ON MONEY
It’s the root of all evil! Some
people know that I HATE money. I truly believe it to be the instrument of all
the world’s problems. Greed is destroying our planet right now. Conspiracy
theorists point out the satanic symbolism on the dollar bill as proof enough
that this is true. They say the devil created money and the material world to
enslave humanity. If not the devil then we’ve done it to ourselves. In my last
novel I explored a world without money. I really enjoyed going to that world
and examining the freedom it provided.
Religion teaches us that there are two
worlds in which humans exist: the material world and the spiritual world, and
they are at odds with each other. We can spend our lives trying to attain one or
the other, but not both.
The material world is dominated by
the idea of the “survival of the fittest” and the strong eat the weak. At the
heart of the material world there’s a lie or at least a contrived concept that
paper equals power. With money one attains the ability to control the immediate
environment as well as the people in that environment. When we only experience
the world through our basic, tangible senses we forget the greater truths of
life. So many people have given over to the “dark side” of life and are living
solely in the material world. People ask upon first meeting someone else, what
they do for a living. Why does that define us? External power is the only power
one can attain from the material world. External power is not internal power. It
is quite the opposite. I’ve suggested we’re on the cusp of a new era in human
evolution. We’ll never achieve it when the material world is the world in which
the majority live. External power stems from fear. Fear is the tool those with
external power use to control others. The more external power one attains the
larger influence they can have over their expanding environment, to where
someone like Donald Trump wants to control the entire planet; such is his ego. Rex Mundi! Ego lies at the heart of the
quest for external power. Ego is a false belief that we are all individuals,
living only one lifetime, trying to eek out the most we can from the material
world before we’re turned once again into dust. The fear that this might be
true keeps even religious people rooted in the material world.
Think about violence. What is at
the heart of all violence? The competition to control the external world is
what is keeping humanity down and could quite possibly (most likely) lead to
our doom. Those with power want to keep that power as long as they can. But the
truth is, external power is fleeting and can be lost over night.
We should be in quest of internal
power. What a better place this planet would be if we all were seeking to
control our internal worlds? If one were to achieve internal power, one would
never lose it. All of humanity’s best intentions stem from the internal world. Selflessness. I struggle with this, as do most
people. I often think of how this will serve me in the long run, whatever
“this” may be. It is because we’ve been conditioned to think this way. But in
order to start evolving in the right way, we must be conscious of our decisions
and our motivations. It comes down to intentions. When we ask ourselves what’s
our real intention in doing something, then we begin to step back from the
material, sensing world and question things on a higher level. What really
matters? What’s really important in the long scheme of things? It’s a simple
question that can lead to the right decision. It’s in the ability to step back
and see the larger picture that can solve so many problems peacefully.
Christians used to say, “What would Jesus do?” Jesus represents the right
decision and the proper perspective. Subconsciously we all know what Jesus
would do. We just forget to ask that question.
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