In the truth, everything belongs to its creator. We create thoughts and rearrange matter to create form, but can we own the atoms that make up the substance of art, or the substance of our bodies? I say no, we are stewards. This frees us from the weight of the concept of ownership. When I give you something, it is a gift. Your receipt of the gift completes the interaction. End of story on a non-taxable event. When you give me something... ditto. This is our freedom in natural law. In legal fiction (man's law), when you write down symbols representing both gifts (create an invoice, receipt, bill of lading, etc.) you create a demon (life-stealing thought) that one thing, a good or service, given out of mercy (com - merce: with mercy) turned magically (not) into a piece of irredeemable paper (lucky you, you will now be punished for this: taxation = power to destroy). How could you ever make a profit by turning stewardship of tangible or intangible resources (e.g. your irreplaceable time and life energy) into irredeemable debt slave notes? Better to make yourself a real prophet, and join the Exxodus from the fiction into the real world where we can freely give our gifts (how many are born to give their life juice to a corporate cubicle?), where we can be received with loving gratitude, rather than an orc (work-er) focused on the funny money, where we can make space within ourselves to more fully receive each other's gifts. Biological processes are the fundamental basis of abundance. From one seed can come many. Let's plant the seeds of an organic revolution in which we can dance and sing with joy and love, and bring the good news that the Kingdom of Peace is at hand, within us... Who will be ready to 'just say no' to the mark of the beast, when it comes to globalized control of all buying and selling? All who know the simple truth that we cannot buy or sell anything in the truth anyway. The truth will set us free.

Freely given, freely I receive.

Dr. Glen
Steward of The Shire

P.S. some of you may enjoy my musings on a possible scrip system for the regional burn "Rebirth" at The Shire, posted on The Shire tribe...