Clarifying The Gift Economy: What It Is And Isn't, By Carolyn Baker
If everything is free, you don’t need to struggle with your relationship with money, and I don’t need to struggle with mine.
Healing Ourselves Before Our Sick Culture Kills Us, By Christopher Weller
We share this world — the good Earth. We are a part of it; we have sprung from it; we give back to it when we die. This symbiosis is all that is truly real.
Sacred Economics, Chapter 4, Part 5, By Charles Eisenstein
We have lived in an Age of Separation. One by one, our bonds to community, nature, and place have dissolved, marooning us in an alien world. The loss of these bonds is more than a reduction of our wealth, it is a reduction of our very being. The impoverishment we feel, cut off from community and cut off from nature, is an impoverishment of our souls. That is because, contrary to the assumptions of economics, biology, political philosophy, psychology, and institutional religion, we are not in essence separate beings having relationships. We are relationship.