New: Commencement Speech on May 9, 2014 at the University of Colorado: I Know It Is Possible To Live With Zero Money, Abundantly How? Because it's happening to me, as it's happening to ants and deer and slugs and sparrows
and bacteria and atoms and galaxies.
That's right, it's
Nothing Special.
It's happening to the whole, infinite universe
outside our teeny-tiny itty-bitty Babylon we call "civilization"
(which we think is the whole universe).
Yup, I boast!
I boast about
Nothing Special. Let the Nothing-Specials boast,
for Babylon has boasted its delusions of "value" & "progress",
and trampled Nature,
shat on Beauty,
long enough.
Enough
I've been living without a cent to my name since the autumn of 2000 (with a month's exception during my first year). I don't use or accept money or conscious barter, and I don't take food stamps or other government dole (not that I think those things are bad or that those who use them are in any way inferior).
And, after years of doing this, to my joy, I've learned there are other people in the world doing the same.
Why? I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! I simply got tired of being unreal. Money is one of those intriguing things that becomes real because you believe it is real.
Wild Nature, outside civilization, runs on gift economy: "freely give, freely receive." Thus it is balanced. Commercial civilization runs on thought of credit and debt (knowledge of good & evil); thus it is imbalanced. What nation on earth can even balance its own budget or environment? Gift Economy is Faith, Grace, Love --the message at the heart of every religion, though rejected by virtually every religious institution. The proof is inside you: Wild Nature is your True Nature, crucified by commercial civilization. One Day, in the Present,
we will dis-cover
True Civilization:
New Jerusalem,
descending from Now,
Above!
--yes, Artistic Splendor
that makes what we now call "civilization"
pale to absurdity! +++++++++++++++++++++
THINGS ABOUT MONEY
"THEY" DON'T TEACH YOU:
Essays Sprouted in El Suelo:
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2. Here's the One Point We Know the World's Religions Agree Upon(In word, anyway, though few practice it.)3. Our Fall From Grace: Our Departure From Gratis: The Beginning of Money (Examining the Meaning of the Universal Myth of Stealing Fire From Heaven)
4. Love & Possessions - Sex & Money (Finding the link between personal relations, world religions, and the world system)
6. How to Become Free From Debt [revised 11/29/2011]
(Hard-core Bible theology withheld from you by church business interests)
10. I Am Who I Am, the Way, the Truth, and the Life: Name Above All Names [originally entitled To Be Yourself Is To Be Perfect]
What? How can you say Christianity is Islam is Buddhism is Hinduism is Taoism is Judaism? By practicing your Christianity! 11. Contradiction between Eastern Religion and Christianity? Non-Dualism embraces Dualism? You may leave comments at my blog:
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be classified as stolen property, if we possess it without needing it. Possession implies provision for the future. A seeker after Truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. God never stores for the morrow. He never creates more than what is strictly needed for the moment. If, therefore, we repose faith in His Providence, we should rest assured that He will give us every day our daily bread, meaning everything that we require.... Our ignorance or negligence of the Divine Law, which gives to man from day to day his daily bread and no more, has given rise to inequalities with all the miseries attendant upon them. The rich have superfluous store of things which they do not need and which are, therefore, neglected and wasted, while millions are starved to death for want of sustenance. 
your charity. For, on account of the things which each one of us possesses singly, wars exist, hatreds, discords, strifes among human beings, tumults, dissensions, scandals, sins, injustices, and murders. On what account? On account of those things which each of us possesses singly. Do we fight over the things we possess in common? We inhale this air in common with others, we all see the sun in common. Blessed therefore are those who make room for the Lord, so as not to take pleasure in private property. Let us therefore abstain from the possessions of private property—or from the love of it, if we cannot abstain from possession—and let us make room for the Lord.
the last river has been poisoned
Laws of the Universe will appear less complex, and Solitude will not be solitude, nor Poverty poverty, nor Weakness weakness. 
I know that my plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth?
"No servant can serve two masters,
