Money and the Turning of the Age: Part 1.
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The full version is here in English, along with full and partial translations into other languages. More translated material comes on-line all the time, so check back often. Sacred Economics Full text of Sacred Economics in Romanian can be found here. Introduction: (German) (Swedish) (French) (Hungarian) (Italian) (Dutch) (Greek) (Polish) Chapter 1: The Gift World (German)(Swedish) (Polish) (Dutch) (Italian)(Greek – Part 1)(Greek – Part 2) 37 ways to join the Gift Economy. You don't have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy.
Any time you do a favor for a family member, neighbor, colleague, or stranger you're part of it. Here are some ways you can spend time in the gift economy, where you'll find fun, freedom, and connection. posted Jun 30, 1997 Start a dinner co-op. Rotate among the homes of friends and neighbors for weekly or monthly potlucks.Help a local farmer with the harvest in exchange for some of the crop.Put up a traveler.Hold twice-yearly sport supply exchanges so kids can acquire new skis and baseball mitts and everyone can try out a new sport.Harvest wild or unwanted fruits and vegetables.Grow your own, and give some of it away.Share seeds and clippings from your garden - especially native and "heritage" species.
This article was published in the Spring 1997 issue of YES! Interviews with the Leading Edge: Charles Eisenstein, Author of Sacred Economics. The Way Up is Down (by Charles Eisenstein) By Charles Eisenstein (Article from Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit magazine, issue 29, February 2012) Something is happening to us.
Trying to make sense of their awakening experiences, people troll the Internet and discover the idea of “ascension” – the doctrine that humanity is on the verge of a process of spiritualization, a transition to a higher, and less material, dimension. Implicit in the term is the concept of rising above. Rising above what, may we ask? When did rising above become something to aspire to?
The concept has deep roots indeed, as old as civilization (though less old than humanity). All of this was original to agricultural civilizations. SACRED ECONOMICS: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein, paperback (496 pages). And so was born the ambition to conquer and transcend nature. Why is rising above a good thing?
Perhaps what we need is not the transcendence of materiality, but to embrace it more fully. Charles Eisenstein - "Warriors without Weapons" Message.