27. I want to live moneyless; but what if I have a family with children?

Yeah, children & families. You have a beautiful challenge.

I've been mulling over children and families a lot the past few years, waiting for inspiration.

The answer, of course, is in communal living. But how to bring about sustainable, moneyless, communal living in a capitalist society that thinks "communal"
means "Satan" is the big challenge!

But, if there's a will there's a way!

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We first spark intense inspiration in the masses! We first spread infectious Generosity, infectious Love! Begin living communally, right now, right
here where you live, within your own city, town, village, or community. Communal-ism already exists within our cities, towns, villages and
Daniel Suelo's Blog: communities right now. Every time you share with your neighbor, expecting no reward, and every time you receive without guilt, you live communally. Start

Moneyless cultivating what is already here. Start freely giving and freely receiving right now, no matter how much debt you have, no matter how much or few
"possessions" you have, no matter how many dependents you have, no matter how busy or not busy you are. If not now, when?

World - Free Prepare the ground right now. When Babylon falls, you already have the foundation established!

World - Notice how, when tornadoes hit a town, when a hurricane, flood, or earthquake hits a city, suddenly money becomes meaningless, and people wake up and start

Priceless World helping each other and sharing (Yes, the greedy looters and thieves also wake up, too; but don’t worry about them. Let them run their course. Cultivate your
wheat, and let the wheat and the weeds grow together).

Communalism must not be imposed politically or institutionally, from calculated programs. Not of ego works, but of Grace. It must come from natural instinct,
from Love, from a Pure Heart, within. The solution cannot begin in politics and institutions, as history has taught us over and over. Was not the Soviet Union a
total disaster, as bad as or worse than the regime it replaced?
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If you are not religious and, understandably, you can’t handle religion, then live generously, communally, without religion (I personally
Videos know more non-religious people who practice the principles of religion than those who are religious).
featuring Suelo
But, if you are religious, starting now, please consider practicing your own religion. Please.
& Other Moneyless Friends

The genetic code that directs us to possessionless, communal living lies dormant at the heart of our very own cultures (all cultures, all
world religions), at the very heart of the Spiritual Paths our cultures claim to follow! It must be awakened, revived!
Radio Interviews
Ironically, here in America, we have a population that equates “communal” with “Satan” and talks incessantly about “private property rights” as if it were
Re: the Book, Gospel, though it is as obviously far from Gospel as you can get. The very scriptures and spiritual traditions that people claim to revere and follow—yes, those
The Man Who Quit scriptures, and the very foundations of our ancient spiritual traditions—are clearly communalistic. I feel in my bones that to revive this dormant
genetic code, already at the heart of our culture, is the key.
Money
Author Mark Sundeen's website Here is the Genetic Code, in the Seed, waiting to spring to Life through the Water of Love:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Now the multitude of those who believed
were of One Heart and One Soul;
1. Why Do You Live Without neither did anyone say
Money? (A Biographical Intro) that any of the things he possessed was his own,
2. Do You Think Money Is Evil? but they had all things in common.
3. What Do You Do For Food? (Acts 4:32)
4. What do you do for shelter?
5. What do you do for Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common,
and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.
transportation?
So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of
6. Do you get sick from dumpsters heart,
& roadkill & living in the cold? giving Credit to God and having Grace with all the people. (Act 2:44-47)
7. Do you take food stamps or
other government aid or Check out what the early Church leaders said. I begin with Augustine, because, here in America, Augustine is revered (in word, anyway) by both conservative
institutional charity? Evangelicals and Catholics:
8. How long do you plan to live
this way? Those who wish to make room for the Lord must find pleasure not in private, but in common property…. Redouble your charity. For, on account of
9. What will you do when you get the things which each one of us possesses singly, wars exist, hatreds, discords, strifes among human beings, tumults, dissensions, scandals,
old? sins, injustices, and murders. On what account? On account of those things which each of us possesses singly. Do we fight over the things we
possess in common? We inhale this air in common with others, we all see the sun in common. Blessed therefore are those who make room for
10. What happens if you get sick or
the Lord, so as not to take pleasure in private property. Let us therefore abstain from the possessions of private property—or from the love of it, if
injured? we cannot abstain from possession—and let us make room for the Lord.
11. What would happen to society if --Augustine (354–430 CE)
everybody lived like you do?
What if everybody raided I now come to the accusation that most of us are said to be poor; that is not to our shame, it is to our great credit. Men’s characters are
dumpsters? strengthened by stringent circumstances, just as they are dissipated by luxurious living. Besides, can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he
12. You look well-fed and well- does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.
dressed; are you a trust-funder? And so it is that when a man walks along a road, the lighter he travels, the happier he is; equally, on this journey of life, a man is more blessed if
13. Why don't mooches like you he does not pant beneath a burden of riches but lightens his load by poverty. Nevertheless, we would ask God for material goods if we
work? considered them to be of use; without a doubt, He to whom the whole belongs would be able to concede us a portion. But we prefer to hold
possessions in contempt than to hoard them: it is rather innocence that is our aspiration, it is rather patience that is our entreaty; our preference is
14. You say you don't use money,
goodness, not extravagance.
yet aren't you using products of --Tertullian (c. 160–c.220 CE)
the money system & relying on
the hard-earned money of You are like one occupying a place in a theater, who should prohibit others from entering, treating that as one’s own which was designed for the
others? common use of all.
15. What do you do if somebody Such are the rich. Because they were first to occupy common goods, they take these goods as their own. If each one would take that which is
offers you money or buys things sufficient for one’s needs, leaving what is in excess to those in distress, no one would be rich, no one poor.
for you? --Basil (329–379 CE)
16. What do you do if you find
money? Now, check out America’s very own, home-grown religion:
The Mormon Genetic Code
17. Do you barter?
18. Isn't it hard living your life of And they had all things common among them;
asceticism? therefore there were not rich and poor, bond and free,
19. What about relationships? but they were all made free,
Don't you get lonely? and partakers of the heavenly gift. . . .
20. Has anybody else ever joined There were no robbers, nor murderers,
you? neither were there Lamanites,
21. Do you know of anybody else nor any manner of ‘ites;
who presently lives like you do? but they were in one,
22. Do people harass you? the children of Christ,
and heirs to the kingdom of God.
23. Do want to change the world to
(Book of Mormon, 4Nephi 1:3,17)
a moneyless world?
24. Your ideas sound nice, but And now, if God,
naive. Let's get real. Don't you who has created you,
think, with all the thieves, the on whom you are dependent
lazy, the mooches & the greedy for your lives
that a moneyless, free economy and for all that ye have and are,
just wouldn't work? doth grant unto you
25. Are you religious? whatsoever ye ask that is right,
26. Don't you get scared or in faith
believing that ye shall receive,
discouraged?
O then, how ye ought to impart
27. I want to live moneyless; but of the substance that ye have
what if I have a family with one to another.
children? And if ye judge the man
28. You are a hypocrite/ a bum/ who putteth up his petition to you
mentally ill/ an egotist/ self- for your substance
righteous, saying you live that he perish not,
moneyless. But you can live this and condemn him
way only because you are in a how much more
land of wealth & industrious will be your condemnation
for withholding your substance,
people. Aren't you biting the
which doth not belong to you
hand that feeds you? Why do but to God,
you scavenge off civilization's to whom also your life belongeth;
waste rather than live off the and yet ye put up no petition,
land or grow your own food? nor repent of the thing
29. What about eyeglasses & dental which thou hast done.
care? I say unto you, wo be unto that man,
30. What if I want to be free of for his substance
money. Where do I begin? shall perish with him;
31. Why are you an extremist? and now, I say unto those
who are rich
Shouldn't you follow the Middle
as pertaining to the things of this world.
Way between extremes? (Mosiah 4:21-23)
32. How do you maintain your blog
and website and do email? I'm speaking from my own culture, primarily with Judeo-Christian lingo. If I were in the Middle East, I'd primarily use Islamic lingo. If I were in
33. What about hygiene? (And its India, I would primarily use Hindu lingo. If I were farther east, Buddhist or Taoist lingo. Don't get hung up on language, on vocabulary. Hear this
High Philosophy) truth carried by all language.
34. What about grooming?
35. What about clothing and
Comments
fashion?
36. How do you do laundry? You do not have permission to add comments.
37. Don't you know about grace?
Aren't you trying to "work" for
your salvation?
38. Wouldn't Society Fall Apart
Without Money?
39. What Steps Must I Take To Be
Free?
40. What are you contributing to
society?
41. Do you stay at people's houses
when you're on the road, and do
you house sit when you're not?
42. Are you a minimalist?
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SOME OTHER FOLKS
VOLUNTARILY LIVING MONEYLESS
IN THE MODERN WORLD:
(This list is out-dated, and many of
these folks no longer live moneyless,
and others who do are not yet
included here. Heidemarie
Schwermer passed away in 2016 on
my dad's birthday, a month after
Daniel Suelo's dad died. I hope to
update these links soon)

Heidemarie Schwermer
living moneyless in Germany since 1996.
An English write-up on Heidemarie
A movie about her, Living Without Money
Her book, Das Sterntalerexperiment

Mark Boyle,
An Irishman living moneyless in the UK
freeconomy, online gift-economy community
he founded
His book, The Moneyless Man

Benjamin, Raphael & Nieves

(Forward the (R)evolution):
from Germany & France (repectively) who have boat-
hopped & hitch-hiked around the world with no money,
raising consciousness.

(the late) Peace Pilgrim

Most hard-cord of all of us! She lived nearly 30 years
without money, wandering North America with nothing
but the clothes she wore & a few items in her pockets
until she died at age 79!

elf Pavlik
Gave up money a couple years ago on the European
continent (he claims no nationality or state I.D.) and
has been bringing us moneyless folks together into a
cohesive movement.

Tomi Astikainen
from Finland. He gave up money a couple years ago
and has been traveling internationally since. He is
writing an online book for free!

Adin
proving "Umbutu" in South Africa. He started a 5-year
experiment in 2009 of not spending money, though he
raises it, not for himself, but for good causes.

Sonja Kruse
proving "Umbutu", in South Africa. She wandered
without money for about a year and discontinued
it to do other grand things with her life.

Öff Öff Jürgen Wagner

in Germany. Theologian living moneyless (I hope to
update about him when I know more).

C.J. Colwell- "A Twenty First Century

American Nomad" I just discovered this guy. Finally,
one other chap living without money in the USA, that I
know of!

There are probably others I've missed and many more

who are off the grid and under the radar who can't be
Please let me know if you
listed here.
know of other folks who've
renounced money.
(Also see Videos above)

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