The reasons are many.  Here are some main ones:   

(A )It's Instinctual.  It's for (B) Political reasons,  (C) spiritual reasons, (D) health reasons (mental & physical health), (E) economic reasons, and because (F) it's just plain fun, seriously:  

(A) It's Instinctual  

Actually, you and I and everybody lived moneyless, without Consciousness of Credit & Debt, when we were born. Our true selves already live moneyless.  The rest is bogus illusion.  This lifestyle is the nature and desire of children. Any child or young person I talk to, not yet too programmed by the Man, thinks it's cool.   

All creatures, all the universe, outside the walls of civilization live moneyless.  That's why nature outside commercial civilization's constricts, is perfectly balanced.  Yet no nation on earth, even with its PhD economists, can even balance its budget!  

(B) Political  

This requires little explanation.  Look at politics.  Look at America's & the world's rampant materialism.  Look at the droves of churches backing these politics, trying to hide greed under masks of piety.  Look at corporations, world trade. Need I say more?  Their fruit speaks for itself.  

(C) Spiritual   

Mixed with my kid instincts, I grew up in an Evangelical Christian home. I took my religion seriously. But I started wondering why professed Christians rarely follow the teachings of Jesus - namely the Sermon on the Mount, namely giving up possessions, living beyond Credit & Debt, freely giving & freely taking, giving, expecting nothing in return, forgiving all debts, owing nobody a thing, living beyond payback of either evil-for-evil or good-for-good, living and walking without guilt (debt), without grudge (debt), without judgment (credit & debt), living by Grace (Gratis, not by our own works but by the works of the true Nature flowing through us).   

As I grew older & opening up my mind, I started learning that these principles of Christianity are the principles of every religion - like Taoism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Mormonism, Shamanism, Paganism, etc. (Despite the institutionalized bastardizations of each of these religions, selling their Spirit for 30 pieces of silver).   

No religion has a monopoly on truth.  And those farthest from their own truth are the ones who think themselves the only true church.  The core principles of the world's religions are the very principles of Nature, "the Law written on every heart." And you know this at your deepest core. Did not Jesus use the examples of the ravens, lilies, rain raining on the just & unjust, sparrows, seeds, and our own hearts, to drive home these points? 
 
However, this brought me to a point where I was sick of studying & blabbing about religion & philosophy, because I did not, could not, practice them. Nobody did, nobody could. Then I entered a phase of cynicism, bitterness, spiraling into clinical depression, & disdain for all religion and talk of things spiritual, disdain for conceptions of God.   

(D) Health  

I had lived in Denver & Boulder, Colorado, and decided I was sick of the rat race. So I gave up my job and moved to Moab, Utah. I eventually started realizing that the only way to overcome depression was to simplify my thoughts, let them go. This is Buddhism 101, the inevitable result of anybody wanting to heal. And then I realized my stuff was also my thoughts. As I let go of useless thoughts, I let go of useless possessions. And as I let go of useless possessions, I found more and more that I needed less and less. It was not an effort, but more like a tree dropping its leaves or seeds. And with my possessions, possessions of thoughts and stuff and people, flew away my depression. But this odyssey continued to go even deeper. 
 
Every time I made a resume for a job, signed my name to a document, opened a bank account, or even bought a banana at the supermarket, I felt a tinge of dishonesty, like I was not letting my yes be yes and my no be no. Yup, you know what I am talking about. Everybody does. I was becoming supersensitive to this basic knowledge. Even the slightest seed of dishonesty was just that--a seed. One seed can populate the mind, the whole earth. One dark eye can darken the whole body, the entire universe! 
 
One year I went to Alaska with my 2 friends, Leslie & Mel, in their van & spent the late spring, summer, and early fall there. At first I worked on the docks. But none of it felt honest. So I quit and decided to go on a solo pack trip and try to live off the land for a few weeks. Lo & behold, I ran into a Basque dude named Ander who was also toying with thoughts of living off the land. So that's what we did. We speared fish, ate mushrooms & berries, and lived very well. Then we hit the road, hitch-hiking, and realized how generous people were, and were astonished at the plethora of magical "coincidences" that kept happening to us. Eventually we split up and I decided to hitch all the way back to Moab, Utah, with $50 in my pocket, just to see if I could. When I arrived in Moab, I had $25 left. Then I realized I had only used money for things I didn't need, like snacks and a beer. For the first time, I realized I could live totally moneyless.  

(E) Economic  

During my time in Alaska, I was also thinking about the concept of the world's debts, banking, corporations, war, and poverty.  My constant mantra was: "Forgive us our debts, even as we forgive our debtors". For I was realizing, more and more, that there really isn't a line of division between physical debt and spiritual debt. Physical & Spiritual debt are Siamese twins. I knew, from gradually becoming liberated from clinical depression, that mental debts, called guilt & vengeance, were inextricably linked with physical debts. And mental debts are also inextricably linked with physical disease. And compassion does not judge debtors but forgives them, just as healers don't judge the sick but heal them, make them whole, accept them as a whole. The love of money, the attachment to Credit and Debt, truly is the root of all evil, all dis-ease, all un-easiness.    

Nothing I am saying here requires research or proof, because all the evidence is right within you.  Just take time to look.  

(F) It's Just Plain Fun, Seriously   

I became fascinated with Hindu Sadhus, who wander in India without money and possessions. I wanted to become one. A couple years after my Alaska odyssey, I went to India with a close friend, Michael. Actually, since we'd gotten killer-deal tickets to Thailand, we went to Thailand first. There I ran into a Buddhist monk named Sumetho and got whisked away to a Buddhist monastery in northern Thailand, outside Chiang Mai. It was a life-changing experience. Then I hooked up with Michael again and we hopped to India. After wandering in India for a couple months, I ended up at McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala, where Tibetan refugees are. And the Dalai Lama happened to be there, and I got to hear his talks for a week. Then he turned to us westerners. He said he thought it was admirable that people come from all lands to explore Tibetan Buddhism. But he emphasized that truth is found in every religion, and perhaps only a few could find fulfillment in another faith. Otherwise, he recommended that everybody go back to where they were planted, rather than trying to find greener grass on the other side of the fence. This cinched it for me. What good would it do for me to be a sadhu in India? A true test of faith would be to return to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping nations on earth, to return to the authentically profound principles of spirituality hidden beneath our own religion of hypocrisy, and be a sadhu there. This idea exhilarated me. I can be a sadhu in America, I thought. To be a vagabond, a bum, and make an art of it - this idea enchanted me.  The idea of it was just plain fun. 

 
So months later, over 8 years ago, that's what I did.   

To become as a child is to return to understanding fun.

Few will even question what money really is, because it is so pervasive, like air.  Yet, unlike air, money does not exist outside the mind, but is only pervasive in the mind.    

Contrary to common definitions, money is not gold or silver, cowry shells or cattle; money is not bills, it is not credit cards, it is not numbers in a bank or tabulations on paper.  Money is purely belief in the head.  Money exists no place else but in the mind.  Money is a strange phenomenon that exists only because two or more people believe it exists.   

To say that I live without money isn't saying anything, really.  That's like saying I live without belief in Santa Claus.  Now, if we lived in a world where everybody believed in Santa Claus, you might think I'm stepping out on a limb to live without Santa Claus, who never existed.   

What if we saw gold for what it is?  Gold is pretty, but virtually useless in most cases.  But somebody decided it has an inflated worth, and everybody decided to believe this decision.  Now few people see gold for its reality, but they see fictitious values.  The natives in the Americas thought Europeans were utterly insane because of their lust for such a useless yellow substance.   

Imagine if you had eyes that saw reality rather than your own belief.  Imagine if you saw a $100 bill as a piece of paper with a pretty work of art on it, and nothing else.    

Our real selves live without money, always have, and always will. 

Only our pretend selves can live with and use and own money. 

Think about this, please.  

I am tired of living in the pretend world.  I am tired of being a pretense.  

People of commerce often tell children and people like us to get real, to join the real world. 

Now I want you to reconsider who is really in the real world. 

Really consider this, please!  

It's kind of funny how those most attached to money always tell me emphatically,

'Money is not the root of all evil, but  "The love of money is the root of all evil"!' (quoting 1 Timothy chapter 6, verse 10)

If only they believe what has just come out of their own mouths.   People get emphatic about defending what they most love.  

Alcoholics in denial are quick to emphatically tell you that alcohol isn't the problem, it is dependence on alcohol that is the problem.  They assure you they can quit any time.  Same with a heroin addict in denial or any other addict in denial.  

No, heroin is not evil.  The problem truly is addiction to heroin.  But, I ask you this: do you know of anybody who shoots heroin who isn't addicted?  And I also ask you this, what is more addictive, heroin or money?  

Now any AA attender will tell you that the first step in overcoming addiction is to let go of your denial and admit your addiction.  Then you can proceed to the next 11 steps, one at a time. 

I usually have a ringtail cat (which isn't really a cat) companion who periodically tries to move into the cave with me.  Ringtails are only seen at night, so I feel priviliged seeing such a rare sight.    

I also house-sit for people who leave town, which usually includes taking care of their animals & such.  I also have various camp-outs near town when I'm not house-sitting & I can't make it up the canyon.  I sometimes crash at friends' houses or in their yards, too.  

When I'm on the road I camp in random places, including in groves of trees, prairies, farm fields, sheds & abandoned houses.  In cities I've slept in open spaces, parks, on roofs, & abandoned buildings.  

I usually carry a tarp & sleeping bag with me when traveling.  But I've ventured out without tarps or sleeping bags or blankets & have always found everything I needed, like large pieces of plastic or tarps from construction dumpsters & such, and blankets & sleeping bags.  Strangers have also offered me a place in their homes.  Whether I've gone out with a lot or nothing, I've never ever found myself lacking shelter & bedding.  Even so, I still find myself doubting, lacking faith.

The immune system is like your muscles.  If you don't excercise it, it will atrophy, and you will get sick more often.  If you live too cleanly, you will get weak and sick more often.  This should be common sense.  

I never, ever get colds & flu when I live outdoors, even in below-freezing weather.  The only times I've gotten colds this whole past 8 years has been when I house-sit.  Constantly going from indoors to outdoors, from warm to cold and cold to warm, as well as being in stale indoor air, is hard on the body.   

There is nothing more detrimental to health than worrying about health.  I'm not talking about thinking and caring about health, but worrying about health.

Neither do I take government assistance, and usually not organized do-goodism.  If somebody is paid to help me, I don't want their help.  If they are volunteers, I will take their help.  The whole philosophy of living this way is to receive what is freely given, from the heart.  I want all my human contacts to be sincere, with no motivation but the motivation of giving itself.  It's about being real.  I prefer to go hungry than to recieve food not given freely.

Sufficient for today is the evil thereof.  

How many robins or alligators or chimpanzees do you know of who have life insurance policies?  Walk into a hospital geriatric ward and ask yourself if we are any better off than the chimpanzees.  Go ahead.  

Many religious people freak out when I speak of chance and natural selection, betraying themselves that they do not really believe that God is omnipresent.  If you say "chance", they think you are talking of something apart from God.  But chance is the very mind of God.  Chance sends its rain on the just and on the unjust alike.  Chance is no respecter of persons.  Chance formed me and continues right now to mold me from the dust of the earth.  Chance evolved me from an ameoboid to a human.  Why, after millions of years of honing me down, would chance forsake me now?    

Pure and simple, faith is trusting yourself to chance.    

Again, don't get all high-minded & smart, you materialists.  If you're a materialistic Darwinist, and you really believe you came about by chance, then why do you not trust yourself to chance?  All science and all religion are one, and all are faith and came about by faith.  

If you're a religious, and you really believe that God is all sovereign, why do you think chance is somehow apart from God?    

Chance created us.    

Both of you, religious and materialist, can you honestly look at your beautiful hand or your complex brain or your lymph system or your splendid eye and think that the universe is somehow going to fall apart if you stop worrying about it?  What has worry ever accomplished?    

On the flip side, do you think you or anybody can ever, ever, ever stop decay and death?  Will worrying make it better?  

Every moment is death.  Every moment is born again.  Ye must die and ye must be born again.  If you can't embrace death voluntarily right now, do you think it will be easier when it inevitably crashes onto you against your will later?  

Plan for the future by living your fullest now, by being fully present now.  There is no other way to plan for the future.  There is no other way to be at optimum health, now or in the future.  None.

What would happen to society if everybody in Christendom actually practiced the teachings of Jesus?  What if everybody in the Buddhist world actually practiced the teachings of Siddharta Gautama?  And everybody in Hinudstan practiced the teachings of Krishna & the Sages?  And everybody in the Sikh world practiced the teachings of the Guru Nanak Sahib?  And everybody in the Taoist world practiced the teachings of Lao Tzu?  And everybody in Islam practiced the teachings of the Muhammad and the Faqirs?  And everybody in the Bahá'í Faith practiced the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh?    

What would happen if everybody in "godless" liberalism actually practiced the teachings of Emma Goldman and Henry David Thoreau and Karl Marx and all their unknown heralds who were assasinated for social justice?  If everybody practiced these things, would you have to sell yourself for even one hour a day?    

What do birds and fish and lions and mushrooms and bees do?  How do they do it?  

What would happen if everybody practiced what they themselves know to be true?  Stop pretending you don't know what I'm talking about.

This is the abundant life. 

I have neither poverty or wealth.

Poverty and wealth only exist in the world of possessions and trade.

Let's use a simple example.  If somebody is paid for taking photographs, you call them employed workers.  If somebody takes photographs for no pay, you call them playboys.  If you act for ulterior motivation, you call it work.  If you act from your heart you call it play.

So, then, let everybody play.  Let us see no distinction between work and play.  Only then will this society work.  

Also, I ask, do you take more than you need?

Why do those who take more than they need condemn those who take only what they need or even less than they need?  

You have no problem feeding your cat or your dog, so why not your fellow human being?    

And, one last question.  Why do goods flow from the poor to the rich, from the workers to the non-workers, from those who produce (laborers) to those who produce nothing (bankers and brokers and CEOs and landlords) as it has been ever since the beginning of money civilization?  Now tell me who are the moochers, and who is taking advantage of whom! 

I prefer that people give me what is already at hand in the present moment.  Sometimes I let people buy me things.  They dearly want to give and just their freely giving is a release from the system of credit and debt.  The spirit of generosity supercedes all.  But I'm liking it less and less to have things bought for me.  It causes too much confusion.  If something is not available in the present moment, then I surely don't need it or want it.  This is the point of not using money.  Money represents everything except what is at hand.  And only the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.   

People giving me money and what to do with it:

I often try to tell people that I don't take or use money before they try to give me anything.  If they then try to give me money, I refuse it and tell them again, "I am not joking, I really don't take or use money", and I thank them for their intention.  If they don't know I live moneyless and they give me money, I often take it and then leave it some place random, at least within 24 hours.  This way I am accepting people's generosity but not their money, and everybody is happy, including a third party stranger who finds that random money.  Once in a while I pass it on to somebody I encounter who might need it.    

Give to everyone who asks.  

Render to Reality what is Reality and render to illusion what is illusion.    

Most people are dependent upon the illusion of money and I respect their need and pass money on to them.  Contrary to conventional wisdom, if I find a beer and I encounter an alcoholic who asks me for a beer, I will give him the beer.  Not giving him the beer won't lessen his alcoholism even a bit.  In fact, I dare say, withholding the beer will make his alcoholism worse.  The root of addictions is lack of love, judgmentalism, not the addictive substance itself.  The next time you feel judgmental toward an alcoholic or a meth addict or feel like you have to parent him, remember your own addiction to money and your expectation that somebody give you money when you feel you need it.    

However, it is better not to have any beer to give to the alcoholic,

and it is better not to have any money to give to the moneyholic. 

Then we all have to deal with the reality of circumstances beyond our own power (called the Law of God).  Then the addict faces his addiction without anybody judging him or trying to parent him and you are forced to be creative and give love that goes beyond material things.  

In other words, it is better not to have money than to pay taxes.  It is better not to have anything that belongs to Caesar, because all that belongs to Caesar is unreal.   

If you depend on money, you are no better than the Caesars who depend on your money.  If you don't want to pay taxes, then don't own money.  Don't be a hypocrite about it.  If you don't like the Wal Marts and the Exxons, then don't buy from them, don't own anything from them, and stop thinking you can't live without them.  Make it up in your mind that you would rather die than be dependent on Wal Mart or Exxon, that you need absolutely nothing from Wal Mart or Exxon or any corporation or bank.  If you think you can't survive without corporations or banks, then you are declaring that you are their life-blood.   They wouldn't be the monsters that they are without you.  Money is their life-blood, and all who rely on their life-blood are one with them.  I don't care what Christian or any  other faith you profess, if you think you cannot possibly survive without corporations, then you believe corporations are greater than God.  And you believe God is not in control, is not sovereign.  If you think you can't survive without corporations and banks, you have no faith, and all your talk of God is utter nonsense.  You are using the name of God in vain.  Then you wonder why the word "God" is so loathsome to people.  

Everything just written here is one principle.

However, if there is a person near me who believes in money, I will pick up the coin or bill and pass it on to him or her.  Why? Please see 15. What do you do if somebody offers you money or buys things for you?.  Otherwise, coins or bills usually stay right where I find them.  

People often say I don't touch money.  If they mean I don't touch coins, bills, or credit cards, they are mistaken.  If they mean I stay away from consciousness of credit and debt in my mind, they are more accurate (though I am still in the process of letting go of touching money in my mind)    

I must make clear that I have no aversion to touching coins or bills or credit cards.  Aversion to touching coins or bills or credit cards is just as superstitious as attraction to them.  Either attraction or aversion to bills, coins, or credit cards is attributing a power to them that does not exist.  Attraction or aversion to coins, bills, or credit cards is idolatry, in other words.    

To be attracted are aversed to anything that has no ears, eyes, nostrils, or mouth is to become deaf, blind, without sense and without taste.  Most adults on earth have become deaf and blind, without sense and without taste.  We become what we trust in.     

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

They have mouths, but they do not speak; Eyes they have, but they do not see;

They have ears, but they do not hear; Noses they have, but they do not smell;

They have hands, but they do not handle; Feet they have, but they do not walk;

Nor do they mutter through their throat.

Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them.

(Psalm 115:4-8)   

On whatever form a person continually contemplates,

that same he remembers in the hour of death,

and to that very form he goes, O Kaunteya. 

(Bhagavad Gita 8:6)  

We die moment by moment.  And that which we trust in when we die is that which we become.

Better yet, don't use any of it.  Give up all conscious trade.  Just freely give what is needed and freely take what you need and don't think about trade.  Let God take care of trade.  Give up all consciousness of credit and debt, and only then will everything balance out.  "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Universe.  

Go to a "progressive" barter fair and you will see the same glazed-eye greed as you will see at a Wal Mart.

To be bound to money and possessions is asceticism, self-flagellation, lack, need, debt.  Forgive us our debts even as we forgive our debtors.  To be released from money and possessions is freedom, the end of self-hurt, the end of lack, the end of debt, the beginning of wealth.  To accumulate stuff is to take on poverty and suffering.  

Why own petty mansions and cars and lands when you can own the whole universe?  When you own nothing, you own everything.  When you own a house & stuff, you have to be in your house & have your stuff to be secure.  When you give up your house & stuff, then you start to realize that every place is your home, everything is yours.  There is no place you can go where you are not home.  There is nobody you have to fear.  You find that everything you need is right at hand and everybody becomes familiar, becomes family.  You can love your neighbor as yourself because your neighbor is yourself and everybody becomes your neighbor.    

All that I'm saying you know by direct experience, direct proof.  Deep down,  you know that it is impossible to enjoy the things you have if you take more than you need.  Eat just enough candy, and it is delicious, it is wealth.  Eat too much candy, and it is sickening, it is poverty.  Our society has become sickening.   Those who take only what they need are wealthy.  Those who take more than they need are in poverty.    

Taking more than you need betrays you.  If you don't think you are lacking, then why would you take more than you need?  Stop being needy.  Nobody sincerely likes being around a needy person.  Faith is realizing everything you need is right here and right now.  If your hand is grasping something, it can't be open to receive the next blessing.  Take climbing a ladder:  it takes faith to let go of one rung of a ladder to reach the next rung.  Climbing is faith.  It takes faith to lift your foot off the ground to take a step.  You take walking for granted, but every step you take is balancing on the brink of disaster.  It is only because of grace and faith that you can walk!    

Give up possessions.  Start trusting!  Be grateful!  Be Grace Full!  Be Generous!  Be Open!  Start walking!  Then walking becomes automatic, natural.  This is faith.  Every particle in the universe is walking.  Every particle in the universe runs on faith.  That which doesn't run on faith is illusion and delusion.  So get out of delusion and join the universe.  Start enjoying life.  

In old English, want means lack.  To want is to lack.  To lack is to want.  When you trust that everything in the universe is under sovereign control without your manipulation, then that 23rd Psalm you hear on Hollywood funerals will finally take on meaning, and you can say "I shall not want."    

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for somebody who takes more than she needs to enter into the Present Moment.

At present I am celibate.  I have taken no vows, but this is just how it so happens to be.  I am happy being celibate.  And I would be happy if a relationship came along.  But there are few people who would be willing to live like I do.  It's funny, too, that the more I live this way, the more asexual and complete I feel.  

Whenever I feel lonely, I simply get away from distractions and sit with that feeling.  Then I realize that loneliness is simply a mind thing that I can let go as easily as letting air go from the lungs.    

"All the lonely people.  Where do they all come from?"  We have created a society of loneliness.  We think that surrounding ourselves with people and distractions like TV and constant music and  chatter will drive away our loneliness.  But it only makes it worse.  Some of the most lonely people I've witnessed have been couples in relationships.   Then the you see hundreds and thousands of people walking in city streets and cloistered inside cars and suburban houses, all oozing overwhelming loneliness.     

When you are not whole in yourself and seek fulfillment in other people, you are doomed to loneliness.  Ironically, when you find fulfillment in yourself, then you are fulfilled being around others.  Then you know love and are no longer a solitary island.  When I am able to live totally comfortably with myself by myself, then I am no longer anti-social.  Then I freely love others.  When I am familiar with myself, then I am familiar with everybody.  Familiar.  Family are.  

In my moments of meditation in the canyon the questions came to me, "How long do you have to be with somebody before it's considered a relationship?"  And, "How long do you have to be by yourself before you are considered alone?"    

I again realized that everything is impermanent and time is relative.  You can never, ever, ever be in a permanent relationship.  Being with somebody for 3 minutes is no different than being with somebody for 50 years, when you see the big picture.  And being by myself for 3 minutes is no different than being by miyself for 50 years.  When you realize this, loneliness ceases.  And you realize that you are by yourself exactly at the right time and you are with people exactly at the right time.  When you give up control and worry, then everything and everybody comes exactly when and where you need it.  Everything.  When you realize this you realize that your brother and sister and mother are everywhere you go in the world.   At first you see in the mirror darkly, then face to face.  You see that your Spouse, your mirror image, is within you, sealed in Holy Matrimony, in the Temple of your body, for time and eternity, not in any temple made with hands.  Only the deluded think they can find a permanent relationship outside themselves, that they can marry somebody else for time and all eternity.  Enter into the Kingdom where there is no marriage or giving in marriage.   

Once we take on this mind, we become pure, and all things are pure.  Then we are no longer hung up about sex, and if and when sex comes, it is accompanied by eternal love, as is everything else we do. 

Maintain the state of undistractedness, and distractions will fly away. Dwell alone, and you shall find the Friend. Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest. Hasten slowly, and you shall soon arrive. Renounce all worldly goals, and you shall reach the highest Goal. If you follow this unfrequented path, you will find the shortest way. If you realize Sunyata (the absolute Emptiness), compassion will arise within your hearts; and when you lose all differentiation between yourself and others, then you will be fit to serve others.  

--Tibetan Yogi Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052-c. 1135 CE) 

I get harassed at dumpsters now and then, usually by store owners & sometimes their employees.   

I've gotten cussed at, hooted at, & dirty looks when I've been simply walking or hitching.  

I've gotten some nasty comments from some friends & family, and some nasty emails & comments from strangers through my blog.  

I got booted out of a cave by a BLM ranger a couple years ago, plus a citation, which I did community service for.   

For the most part, though, I find that people respect me, including most cops. 

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.   

The greatest thieves and mooches and lazy and greedy people are at the top of the money system: bankers and stock brokers and CEOs, who not only contribute little or nothing to society, but bleed the goods from the workers at the bottom.  The very pattern of money society since ancient Sumer & Egypt has been for wealth to flow from the workers to the non-workers, from the industrious to the lazy.  When you take more than you need, you are a thief.  The very nature of the system of commerce is robbery and extortion.   

As with creatures in nature, the thieves & mooches & lazy & greedy people return to the natural balance, and if they don't, they are naturally selected out.  Natural selection abhores thieves, moochers, the lazy & the greedy.  Even the very force of people being accountable to each other in a tribal situation usually eliminates even the desire to steal or mooch or be lazy or greedy.  You see it in animal societies & hunting & gathering societies.  

We can see it in our own society, beginning to happen on a temporary scale at Rainbow Gatherings.  There are lots and lots of moochers at Rainbow Gatherings, called "drainbows."  And "So what?" is the prevailing idea.  It's actually amazing how few thefts and what little violence there is at a Rainbow Gathering of 20,000 people, especially compared to a town of the same size.  Towns of the same size, which have police and locks and laws and lawyers, have much more crime.   Think about that.  The Rainbow Gathering still miraculously works out, due to the droves and droves of hard-working, generous people, who don't give a hoot that somebody else might be "taking advantage."  What is taking advantage?  The philosophy is to do, expecting nothing in return.  And that philosophy becomes infectious.  There is a lot of rif-raf at gatherings, and a lot of true compassion that overshadows it.  The idea of compassion is to have patience with thieves, mooches, the lazy, and the greedy, who are people still detoxing from being programmed by the money system.  

When you have been taught all your life that nothing is valuble unless you get money for it, you will initially be lazy, because you aren't paid.  You haven't yet learned the true reward of doing itself, and the reward of community with others, which makes money look ridiculous.  When you have been programmed into thinking that possessing and not sharing are virtues, you tend to steal, and it takes you a while to deprogram from that.  The Rainbow Gathering is a hospital, and those who caretake the hospital have a natural sense of patience with the patients, giving them all the time they need to heal.  You can only be idle so long before you get sick of being idle and start wanting to contribute.  It might take a while, but it happens, naturally.    

Even the self-proclaimed Christians' own Bible denounces calling themselves Christian or any other label:   

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

Now I say this, that each of you says, "I am Paulian," or "I am Apollian," or "I am Cephian," or "I am Christian."

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?  (1 Corinthians 1:11-13)  

That said, the essence of moneyless existence is faith.  But sometimes I have faith, sometimes not.  By accepting my faithlessness and my jadedness, my faith comes back shining more brightly.