Truthority book outline… chapters 6 and 7
6
The concept of wealth is much more than just about money. Wealth is a spiritual concept and can be quantified in various ways. Someone with a lot of money can still be extremely poor. And vice versa.
So what does it take to build true wealth, inner and outer and every other way possible? You must look at the world without filters. See what is actually happening. Understand how things work. Gaining general idea of things is a good start. This enables you to predict future events with higher probability which you can then manipulate and influence to your advantage.
The humanimal (that’s you Tarza/Jane) is a master manipulator. This is your greatest tool. You create your own reality instead being a slave to your emotions. If you didn’t have this tool, you wouldn’t survive because your other facets are just pathetically weak compared to the rest of your animal friends.
Not only is it crucial to understand external events (history, science, philosophy, etc), you must also become an inner explorer. And most importantly to find the place where the inner and outer converge so that there is no longer neither.
You will learn about this more as you read this book as all of the areas mentioned earlier actually talk about the same thing, just from different perspectives. This will be a recurring theme throughout this book and underlies this new concept of Truthority.
7
But lets get back to money and what it really is. You have noticed how this society revolves around money. They say it is the bloodline of human life in modern times. The more you have it, the more control you have of how to spend your 24/7/365.
Time is the great equalizer. You cannot control it but you can leverage it. So the real purpose of money or what many call “financial freedom” is to buy more time and control of the time we have.
How does one buy more time? By getting other people to do things that you would have to otherwise do, thus enabling you to do something else or do the same thing more effectively. Or you can use technology which is really just an extension of your own innate capabilities.
If you DON’T have any money you have to go out and do everything yourself, completely naked and with just your nails, teeth and the rest of your physical body or creativity. You will quickly either give up and starve or you will figure out how to use tools to help you. To get food and keep warm and stay out of trouble. Without knowledge, you are pretty much in the dark. Maybe you’ll be a lucky mutation and find a way.
Eventually you create and create as you learn and teach others if you are fortunate enough to come across them, assuming you’ve been ostracized from your tribe because you were just too different for them.
So you find someone who is attracted to your differences and start a new tribe. Adam and Eve. Maybe both. Anyways, you follow your lizard instincts, impregnate Eve and pretty soon you have a flock of worshippers around you. You did create them after all.
Now you have more help. More people impregnate each other and word gets around that some are better at doing some things than others. Some express abhorrent behaviors that are not aligned with yours and your tribe’s needs so you either sort them out or kick them out! Maybe they are too different from you and you felt your authority challenged. You were scared to end up back in the jungle, running around naked without a clue how you will make it through the night.
And so the story of humanity and all life on earth unfolds. Things get invented. Systems of survival arise. Money is just one of them. Fire is another. Remember no other animal needs our inventions to survive (or at least the ones that came before us and because of us). And throughout time we have been domesticated and indoctrinated into a certain way of life that it’s pretty much impossible to live without those inventions. Good luck if you wanna try.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to live without money or fire but within a certain system, certain technology is necessary which defines that system. We don’t need fire anymore but before the advent of modern heating technologies, you would die without fire especially if you lived in a colder climate.
But that is just one example. To live in a system without money, you would have to create an entirely new kind of system that no longer depends on it (there are actually some pretty interesting theories out there about what kind of system that could be). Right now we need money to be free within THIS system. And that is very important to acknowledge. Perhaps the best way to change any system is to first gain freedom and power within the confines of the operating rules. Then once your settled in your castle, you can bring everyone else up to speed and figure out how to make things even better (in other words, eradicate poverty and share your wealth).
You struggle with money because you haven’t seen the big picture of wealth. Of creating your own reality and seeing that you share that reality with everyone else who is also creating their realities. All these realities bleed into one and this goes far beyond just humanimals living with one another.
Don’t get lost in the daydreams of convention unless you are living in paradise. And if you truly were living there you take precautionary steps to ensure that nobody comes along to threaten your bliss. You remove the threats or accept them. You look through the fragility of existence like you would at a beautiful mirror. You see yourself and then decide to smash it with a rock to see what happens.
Blood everywhere. Paradise is lost.
What now?