Aligning Money and Love

“Money is both a powerful agent of destruction as well as the main way we coordinate human creativity in our world today. It is a medium of generosity and of trauma or innovation and oppression. What does it take to heal the wound of money on a personal and systemic level? What does it take to align money with love?” Charles Eisenstein

I think we all see that “what the world needs now is love, sweet love.” And we all see how money dominates every aspect of our world today making these questions particularly important. What does it take to heal the wound of money on a personal and systemic level? What does it take to align money with love?

The good news is that technically it may not be as complicated as one might imagine. As the great economist historian John Kenneth Galbraith said, “Do not fear simplification, complexity is used to claim sophistication and hide simple truths.” Having studied the role of money in society for the last 15 years I have found this to be true.

Money is surrounded and confounded by complexity and the language of monetary policy seems so complex as to be impenetrable. The truth about money hasn’t been too difficult to hide since money is an abstraction to begin with, putting it in the psychological realm. Money, outside of the currencies representing it, is defined as an abstract social power embodied in law as an…