Living Without Money

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"Jesus said, 'don't lie, and don't do what you hate.'"
(Gospel of Thomas 6)
If you doubt what's in this website, follow this saying,
then you'll know whether or not it is true.
Aren't lying and doing what you hate one in the same?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

  33. What about hygiene? (And its High Philosophy)

All ABOVE FAQ's ON 1 PAGE FOR PRINT-OUT  

Please feel free to print & copy.  Nothing on this site is under copyright.  These ideas cannot be owned.

    Links:

    Contains links to other moneyless individuals (see below) all over the world, and info on living in and creating a moneyless world for yourself!
    Created by el Pavlik (see below)

    The Zeitgeist Movement
    visions of a moneyless world from some different perspectives than my own.

    Quotes about money & banking 

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    SOME OTHER FOLKS 
    VOLUNTARILY LIVING MONEYLESS
    IN THE MODERN WORLD:

    Heidemarie Schwermer
    living moneyless in Germany since 1996.
     
    Mark Boyle,
    An Irishman living moneyless in the UK
    freeconomy, online gift-economy community he founded
    His book, The Moneyless Man

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

    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).

    There are probably others I've missed and many more who are off the grid and under the radar who can't be listed here.

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    Audio & Videos

    Moneyless In Moab  (15 min) 2006 docu-film by Gordon Stevenson

    Zero Currency (10 min) 2009 docu-film by Brad Barber
     
    Beehive Stories: Grand County (5:48 min) KBYU TV docu-film, part of a Utah series by Brad Barber, taken from filming for Zero Currency above.

    Two videos, featuring Mark Boyle & Suelo, made by our wandering Christian friends:

    Money As Debt     (47 min) Banking & money explained so simply a child can understand it.  After watching, I challenge you to ask yourself: Is it possible to ethically do any business with any bank anywhere?

    23. Do you want to change the world to a moneyless world?

    The moneyless world already exists, within us and all around us.  I envision the downfall of the delusion that money even exists outside the human mind.  I envision the downfall of the delusion that anybody owns anything.
     
    All of the infinite universe around us exists without money.  Why don't we?  Already, our true selves exist without money.  Already, nobody owns anything.  Why can't we realize this simple truth?
     
    Yes, your true self already lives moneyless.  Your self that lives with money is your false self, illusion.  Everytime you give something to somebody expecting nothing in return, you have returned to the moneyless world.  You have laid down your delusions and opened your eyes to the Reality that has already existed and always will.  Everytime you do something spontaneously, from your heart, without sense of debt (obligation), you have returned to the moneyless world, you have become Real.  You have returned to simple Trust.  Either be an imitation or be real.  That part of you who does things out of debt and out of desire for credit is the fake part of you, the part that acts from ulterior motivation.   
     
    I know people thinking we need grand plans to restructure the world, to find and work up an alternative system to the money system.  Barter schmarter farter & all that, which is all just money under other masks.  However, the whole point of living moneyless is giving up control, giving up systems, and letting the Law of Nature take its course.  All of our efforts to find an alternative to the money system are in vain.  You can't create Utopia.  Utopia already exists.  And when you stop trying and stop looking for it, it comes.  The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  The point is to give up effort and let work flow through you - work that is not your own.  Nothing is our own.  If you want to spread the Gospel of moneylessness, of Grace, then simply work from your heart, not from manipulation. 
     
    Money is doing unto others that they may do unto you.  The Golden Rule is doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. 
     
     In other words, do, expecting nothing in return.