The Metaphysics of Money
It is well accepted that we are powerful and largely responsible for our lives aka the reality we create. The truth of this also means that money, as a thought form, entity, or egregore, is dangerous in its pervasive deception. Money attempts to usurp our creative and generative powers.
What if we and everything else that exists in the physical universe are all that is left of conscious awareness? What if the underpinning behind it all can only be what we make of it? What if consciousness discovering itself, the point of existence, can only be realized when we truly enact our highest potential. The need for money forces our hands. It forces us to figure it out.
Only in choosing to figure out ourselves can we begin to see money for what it really is. Money in its current manifestation is essentially a technology that is not natural to the human psyche. It’s a mutation of our creativity; a virus. A virus that has overshadowed the reality of our omnificence. We have full creative power over our world.
Money is the byproduct of the thought forms of lack and jealousy. Humanity’s generative abilities are akin to Source’s. The idea of lack is only that, an idea. We create worlds. We are technology that is losing its relationship with the power source and as a result have a skewed view of the universe as caregiver. Money has become the nurturer, the balm giver, the soother of cries heard late at night.
Desire and power are counterparts and are the energy beneath all of existence. It is undeniable that even if we believe that our universe was created randomly, without intelligence or conscious design, that there had to be some measure of power and direction, implying also desire. A sense of direction means that it wanted to be this way. Our Big Bang was essentially particles that desired their own space and combusted to make it so.
The phrase ‘Big Bang’ even sounds like an expression of primordial love, the best orgasm ever. Everything in nature seeks increase and union with similar substances and humans aren’t different. It is in our best interests to unify. But instead of desire and power, our two initial imperatives, urging us toward maturity, humankind has let the lower expressions of these two stunt its growth. Iron fisted greed rules societies around the world.
What made us even invent money? Trade, or the barter system begins with the initial dissatisfaction with what you have and the evaluation of what is someone else’s. Instead of connecting with our inner creator; instead of connecting with spirit. We looked at our neighbors begrudgingly.
We decided that asking our neighbor was more effective than going inside and connecting with ourselves. If our neighbor already had it, then why don’t we? What are they doing that we aren’t? Comparison of our state to the state of others is the root of our current condition. Worth and value are determined by what lack I perceive at the time.
The reality is that the same things may never hold the same value for different people. If I’m very hungry, I may be willing to pay more for a bag of chips and water than I would normally, like at the airport. Hunger is what gives the chips their value. Someone less hungry may not pay the same price. In the early days, we assigned personal value to goods because there was no standardized way to assign valuation.
Each trade or barter was therefore a deeply personal transaction. Selfishness and greed infiltrated the barter system easily. People decided that letting things go in exchange for other things was unpleasant. They did not wish to go without the thing that they had given up and began to decide that whatever they had traded was not worth as much as what they had at first. Also, people who had the things that everybody wanted were able to accumulate more than others.
This bothered the people who had less. The people with less could only barter or trade with certain people, keeping them in a lesser class. Instead, people began to buy more of the things that everyone needed even if they didn’t need those things. This starts the system of valuing certain items over others. The desire for a standardized system of valuation helped to create the disparity and inequalities that we see today. The invention of money is rooted in the idea of lack and has spawned the tragedy of poverty.
Once the valuation of items begins, the virus of lack was able to seep into generally abundant societies. Nobody wanted to be without. People wanted things to have consistent value with a consistent currency exchange. Metal coins began to be exchanged for goods. However, once Kings saw this, they started to make their own coins.
Around 600 BC, King Alyattes is credited with essentially making the first mint, thereby establishing his own money, with a value that he assigned, to be circulated throughout his kingdom. Other kings began doing this as well. Sound familiar? Eventually coins got heavy plus scammers could cut corners so that coins did not hold their actual value in metal. Eventually the coins only held the value that the Kings had minted on them.
A Chinese Emperor is credited with the first use of paper money. Initially, people took their gold and silver coins to a trustee or a wealthy person (like a bank) and in return, they got a slip of paper with which they could make purchases. Then, the merchant could take the paper to the bank and redeem the money. Now, each kingdom has essentially two currencies. One directly from the King and one backed by the bank.
As trade between kingdoms and populations increased, the kings’ slips flooded the markets. These slips of paper began to be exchanged for burdensome coins less and less until the slips of paper held as much weight as the coins. These promises from the king to pay their weight in gold are now all that circulate in our modern times and are still set in opposition to central banks that set their value based on the proposed wealth of the kingdom/country.
Since then, money has taken on a life of its own. It is an entity, a thought form that is more pervasive than peace. To understand money in this kind of esoteric sense, one can use the example of cell growth and transformation into the miracle of life. Every particle has the ability to take action toward a goal. Smaller particles come together to create a system.
The cells that made your liver were created with the awareness that they would be your liver. Money, as an entity, has grown in much the same way; from a desire for something into a system of control over access to our desires. The idea of lack, the desire for something that someone else had, multiplied into the monetary and financial systems that are in place currently.
The energetic imprint of lack interlaced itself into communities where abundance was once the norm. We, as a society, began our move from the collective to the individual. Goals for each of our separate selves urged us toward creating a valuation system in the first place. We decided that needing each other was a weakness instead of a universal imperative. We sought power over first our neighbors and then any outsider through exploitation.
Sure you can have this, if you give me that. Instead of releasing what we could spare and exploring our ability to create the rest. We lost trust in ourselves as expressions of Source and placed our trust in a monster of our own creation.
In aboriginal cosmologies, an era is spoken of when humans were so connected with Oneness and Source that the answer to their needs and desires simply appeared as they needed them. As time went on our desires became more and more complex. Finally, our desires grew quicker than our ability to meet them. Similar to babies who discover something they like and want to do it over and over again.
As humans, we wanted to repeat pleasurable sensations. Soon, our desires were overtaking us and we ceased to mature as beings. Focused on receiving pleasure and avoiding pain, we began to be out of balance with the cycles of nature and time. Our development has taken us further away from self control and stewardship of earth. As humans, we are consistently seeking sustenance from forces beyond us; not just necessities like food and water, but pleasure, satisfaction and all forms of stimulation and enjoyment.
Money is the enemy. Money stands between us and the miracle, the spectacular phenomenon that is creation and through creation, self sufficiency. The rags to riches story of many successful creatives is rooted in this paradox. Creation is humanity’s most highly valued act however, those that are closest to the creative process, are often the farthest away from money.
Money is a paltry representation of the creative force and we’ve given our generative power to it, willingly and unwillingly, slowly, one century at a time since its inception. Money is the physical representation of our lack of faith, in ourselves and others, and as a result has become an idol and a projection of our connection to divinity and the creative force that supports everything.
Money is a personification of Source’s energy, the creative force, the provider, the father who sees all and whose approval and attention we seek. Money circulates all over the world, like the sun. Like another Sun or Son who was sacrificed for our benefit, when we spend money, we divide the power of our own creative forces in an attempt to create union or peace within ourselves.
We buy the things that we desire; things we are missing; we spend money on the things we need to feel whole. Instead of actual union with our creative self powering our existences, we use money to “create” the lives that we want. It takes heavy effort to see through this veil and realize that we have given the financial current too much power. The invention of money led us away from the dream time; the connection with source and the ability to consolidate our manifested thought forms.
Money helped build the labyrinth of lack. It anthropomorphizes the opposite of abundance. The lust for money inevitably yields degenerative behavior, both literal and symbolic. Creation is abundant. Source energy is abundant. Even nature is abundant. Abundance and money are not the same but in our world, we have given over the power of abundance to money. Money has taken our rightful place in the universe as co creators. If we aren’t careful, it will usurp our creative forces entirely. Money embodies the hermetic principle of correspondence and we no longer see ourselves as the reflection of The One who Sees All.
Money is the token for the All, the One. Whether we acknowledge a spiritual source or not, the U.S. dollar literally has the emblem of the All Seeing emblazoned across it in proud proclamation.
As we invest more of ourselves in the pursuit of money, we renew our faith in it. As we renew our faith in the paper idol, our own will and creative power is usurped. There was a time when if you needed food, it appeared. We want money for times that haven’t even come. Savings for the emergency we assume is looming.
We want money to justify our present; finding security in the ability to buy things that we don’t need and equating that with success. The more access we have to things that are unnecessary for life, the more valuable we believe that we are. Money takes away our ability for self fulfillment and places that energy into a symbol for what gets us to what we want.
In modern times, it is almost unheard of to manifest something that wasn’t bought. Those who do are considered magicians or witches. Even the church crucified those who tried to live as walking conduits of the power in the universe. Witches, scientists, astrologers, even actors and artists.
The church has languished in its power over humanity since the first century. It is no coincidence that churches are some of the most profitable businesses. Religion and money are heavily entwined, often with religion being a direct beneficiary of the depravity that accompanies money. Kings and government officials have always depended on the support of religion.
Even in America where church and state are supposedly separate, a publicly non-Christian president has never existed. The fact that corporations are legally people is a clue that the accumulation and distribution of wealth has metaphysical implications. These corporations are personal entities so invested in our desires, that they pour time and energy into manipulating consumers, especially children.
The government, along with corporations, profit from how much we are willing to do and succumb to, for the things that we want. He who controls our money, to a large extent, controls our desires. We mine human intelligence, creativity, and effort for money. We are no longer at the top of the food chain. Our highest faculties bow to the almighty dollar.
Right now, most of us are so far separated from using our creative instincts and abilities to provide for our lives that the idea of being left to our own devices, without the government passing out illusory value slips and corporations providing things to buy with said slips, is terrifying and would leave our society in shambles. Money has insidiously replaced our call to be self-sufficient with the call to be wealthy.
A community of self-sufficient individuals leads to a peaceful society. Because we have a value system for things that exist outside of ourselves we allow others to place value onto us and are hindered from walking our individual spiritual paths; we consume instead of create. The invention of money enables us to pull items into our lives that may have never had any reason to be there. Even today, most of our spending is mindless fun and if it isn’t, you’re considered cheap or you’re actually poor.
The richest, most powerful people in our society rarely come into actual contact with money; never touch such a filthy concept as accepting payment for services rendered. Humans are here to help each other…free of charge. And in the event that no one comes to assist, trust the creator within. The heart wrenching part of our current situation is how difficult it is to adopt this way of life when everything costs. The truth is that cultures cooperating peacefully are evolutionary marvels.
One that we have yet to master. As humans, we are supposed to continue our stages of evolution or we will die out. Cells grown into tissues to organs to a full human to a community to a society into a unified world. Our goal is to move each of our cells into the optimal organism; a multifaceted expression of the One. Money has stopped us at a societal level, filled with strife and inequality.
We won’t know the next stage in human evolution until we rid ourselves of this system of valuation and begin to see all expressions of and contributions to the collective as different and useful and as such valuable. Money, and its constant exchange of energies keeps us in a state of homeostasis that mimics growth.
We think that we are moving forward when really we are repeating the same cycles over and over again. The only constant is a simulated kind of change but we haven’t reached the next phase: actualization. Humans have yet to realize our true potential.
What is the way out of this entanglement? How do we get through the money maze? Can a paradigm shift enable us to keep using money without changing the system? Is crypto currency the spell breaker? The light at the end of the tunnel? In theory, communities could create their own cryptocurrency or value system and use it without the need for a centralized banking system.
The value they create would simply circulate within the community indefinitely, creating a self sustaining system for tracking goods and services. Electronic IOUs that don’t need a base other than what the community determines. If you build houses and I make shoes then perhaps I’ll make your family’s shoes for the next few years and our blockchain is proof of our agreement.
If agreements are violated, then some sort of consequence can be determined. People would once again hold the power over how much value things have. Could cryptocurrencies be the house that fell on the wicked witch? Will it help us get the ruby slippers that we need to go home; to come into self actualization as individuals and as humane beings?
Can cryptocurrency help us get the value system back into the hands of individuals and communities as opposed to a small central population that all the money revolves around? Can we go back to deciding what is valuable to us and what we are willing to give for it? Can we make money the servant instead of the master?
