I just contributed to the Human Project on Kickstarter, but I'd also like to open an inquiry here about the direction of our species that doesn't sound like it's included in their plans. It has to do with the rapid evolution we are undergoing which is cr [...]

Posted by Arthur • 5 months ago • View comments

The reason I blog is because there are not many people writing about the topic I'd most like to engage people in. Specifically, it is about currencies as social DNA. You see, corporations, institutions, governments, and nations are in fact living org [...]

Posted by Arthur • 6 months ago • View comments

Our commercial economy is headed for destruction. There are many contributing factors, but in the end it all boils down to the fact that we’ve broken the core covenants, contracts or agreements of successful economies. These rules exist for a reason and [...]

Posted by Arthur • 10 months ago • View comments

A lot of people seem to struggle with the concept of gift economies. Over the recent few hundred years, we have gotten so acculturated to market economies that we tend to project tit-for-tat exchange onto every interaction and into every motivation. Howev [...]

Posted by Arthur • 11 months ago • View comments

Money Can't Buy You Love...or Trust. Let's lay this out on the table as simply and clearly as possible (continuing Alan's theme about Quid Pro Quo). 1. You hand me $1,200. 2. I hand you a beautiful bicycle. That's not how I interact with my closest fa [...]

Posted by Arthur • 12 months ago • View comments

Quid pro quo is Latin for “something for something.” It implies an exchange of goods or services that are more or less equal in value. A key underlying assumption in monetary currencies is that once you accept it for something, it will buy something o [...]

Posted by Arthur • 23 months ago • View comments

I am going to make a bold claim. If we want the new modes of economic production we’ve seen thus far in the information age to become deeply ingrained in our cultural fabric, we must apply these modes of production to currency itself. I take as my sta [...]

Posted by Arthur • 25 months ago • View comments

Non-differentiation, differentiation, dissociation, reintegration. These four steps come up again and again in disciplines as diverse psychology, semiotics, philosophy, ecology, and evolution among others. Spiritual teachings from many cultures describe t [...]

Posted by Arthur • 25 months ago • View comments

The heart embraces... the heart embraces... the heart embraces.

Posted by Luvina • 26 months ago • View comments

Whatever sensations there are in the body, or in the life, we embrace them. If embracing it alone is too much, embrace it with Me. We can embrace everything together. And before embracing what happens in the life, we start by embracing the self, perceive [...]

Posted by Luvina • 26 months ago • View comments