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money holders

I recently had the privilege of being a part of a conversation about funding regenerative projects.

As I listened, I felt a coolness envelope my entire body, but couldn’t immediately place what was causing it.

Later, when I was thinking back to it, I realized what was bothering me:

The entire conversation was incompatible with my work. because it was based on the premise that the money holders have the power.

That premise is valid in what author Charles Eisenstein calls the Story of Separation (SOS), not outside of it.

If it worked outside of the SOS, you could pay a tornado to set down in a different town. You could wave money at a volcano to get it to stop erupting.

Life does not work like that.

We are watching the limits of control-based systems in real time.

My worldview and work is based on the premise that the ultimate power any one human can have is only accessible through faithfully honoring one's unique assignment in life.

And so, instead of centering bending oneself into a pretzel to accommodate money holders, this work centers learning the lessons on one's path to continuously deepening the quality of one's unique contribution.

I live it, I practice it.

It’s the Global Village Tenet: We are all supported, solely because we exist.

Jesus said "My food is for me to do the work of him that sent me, and to finish this work." (John 4:34)

When we see money as a tool, not an objective, we can get centered.

For each of us, there is a spectrum on how much money we have, can obtain and can disseminate at any given moment.

It’s not for any of us to judge where anyone (ourselves included), is on that spectrum at any moment in time.

What I find challenging isn’t the discussion of money, learning how to work with funders, or surfacing the needs that money could address.

It’s the fear that’s driving the conversation.

The fear of survival that’s been instilled in us since birth.

And most, if not all, of the people in the room were not in existential threat.

They were SCARED.

That's valid, AND, it doesn't make their centering of obtaining money any more useful.

If you’ve struggled to bring words to this phenomenon of fear driving what could otherwise be a powerful conversation about money, know that you are not alone.

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