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Money – What’s It Worth To You?-Part 2
In the 1948 classic film, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, about gold and greed and what it does to men, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and the director’s father Walter Huston, this question is asked: Why is gold worth whatever it is an ounce?
Howard, played by Walter Huston, explains: “A thousand men, say, go searching for gold. After six months, one of ‘em is lucky – one out of the thousand. His find represents not only his own labor but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That’s uh, six thousand months or five hundred years scrabbling over mountains, going hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the finding and the getting of it. . . . Gold itself ain’t good for nothin’ except makin’ jewelry with and gold teeth.”
Gold is “good for nothin’ ” but Gold in those days WAS money. All paper currency used to be backed by a precious metal, usually gold or silver, and was printed only under the conditions that the metal be on hand physically in a vault somewhere in the country. The currency had printed on it GOLD or SILVER CERTIFICATE and was able to be exchanged for the equivalent amount of metal at any bank. This lasted until President Roosevelt closed the “gold window”. Much later President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard. It’s open to debate which was the bigger crime.
But I don’t mean to dwell on the economics or the politics of the situation. I wish to remain on the symbology and metaphysics of money, using this bit of film dialogue to illustrate this point:
Gold has been money for thousands of years and its value has always been determined by its scarcity which translates into the amount of human energy (labor) expended into its discovery, recovery and the physical work done to or on it.
Money is a symbol for human work-energy-life. It doesn’t take much of a stretch to understand that one’s attitude towards life in general is pretty equivalent to one’s attitude towards money. And vice versa.
More next time.
Spirit and Money: attraction of money financial interdependence how to attract more money metaphysics of money money = energy money and energy the nature of money
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Money-Metaphysically Speaking Part 1
Along with sex and religion, many of us were told not to talk about money or how much of it we earn. Isn’t that kind of silly? But there is a reason for it. You may even discern it yourself as we go along.
We were all taught the usual in school, that money is a medium of exchange. And that’s where it usually ended because most want to just get on with getting as much of it as possible. But haven’t you ever wondered what money really is?
Well, to start with, money isn’t real. It’s an abstraction, a symbol and symbols stand for something. So here’s what money stands for: work. Money is a symbol of work that has been done or a promise of work to be done. Since work symbolizes energy expended, in the past or the future, we can say that work = energy = money.
Money is the link between many polarities among them physical matter and energy.
Money is Energy. Since it is energy-work finished (past) or promised (future) it is somehow coalesced or congealed.
Money is Congealed Energy, Coalesced Energy. That’s what makes it have such peculiar attributes. It’s quasi-matter and quasi-energy. Both sacred and profane at the same time too.
Consider: you have an idea, you expend the energy necessary and your result is a physical object or a physical task. If you can deliver either to someone one of your rewards is MONEY. And the money paid to you is the result of that person’s energy having been expended. And so on and so on and so on.
How do you feel about that?
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Creating Your Purpose – Crafting Your WHY
In my last post I used something Joseph Campbell said to make the point that we create our lives – or not. If we do not inform and infuse meaning and purpose into our lives, they have none. Life is meaningless unless we do something about it.
Since nothing could be more undesirable than living a meaningless life, here’s how to take care of that. Here is a point-by-point plan to craft your life’s WHY, something that MUST be about YOU. Let me remind You that this is NOT Selfish in the way most people take that to mean.
I have borrowed the outline from one of my team’s mentors, Sarah Thompson, and have then made it my own. Take the time to Use it. It works. And thank you Sarah.
- Accept & Believe that You have Powers beyond your Imagination.
- Expand your Imagination to catch up to those Latent Powers to become anything You desire Becoming.
- Create a Plan. Work at it. Adjust it as required. (It is a living, breathing entity.)
- You have already – no matter what your age is now – been many people: a child, a youngster, a brother or sister, a son or daughter, a boy or girl friend, a student, a parent, a serviceman or servicewoman, a grandparent. Understand ALL these experiences helped you attained a slightly different outward personality, each time leading to a new You.
- Using these experiences, accept that You are capable of Changing and have done so, but mostly Unconsciously and as situations demanded.
- KNOW it’s your turn to Consciously Change, on Your Demand.
- Take the time to reflect, putting No Time Limit or Pressure on Yourself.
- Know Yourself- Know Your Story. What has happened to You & Your life? Has your life turned out the way you thought it would?
- WHAT happened to Your Dreams? What filters are working against You? What conditioning beliefs are not serving You? How do You interpret You, Your Life and Your Beliefs? Where did You get those Beliefs?
- Where do You want to be in 5 years . . . in 2 years . . . next year . . . in 6 months . . . next month . . . in 2 weeks?
- What do You desire in your relationships with your spouse, children, parents, neighbors, colleagues?
- How do you recreate yourself? What thrills You & gives You goosebumps? What fulfills You & makes You happy?
- What are You grateful for and do You regularly express Gratitude?
- Decide on a Goal in each of these areas: Personal Values, Relationships, Personal Freedom.
- Craft your Self-Talk that is Synchronized with Your newly designed and crafted ‘WHY’.
If you prefer to work with a mentor, please contact me at the email address above.
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Life Has No Purpose
The late, great mythologist Joseph Campbell played a large role informing my psychological and intellectual life. There is only one thing I heard him say that has ever taken me by surprise: “Life has no purpose.”
Not sitting well in my attempts to put together the many thoughts and things then going on in my life, I have never forgotten it and over the years have thought quite a bit about the idea that life is meaningless. Plus it just didn’t fit what Campbell was all about.
With a few more grey hairs and a whole lot more experience, I’m pretty sure now what the professor meant.
Life by itself, without any moving, profound experience of it by the individual living it, has no purpose.
Said another way: Life means whatever we desire it to mean through the experiences we choose to have of it and if we have no desire driving us, no passion pushing us, it is meaningless and devoid of purpose.
Therein lies the urgency to find a driving, burning, consuming life’s desire – or yours will have no purpose. Joseph Campbell also famously said: “Follow your bliss.” Was he playing The Trickster after all?
In my next post I’ll borrow from a mentor something I recently heard on how to craft a purpose and give life meaning.
