Evolving Consciousness

For the first part of my life my adjustments to the cash flow statement were mostly made on the going-out side. Some day I'll show you my social security statement, and you'll be amazed at the low numbers you see there! I know how to live on almost zero money. This is a skill that really should not be applauded as it renders one useless.  There are timeframes where that would be cool, but here in the 21^st century we live in a world that needs the conscious participation of every human being, so it is one's responsibility to be a contributor. There isn't much to contribute from a place of zero.

With that lecture behind us though, I was not, and still am not, willing to compromise my desire to break out of my conditionings about money, because it's these conditionings that I see causing so much fear and suffering in the world. I see it in news from far away, and also in my close friends. Money is always a problem.

This, however, left me in a conundrum. I could easily see all the problems caused by our realities around money. I could see that I had the same conditionings as everyone else, but like a fish in the water, I could not see the sky. How do you become different from everything you've ever been taught? What I did was begin to actively look for something different. In my thirties I met my "guru" and sat down for a hard course in meditation to shake up the conditionings. As in everything else I've ever done, I did this with all my might! It didn't take me too long to see myself as truly connected to all things. I then discovered that God Realization is pretty cool, except for the fact that I REALIZED I was broke!!!!  As I slowly elevated myself from my meditation cushion, I began studying more deeply into life and money.  Perhaps the long slow way around to it, but at least I knew I was coming at the problem with a set of fresh eyes.