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?

    31. Why are you an extremist? Shouldn't you follow the Middle Way between extremes?

    This is a funny question, when you think about it. 

    Are dolphins and mushrooms and prairie dogs extremists?   They have no money, no possessions, after all.

    Funny thing is, it was Gautama Buddha who coined the term, "The Middle Way between extremes."  Funny thing is, it was Gautama Buddha who lived his life, as Jesus and Lao Tzu did, without a house, taking only what he needed for basic daily subsistence, and he implored his followers to do the same. 

    Every religion teaches Moderation, the way between extremes.  The Buddha's epiphany was that you should neither deprive yourself nor indulge yourself.  He had been living in a culture of ascetics who deprived themselves, and they condemned him for deciding to treat himself to healthy food and living.  Jesus, on the other hand, had been living in a culture of greed, and they condemned him for deciding to treat himself to forsaking addictive indulgences.

    Sparrows and slugs and centipedes, living without possessions, using no money, live the Middle Way!  They take no more than they need and they take no less than they need.  "Give me neither poverty nor wealth," the Bible's Proverbs say.  This is my aspiration.  Modern humans, on the other hand, live in extremes.  They live under the principle of possession, which creates extremes not found in wild nature--extremes of wealth and poverty, extremes of obesity and malnutrition, extremes of war and peace, extremes of mental moods, extremes of addictions and asceticism, extremes of hatred and affection. 

    Not according to my opinion, not according to religious dogma, but according to the very law of nature, if you but look around you, is this: to live with money and possessions is to live in extremes.  If you think that our inventions of money and possessions have not created extremist stress on our own minds and bodies and environment, think again.

    I am not an ascetic. 

    Please see the essay, A Culture Living Abundantly Without Money Today, to see an example of a whole culture living completely between the extremes.

    If you are the only dry person in a room full of alcoholics-in-denial, they will surely consider you an extremist.  They will also call you self-righteous, even if you say nothing.

    See also 18. Isn't it hard living your life of asceticism?