Money as a sacred form of life energy

1.  Money is a form of life energy.

2.  Money does not belong to us.  It belongs to life's caring for life, evolution and wholeness, and to that part of us that is that.

3.  We are the stewards of money's life energy as it passes through our life-space.

4.  We may use money to sustain our aliveness (as Gandhi would say, to a point of enoughness), to make our caring real in the world, to serve our evolution and wholeness, and to help it move on to serve other life-realms.

5.  Money's primary purpose is to sustain and increase our ability to serve the whole.

6.  In this, money is sacred.  And so there are forms of sacrilege, sin, falling short associated with money, including: 

• seeking money for its own sake, which profanes it
• equating it with value, especially one's own value, which ties it to ego
• accumulating and holding money that could otherwise be serving its life-enhancing functions
• using money that could have been used to serve life-enhancing functions, instead on self-aggrandisement or self-pleasures, especially those that are casual or not deeply life-enhancing
• the presence of great financial wealth (more-than-enoughness) in the presence of great poverty (not-enoughness)

7.  Money can be taken as an evolutionary spiritual practice, connecting us to the healthy unfolding of life within and around us, freeing us from ego and materialism, and calling forth our expanding compassion and creativity on behalf of the whole. 

8.  Part of this evolutionary spiritual practice is noticing when we sin (fall short) in how we deal with money (our own, others', society's) and noticing the ways that degrades not only money, but ourselves -- for example, taking us from our center, our compassion and our creativity into the traps of ego and materialism.