On a day
like today I feel intensely frightened, like a child who is becoming an adult.
www.economiasagrada.com was born as a blog in December
2015. It's time to become an adult, and move on to a complete and well-designed
website. I'm inviting you to support this. Becoming a website has the deepest
and most emblematic meaning. To become a website
is to acknowledge this work as part of the mysterious and wonderful web of life.
In the
conventional paradigm of patriarchy, becoming an adult is linked to becoming
independent. It means to conform to the norms of society, it means to submit to
the establishment, it means to adapt to "reality" (a
"reality" which is cultural!). It means accepting that the Boa in The
Little Prince was just the drawing of a hat.
In a new
paradigm of oneness and trust in life, becoming an adult means breaking free
from the provisional shell of protection that the train of conventional life
used to offer, when it no longer does. It means to fully receive the support
that the sacred movement of life offers you when you dedicate yourself to
something you love with your whole being. It means to let go of the illusion of
independence, the effort for personal merit, and to rest on the support of
knowing you are one with all. It means choosing freedom. It means remembering
the eyes of the purest human soul, those of a child, who never forgot that the
drawing is a Boa that swallowed an
Elephant.
At least
this is what I choose to live for. Do you know why? Because, being myself an
economist from the gut down to my heart and intellect, I took what is happening
on the planet seriously and came to the conclusion that there is no
alternative. That's right, deciding to trust life is not a matter of
romanticism, it's not a matter of courage or heroic mysticism. In fact, on a
day like today I feel intensely afraid. Beautiful fear! There's nothing else
but to trust in life, there's just nothing else. That is the beauty of the
urgency we face.
On a day
like today, I am reaching out to everyone who reads me, listens to me, has been
in my workshops or talks, who somehow knows or intuits that I am at the service
of this vision of sacred economics, to ask you to support us with money to take
this step. I appeal to those who feel called to support this vision.
Our goal is
to raise US$2,100 (until December 6th, 2017) for the company Mighty Nonprofits
to design and rebuild the economÃa sagrada website. This is not about numbers,
it's about exercising the support of life. That is why your contribution is
meaningful, emblematic, sacred with all the property of the word. It is a seed
of the new world that we dream, that we can co-create.
Within the
conventional paradigm of patriarchy, it is assumed that if the work one does is
valuable, then one can appropriate it into something saleable. Design a product
or service that can be traded. It is supposed that if one wants to help someone
to get ahead in life, one should encourage this person to earn a living, to
become self-sustaining by adapting to the markets. But the one who really knows
our economic system deeply understands that this is an illusion, the same that
every day that passes is crumbling for more and more people (see Understanding Money - Story of a Village and Introduction to Sacred Economics).
How is the
economy of sacredness, the economy of trust? Unconditional. Radically different
from what we imagine possible. How is it discovered, how is it built? It is
discovered by deconstructing our cultural beliefs unconsciously rooted in our
neuronal habits.
I am at the
service of accompanying the birth of a new economy. The only possible economy
(which is impossible within the current cultural constructs) is the economy of
trust, the economy of oneness. For me to offer what I have to share, I simply
cannot charge, I cannot demand a given quantity in return. I can't, but really I don't want to, with all my being. I
work in the gift economy, I offer my work as a gift and receive gifts in return (see Towards the Culture of Gift I and II). In addition, a large part of the
people who come to my workshops are people who are legitimately distressed by
the scarcity of money, and who long for a world of freedom. To them I want to
serve.
A new
website is a coming of age for sacred economics. It means a quantum declaration
of oneness, of being supported by life without any need of personal merit.
Personally, it means a sincere declaration of unconditional service, aligned
with the vision itself of sacred economics. How could it be any other way?
Your gift
towards this initiative is firstly meaningful in a sacred way, because it is a
step towards an economy of oneness. From now on, all of our work, essays,
talks, workshops will carry these seeds of unconditional oneness, so that from
the inside out, little by little, we can all construct an economy where we
simply gift each other our best, in freedom. Out there, there is a lot of
anguish, misery, hunger, stress, surviving trauma, destruction of beauty, lack
of freedom, proliferation of ugliness, all the way to the point where the
continuity of life on this planet is threatened. For all these situations, the
vision of sacred economics takes responsibility, with compassion and true hope.
Your gift
will give me the strength (yes, this too), to continue offering my work as a
gift, knowing that one way or the other life will support me and my family.
Yes, I do need, I do want, I do ask to receive support. Sacred economics
workshops cannot be plentifully shared under the condition that attendees need
to fulfill a given payment back for the gift they receive.
In addition,
your gift is helpful in carrying this vision towards the Spanish speaking
people in Latin America and elsewhere (where most people cannot access the work
of Charles Eisenstein).
Of course
it is an immense honor for me to receive your monetary gifts in these terms. I
will receive them as a treasure of seeds of hope. I thank you from the depths
of my soul on behalf of my family and our most true dreams for all life.
Can you
imagine the new website? Can you imagine the consequences, the seeds of
something new being born? In this campaign, we set up the beginning.
To donate, please follow this link:
https://www.gofundme.com/economiasagrada
To donate, please follow this link:
https://www.gofundme.com/economiasagrada
