Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project released a new documentary: Paradise or Oblivion. Here’s my review of the movie.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KphWsnhZ4Ag[/youtube]
First of all, I have to say I have immense respect for Jacque Fresco. The critics I’m bringing here are not to devalue his work but to bring the discussion to a deeper level in order to bring the ideas closer to our lives and reality.
The critics he makes about the financial systems are true. What he doesn’t mention is that there are currently actions being taken to remove the group causing corruption from power. A lawsuit has been deposed against the G7 Central Banks, CEOs of banks are resigning in record numbers and a mass-arrest is being organized to arrest those involved in that high-level corruption. You can read about all the details here.
http://www.divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1051-g7banks
On the other side, he doesn’t make the distinction between the financial system and the energy of money. Money is energy and energy will always exist, no matter how it is expressed. It is what allowed society to evolve the way it has. Money is what allowed the internet to exist. Money is a tool to extend service beyond physical reach. Think for a second about what it requires to bring you a computer. It requires rare minerals and materials coming from several continents. It requires high-level technologies that have been developed in different countries. It requires a tight synchronization of people, resources and tools to gather the resources, bring them together and transport the product all the way to you. There is no way this could be achieved without people exchanging value in a transactional way. If people were trading resources or counting on everything to be there at the right time, this wouldn’t bring the reliability required to make it happen.
Another aspect is that he leaves spirituality totally out of the equation, which is a BIG omission considering the changes on the planet are due to an energy shift and the awakening of consciousness. He suggests building a technological system that will rationally manage the Earth’s resources, and the Earth already has its own intelligence that is not rational. The planet doesn’t need to be managed, it can manage itself. Trying to tell the planet what to do without understanding its higher motives might not work as expected.
And really my biggest concern is this. He promotes to take personal power and responsibility out of the people and into an external system. If nobody claims their personal power and takes the responsibility, how could this project ever see the light? The Zeitgeist Movement’s community forum had to be shut down because of this. Nobody took personal responsibility to be a leader. They couldn’t find a way to make their ideas happen. They grew angry. The anger became serious. The community had to be shut down because the most active members were planning terrorism actions as a last resort. You can find details about that incident by searching the internet.
Obviously the Zeitgeist Movement had no clue how to make these ideas happen, as Jacque Fresco even said on an interview. To make any idea happen, you need to claim your personal power and take responsibility to make it happen. Money is an energy that will always exist. You need a lot of resources to make any major idea or project happen, either through money or other means. You need to bring people, resources and tools together and synchronize them in a very specific way. The changes in the world will not come as a centralized technology or consciousness expanding into the world. The changes come from within each and every one of us, and it is our responsibility to do our part to bring our ideas into our physical reality.
To answer the question about whether a moneyless society could exist, it could only exist if a majority of people make the internal shift from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. The physical reality is a reflection of the internal reality. It cannot happen the other way around. Even if we lived in a world overflowing with abundance, we’d still have to address the issue of how people could expand their services beyond physical reach. If someone wanted to build a spaceship, it would still require a tight and reliable collaboration between a wide range of people. Actually, in a world of true physical abundance, whether or not money would exist would be an irrelevant question.
Many of you have unique gifts, talents and ideas that the world truly needs. It is your responsibility to awaken these talents and claim your power to bring these ideas out into the world.
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#1 by Jos? Manuel on May 9, 2012 - 6:22 pm
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Hi Etienne, very nice that you mentioned something like that.
I have a particular vision of an awakened society, that feels very right to me. I know I will open up to it more over time, finding more details about it. It’s a society that actually supports the people and not the other way around, which is pointless and crazy.
Money may exist, but if so in a fair way: the basic needs would be free (food, water, housing and proper education; probably also including power energy and world-wide communication; maybe also traveling around). Money would be a measure of proactive contribution to the common good of all, and optional to have and use. If people are awakened enough, it’s feasible to not use money at all (so it would stop existing, as such, but the abundance and flow of value and resources would remain and sky-rocket).
People would be way different from the inside out, free from lower frequency energies, such as the ones more connected to reptile brain survival. Whole society would be free from competence in the way it is now. There would be variety of services, of course, but free and open sharing of information between all work groups.
That is key also… no companies. There would be no ego to hold what today are called companies. Nothing to sell, just value to offer. No marketing with any enrichment intention, just promotion of the creations available, for the good of all.
There would be “work” groups. But nothing to do with nowadays idea of “work”. Nothing mandatory, but something that most all people -by our own creative nature- would happen to find themselves participating in.
The work groups would be open teams, more specific to creating a particular value. Anyone can join in, share what they have to share for that creation, and leave anytime. Working in several groups possible. It’s something closer to today’s Free Open Source Software, but applied to absolutely everything, and free from the counter-productive ego battles that still happen nowadays.
Got a great idea that you cannot manifest on your own? Join or build a work group, and bring it to fruition.
Education would be open also. Opening the new generations to the awakened abilities for the human race would be a must, including psychic and spiritual. Of course, kids could join work groups and share their creative ideas; and also create new groups.
My question is: what if this the closest thing I’ve found as my life purpose!!??
#2 by Etienne Charland on May 9, 2012 - 11:47 pm
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Then you’d have to create a business (or however you want to call it) to build the future you desire.
#3 by Pratik Patel on October 5, 2012 - 4:35 am
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The truth is endless possibilities?..
I agree that.. " To answer the question about whether a moneyless society could exist, it could only exist if a majority of people make the internal shift from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. The physical reality is a reflection of the internal reality."
What is yout opinion about this?
Let's make a small group which work by free giving and free receiving. Be confirm that all are working as this main article say for each others benefit and cooperation.
We need to start a google group where people post 2 ways. One person has 3 mobile phones so one is extra or something he has extra with him of no use. He will post in google group as I offer this…..
All group members will receive this message and the one who really need it will put request to receive it. He will be given that stuff.
If more than 2-3 people demands the same stuff which is offered the priority or the person who is offering will decide whom to give.
2nd type post will be…. For such kind of purpose I want this kind of stuff or service. In reply from group members the one who can do this will do it.
When someone want some stuff or service and if it is not possible by any group member it may not be given to that person. Also it is not compulsory to be given but as this group is working as a extended family, group members try to fulfil one group member's genuine requirement.
#4 by Luis Duenas on November 19, 2012 - 6:35 pm
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The first comment is right. Etienne by answering that you will have to create a business is very ambiguous, what do you mean by that? Collaboration is happening everywhere without the need of a business. What puzzles me the most is this: Even if we lived in a world overflowing with abundance, we?d still have to address the issue of how people could expand their services beyond physical reach.
So if im not mistaken the things we want are nothing more than attachment and ambition. The desires are not our true nature. What is even more important is to decode the true purpose of things. What is the purpose of this advertisement at the end of an essay that i considered enlightened: Get our best-selling e-book Sexual Magnetism Blueprint, previously sold $147, now for FREE!
It really blows my mind that your message actually is based on the purpose of selling yourself through the disguise of someone that is devoted to “help” human beings. I really expected something more. I sincerely hope that the phrase: looks can be deceiving to be true in this case. Best regards.
#5 by Etienne Charland on November 20, 2012 - 11:26 pm
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Money is already solving the problem of extending service beyond physical reach, that’s not a problem that has to be solved. There are lots of misconceptions in the spiritual world about desires. If we look at the origin of the word, it comes from the latin ‘de sidere’ which means ‘from the divine’ or ‘from the stars’. A desire is a thought coming through seeking physical manifestation. That being said, some desires can also come from a dysfunctional part within you so it’s important to be able to make that distinction. Selling is actually a very importing phase of helping others. The only way you can truly help another person is by enrolling that person into a higher vision of himself, which will allow that exchange of value. It’s just that lots of people have many attachments, judgments and misconceptions around the very topics that bring power and freedom, which include sales, money and sexuality. That being said, since I shifted my business, I don’t have anything for sale on this website anymore and it is devoted to simply bringing value out. I do, however, sell higher levels of value to those in the inner circle.
#6 by Jos? Manuel on December 12, 2013 - 7:48 pm
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It seems I wasn’t the only one thinking about an Open Source-style society, there are people making that a reality already, hehe ๐
http://floksociety.org/