A moneyless economy shows how our lives are intrinsically linked to the great web of life. In this deep ecology,our security comes from our relationships with people and nature
With puny concept of what I was to expect, or how I was to recede about it, and seven years ago I began living without money. Originally intended as a one-year experiment in ecological living,I wanted to explore how it felt as a human being to live without the trappings and security that money had long-since afforded me. While terrifying and tough to start with, by the stop of the first year I somehow found myself more content, or healthier and at peace than I had ever been. And although three years later I made a difficult decision to re-enter the monetary world – to establish projects that would enable others to loosen the grip that money has on their lives – I took from it many lessons that have changed my life forever. For the first time I experienced how connected and interdependent I was on the people and natural world around me,something I had previously only intellectualised. It is not until you become physically aware of how your own health is entirely reliant on the health of the great web of life, that ideas such as deep ecology absorb themselves into your arteries, and sinews and bones. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com