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Walking Within Wisdom #14 September 2, 2019

“Money does nothing, PEOPLE do EVERYTHING!” ~Michael Tellinger, Ubuntu Contributionism

Last week I walked a total of 32.96 miles and swam 7,500 meters (a slow week for me) AND BOY did I learn a TON!!! Overall I think this walking thing is working ;-)

So although I was not walking during this wisdom presentation yesterday, this subject and work is NEVER far from my mind… Instead of Walking Within Wisdom I may have to re-title this particular segment DRIVING LONG DISTANCES WITHIN WISDOM as it took me two and a half hours (I would have driven further btw) to get from Denver to Pueblo (Colorado) to listen to my dear friend Rebecca Gretz present about “Ubuntu Contributionism: A New (NON)Economic Paradigm”

Some of you may know that I have been spending a good deal of time in Walsenburg Colorado. My work there is based on the ideas/values of Ubuntu and contributionism and last year we purchased an 1898 School House (pictured here), started growing food, chickens and started collaborating with the community to lay the groundwork for this new paradigm.

If I haven’t talked your ear off about this work and would like to know a bit more please see this short video that talks about the movementhttp://bit.ly/onesmalltown

There have been ups and MANY downs in the past year and despite all of that we are still working on it!

Although we tried to record Rebecca’s presentation, sadly it didn't work out that way. So I am going to do my best to recap Rebecca’s wisdom with some of her slides and images...

Rebecca started off with a question:

Are you happy with the way the world is now?

There was all sorts of feedback from the audience, for the most part, the answer was a resounding no…

Rebecca went on to describe…

IMAGINE… •a world without the need for money. •a world where you do what you love to do everyday. •a world in which everyone uses their natural talents and acquired skills for the benefit of all in the community. •a world where there are no boundaries to progress in any area including energy, healthcare, science and the arts. •a world without strife, famine, war, and disease. That is UBUNTU CONTRIBUTIONISM!

The next question… Why imagine a world without MONEY?

WELL…

•Money is an artificial framework-an intermediary that comes between people and the resources they need to survive •Money, or the lack thereof, causes stress, depression, anxiety and sickness for individuals and families. •Money is used to destroy the environment and deplete planet resources •Money is used as a tool to enslave the masses. •Jobs, often, do not match the talents and interests of the people •The need for money puts a barrier between people’s desire to pursue their passions and the means for survival (i.e. starving artist) •The need for money interferes with people’s access to resources to achieve their goals (i.e. business, education, healthcare, charities, research)

These ideas are far from new, new age or just coming from crazy people like me. Buckminster Fuller was talking about these ideas 50 years ago, in 1970 Fuller said,

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” R. Buckminster Fuller

So you probably want to know, what is UBUNTU? Ubuntu is a word from South Africa meaning: I am who I am because of who we ALL are. Basically the most collaborative word on the planet...

A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good. They have self-assurance that comes from knowing that they belong to a greater whole. They are diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, or when others are tortured or oppressed.

Rebecca then showed this image of beautiful children in a circle and told the story of an Anthropologist in Africa...

An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: “UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?”

THIS IS THE WORLD I CHOOSE TO LIVE IN…

SO what is Ubuntu contributionism you may ask???

IT IS:

•A blueprint for a new social structure envisioned by Michael Tellinger. •It is an actual “plan of action” that outlines the steps necessary to achieve abundance for all.

Michael (and we all) ask that you keep an open mind .... These concepts are foreign to most of us who have been raised in a capitalistic, oligarchic society...

In his blueprint Michael even outlined a five point mantra

1. No money 2. No barter 3. No trade 4. No value attached 5. Everyone contributes their natural talents and acquired skills for the greater benefit of everyone in the community

So you may wonder why no barter and trade… Barter and trade continues the system that something has more (or less) value than something else and thus just replacing money with things. This also goes for using a different form of currency like bitcoin.

I also want to insert here, please don’t misunderstand, we are not all Pollyanna (well maybe I am) we understand we will need to continue to need money, barter and trade as a bridge as we are literally building the wings of the plane just before we take off… These ideas and movement takes time.

Rebecca Gretz went on to talk about Ubuntu basics, some of the work we have (and haven’t yet) been doing in Walsenburg. What kinds of talents and skills we are looking for in this first phase and:

We want to invite all inventors, healers, scientists, artists, food growers, etc, to our community–without funding limitations or need for profit, they will come up with new cures, technologies, etc. Other cities and towns will want to establish this for themselves when they see how successful our community is. It will be a domino effect that changes the world…

She then concluded with a quote from the former Former National Coordinator for Ubuntu USA

“We can no longer wait for the systems that enslave us to save us.We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, and the time is now.” ~Starr MacKinnon, PhD,

OF COURSE there was much much more here, my Ubuntu brothers added to the wonderful conversation and I even talked about how I got involved. I would be happy to talk to anyone who would like to know more AND

If you would like to learn more:

https://ubuntuplanet.org/

i learned Ubuntu constitutionalism existed from (now defunct “evolvefest” page on Facebook) there  countless inter sectional feminism pages that seem to support communism,

but none of them seems to had ever posted about it

The book:

ISBN-10: 1920153128

There is a universal system called contributionism and a little unknown, but very real and prevalent force in your life called Natural Law.

Without getting too much into the metaphysics of this system lets just say that it is the only system that can support every single person on this planet. And not just every person but every single life form that shares this planet with us. What it is, down to the bare bones, is a system that recognizes each human being for exactly what they are; a person with the same needs and wants as you. It is a system where human beings recognize that each person has a divinity inside of them as they all come from the same source, call it God if you will. Therefore, human beings would work together for the greater good of other humans. Each human would have unrestricted access to clean food and water (and the water today is not all that clean, even in America, and even for the ones paying for it.), clothing, shelter, education of the highest caliber, spiritual growth of the highest caliber, safety from mental and physical harm and FREE ENERGY...the very thing that They are so desperately trying to control.

You see, having "cool shit" doesn't matter because nothing is new under the sun. Everything that we have today has been done before, every thought has been thought before, every technology we have today is nothing new. "The Fall of Man" spoken of in religious texts is a very real phenomena because we fell to where we are today. Mostly every person in the world is under a shroud of darkness and as a result, the masses are easily controlled because we have forgotten just what we are. This is the world they've created by using the fallacy of money, jobs, universities and colleges, authority and government, rich and poor, and the list goes on.

Money is a fairly new idea in history but the history textbooks in school will tell you otherwise because the very people who've designed this money racketeering system also own the companies that supply the schools all across north America their educational textbooks. If you care enough, I can pm you some books to read to find that information. (on my iPad right now, so I don't have shit on me)

The very inception of it was designed so that certain people control it all. I mean, where do you think it came from? Nature? No. Someone is making it and issuing it and tied it together with the illusion of government and authority. The gap between the rich and the poor is the exact type of thinking they want to keep you arguing about while they know that in nature, there is no such thing as rich and poor because every person is created from the same source and real wealth is the knowledge you possess inside of you. Not MONEY.

I recently came across a video of Michael Tellinger (Researcher & Archaeologist) explaining the origins of money and how it was a way to enslave humanity. You will be surprised to realize that 99% of the world’s problems are due to money. War, Poverty, Crimes, Mental Diseases, Broken Families, the Division between our fellow human beings, & many more.. Many people are already familiar with the “Illuminati” which consist of the wealthy royal banking families that control the money supply, which in turn, control us. It is obvious that the system is fundamentally flawed and is not sustainable for very much longer on a planet with a rapidly rising consciousness. Many different political ideologies have been created to try to make sense of the broken system we live in, some being Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Anarchism, Capitalism, and many others. It doesn’t matter which one of these you follow, because they all include one thing that will not allow it to work... MONEY! And this is where Michael Tellinger has a solution to save humanity and restore things to their natural order. 

UBUNTU CONTRIBUTIONISM

Watch this video to learn more about it, and share it so it becomes a movement!