Copyright is the result of our requiring money to share our gifts
A friend recently made a statement about ’thieving’ words as she quoted some powerful words she’d found on another friends page. This thought of ‘thieving’ comes from a generally accepted paradigm that words, like skills and products are owned and can be exchanged for money.
Seeing this word has given rise to some contemplation about copyright and whether messages or indeed any of our gifts should be ‘owned’. I am beginning to believe that there is no thieving. This is not easy for I have made a living in the past from selling my words through self-help books.
We crave money because our basic needs aren't met. If they were we could use our gifts as TRUE gifts
Copyright and ownership and thieving are all restrictions and ‘abuses’ stemming from the love of the wrong god – the god of Money instead of loving God the All-One, All-that-is.
We feel guilty at ‘stealing’ another’s words and I too have felt a sense of ‘being robbed’, when my words weren’t credited to me. But that is because we have learned to use our ‘gifts’ as a means to supply us with our needs.
But I sense this is my ego taking hold and I could learn, as we all could, that our creative gifts, including the good words that we send out from our own channelling of what is right should not be copyright or used for selfish purposes. And yet this goes against a paradigm in this world that who writes the words has ownership and that ownership can be used for personal commercial gain. What a struggle this is…
And it’s a struggle because we need our basic needs to be met in order to survive.
Wouldn’t a truly self-less lover of humanity, and I am struggling with this, as an ego-bound human, wish only for his or her words to carry the message and know that the message is more important than the messenger. In other words, our gifts should not be gifts for us to selfishly profit from but GIFTS TO HUMANITY. And if our basic needs are met, we can truly use our gifts as gifts.
Breaking the circle of selfish concern
We are trapped in a circle of needing to meet our basic requirements, and having to use our gifts in exchange for ‘money’ in order to purchase those basic needs. And we are trapped in a a mesmeric trance of believing we need more than the basics in order to be happy. We learn that we can feel good when we buy a new pair of shoes, when we can purchase a planet ticket or buy gourmet food or anything beyond our basic needs.
Breaking the circle of gifts for money is one of the most challenging things we can do.
We need to break the circle of money, supply basic needs to all and enter the circle of gifts
I therefore declare that all words I put out are free to all to resubmit. I do not ask for credit, but I do I ask that no one claims these words as their own or uses them to make their own selfish profit, but, instead, uses them for the good of all. The free Commons License states that the words may be freely passed on as long as they remain intact. And even that should not be written in stone.
Sharing with Integrity for the Greater Purpose
If a particular message has been crafted, and changing it may change the original intent then it should remain intact, if the change is used to skew the intent in a way that it is NOT for the greater good. If someone finds a way to pass on this message by changing the words I have used or using them as a basic jumping off point and by doing that they give greater power to the message, then, I must, if I am considering the greater good, be happy to have this happen.
Telling ourselves the complete Truth.
God knows the truth about us. Do we?
Granny Matthis, who is 97 and strives to be very pure said to me ‘God knows everything about us’ He knows all our transgressions and beyond that he knows when we are being really true. Humans are easily able to justify their actions through deeply seated personal lies that even we don’t recognize.
On our website we state that people may copy or use the words and we ask for a link back to us. If I am to examine my motives I must recognize that while we would like people to go to our site and read the rest of our words, for we have some well crafted messages I also see a deeper motive. We have affiliate links to products we like, so I know that my desire for that back-link is partly based on our need to make the dreaded money.
And, like me, you have to live. What is wrong here is the way we’ve been taught to ‘make a living’ versus ‘living life’. We’ve been taught to pursue money to have a life, when living life in our true purpose is all we need to do. And to do that we need to have our basic needs met.
This leads me to the philosophical contemplation of how I long to have no need to sell anything to make money and also to how I can regulate my acquisitoin of money so that ONLY AS LONG AS THE MONEY SYSTEM STILL EXISTS, I am directing it through who I am, to be for the greater good.
Embracing a simpler life is a small step towards freeing ourselves from the money system
We are in a transition phase from using money as the medium of exchange and all of us being focused on satisfying our own individual needs to a world where our basic needs are met and we can truly offer our gifts as gifts. We must begin by simplifying our lives and working towards ensuring everyone has the basic simple gifts of life.
So right now I’m having to make do and do the best I can.
Praying for the minimum we need to live our purpose and share our gifts v praying for stuff
God, please give me only what I need to be able to freely share my gifts with the world
When I pray to God for ‘stuff’ I try not to ask for a car or a horse or ten dollars. I try to ask that God will give me enough that I may continue to live on this earth and be able to do the work I was put here to do in relation to the greater good.
This is something I am trying hard to be.. a servant of God of the Greater Force of this Universe… and of course, I have had years of ego training to the contrary. I am praying that I will continue to develop this way of being.. and it is a struggle.. Life here on earth and living right is not easy… it is part of the evolution of humans into higher purpose non-egoic other-centered entities.
And we get greedy and live from selfish concern because we are biologically driven to have our basic needs supplied. And in that drive, we’ve lost sight of what ‘basic’ means and struggle to acquire things so that we can feel good. Yet feeling good should come from living a natural earth connected life.
WHEN WE SUPPLY THE BASICS TO ALL HUMANS – EVERY-ONE’S GIFTS CAN BE TRUE GIFTS
Air, Food, Shelter, Water, Love are humanity's basic needs and rights. Let us strive to achieve that
So how can we allow more and more of us to share our gifts freely?
It brings me to the theory I first learned from the Venus Project material and which is based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs.
Maslow saw that we have a hierarchy of needs and the diagram shows the most necessary at the bottom of the triangle and so on. Our most necessary need are air to breathe, water and shelter from the elements as well as procreation. Next in importance is security. We need to know that there will always be a place to lay our head and that we will be safe from predators. Beyond that, as human animals, we need social interaction and love . And beyond that we need esteem, we need to know that our gift is worthwhile and that it contributes to the world and that we have purpose.
If we were all guaranteed basic water, food, shelter and loving human fellowship, then any gifts we have whether it is one for spinning emotive words or building a cob oven, can be just that.. a true gift to the world.
Wow, my conscience and ego are already fighting this.. as I can imagine yours might also.
And this all comes from the one root of belief that dominates most cultures on earth today – we own our gifts and they can be used in exchange for money and thus for our own personal security. We are all afraid of not having those basic needs as outlined by Maslow. So we sell ourselves in order to find them. And we become selfish. We accumulate for us because we are AFRAID OF NOT HAVING ENOUGH.
What a paradise might we live in if we were so content with the basic needs that giving our gifts was not done out of necessity for those things, but because we are free to give them.. for we no longer need to sell them.
If you knew that you had a place to lay your head that allowed you to sleep well and be fit for the day to come and you had good healthy food and clean water to nourish you with sufficient energy to engage in the world and you knew you had companionship and social interaction… what else do you really need? How much easier would it be for you to freely share the gifts that you previously sold to get more than you need?
When you take some time for honest inner contemplation you might find that you have been easily able to justify your quest for stuff and money and that you may be telling yourself lies by pretending that you are doing good works, when in fact you are actually satisfying more than your basic needs because you’ve been programmed through fear to think you cannot live without them.
We are in tough transition times and each and every one of us needs to take stock and start telling ourselves the deep honest truth about our own fear and our own greed…
Purpose beyond self and community
If, for example we desire to build an intentional community, we will probably be motivated from a need to meet our own basic needs. We will come together with that community, in the same way we do with the nuclear family and kin and build a stronghold that will satisfy our community. But if we don’t take count of the rest of the pattern, those without our walls, we cut ourselves off from the greater purpose of humanity as one unity.
When we can build that community with a focus on meeting our basic needs so that we can facilitate the entire community to release their gifts and that those gifts are used for the purpose of helping those beyond our little clique, then we’ve truly got it.
It’s a long hard road but we won’t survive in loving harmony and recreate the Garden of Eden if we don’t find a way to give all humans what they need to be able to freely share the gifts God gave us.
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