Work and money are closely tied together. But there are also activities called work that are not compensated with money. And there are artists, musicians, or performers who mainly focus on creativity, sometimes on idleness. Those people might have one short creative moment sufficient to provide the financial means to then again use the remaining time to regain their creativity.
Many people cannot imagine a life without work. Once they retire, they may fall into a sort of limbo if their entire purpose in life was primarily aimed at work.
Work can be considered from many different angles. There is not just one
truth about it, but the manipulative programming quite often keeps us in the
system of being drudges. But not everything is enslavement. For some people
there is also self-realization found and lived in work. Nevertheless, the
programming more often lets work be a necessary evil to finance the remaining
time, thus to be at least free and have fun in the spare time.
It is good if work is fun, makes sense and is used to realize one's full potential.
My idea is to drop the compulsion of having to work by making a basic provision for everyone available. If that is given, then people can either spend their time performing activities with payment just in case more money is needed, or people spend their time on activities without payment in case they are happy with what they have got.
I would like to look forward to having a system where I can carry out the activities in my life in such a way as they fit best to my natural rhythm. I would like to go with the flow of life and to listen to my inner voice directing me to the things necessary to be done at that time.
In times of idleness, I would just want to BE and in times of activity, I would like to BECOME, thus always listen to my inner guidance. From my experience, things can be done easily when they are in harmony with our rhythm. It is easy if we are ready for something instead of forcing ourselves while we are not yet having the right moment.
Once we are in the flow, things do come about of their own accord. I would like to follow my inner calling. Therefore I cannot be employed in a job that prevents me from going with the flow.
One could argue now, if we go with the flow, then the necessary money will be available also. Basically that is right. Only there is some programming in the system making it rather difficult to overcome the image of being the toiling worker. It is our duty to keep the system running. Where would we get if nobody works anymore?
To avoid that nobody works anymore we have anchored some believes and patterns in our society besides money.
Examples:
These are believes and patterns keeping the system running.
But somehow, most people want to break free from this pattern. How do we do this? We think, owning a lot of money will get us there, because then we are free to do anything we like. If we are in the mood, then we work, if not, we might spend our time e.g. travelling, doing arts, sports, or party … or whatsoever. And this is how it should be for everyone.
But our system is constructed in a way that only few people can live like that. People further on top in the pyramid profit from the people below. Not money works for them, there are always people doing the work.
Anyway, there are the rich unemployed people and the poor unemployed people. Both groups profit from the fact that other people do the work for them. We tend to rather wanting to belong to the rich unemployed group to overcome the compulsion of being forced to work. Those are the ones who are accepted, we look up to them. They made it. They are great. At least we are programmed to think that way without considering them to possibly be living at the expenses of others.
Within the system there is space for a few rich unemployed people only. The rest, the majority of the people, is forced to perform activities to create money, this is usually called work.
Of course it is helpful to own a lot of money to escape the working compulsion. Nevertheless thinking that money alone liberates might be elusive. As long as we depend on it, we are not free.
Liberation comes along with detachment from money. I am free only if it makes no difference to me whether I owe money or not. The trouble is we have to make a living somehow and that is the deceit. That is how the system forces us to play by its rules, usually to work.
But what we truly want is to be independent of the compulsion that forces us to work in a way that is not in unison with our inner being. Many of us want to perform activities which contribute to the wellbeing of everyone. It is the system that prevents us from doing this freely and with joy.
Of course there already are people doing their work enthusiastically and joyfully, finding deep meaning in it. Those people exist, but they are few from my experience.
Up to the moment writing this I had not found a solution for my own work life, except the desire to be independent, to follow my vocation and go with the flow of life. I will allow for surprises and just stay open for all the good things that want to show up.
Sometimes money is no obstacle but a pointer like any other circumstances guiding us in one or the other direction. Maybe we need to run out of money to find creative solutions leading us to an even better job, one we might not even have dreamt of. Anything is possible.
It would be great to see not only some individuals following their vocation but instead everyone having the opportunity to do so by changing the system. There are many suggestions, only right now those are mostly ridiculed or simply not considered. Many of us are harnessed in the daily treadmill leaving no room for alternatives, not even to dream about something different.
Maybe we can simply begin to imagine a world where work serves the people's welfare, and is of benefit to the public, and respects and esteems our wonderful planet. Once we start imagining a world full of abundance for everyone, harmony with nature and all living beings, then we might be able to change the system. Consciousness creates reality, the collective consciousness creates reality. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." (Mahatma Gandhi).
After writing this it happened that I watched a TV show about unconditional basic income. It surprised me how much this subject had already been discussed, particularly in Switzerland. I was also amazed watching such a positive attitude towards it on TV. I had expected it to be banned because somehow it endangers the existence of the enslaving system.
(Note 2016: The basic income might as well be used in order to strengthen the enslavement instead of releasing it, because we then totally depend on the system instead of being autarkic. Maybe this is an apparent solution supported by the system: On the surface it sounds wonderful but if one has a closer look it may as well lead into dependency again depending on how it is realized.)
Anyway, fate delivered a wonderful approach on how to life my own philosophy without having to worry about making enough money for the basic needs all the time. By having a basic income for everyone, one gains more degrees of freedom to create life the way we want it to be which would lead to a complete change of our professional life.
When can such a change be expected? Well, the TV show mentioned the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nobody considered it to be possible in our lifetime at all and suddenly it had just happened.
Thus, we are not necessarily talking about an illusion never to be achieved within our lifetime. Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, anything is possible. Everything was impossible until somebody did it.
The idea behind the basic income is that people are then able to life their lives freely and thus being many times more productive than it is the case with pressure, compulsion and fear.
Humans are seeking for fulfillment, they want to realize themselves. Basically they are more like Human Doings rather than Human Beings. Well, by having an unconditional basic income for every one we might then regain the opportunity of becoming a Human Being again and live up to our full creative potential.
Where are all the writers, thinkers, and inventors of our country? Many of them go through the day like a hamster in a wheel having no time to write, think or invent. Only few succeed in getting along with making a living on the one hand and fully living their creativity on the other.
Many people are afraid of change. We rather stick to the habitual, even if it is a hamster's wheel, because we do not know what to expect without the hamster's wheel.
Indeed, we do not know, but we will never find out, if we do not try something new. It is not something that will necessarily happen overnight, it can be a process. Some people might begin and the advantages become visible for everybody.
The world is about to change big time, we cannot deny this. We need to render different energy sources, preferably freely available, at the latest when the restricted resources are exhausted. This alone will shake the very foundations of this world. Let us get ready for the change. Are we going to change voluntarily, or do we need a catastrophe forcing us to do so? We will see. Maybe a little bit of both.
The unconditional basic income is an idea that might help to carry out the change. The professional life will change drastically: Many current jobs will be obsolete. The basic income might be of great support in taking fear of the rebuilding phase away from the people.
Once we stop worrying about our basic needs, then we are ready for change.
What prevents the change right now is a system leading us to believe that
we cannot survive without our current jobs. That is exactly what prevents
progress.
What might such a change be like?
The value of a person is then independent of the value of his or her working power. We are then independent of other people's assessment or judgment. Self-esteem is then based on our core being. Our value is not derived from our monetary performance which is mainly used to keep a system running that suppresses and exploits us. A system that serves only a few people while abusing the masses.
In election campaigns we are quite often told that we do have the right to work, employment, and education. But I deliberately waive those rights if this work leads to exploitation or if this education stops me from thinking independently and freely. I demand human dignity and the right to just be. That is why I was born, to be. We are born to just be, that is it.
The other day I read an article on what dying people regret most of all. One of the things was having worked too much and too hard, having been captured in the hamster's wheel, or not having had enough time for the things that really matter in life. With men this was often the lacking time for their children. Is this not something we should be concerned about?
Do we want to fret about all the missed opportunities at the end of our lives, although they were there only we did not see them? Nothing is impossible, it is up to us. We are able to change reality, we are able to escape. We do have a choice, instead of regretting anything once it is too late.
According to that article many dying people also deplore not having lived their dreams. How come so many people feel like that at the end of their lives? Could it be that false believes prevent us from realizing our dreams? It is not the world outside which puts us into prison, it is our thinking, or rather what we were told to think and believe. Let us become aware of this and let us create opportunities, energetic fields allowing us to live our dreams.
Since we are creative beings, we are here to be exactly this and to live exactly this, our creativity and our creative strength, because we are divine beings with infinite creative power, unfortunately, currently vanishing in slavery and serving only those few who profit from it.
Not to imagine, what a wonderful world we could create if we steered our positive, creative strength in projects which served the welfare of the people, which served the welfare of this planet and all living beings.
Suppose that all the negativity disappears and instead of binding our energy by being furious, annoyed or condemn others, we rather spend our time in joyfully and happily letting our energy flow into anything life wants us to experience. No, we cannot allow that to happen, it would be awful. We need negativity like a drug. Let us be clear, it is a drug. We do not really need it but we are addicted to it. Drugs make us believe we need them but maybe we can begin to let go.
Or maybe we still need it, because a little bit of anger can be a motivation
for people to finally leaving their comfort zone and say: "Enough,
stop it. I won't allow being bullied around any longer. I now claim my rights."
Let us use the negativity constructively as an impulse for changing it into
positivity, into creativity and into transformation. Let us get back to our
own strength, which when used positively, has nothing to do with violence,
but with assertiveness and to be who we truly are.
July 2016: Additional note on unconditional basic income
Meanwhile I am rather sceptic about a basic income for everyone, because by
having it, we step out of our self-empowerment and thus might even be more
unfree than before. Maybe it is comparable with a bird living in a cage getting
its food daily. The bird needs nothing to do or worry about and is free to
sing all day. However, the bird will never fly. If it wants to fly then it
has to escape the cage and search for worms on its own. Depending on the experience
the animal's consciousness would like to have, it chooses either form accordingly.
Anyway, we always have to watch out on how to get the things we need in order to survive. Even if we are living in the wilderness we have to find shelter and food. Well, within any form of society we need to figure out how to fulfill our basic needs.