Money and Its Pervasive Effects on the Psyche
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by James Rick
Learn how power (both physical and mental) is lost in the exchange of money into material resource and what you can do about it.
Wealth is the material freedom to do what you will, when you will. Material resources are defined as anything physical such as raw materials or the labor used to refine these raw materials. The use of material resources are an expression of your intention, an idea that begins in the mind. In other words what you truly intend is a combination of will and material availability. For example I could will myself to fly to Mars, but I may not have the material resources to carry out that intention.
Wealth is measured according to ability to carry out intentions. And ability is defined as the probability that your envisioned outcome will be realized. For example you might say a person has great ability when you witness them consistently achieving an outcome that you know based on experience is difficult for you.
MONEY IS NOT ACTUALLY A MATERIAL RESOURCE
Notice how the words material resources instead of money are used to define wealth. Material as it is meant here is the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something.
Money is easily confused with material resources. Money is not a material resource. Money is exchanged for material resources. Money itself is nothing more than an agreed upon value; in essence it’s nothing more than a shared idea.
THE VALUE OF MONEY IS BASED ON PERCEPTION – WHAT OTHERS CAN BUY WITH IT
The power derived from money is the perceived value of it. The material resources that can be purchased with money depend upon it’s perceived value. The more people collectively agree upon it’s value, the more real it seems. This is the trick of money, when it works well as a medium for purchasing material resources, it can easily be thought of as a material resource.
MATERIAL RESOURCES VS. MONEY
Most people understand material resources, even a baby can understand what a material resource is, but most do not understand money. Money seems to be confused with material resources. And it is in this misunderstanding between power and non power that the greatest theft of power has occurred. The power gained by those who understand money versus those who do not. When the true value of currency is not transparent, the inevitability that real material power (labor / goods) will be lost in the exchange for false / deceptively inflated power, arises.
BUT DOESN’T THE WORLD NEED MONEY TO PROGRESS?
Indeed society may not be able to function without a currency to keep it productive. But a currency serves the people who use it only when its true baseline power is aligned and unchanging with their material power. What this means is currency works when the conversion of collectively agreed upon value (money) is exchanged for a material resource and no deviation occurs; the purchasing power of your money today doesn’t change much tomorrow, or if does – it does so in a way that is equally distributed through society. This would mean for example that instead of single person or company borrowing from a central bank (like the Federal Reserve) they would borrow from society in general, which is what they are basically doing and the interest they pay back to society would balance out the ‘new money’ that entered the money supply. They would essentially be paid back for every loan that reduces the value of all the other currency, balancing the power.
STRIKING AT THE ROOT
Inflation might be a little confusing for most and so they don’t both to figure it out. It’s precisely at this point of laziness that the designated money handlers gladly do the thinking for you – scooping up the little bit of power you left on the table. Slowly the gap between the purchasing power of a currency and the material resources widens. Then society wonders why they must work harder and harder for ’success’. It is here the media steps in, widely publicizing those who are successful making it seem as though the lottery winners of a twisted system are quite common and the problem lies within you and your ability. And it is here that the charlatans (some good intentioned however) step in to assist you with your self image or methods – promising to build you up into a success.
But when a fractionally small portion of society is the agreed upon money handlers (Example: Federal Reserve, Banks), and a fractionally small portion of society have control over the perception of money and it’s deviation from actual value (Example: Media) — what you have is a recipe for inevitable seizure of power, like an invisible pick pocket, but worse – for his hand is constantly in your pocket while he whispers sweetly in your ear.
THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS
When you enter a casino, at least you know the cards are stacked against you. In other words you know before you go the house always wins, you know the odds are against you. You can walk away from a loss knowing that you were foolish for gambling in the first place. Logic says that palaces have to be built on someone’s back. This shouldn’t cause much pain to your self image.
But when it comes to a system you are born into – you don’t know the odds are stacked against you. In fact you are meant to feel as though everyone has it better than you. This is something you are meant to aspire to. A better life for yourself and your family. The dream is what keeps you going. If a Casino could lock you inside they would – because they know the longer they keep you there the more odds will play out in their favor. That is the equivalent of modern day capitalism – only the ‘house’ (the factors that influence the value of money) is hidden, the bets are bigger (lives are invested into dreams that never materialize), and the illusion that anyone can succeed if they dream big and try hard enough is perpetuated (by the five media).
It’s important to point out at this point that what is being stated here is not negative thinking. There’s a lot of talk recently about using the laws of quantum physics to attract abundance, or having an abundance mentality. That’s all fine – but if I’m hanging by a small piece of rope over a pit of hungry crocodiles I don’t want to rely on the laws of quantum physics or abundance thinking – they won’t work nearly as well as assessing the true reality of the situation and engaging the law of cause and effect by jumping to safety.
The true reality in this case is: the system that stacks the odds against you. Jumping to safety in this case: requires more than just an open mind about improving your personal money situation.
IMAGINE HOW MUCH EASIER IT WOULD BE IF..
Imagine how much easier it would be for everyone if the distribution of power and money were equal. And if every member in society could act as a collective bank – getting automatic monthly deposits as loan payments and interest were being paid back every time a new loan was created. People would definitely feel like they are earning more money – when in fact they are simply being repaid the money they had been losing all along in the current monetary system governed by the elite few.
Notice I use the word society instead of government, because I believe that the word government is used to represent an elite class of individuals who have control over other people’s lives. The power that is now concentrated in the hands of a small few are devastating the mass of society. Your rope is beginning to snap, many have already fallen to the “crocs”; will you jump or hope the rope holds? The answer to that question depends on who you listen to.
I could end here and leave you to ponder what it means to jump, but I never like to leave the site of a problem without a clearly defined solution so here it is:
1) Do away with banks as private enterprises. Banks should be run by public servants. Make loans totally transparent. While names can remain anonymous loans should not be. Any loan originating out of thin-air (which is what the central banks do in the case of fiat-currencies) should be a loan with interest repayable to all the citizens of that nation. The funds from repaid interest should be automatically deposited into their bank accounts or cut as checks.
2) To create true transparency and democracy government must go online. Voting must not be concentrated in the hands of a small few that can be easily influenced with bribes or lobbying. The more the power of voting is spread amongst the majority the harder it will be to create laws or bills that do not serve the majority. This same process should also be used for government contracts approval.
3) As a result of being unable to lobby, the elite few would then try to turn to the media in an attempt to get the majority to pass laws that didn’t serve their best interest. One claim might be that it’s impossible for the majority to make effective decisions because they simply cannot know everything for national security purposes. A default way to prevent yourself from being duped is to always question who benefits when you hear news or proposals. The media are consolidated into about five main powers who for the sake of credibility might seem to disagree , but all at the highest level have good reason to be closely aligned in purpose. [1]
4) To bring about these changes an organization of educated masses must occur. The internet offers this opportunity, unlike any other time in the world – real organization, real communication and real change is possible through passionate, collaborative effort. Break through the lines of division created by those with incentive to do so and unify. One way to do this is through a new community called FullPotential.com – it might be small now but in the future it and communities like it could rock the foundations of power, delivering it back to an abused people.
Call to action: If you want to improve your life and change the world you are encouraged to join http://www.fullpotential.com . Now if you asked yourself how I benefit from writing this- I know you were listening.
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[1] http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html
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May 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
I would like to quote, “Wealth is measured according to ability to carry out intentions. And ability is defined as the probability that your envisioned outcome will be realized.”
Does this mean that a person may possess great wealth but is very poor at the same time, because of his inability to carry out his envisioned outcome? Some people started with noble intentions but lost these visions as money and/or material resources to buy power grew.
“For example you might say a person has great ability when you witness them consistently achieving an outcome that you know based on experience is difficult for you.”
Or, the great “inability” of a person as we witness him consistently achieving an outcome that is too difficult for us to understand. The mass of the society hang by the thinning rope of hope, mistakingly putting these crocs to power.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 am
I dont usually comment, but after reading through so much info I had to say thanks