"MONEY AND YOU"
(How The New Economy Can Help You Get More)

One of the major reasons for my choosing to be on the Internet is to use this world encompassing electronic network of information to share with people all over the world perspectives upon the world economy which, as I'm certain you'll well understand by the time I am finished revealing this information, can, and will revolutionize the entire world in ways which exceed anything we have heretofore seen on this planet. I feel rather like an electronic Johnny Appleseed, scattering seeds of wisdom, common sense, and understanding all over the world. And the exciting thing is that I'm not alone. There are a growing number of others working to improve the world through consciousness.

The realizations I am about to share with you have been evolving within my consciousness for many years, and, at times, have so excited me that I have not been able to sit still, much less to convert them into a text format. But time is running out, and so I've consciously strapped myself to the chair in front of the keyboard to reveal something which I have come to believe is very beautiful.

To begin with, however, I'll give some perspective upon where I am coming from and how these ideas and realizations developed in my awareness (MajorDomo's Background). We'll then look at a brief historical perspective upon how the world's economy has developed up until our lifetimes (Economic History). Next we'll examine the changes that the world's economy has been undergoing during the past century (Economic Change). And finally, we'll identify the "new economy" which has developed in the world (New World Economy) and examine ways of implementing it to benefit all of humanity right now (How To Make It Happen). In the process we will consider how these proposals will affect many aspects of our lives and relationships with one another (What It Can Do For You). Finally we'll talk about What You Can Do.

A LOOK AT WHO IS SPINNING THESE TALES

Twenty years ago, R. Buckminster Fuller, affectionately know to many simply as Bucky, [R. Buckminster Fuller Institute, R. Buckminster Fuller On PBS, World Game Institute] said to me, "When you get to the place where you no longer have to work for a living, a very interesting thing happens. You find yourself asking yourself the question, ?What was I thinking about before I got interrupted?'" Bucky's definition of "working for a living" was where you are working for someone else in order to generate an income and justify your existence. Up until that point, I had been rather successful at working without having to "work for a living," although my efforts generally resulted in enough to survive without much left over. Then I finally gave in and "got a job" at a division of General Motors.

For the next 15 years, I became a computer professional and generally worked my can off at a number of different companies, finally advancing to the position of Manager of Computer Services for a $100 million fulfillment company. Then an unsettling thing happened. Without anyone telling me about it, I realized that I had hit the ceiling. I left my job for a six month sabbatical during which I worked on writing a 24-hour seminar, "Explorations In The Dynamics Of Consciousness" which I wanted to turn into a business. Before I could complete this undertaking I ran out of money. I returned to my former employer as Personal Consultant to the President, with a raise, but with my seminar unfinished. A year later the company President retired and three months later I was informed that the company could no longer "justify" my "existence" (they had used the same term that Bucky had warned me about). I was laid off.

Over the course of the next 13 months I applied for 600 jobs before finally getting hired as Database Administrator for a company doing information services for cellular telephones. Six months into that unemployment period, however, what Bucky had told me about happened, all at once. In one day, important things that I had not thought about for 15 years all came flooding back upon my awareness. And it wasn't trivial stuff. It was important. And I realized that the pressures of life, as we know it, had driven it so far to the back burner that I had lost track of its even being there.

Then my younger brother finally died from AIDS. He'd been HIV positive for about a decade and had outlived most of his friends. I received an inheritance with his passing. It came none too soon, as I had considerable credit card debt that gobbled up half the inheritance right away. Not quite a year later, I went to Italy for a couple of weeks with my mother, who had been a Unity minister for 32 years. It was her 19th trip abroad but the first time I had ever accompanied her. Five days after our return from Italy she checked into a hospital for some tests. They inadvertently killed her while she was there. Four months later I received another inheritance. The first quarter of that one was eaten up paying off credit card debt again. But what was left allowed me an opportunity that I had only dreamed of up until then.

For the next two years I discovered what it was like to live without financial worries. What a phenomenal experience. I was able to live comfortably, without being extravagant. I could eat what I wanted to eat when I wanted to eat it. I could go where I wanted to go when I wanted to go. I could give people gifts. I could help friends and relatives out when they needed assistance with life's financial challenges. I was able to loan money to people to help them through tough times. I could contribute significantly to the church I was attending. I could wear nice clothes that fit (I'm 6' 5"). I began wearing Pancaldi ties and the response they generated from others helped to alter my self-image, boosting it several notches. Having no financial worries took what Bucky had spoken of and capitalized upon it.

But that's just the half of it. I suddenly had the time to delve more deeply into those areas of life that interested me and to do it without the interference of financial obligations breathing down my neck. As we're about the see, the resulting realizations were quite phenomenal. I had already discovered during my earlier13 months of official unemployment that there's something more important than money. It's called time, time to do what we want, how we want, when we want, why we want, and with whom we want. So now I was able to put time and money together, and it opened up countless new possibilities.

During this time I fell in love and got married (for the first and last time in my life). I began teaching classes on books written by Deepak Chopra. I became an ordained Unity Minister and began a ministry, Practical Truth Ministry (Practical Truth Blog) which continues to evolve, both personally and as a work.

Then as the source of the money from my inheritance began to dry up, I observed some very interesting things taking place. First, my wife went back to work. In the beginning I just thought of it as a desire for some extra spending money. But it soon developed into a return for her to the business as usual of a job in order to survive. Bills began to accumulate. Next, communication between my wife and myself began to suffer. However, unlike other times of financial stress, I was positive and optimistic 99% of the time.

I had relearned that the source of everything that exists in the world of appearance comes from the infinite invisible. People are referring to this as the Information Age. In Stewart Brand's book, "The Media Lab," he quotes a couple of world economists, Peter Schwartz and Jay Ogilvy. Jay, "former director of the Values and Lifestyles Program at SRI International and strategic advisor to the London Stock Exchange" is quoted as saying, "A Nobel Prize awaits the person who can figure out the economics of information." The information they are talking about is invisible. This is why no one has yet to win the Nobel Prize in this category.

Long before the "Information Age" was a popular concept, I had figured out the basics of its operation, thanks to some initial guidance by Bucky Fuller and a great deal of observation and logical intuition on my part. And I will be sharing the results of that experience shortly. But first I would like to talk briefly about who I am and how I operate.

Born in 1945 to a free-lance entertainer and a woman who, 18 years later, would become a Unity minister, I lived in various parts of the country from coast to coast. I lived in Atlanta when they built the 21-story Fulton National Bank and it was the tallest building in the South. As a teenager, I had thought that I would become a minister, but before I could get into college, a draft notice arrived in the mail. I quickly enlisted in the Navy for 4 years to avoid a foxhole in Vietnam. By the time of my release from active duty, I had become so disenchanted with many of the things going on in society that I had no idea what to do with my life. After several months of sleeping, I began writing for an alternative paper and before long became its publisher, also working part time in the church.

In 1976, with the death of my father, I decided to play the game the way I was told that I should, and I got into computers, working at General Motors' Delco Products Division. I loved the work. My longest day was 42 hours. But after several years, I realized that I was not growing. So I left Ohio with a friend and moved to Austin, Texas. There I worked for numerous companies doing clerical and computer work. Slowly an inner frustration was building, for there were things that I wanted to do with my life, but I couldn't figure out how to "make a living" doing them. I ultimately realized that for many people, the thing that holds them back is not knowing how to market themselves. This is particularly true of people with a great deal of natural artistic creativity.

After six years in Texas, I opted for a cooler, higher, drier climate and moved to New Mexico, where I lived for the next 10 years. I liked it there, but I was always open to whatever Spirit might present next.

Over the years I have learned some interesting things about myself. Thirty years ago I learned that I was a Synergeticist, a term that I coined which means "someone interested in anything and everything, and who endeavors to figure out how it all fits together." I later realized that I have an innate ability to discover anomalies within systems and to identify how they occurred and how to correct them. For that reason I sometimes refer to myself as a "systems detective." In addition, it was 30 years ago that I gave the part of my personality that is writing this document the identity of MajorDomo.

I've discovered that I am a source for solutions. For instance, 20 years ago, during the energy crisis, I pointed out that the only practical reason keeping us from converting to solar energy was the cost. However, if one understands free market enterprise supply and demand, then there was a simple solution. If the Congress of the United States were to pass a bill stating that within 5 years all federal buildings and installations would be 100% totally solar powered, the demand for products that such a move would create would generate an influx of investment cash into R&D and the technology would leap forward as the price dropped and everyone could afford to go solar because it would become the most cost effective source of energy.

I'll admit that my thinking has been influenced by Medard Gabel's book, "Energy, Earth, and Everyone," published as a result of the early 70's World Game which focused on world energy issues. If you're not familiar with that document, Bucky Fuller's World Game participants confronted themselves with the following challenge: to find out, and to document, whether humanity on Earth --- in 1974 --- had the wealth (the resources and the know-how to organize those resources) to reach a preferred state of functioning in which 100 percent of humanity had access to all the energy it needed for its regenerative life-support, and how quickly this could be done. This was all to be accomplished without using any non-replenishable fuels. The result was a published ten-year scenario to accomplish the goal by 1985. Wonder why it didn't happen? Do you smell oil in here?

During the energy crisis I also wrote an extensive article for our church bulletin explaining how the energy crisis wasn't really about energy, but was rather a crisis of consciousness and how humanity needed to rethink its approach to energy systems and lifestyle and possibilities and to create new modes of dealing with these issues. Conservation was not the answer. New awareness and the resulting new systems would be the way to a successful, energy-plentiful future.

While we're on the topic of energy, there are a few interesting items of note which I would like to point out. Dr. Brian O'Leary ,former astronaut, was here in town a few years ago speaking about free energy. He is involved with a group of scientists and inventors around the world who are working on creating machines which run on free energy. Free energy, if you're not familiar with it, is the energy which is inherent in all matter and, in fact, all of space, according to Einstein's theory. So, in a nutshell, these folks are working on machines which draw energy directly out of seemingly thin air.t

It was obvious ,when the time for questions came ,that the majority of O'Leary's audience was made up of engineers from Sandia Labs and Los Alamos. And it was also obvious from their questions that they are working on the same project, although from different approaches. Brian estimated that we were within a few years of these machines hitting the market, at which time, he claimed, there would be a $3 trillion shift in the world economy, though he said that he didn't understand that part of it.

Now, Arthur C. Clarke, in his latest book, "3001: The Final Odyssey," using the terms, "Zero Point Field", "quantum fluctuations", and "vacuum energy", in place of "free energy", says (emphasis is mine), "Even as I write this, many competent engineers, in laboratories all over the world, claim to be tapping this new energy source. Some idea of its magnitude will be given by a famous remark by the physicist Richard Feynman, to the effect that the energy in a coffee mug's volume (any such volume, anywhere!) is enough to boil all the oceans of the world." Clarke goes on to point out what several of O'Leary's inventors have discovered, and that is that this "free energy" is apparently closely linked with anti-gravity. Look out Star Trek, warp drive may be just around the corner.

Brian stated that the United States will never issue a patent for any such machine, claiming National Security due to its potential military uses. However, there's a trump card in the deck. One of the inventors is Japanese. He's reportedly underwritten by the Japanese government to the tune of millions a year. Japan has no oil. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

We'll leave energy and continue on with examples of my ways of thinking. In late 1988, the company where I worked purchased a new computer system, software and hardware. After I got it up and running, the President of the company called me in to his office and said, "I feel like there's a monster in that machine and it's waiting to bite me in the ***. I want you to find it for me." Well, the system had a number of problems, and I ultimately identified and documented over 150 of them, but none of them qualified as a true monster. With time, I had developed a knack for being drawn to the discovery of problems. But still no monster.

Then, one day an operator told me that she had done something in data entry which she feared might be illegal and that she didn't want to lose her job. I promised anonymity and she shared her secret. It led me to the monster, and the monster turned out to be far bigger than anyone had expected. At first glance, the monster appears far less than a giant. Merely a strange anomaly, one might think. But, like the current "2000" problem in computer dates, the roots of the problems go much deeper.

What the operator had been doing was making up expiration dates for credit cards on product orders being entered into the computer. This was done because, when entering an order, if the expiration date had already passed, the computer not only wouldn't accept the order, but it wouldn't let the operator leave the expiration date field. So the only way she could get her work done was to make up a "valid" expiration date (i.e. any date in the future).

The first thing this tells us is that accurate expiration dates were totally unnecessary, for the holding company which processed the credit card data never once bounced an order due to an "invalid" expiration date (i.e. one that didn't match the actual card's date). And I had discovered that this was not the only operator who was making up dates in order to trick the computer into letting her complete her work. In fact, I later discovered that they were actually training people to make up bogus expiration dates when necessary.

So, do you see the monster? It's not the phony expiration dates. It's much worse than that. This monster probably exists on every corporate system out there. Certainly I've seen evidence of it wherever I have worked. Here's the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say.

Whenever computer users run up against a problem on a system, they have to resolve how to find a solution. There are manuals, and managers, and fellow workers, and, if all else fails, the computer department personnel. When it comes to the data processing department, all too often either the DP personnel treat the users with contempt, they speak in terms that the users don't understand, they act as if the problem is not their fault, they promise that they'll look into it at some unspecified future date, or they just out and out ignore it because they have too many other important things to do. If they do decide to try to fix the problem, half the time this is never properly communicated to the users and management. Throughout all of this, very little is documented in a way which is meaningful to the user.

Most users are under pressure to produce. They don't have time to wait for DP personnel to get around to helping them. Of course the DP personnel are also under extreme pressure to produce, so they are sometimes lax in coming up with quick, sound solutions to the problems faced by the users. So, with time, the users develop enough self confidence to come up with their own fixes. And then they share those fixes with fellow users, and sometimes user management gets wind of it and even incorporates it into future training, as was the case where I worked. But DP seldom finds out about it, and upper management is also in the dark about these new "system procedures." Often there is no documentation whatever to explain what the user has chosen to do as a fix for a system problem.

Bottom line, the system is now out of control. The users are making up the rules as needs require, without understanding the possible extraneous impacts. And none of it is documented. Furthermore, the people in charge don't know what's going on. No one has a clear overall picture of what it happening anymore.

Now this is just a continuation of another computer problem that is rampant throughout the world. Earlier I spoke of Stewart Brand's book, "The Media Lab," and his interview with world economists Peter Schwartz and Jay Ogilvy. Well, they are also quoted as saying, "No one is in charge and no one knows what is going on" where world financial computer systems are concerned. Furthermore, they pointed out that money now travels around the world at close to the speed of light through fiber optics and that the whole system seems to be functioning well for not having anyone who knows what's going on.

Just what are they saying? Well, from one perspective, the computers have already taken over. Here's how it happened. For years computer professionals were notoriously underpaid. Therefore the basic way a programer or analyst could get a raise was to quit their job and go to work somewhere else for more money. Sometimes they'd quit only to get rehired right back with a substantial raise. If you've read Tracy Kidder's book, "Soul Of A New Machine," then you know that these people are often working under enormous pressure with little comprehension of the big picture. They are specialized and compartmentalized. Documentation is discouraged through the shear fact that there is no time to document. So when the programmers leave for greener pastures, the knowledge of what's going on leaves with them.

Management, at best, has only a general idea of what these programs do, but they're certainly not going to admit it. So a dance begins wherein people are busy covering up their ignorance by creating the false impression that they know what's going on. But they don't know. No one knows anymore. And the United States Tax Code is exactly the same way. The head of I.R.S. admitted that on television way back in 1969. So, while the media makes a big thing about how computers are going to deal with the year 2000, they completely overlook the real monster in the machine: systems are totally out of humanity's control. However, certain aspects of the monster might not be so bad, as we'll soon see.

While working at Internal Revenue Service in the early 1980's I submitted an official cost saving suggestion estimated to save a minimum of $1.2 million per year. It was rather simple. I recommended that instead of storing the city and state of every address with every record, that they store (save) only the zip code, which could then be used through a table of all available zip codes to supply the city and state on paper or on the screen, as needed. After analyzing 42 different documents processed by the I.R.S., I estimated that this suggestion would replace 27 miles of computer tape with 21 feet of tape. Pretty impressive. I never heard another word about it, although many systems use this basic idea today.

Since we're on the topic of working at the I.R.S., I'll relate a little story that occurred there one night. During a department meeting of some 60 people, I got fed up at some of the whining that was going on and finally I said, "Well, if I were in charge, I'd fire all of you." One young girl responded, "You couldn't do that; there are rules." To which I responded, "No, you didn't understand what I said. I said, ?If I were in charge.' I don't know what that means, President of the U.S. or President of the world, but if I were in charge, I would fire all of you. Then, tomorrow I would hire all of you back at twice what you're making now. And you wouldn't have to come to work unless you wanted to. And for those of you who wanted to work and showed up, we'd get this place straightened out, and it would be worth it to pay the rest of you to stay home." That generated some shock, but I meant it, because I was certain that it would work.

So this brings us to the economy and work and jobs and money and survival and how it's all interrelated and what's truly going on in the world and what should be done about it and why. In the early 1980's I wrote an article for an Austin, Texas paper called Texas Monthly. The topic for the issue was "The New Wealth" and the editor said that my article would be the lead article which would highlight the issue. The article which I wrote was founded on the fact that the basis for wealth has shifted in this century to being completely grounded in ideas. Unfortunately, at press time the production manager pulled my article to make way for an ad. But although it never printed, the facts which I wrote about back then are more valid than ever today.

They call this the information age. But the only people who seem to know what that really means are a few of the people who are greedily becoming billionaire's overnight. Walter Wriston, former CEO of Citibank, is quoted in the October 1996 issue of Wired magazine as saying, "Today, the value of money is hooked to nothing other than the information that flows through it." In further reading the interview with him it becomes apparent that the flow of that information is essentially controlled by the 300,000 traders around the world. And these people talk about how much things have changed. As long as a minority manipulates the system, little has changed. They don't really understand what the change is all about.

BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMICS

To understand what has happened to the world's economy, we have to go back 100 years. Around the turn of the last century the world's economy was running relatively the way it had run for thousands of years. Wealth was based upon land and possession of goods. The Christian Church and eastern religions had long been the standard bearers of the "suffering is good for you" belief which largely kept people under control in the Occidental and Oriental worlds.

Bucky Fuller has pointed out that the people who controlled the wealth of the world, and therefore controlled the world's people, were the great merchants. He refers to them as the Great Pirates since the result of their actions was to basically pillage the resources of the world for the benefit of a few. That's the way things had been for as long as we have recorded history. The flow of goods and services created wealth. Those that controlled the flow controlled the wealth. What made the British Empire span the world in the 17th and 18th centuries was the British East India Company (BEIC), formed in 1600 by Queen Elizabeth.

As the BEIC's influence reached out to span the world, it's chief economist, Thomas Malthus, became the first person on this planet to essentially have, at hand, a listing of the earth's resources. After studying these figures, Malthus proclaimed that it was obvious that there was not enough to go around because population growth was outstripping the availability of resources. It was therefore a dog eat dog world and always would be, he implied.

Later, in 1859, Charles Darwin in his book, "Origin of the Species," declared that evolution was obviously a result of an ongoing battle for survival by only the fittest. This thinking linked up with Malthus and with the Christian teaching of a world of suffering leading to an afterlife in heaven, and it allowed the Great Merchants and their backers to continue to rule the world at ever higher levels of wealth.

Then along comes the Industrial Revolution. Initially everything ran smoothly for the world's finance capitalists. They were able to shunt people from the farms to the factories, occasionally replacing the farm workers with slaves, and thereby they were able to inflate their earnings tremendously. This was because the industrial equation allowed for the doing of more with less. The term for such an action is ephemeralization. And the Industrial Revolution was ephemeralizing the world's production, thereby creating new wealth in the process.

Throughout history, those that didn't feel that they had enough of what they needed to survive occasionally tried to create a better balance by attempting to take what they wanted from others. This often led to wars. An interesting fallout from wars was an accelerated growth in industry, and therefore the creation of new wealth. That equation continued until 1960 when President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would place a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and for the first time in history tremendous wealth was created without war and killing being the prime motivation. That fact is hidden in the coexistence of the Vietnam War during that same time frame, but a close analysis will reveal that far more was contributed to world technological evolution by NASA than by the activities of the Defense Department. But I get ahead of myself.

The Great Merchants were able to maintain their control of the world down through the centuries because of the nature of economics. Everything was easily countable, therefore the Merchant could merely look at goods, or their representation on paper, and know how business was doing. To get a handle on the truth of the foregoing statement, Bucky Fuller did an excellent job during his lifetime in pointing out how historically the cipher, the zero, was keep as a secret for centuries because it allowed those with knowledge of it to generate tremendous wealth. The cipher is nothing more than a "place saver" in mathematics, but the knowledge of its use allowed the knowledgeable to create accounting systems which guaranteed their continued power. There was actually a time when knowledge of the cipher could be punishable by death.

THE WORLD ECONOMY SHIFTS

Then a strange thing happened as we entered the 20th century. The technology which fueled the development of the tools for the industrial revolution began to become so precise that it began dealing in areas, and with quantities, which were no longer visible, nor understandable to the laymen. Furthermore, they were not understandable to the merchant bosses, the Great Pirates.

World War I greatly accelerated this boom in technological discovery, as more and more of the world's functions and technology ventured into the invisible realms, through subatomics, wireless communication, and new wave technologies such as electricity and x-rays. This meant that the basis for wealth in the world was shifting from a physical thing basis to a non-physical process basis. This was key to laying the foundation for the unprecedented growth which has happened in this century and in our lifetimes. To understand that, we need to comprehend what truly happened to the world's economy and to the world's power structure as a result of World War I.

Economics is defined in the College Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language as, "the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities." Science is defined as "the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena." I'm certain that a very strong case can be made for questioning whether or not economics is based upon "natural phenomena" or if it is rather based upon the self-protecting policies of those controlling the power generated by the movement of goods and services and the "ownership" of property.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington defined science as "an effort to place the facts of experience in order." In the orderly placement of those facts of experience, patterns are discovered which are represented by equations and descriptive statements which are known as theories, principles, and laws. But the latest in quantum physics tells us that, in fact, it turns out that scientists find what they're looking for precisely because it is what they are looking for. In other words, the result is created by the intent or intention of the observer. An excellent example of the results of this is in the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Sir Joseph John Thomson for "discovering" and "proving" that electrons are particles, and the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics some 30 years later to Sir Thomson's son, Sir Richard Paget Thomson for "discovering" and "proving" that electrons are waves. Two apparently opposite results and yet both correct. And that doesn't just apply to scientists; it applies to everyone. We all find what we're looking for.

So, with that in mind, let's look once again at the so-called "science" of economics. One would be hard pressed to find any example in the natural phenomena of existence to mirror the principles of economics as they have been practiced for centuries. And yet humans have accepted the economic system as gospel for thousands of years. Then, along came WWI and the entire game changed. Here's what happened.

When technology went into invisible realms, the true nature of the basis for economics emerged as wealth being founded in ideas and their manifestation, rather than in the physical possession of property and the results of ideas. This was such a revolutionary change that it has yet to be recognized by the world's economists and politicians. That is all about to change, however, and I'll explain why shortly.

The basis of wealth being founded in ideas means that wealth is not governed by any of the laws of physics. Ideas are not physical. They are metaphysical; that is, by definition, they are beyond physics. They are, therefore, subject to the laws of metaphysics. One example of the difference in these laws is that in physics everything is running down and running out. The term for this is entropy. Also, in physics we find that organic matter expresses itself in cycles. This has resulted in the science of economics being based upon regular seasonal peaks and valleys, known as inflation and recession. This incorrect belief has been further compounded by the application of the Malthusian/Darwinian equation that there is not enough to go around and survival is therefore guaranteed only to the fittest by means of trial by combat.

Malthus was wrong in his claim of never enough. Darwin was perhaps correct in some of his theories, but they do not apply to economics. This belief has been further compounded and distorted by Karl Marx and Adam Smith, both of whom created economic belief systems based upon the expectation of ongoing scarcity. But, in metaphysics, there is no scarcity, there is no entropy. Instead, in the world of metaphysics there is only synergy. There is only a constant growth and expansion. So the entire old world economics went totally bankrupt for all time because of the avenues of growth created through the technological advancements of the Industrial Revolution. And the old bankrupt world economic system was replaced by a new economic system based upon the continual growth inherent in metaphysical principles.

This explains what has been happening to the world's economy during this century. A new world economy emerged from World War I. As it began to grow into the roaring 20's, finance capitalists and politicians, not understanding the revolution which had taken place, and relying upon bankrupt beliefs in controlled scarcity as the basis of wealth, manipulated the world's markets. Was there a depression during the 30's? You bet. Were vast fortunes created during the 30's? You bet. And which side of the fence one was on depended upon what one believed and whom one associated with.

The same thing happened in the 80's. Ronald Reagan demonstrated this principle with a blatancy which has nevertheless escaped the awareness of most analysts. At the beginning of Reagan's Presidency, in spite of how many advisors and economists he had who told him how bad the economy was, he continued to espouse growth and prosperity, almost as though he couldn't hear what he was being told. The results of his perspective upon the 80's is that growth and prosperity existed for those who believed Reagan and went for it. Those who believed the economists experienced difficulty. Now, it's not that cut and dried, because many people got burned because of the actions of others rather than the mere beliefs which they might have felt they held. But that happens no matter who's in charge or what people believe. No system can totally abolish greed and the results of greed.

Today, as always, we find a number of "economic experts" prophesying doom and gloom because the stock market is too high. But remember that the values of the stock market are still calculated by the economists based upon the "things" which a company has, rather than its ideas and its capabilities. They call this the information age, but it's really the age of the metaphysics of ideas. That's an important distinction, because although people can argue over the ownership of information, they cannot argue over the ownership of ideas. Ideas do not belong to us. They are, rather, gifts from a source which is beyond our comprehension. And all of the arguments in the world won't prove otherwise.

I would like to add an aside here about some facts which drive me in my desire to get these ideas and realizations out to the world's people. I'll preface my remarks by saying that my definition of evil comes from John Brunner's book, "Shockwave Rider," in which he states that "if evil exists in the world, it is in treating people as though they are things." I wish to talk about just one of the many tragedy's of inhumanity in this planet's history, the Holocaust. To demonstrate how deep the evil of the Holocaust runs, even to this day, I have two questions I ask people. I think that you will see by people's responses to these questions how well we have insulated ourselves from a full awareness of the evil in our past. And then, I'll share with you how that evil exists today to a degree that makes the Holocaust look like a tea party.

First question: How long did the Holocaust last? In fact, the first German concentration camp was opened in March of 1933. So, the Holocaust, running until the liberation of the death camps in April, 1945, lasted for twelve years.

Second question: How many people were exterminated through the Holocaust? Prior to researching this, I would have said seven million people were exterminated by the Nazi regime. In fact, over six million Jews, or two-thirds of the European Jewish population, were murdered by the Nazis. However, in addition to that, another nine or ten million people, consisting of Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and others were also murdered during those twelve years. That is a total of sixteen million people. And that doesn't count the 12 million who died of starvation defending St. Petersburg and the rest of the Soviet Union.

Now, again, the tragedy was not only that it happened, but that obviously there were many people in important, influential positions who must have known that it was going on, but who did not say anything about it. I mean, God almighty, it went on for a dozen years. Adolf Hitler was chosen by Time magazine as the "Man of the Year" in 1939. Sixteen million people were deliberately, methodically killed. How can that be covered up? How in the hell could that have ever happened? People in the clergy and in the Red Cross knew and said nothing; they did nothing.

Well, then, I have one final question. The difference between other's answers and my answer often reveals how well evil still thrives in today's world. Ready? How many children will die this year on this planet as a result of starvation or malnutrition? Well, the official answer, which is no secret, is that fourteen million children under the age of 12 will die this year from starvation or as a direct result of malnutrition. That is damn near as many people as were deliberately murdered during the twelve years of the Holocaust. Why is this happening? Why is this allowed to happen? Is it because we have no choice? How could that be? What are our priorities? Where is our religion? Where is our heart? Where is our sense? Where is our humanity?

On the average, every two and one quarter seconds a child on this planet dies of starvation or malnutrition. And that is not to mention the adults who are dying of starvation or malnutrition. Now, tell me about the importance of supply and demand economics. Tell me about the importance of communist doctrine. Tell me about the rationale of spending trillions of dollars on exotic mega death weapons. Tell me about love your neighbor. Tell me about how advanced we are as a species. Tell me about the importance of the stock market and leveraged buyouts. Tell me about how religion, any religion, is the hope of the world. See how many lies you can tell me without appearing blatantly evil. We are able to turn our backs upon all manner of human atrocities when we resort to referring to the victims under the guise of labels. This makes the victims appear to be things, rather than living, breathing human beings.

No, on second thought, don't tell me anything. I have already heard it all. We have all heard it all, too many times. I am fed up with the lies. Let me tell you that it is no longer necessary for people to starve to death. Anyone who tells you otherwise is evil. Now that may seem like an extremely harsh statement to some. Harsh? Unfair? A child dies needlessly every 2 and one quarter seconds. That's harsh! That's unfair! It's time to feed the world! We can do it now! Anything else is selfish and unacceptable.

Now you know what offends me. And you know why I am adamant when I say that most of us are throwing our lives away. Much of what is going on in the world today is short sighted and unnecessary. The current world situation is the result of a long string of events. Many of those events have been misperceived and misunderstood. Much of what we have learned in the past is no longer valid. Our views and our perceptions of the universe have altered incredibly during our own lifetimes. In fact, we have learned more, come to understand more, during our lifetime, no matter what our age, than we have in all the millions of years since humanity's first appearance upon this planet.

Okay, let's get down to brass tacks, to the nitty gritty, the real skinny, the bottom line, as the money people like to say. We're going to talk about money, about economics, about credit, and about high finance. We're going to take a look at the how and the why of world financial operations and then we're going to ask some very pointed questions and provide some enlightening answers. This is where the rubber meets the road.

Historically, the basis of wealth was first centered in the possession or ownership of land; it was all about property. The more land one had, the wealthier one was. The land owners were able to generate wealth from the land through selling it, renting it, and using it. The power of the land owners was such that they became known as land lords, a name which has persisted to this day.

Early on, land was used largely for agriculture and for hunting. In other words, food for survival was the original motivating factor regarding the effective use of land. Some people began to realize that if the food needs were satisfied for the time being and there was not a demand for more food, that somewhere in the future the demand would probably increase, due to the vagaries of farming or weather or the probability that the market for produce would increase, either through human reproduction, or through expansion by creating markets in other areas where land might not be as productive. So people learned about the value of the future possibilities and they would accumulate land based upon speculations about its future possible use, and therefore, future value.

In the early days of land possession, the payment for the land acquired was the use of force. The sale of land in exchange for goods or services, or eventually money, developed gradually. Note, that although this land speculation appears to be like credit, there was no interest due on the speculative acquisition of land other than a portion of the crops produced upon the land.

As farming techniques became improved and systemized and population increased, there was less of a need for people to work directly at agricultural production. Additionally, the wealth generated by the farmer land owners allowed them to expand their lifestyle. This created a need for additional goods and the people to provide them. Initially, these goods were crafts, items which could be created by one individual, working alone, and using tools created by a single individual. So the basis for wealth expanded to include production of goods. Over time, the crafters joined together into organizations called guilds. These guilds were the forerunners of today's unions. But it wasn't until the advent of industrialization that life began to change dramatically, and with it, the basis of wealth.

Industrialization, by definition, is the production of goods through the cooperative efforts of many people, accomplishing what one individual either is incapable of producing on their own, or which individual production is voided by the expense required in both time and money. The cooperative effort of industrialization removes time from the expense of goods, leaving only materials and the initial setup of the process as relevant expenses. Once production begins, ongoing production reduces the original setup expense to negligibility, leaving only the expense of materials production and the human power required to oversee the production. By applying the industrialization equation to the procurement of materials, their expense likewise diminishes with production.

The basis for wealth had then, with the advent of the industrialization process, moved from possession of land, to production of goods, or products. But in that change, the general populace has misunderstood what has happened. Industrialization has created such a wealth of products that possession of products has been believed, mistakenly, to be the basis of wealth, rather than what it truly is, merely one of the many evidences of wealth. The basis of wealth was not truly in the products produced, but rather in the processes which allowed the products to be produced upon a large scale at ever decreasing costs.

An example of this misunderstanding occurred during the early day's of our exploration of the moon. On one of NASA's trips to the moon, a lunar vehicle had been created to allow for greater ease and power of movement while the astronauts were on the surface. When the astronauts left the moon, they left the vehicle behind. Many people were aghast. That vehicle cost millions to create and produce. What a terrible waste to leave it behind on the moon. But the fact of the matter is that what was left on the moon was nothing more than some materials which ultimately cost very little. The knowledge and expertise to take those materials, in other words, the true wealth generated by the creation of that lunar vehicle, never left the planet earth. The wealth remains here and continues to exist to this day, having grown through further outgrowths of that now primitive application.

To continue with our look at the evolution of economics, in order to continue the decrease of cost, and therefore the increase in profit, it was necessary to widen the market for the products being produced. In order to widen the market throughout the world, it was necessary to see that people had the means with which to purchase the goods which were being marketed. Henry Ford saw this and became a very radical "business owner" when he began to pay his employees a "decent day's wage," a wage which would allow them to own that which they helped to produce: an automobile.

Another way in which markets were widened was through the extension of credit. The way in which the concept of credit was created and used gave an incredibly incorrect impression of what was actually taking place where the basis of wealth is concerned. As a result, today you will hear people rail about how this country was destroyed by the creation of the evil monster, Credit. Their whole analysis is based upon the belief that the basis of credit is in future value that is not presently existent. We're going to discover here that such a viewpoint is totally incorrect and, therefore, effectively bankrupt. That's right, the concept of credit as being based upon future value is bankrupt. There was a time when the belief held water, but the technological breakthroughs surrounding World War I blew holes in that concept.

Bucky Fuller used to put it this way. Money is nothing more than a symbol for something of value. But people get the mistaken notion that you can make money from money. That's what interest has become. In the old days interest came from the production generated off of the property. Today interest comes from demanding a pound of flesh. It's allegedly based upon earning income generated in the future in a market where individuals can no longer guarantee their jobs, and corporations can no longer guarantee their own future existence. It's all just a matter of speculation. If it was done in Las Vegas in front of the gaming tables, it would be called gambling. When it's done on Wall Street, it's called world economics. But there is no difference between the two. So there are no longer any future guarantees. At least not based upon the old ways of economics, of business as usual.

NEW WORLD ECONOMY

In the May 17, 1997 issue of Science News, Vol. 151, No. 20, on page 303, in an article entitled "A price tag on the planet's ecosystems," it is reported that "a group of 13 researchers has pulled together an emerging body of studies on the value of ecosystems and come up with a rough figure for the annual worth of Earth's natural goods and services: $33 trillion." That's annual value. However, nowhere in the article does it state the value of a human being.

What is the value of a human being? I like to share the story of Bob Geldolf. Bob, as you may know was the singer with a British music group called Boomtown Rats. Then he visited east Africa in the early to mid 1980's and he saw children starving to death. This is the way he explains his response to that situation: "There's a problem. What is it? People are dying. Dying of what? Starvation. How do you prevent that? You give them food. How do you get food? You get them money. How do you get the money? You come up with an idea for it."

As he began seeking help to implement his "idea" to raise money to get food to feed children to keep them from dying, everywhere he turned it seemed as though everyone told him that "it can't be done." Why? Because it had never been done before. But he refused to take "no" for an answer. Right up until days before the big event was to take place, he was still being told that it could not be done, because no one had ever done it before.

The idea, of course, was the Live Aid Concert which took place July 14, 1985, simultaneously in London at Wembley Stadium and in Philadelphia, and was broadcast live on radio [ABC in the US]and television [MTV in the U.S.] via satellite to more countries around the world than any other event up to that time. They raised $70 million in one day to feed starving children and sparked the beginning of huge benefit music concerts that continues to this day, over a decade later. What is the value of one human being? What can one person do? What can one person accomplish? How many people can one person touch? How many lives can one person affect? How much value is there in just one human being?

When we find the answer to that question, then multiply that number by 6 billion and we'll begin to get an idea of how much wealth there actually is in the world. If the average American makes $22,000 per year, and we take that as a norm of possibility, then the wealth base for human potential alone is $22,000 times 40 years times 6 billion, or over $5 quadrillion. And that's just if we think of people as average. But what is average. And what are the possibilities of achieving the exceptional if properly aided and encouraged.

Alan Greenspan says that the economy is surprisingly healthy. Yet reportedly about a quarter of Americans are below poverty level and bankruptcies are at their highest ever, and banks will tell you, if they're honest, that their loan portfolios are going right down the toilet. This discrepancy is all due to this misunderstanding of the true nature of the economy.

Remember Schwartz and Ogilvy said that no one knows what is going on and no one is in charge? The system is functioning essentially by itself, and in spite of the occasional incredibly greedy attempts to coopt it. I want to make this perfectly clear: once the basis for wealth shifted totally to metaphysics, the entire system began to function on its own. The economists try to lay blame for apparent fluctuations in the economic system upon ouside influences in their shortsighted scenarios of how things work. They talk about how the economy is "market driven," and then they try to see what it is that they can do to control and manipulate it. But one can't control the continual creativity of metaphysics.

So, getting back to the credit that some people think is the evil monster which has created a world so deeply in debt that it may be impossible to get out, I want to share a different perspective. When the world's economy shifted from physics-based to metaphysics-based, the total value of wealth not only exploded, but that explosion has continued to grow for almost a century. If all of that new wealth is not recognized and incorporated into the shortsighted system of old which the economists insist upon holding on to, then what happens to all of it. Well, it is getting incorporated into the old system, but it is mistakenly being called credit and it is thought to have its value in the future. But the value is right now. Therefore, those who control the strings of credit are manipulating the rest of us. A more accurate term for what they are doing is that they are cheating the rest of the world out of what is its just dues.

In a recent review upon the movie, "The Newton Boys," the reviewer pointed out that back in the 20's and 30's people like Bonnie and Clyde and Ma Barker and the Newton Boys were largely looked upon as heroes because they were stealing from the banks, whom many believed had been stealing from the common working person all along. What if that perspective were true and we've just forgotten it in the nineties?

Now we come to another bone of contention: welfare. Wealthier aspects of our society often speak of "welfare recipients" as being people who are taking advantage of the system to get an undeserved free right. But if the value of wealth is calculated upon the value of the individual, then the individual has a stake in wealth, through his or her contribution, and therefore is due a healthy return on his investment. It is not a dole. It is not a handout. People who make those claims mistakenly think that the wealth belongs to them. The world's wealth belongs to everybody. Everybody contributes and everybody deserves a return.

How big a return? Well, here's another perspective on economics. This perspective, incidentally, is just as valid as the perspective claimed by economists and politicians to be a science.

HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN

First, cancel all debt. Why? Because there's no way to prove that it is justly owed. Here's why. If everybody had been receiving what they deserved, they might very well never have had to go into debt. And since it is impossible to determine who deserves and who does not deserve to be behind the eight ball, the easiest and most equitable way of dealing with the situation is to cancel all debt: individual, corporate, and governmental. All of it. You better believe that would get someone's attention.

But some people will claim that such a move will throw the world into chaos. What they really mean is that they may lose control of reality as they have come to personally enjoy it. I'll tell you what chaos is. What happens if a huge meteor hits the planet? What if the big earthquake comes and major portions of California are swept into the sea? What if the government admits that aliens did crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? What is going to happen when free energy machines hit the market place and using non-replenishable fuels becomes obsolete overnight? What will happen when the computer chips which Hewlett Packard and others presently have in their labs, chips which can store billions of bits of information in a cubic centimeter, what will happen when those chips hit the marketplace? What will happen if terrorists are able to detonate a nuclear device in a large world city? That's chaos, because they are activities which would affect everyone in a negative way of one sort or another.

The alleged chaos of cancelling all debt is chaos for only a few, a small handful of the world's population. Those few have been controlling the economy of the planet for far too long. Now that we realize that there's finally enough to go around, they want to keep the comparable comfort which they have enjoyed all of these years, and the only way they can see to do that is to guarantee that they have "more" than anyone else. It's been said that 95% of the world's people work for 5% of the world's people. No wonder debt is out of control.

I spoke at a church on the topic, "Prosperity," and as part of my talk I discussed certain aspects of this new economics. Following the service, people asked me questions like, "do you teach economics," or "are you an economist," or "do you have a degree in economics." My basic response to all of those questions is that I have no formal background or training in economics as we've known it. If I did, I would have learned all the wrong things and it would be difficult for me to discover what I have discovered. I don't need to know how to handle a buggy whip in order to drive a car. And that's exactly how the old economy and the new economy are related to one another.

I realize that my response may be a harsh thing to say for those who feel themselves to be economists. I don't say this, however, to be critical of them, but rather to speak the truth as I know it and to support a perspective upon world economics which is more life affirming than anything practiced today.

Once we have abolished credit, the next thing we do is establish the world's income. If wealth is based upon the metaphysics of ideas, the question arises as to who exactly owns an idea. The answer is a paradox. No one owns an idea. Ideas cannot be confined, therefore they can't be pegged down to a static state of ownership. On the other hand, because everyone has the capability of comprehending and digesting an idea, then the totally free availability of ideas to everyone means that all ideas are essentially "owned" by everyone. So if ideas are the underpinning of wealth, and everyone shares in ownership of the wealth, then what is a fair and equitable way of dispersing the wealth.

After many, many years of consideration and analysis, it is my firm belief that everyone should receive an annual salary equal to $1,000 times the number of years they have been alive on this planet. As for children, I think that half of their money should go into a trust until they reach majority. At age 18 they would have a trust of $76,500 and an annual salary for that year of $18,000.

Where is all that money going to come from? Well, where does money come from right now? I doubt that anyone really knows. But I have discovered some good leads over the years. My experience at being a Synergeticist has not set well for my finding a secure place in the job market. Due to my comprehensive background and my continued openness to thinking and seeking alternatives, I have developed the innate ability to discover anomalies within systems. It's almost second nature to me now. Sometimes when I am talking with business callers on the phone I can tell, just by the offhand comments which they make, what kinds of problems their computer systems have, and the kind of training offered within the company, and whether or not there are good lines of communications within the company, particularly between the data processing department and other departments.

This ability makes securing a job difficult. You see, I have promoted myself for some years now as a computer detective, one experienced in detecting, analyzing, and correcting computer system anomalies. Theoretically one might think that companies would be chomping at the bit to get hold of someone like me, but unfortunately, that has not been the case. You see, many of the problems which I discover are viewed by management with an eye towards establishing blame. Sometimes that blame comes right back to management itself. I, myself, am not interested in blame. That's a game for children, not for adults. Anyway, from time to time I discover anomalies which are potentially embarrassing.

Another key idea in John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider," was that the main character writes a computer virus program (remember, this was published in 1976) which gets into the world's networked computers and reveals all of the secrets. Naturally, the whole world changes overnight with incredible shifts in power. That's a key to why it has been difficult for me, and many others who are realizing what is truly going on in the world, to find meaningful employment in the traditional sense.

Money is merely a symbol of wealth. Once we understand the true nature of wealth, there will be an almost endless supply of money, enough to meet all of the world's needs, and right now. This is already happening, it's just that a few greedy people are trying to capture and hoard all of this new cash.

Whenever ideas have been presented in the past for "redistributing" the world's wealth, more conservative aspects of society quickly jump to the defense of "business as usual" by decrying the idea of "taking from one in order to give to another." And, already, there are readers of this very document who hate what I am saying with a vengeance because they feel that this is what I am promoting: taking from the haves to give to the have nots. Taking from those who have "earned" to give to the "undeserving." But that is not what I have said. Go back and reread this document and nowhere will you find anything about taking away from others.

To slip into the mistaken notion that we need to compete with others for wealth is to admit that we don't understand the new wealth and are instead still functioning according to the old concepts. I say to let the people who have accumulated vast wealth have it. They don't need to give it up in order for others to have their fair share. Metaphysics is devoid of that kind of a limited concept.

In reality, with time, many extremely wealthy people will find a portion or otherwise significant part of their wealth dissolve. It's not going to dissolve because of what I'm proposing here. Whether my ideas are implemented now or later will be irrelevant to the future of current wealth mistakenly believed to be founded in the old bankrupt economics. This is nothing new. Under the old system, wealth will constantly appear to change hands, for there will always be people jockeying to guarantee their own survival.

I'll give you a couple of examples. J. P. Morgan was a hugely wealthy man. He initially generated his wealth in building railroads. Where are all the railroad tycoons now? Today there are people who are incredibly wealthy due to oil. One day the oil will run out. When it does, that wealth will disappear. In fact, the $3 trillion dollar shift in the world economy which Brian O'Leary speaks of as resulting from the availability of "free energy," will largely be a result of the disappearance of the need for oil as a fuel. One way or another, wealth based upon oil reserves and oil production will dissolve. This shifting in wealth which is based upon physics is an ongoing process which has been taking place throughout history. And it will continue, particularly so long as people continue to believe that wealth lies in the possession of things and the mere movement of goods and services, rather than realizing that it now rests in the continually expansive, all encompassing world of metaphysics.

Some people may think, when I use the term "metaphysics," that I am talking about religion. Nothing could be further from the truth. As I have already stated, metaphysics, by definition, means "beyond physics." It is the invisible, non physical, unphysically measurable realm from which the entire world of physics has resulted. No religion, folks. Just pure facts. Now, it so happens that that world of metaphysics is a world of consciousness, and if you don't understand that, then perhaps you need to read some of noted physicist Fred Alan Wolf's book, "The Spiritual Universe," (http://www.stardrive.org/fred.shtml) to better understand the new physics and its relation to metaphysics.

Nopw, why am I proosing all of this. Well, because it is about time. It is naturally an outgrowth of the changes which are taking place in our economy and in world society as a whole. The structure of the "free market economy" which so many tout, is based upon the false idea that a human being needs to have a job in order to justify his or her existence. Justify it to whom? Society didn't create human beings. Religions didn't create human beings. Business institutions didn't create human beings. Governments didn't create human beings. So why should human beings have to continue to be slaves to systems created by the institutions of the world. Why is it that systems are created which deprive people of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under the guise of fictitiously created "obligations" to the system.

I long ago discovered that there are people who love to "pick up the garbage." If we reach the time when no one will any longer like to pick up the garbage, then we will invent ways for the garbage to be picked up without having to require anyone to do it. That is the reality of the way life works and the way in which it has always worked. It's the heart of the industrial equation. Much of what goes on in the workplace today is fabricated for the purpose of perpetuating the fiction that everyone must have a job in order to be a productive member of society. But jobs don't normally contribute to productivity.

The biggest fear in the minds of those who have controlled the wealth of the world is what will happen if people have time on their hands. What will they begin thinking about, what will they decide to do? We occasionally hear some politicians decrying "welfare people" and "others" who sit around and do nothing but take from the system. What they're really afraid of, though, is that those who have time, and who take advantage of the time they have, will determine how to make their own lives and the lives of others better.

Of course, if we just look at the Web itself, we quickly see that there are over 200 million Web pages out here, and we all know deep down that most of them don't make any money. Doesn't anyone realize that the Net itself is proof of the expression of the innate creativity of humanity if only given a chance, with no clear dollar return in exchange for the investment. To be sure, there's a dollar drive out there, the way Powerball escalates once it exceeds $100 million shows that.

WHAT THIS ALL MEANS TO YOU

So what will be the possible results of having more time, and the money which guarantees the protection of that time? Well, that's merely up for speculation. But we can do some credible prognosticating by looking at what has happened to people's lives when their time has been gobbled up by jobs and their finances have been bound in a credit crunch.

Marriages have increased their disastrous slide into divorce. Someone once said that what women desire from a relationship are, in this order: Security, Conversation, and Romance. Without adequate income, the first priority is severely strained. In order to meet that strain, the second and third priorities are stretched to a point of ruin. People who complain about the state of marriages today, very seldom place any blame on the lack of time and money created by the necessity of both partners working constantly to keep ahead of credit and therefore resulting in having no time to share together.

And what happens to the rest of the family? No matter what one says, children getting out of hand is almost guaranteed if the parents are never around because they are both having to work long hours. And the pressures of the work place fuel the stresses which lead to spousal and child abuse. In the early 70's, Studs Terkel revealed in his book, "Working," that over 70% of people "hated" their jobs. That percentage has increased with time. If people are consistently spending 40 to 50 to 60 hours and more a week doing what they hate, but which they feel compelled to do, out of a sense of necessity, then what is going to happen to the rest of their lives. Hatred and anger are powerful emotions which don't defuse automatically by walking through a door.

It is often said that idle hands are the devil's work. But who said that? And upon what grounds do they base that claim? Because the devil's in there, one can bet that the church had a hand in this. But the history of the church is notorious for encouraging the perpetuation of slavery, whether overt or covert. I personally resent this thinking that the idleness of not having a job leads to laziness and slothfulness. My most productive, positive times of growth in understanding, relationships, purpose, and direction have come when I had time, or money, or, better yet, both.

During the time that I had inheritance as a source of income and did not need to have a job, the entire direction of my life changed, my activities changed, my relationships changed, and all for the better. I experienced tremendous growth, both internally and externally. When the money ran out I learned how quickly the temptations of hopelessness and despair move in, and, more tragically, how resigned everyone is to the "fact" that the only way out of such a situation is to get back into the grind.

My friend Bucky Fuller used to say that one of his goals was to free the scholars to return to their studies. Every one of us is that scholar. In other words he recognized that we are all born curious, with a life long desire to learn and to turn that learning into productivity. He also knew that learning doesn't have to be organized or structured from outside in. In fact, the root definition of learning is to draw out from within.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

In a document which I will be publishing here in MajorDomo's World as a part of New Perspectives, I will be speaking about Quantum Mechanics and the new realities which it has revealed. One of these realities, as I've already stated, is that the observer changes the observed. All of our spiritual disciplines tell us the same thing. We CAN affect our reality through our thoughts and our attitudes and our feelings. In fact, the reality is that we DO exactly that.

To begin affecting reality, we need merely share the information, spread the word. We learn from experience, but we learn the most from new experience, new perspectives. To begin taking steps to effect changes which can greatly benefit all of humanity for the better, start by telling everyone you know about the changes. An easy way to do that is to simply tell them to log on to the Internet and go to MajorDomo's World (and MajorDomo's World Blog) and look at New Perspectives.

Shortly, I will be adding more to this document about "what you can do to bring about positive change in the world." Check back with me weekly to keep uptodate with the latest opportunities and the newest perspectives.

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THIS IS A WORK IN PROCESS. It will be added to. Spread the word. Tell everyone that you know that life no longer has to be the way it's been. There is hope for a new and incredible future beyond our wildest comprehension. The more people who begin looking for this future, the quicker it will be found and enjoyed by all.

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