell, making us futily desire even more that it would end.  Look around.
Take note that hunting and gathering cultures have never had a concept of an end of the world.  This
is a concept invented by agricultural cultures.  If they have made the world such a better place, why
oh why do they hope for its end?
We love our Savior in the past and we love our Savior in the future, but we call blasphemy any idea of
our Savior within, here and now.  We love our Eden, our Paradise, our Kingdom of heaven, in the
past, and we love our Kingdom of Heaven in the future, but we call heresy any idea of the Kingdom
of Heaven within, the Kingdom of Heaven at hand, here and now.  
Uncovering Our True Myth Right Under Our Noses
You don't need any book to show you that Creation as well
as the Apocalypse is happening now.  Just look around
you.  
Light is coming to being right now, 
as well as division between light and dark.  
Water is accumulating into bodies 
and atmosphere is forming right now.  
The earth is bringing forth plants, right now.  
And stars are being born, right now.  
And animals and humans are being formed from the soil, right now.  
And we are being conformed to the Image of Reality, right now.  
And all is being destroyed, right now.  
Apocalypse Now.
Genesis Now.
Even so, it's fun to look deeper at our old religious texts and uncover their covered truth.
Our myth (by myth I don't mean lie, I mean deep spiritual truths imparted through stories) was
originally the Myth of the Eternal Return, and this deeply true Myth was lost, covered.  Uncover the
truth.  Apocalypse means uncovering what already is.  Yeah, it's funny we have to refer to books, like
the Bible, to tell us what we already know.  I get a kick out of telling folks I take the biblical Genesis
creation literally, that the "fundamentalists" don't take it literally enough!  If you take Genesis
literally, you see that it is Re-Genesis.  It is happening now.  The Hebrew text is literally present
tense! 
Check out Young's Literal Translation of the Bible.  The Hebrew scholar, Robert Young, found that,
Bereshith bara elohim, the RSV's "In the beginning God created...", is in the construct
state (bereshith), not the absolute (barishona), meaning it refers to an action in
progress, not to a completed act.
and
Young's usage of English present tense rather than past tense has been supported by
scholars ranging from the medieval Jewish rabbi Rashi... to Richard Elliott Friedman in
his translation of the Five Books ...
Until we get out of our delusion of linear thinking, of credit-and-debt mentality, of running on
ulterior motivation, otherwise called greed and idolatry, yes, until we uncover the truth, until we
realize that the Beginning is the End, ever Now, the same yesterday, today, and forever, until we see
that Genesis is Ever Now, and the Apocalypse is Ever Now, we will not escape our violation of wild
nature, violation of our own true natures, violation of our very own souls.  Until we find our true
Myth, the Myth of Re-Genesis, we will not live, we will not regenerate, we will not recycle, we will be
fake and pathetic just like the characters we see on our televisions and in our offices of politics and
business.
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QUIT MONEY DAY: APRIL 18
QUIT MONEY DAY: APRIL 18
"April 17 is Tax Filing Day, when we look
back on a year of hours worked, salaries
earned, and dollars spent. Never do we
feel more entwined in the money system
and its tentacle institutions of banks and
government. Let's imagine greater independence from that system,
and for one entire day, on April 18, neither spend, borrow, nor lend a
single cent. Once you JOIN this event, invite all your friends!"      --
Mark Sundeen
You can also join Quit Money Day on Facebook and invite your
friends.
We plan to celebrate this day with a big event for the book in Mark's home town of Missoula,
Montanna (see the events itinerary to also see other places I hope to be in the next months). 
Is Quitting Money for One Day Radical?
Yeah, many people think it's radical quitting money for one single day.  But consider the ancient
tradition of our own culture: the Sabbath Day.  The Sabbath was Quit Money Day every single week,
52 weeks a year, plus holidays, which were also Quit Money Days!  Not only that, there were
Sabbath years, every seventh year.  
Other cultures of the ancient world, some long before Judaism,
practiced a Sabbath, as well as periodic times of forgiveness, like
Jubilee, where all debts were forgiven.  The famous Rosetta Stone,
in fact, is Ptolemy's anouncement of a kind of Jubillee, forgiving debt
across Egypt.
But, if you're interested, let's focus on our own cultural tradition. 
I'm Not Here to Proselytize Religion
I'm not here to proselytize, to get non-religious people to follow any
religion.  I'd say, in fact, that most non-religious people I know are better at practicing the ethics of
religion than most the religious ones!  The non-religious world is, in fact, getting quite sick
of bickering, self-righteousness, and violence among the three Abrahamic religions, the Abrahamic
pot calling the Abrahamic kettle black!
But I'm also not on a secular agenda to bash people's faith, to convert religious to non-religious.  The
point is to find and cultivate what is already good in every culture, every religion, every person.  This
is not dreamy, wishful thinking.  In fact, we are deluded in wishful thinking when we deny the good
we see in everybody, for the sake of promoting our own agendas!  It's not that we can't see good in
every human, it's that we refuse to see good in every human.
Thus I dig for splendid diamonds in the rough in Abrahamic religions, in every religion, and I love
digging for them.  Yeah, it gives me pleasure. 
Bottom line, all I care about is what motivates people to act in truth and love, whether religious or
not religious. 
In short, because I grew up in Judeo-Christian culture, my mission is to encourage Christians and
Jews to practice the principles of truth in our own religion, not just talk about them.  We must bring
to light the gems already present, yet buried, right here in our own culture! 
So if you're interested in religion, read on.  If not, I'd be happy if you stopped here.
The Sabbath is Quit Money Day, Every Week!
The Sabbath Day, according to the Torah, is Quit Money Day, every
seventh day, 52 weeks a year.  The Sabbath is not necessarily about
giving up work, but giving up work for money, giving up business, with