25 July 2009

The Gift of Love


The gift economy is a wonderful solution to the many problems of the world. It is not a Utopia, nor something that only "pure devotees" can do. It is a culture, and everybody can learn to live that culture as the most natural thing in the world, just like we unconsciously have learned to live the culture of selfishness.
A friend recently sent me the link to the following video about "Dama", the gift economy in Mali - one of the poorest countries of the world. If these people, who have next to nothing, can gift to others, then what is preventing us, who have so much? Only our culture. And that can be changed.
It must be changed if we are to save the world. I will be posting much, much more about the gift economy and Spiritual Economics in the coming weeks.
Spiritual Economics promotes a gift economy based on the principles of the eternal religion. Everyone can take part, and everyone will benefit.