Look at the fields, buildings, stores and streets around you. Are people still wearing clothes? Are meats, and vegetables, still produced and available? All over the world in fact there is not one animal that consumes money (if there is some funny mite that does in fact eat money, then good), nor do plants to my knowledge grow out of money or grow by consuming it. No, I believe everything can grow toward the sun just fine without your green paper.  All over the world people are suffering but the chickens have been raised! The plants have been harvested! So how is anyone suffering? The food is right there! I see it. You see it. For some people there comes this time when it seems they can’t have it, but it is right there! If the store was locally run, and we did in fact trade real things for other real things, anyone in the community could trade their skill, connections, or service for anything the store sold. Unfortunately your local grocery store is owned by a man who lives states away. You can’t do him any favors. This is not about the out of state grocer who is taking care of his family, and legacy. It’s about the system that made that the way we do things. This system that has no direct connection to foods, structures, and clothing is causing suffering all over the world.

Some have a term they use, “Money Illusion,” referring to the tendency to think of money in terms of its numerical value (how many and what numbers are on my ATM receipt), rather than its real value (how many chickens it can buy). If “Money Illusion” is the consideration of numbers over value what is money but paper with a number on it? Furthermore, what is really happening when money is transferred from one account to another?  It’s just numbers going up and down. Now you can’t just write numbers down and show the clerk (she smiles and giggles “oh that’s a big number you’ve written”). You have to bring in your green air deeds. But when the account shows the money is available, the money never made it to that bank. The numbers just went up and someone can now come withdraw from that account, but nothing except “Money Illusion” happened. The real value is the chicken. Not the money that buys it. This is why all money is an illusion. Food is not. We are letting many illusions control our reality, and if money isn’t the most damaging illusion it is a contender.

Most of us, who are sapped by the governments assumed authority to collect taxes, were born in debt. They keep collecting and they still can’t keep from going more and more in debt? Having most of the world born servants is a brilliant way to reintroduce slavery. They still have the nerve to call this the land of the free. If you think this is a free country try leaving without a passport. You start to look more and more like property.

In short, people all over the world are suffering from an illusion. We are no more involved in this than what we agree to. We can end it now.  

Thank you.