Money – but one element of six to consider in Synergistic Accounting – Part 3.
Money and sex are two of the most taboo subjects in our society, which means that few people are willing to go deep into a conversation around their money, their worth, how much they do or do not have, how good they are with money, their earning capacity, money stories, money shame…spending habits…
Our relationship with money is pre-loaded with cultural conditioning, ancestral stories, parental overtones…plus our own relationship with our worth and value.
To form a clean, clear relationship with money may be a life’s work… and, in truth, it is exceedingly rare. People with great sums of money are usually as equally unreconciled as people with little.
Because we live in a society that reduces all value to the metric of money, money has been elevated to a god-like status. It is to the altar of money that leaders of business and industry bow in worship. Money has become the central organising principle of so much of our life, from politics to education to fame, worth, love… people stay in really bad relationships or really bad jobs because of money. We think a leader who has more money has somehow earned a greater right than someone with less money. We have allowed politics to be bought by the highest bidder. And we give those with money magical powers. They can avoid tax, make their own rules, and, to a large extent, live completely separate lives from those who do not have so very much.
Yet money is only an exchange of value, and not value itself. We have been literally worshipping an illusory God.
Because of my own personal commitment to my own wholeness, and because I have had such a troubled relationship with money, I set out to understand money and my relationship to it. This journey has taken a concentrated 27-plus years. You can read my ideas on money in the 5 part series, here and on debt, here.
Using the powerful tool of Synergistic Accounting, we do consider money, but only as one dimension of six.
Money is great. It is useful, it is required. But it is not the whole story.
Synergistic Accounting in its application teaches us that there are rich ‘other’ dimensions of value. And that often when we think we need more money, the truth is we do not. What we need is right there, existing in other dimensions of value, often completely unrecognised because we have been so highly conditioned to only see money.
When we do the Synergistic Accounting audit for money, we include all forms of money. Cash, debt, bonds, contracts, trade credits, futures, equity.
And we do this in the two expressions. What you have to give and what you expect to receive.
To read Part 2. What is matter?
Money – but one element of six to consider in Synergistic Accounting – Part 3.
Knowledge and the pain of being discounted for your knowledge – Synergistic Accounting Part 4.
Tools and Artefacts – Synergistic Accounting Part 5.
Why value Warm Data? – inviting our humanity back to the table. Synergistic Accounting Part 6.
Well being – evidence of systems and humanity working – Synergistic Accounting Part 7
Deploying Synergistic Accounting – Part 8
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