This may not flow like a good essay but hopefully you kind folk will get the gist....

I say I am a "gift economist," not a free-market hypocrite, nor a communist. I advocate a world without currency. Where what one has to offer is offered and given to the other who has a need.

It is better to give than recieve.

It starts with gifts. Why wait for the birthday? Why wait for Christmas? If you see someone needing what you have, give it to them. It may not be your surplus potatoes but it could be a hour of time listening. Or companionship when they're facing a daunting task. No, "if...then" we're leaving that behind.

If you could have anything and everything you wanted, what would be left to want? "Desire is the source of suffering, to end desire is to end suffering." --Buddah

Put yourself in that place of satisfaction now, because nothing is witheld.

A hurt directionless soul could be needing something to do. And your back is hurt so the chores are not being done. Now, who is giving more, you by offering them some action and direction or that soul who is giving your back a chance to heal. It doesn't matter, that balance sheet is left back in old earth. No longer is it a collecting game, a process of continual wanting. It's a giving game.

Do you know what it feels like to give someone just what they need? Divine.

Are you homeless? Hungry? So what will you manifest? Do you say "I need some money so I can get a place to stay!" Guess what, you're just as invested in that flawed system as any Goldman Sach player. Why include the middle man?

How about this? "I need shelter." "I need food." I have never eaten a meal I couldn't share. What good is my satisfaction if my neighbor goes hungry?

"OH," you may say, "I need that food for the coming days." Horsehockey. There is (as any lightworker has discovered) no time but NOW. Feed that soul and tomorrow you can forage or farm together.

Do you like having your days dictated by your bills? Neither did I. Do you find your bank account is a bottomless pit?

The issue today is the status quo is this idea that you can just exploit a little from each person. "ONLY $xy a month!" In perpetuity.

Why did the United States turn into a service economy? Because that is where the goose that lays the golden egg does it's best work. Tangible assets, manufacturing--Making something out of raw materials is a paradox. If one manufactures something of quality, then the purchaser only needs one. And if it's really quality, it's worth repairing.

But what do we ever repair? Little to nothing. WE fix blame, not broken things. If we break it, first thing we do if find whose fault it was. Why not fix the problem, not the blame? Who among us has not screwed up, made a mess?

The flaw of capitalism is it's need for never ending expansion, grow or die. But the earth is finite, as far as I know. And now we find ourselves in a bit of a pickle, we're killing our host. Instead of sucking on Gaia's generous nipple we've dug our canines into the flesh of our dear mother. We're not cannibals. We have to stop.

So, there is a pretty big theory to reality gap here. How to get from here to there?

Well a good place to start is to sit still and think of what you need? If you're sitting still in front of the television, that may be counter-productive. "BE STILL and know that I am LORD." What do you need? Are you cold? You need a blanket or a coat. Are you hungry? You need some food. Are you dirty? You need a place to cleanse yourself.

When those ancient storybook folks who got to hear Jesus first hand were getting in the groove, they realized the power of prayer but didn't know what to ask for...How do we pray? They asked Him.

First acknowledge the source, the father, that omniscience
This is what we're seeking here a Kingdom of God, of heaven, so that is the priority beyond even what we need. Which comes next--our daily bread. Okay we're full what do we need? Forgiveness. For ourselves and for others. And we need to stay away from those things that take away from the whole--deliver us from evil.

That's it. These are you rights as a planetary human. NO where in there did I hear him say a fat retirement, a wife with fake tits and puffy lips, the biggest house on the block, granite countertops, a Lexus hybrid. Nope, all that is just playing around. Go for it, if you like. But beware of what you want.

All of it separates us. People are afraid of me because I wear a beard. I see in some of their eyes. My beloved truck is dinged and bashed and has the look of "rough." My sister jokes "the hillbillies are here." Funny.

"The perception that divides you from him/is a lie/for some reason we never ask why." --Live.

And here is one for you my friends who are immersed in constitutionality. Saving our beloved America. The commerce clause!!!! The federal governments power stems from one little line about "regulating interstate commerce." HA. In a gift economy there is no commerce, nothing to tax, nothing to regulate. What do we need this leviathan federal government for? Well, without fiducial motivations war would be sort of lame. No war machine, no military-industrial complex.

We can work it out in a game of dodgeball or--whoa--discuss things with each other. Try to understand our differences, because when we do, we find we're not so different after all. There is no "them"--only us.

I used to sit and marvel at my submarine war machine, really some cool stuff. But then, how can we make such cool stuff that is solely designed to destroy ourselves? I wondered where all that creativity and productivity would go, what it would build in a world without conflict? Best I could imagine were really really really cool amusment park rides--I love that zipper--the rustier the better.

Or spaceships that guys like me with less than perfect vision could ride in.

Tips. That's what I see as a beginning. Tip your server. Tip em all. Make someones day. Give what you got. Remember loaVes and fishes.

Sometimes I don't know what it is I am giving or if in fact I am recieving. Hey. It's the golden age--what does it matter?

Video is optional. ;)

Shine Bright.