Speaking at TEDx Paris 2011
Speaking at TEDx Paris has been a challenge for me. How is it possible to share the free currencies vision in 12 minutes? TED even asks for much more. It’s not just about concepts and views, we have to allow emotional intelligence, balance the right and left brain, share about the personal journey… Whatever the outcome would be, this was a wonderful invitation to grow, refine my expression, help me find unknown paths inside myself. An initiatory journey that I took joyfully, surrounded and coached by the wonderful founders of TEDx Paris. Their feedback was always accurate and benevolent. I had to carefully select what I should say and not say. Each milestone in the discourse had to be timed and carefully weighted, while not being spoken by heart, but...
Read MoreStanding up for free currencies
For the past 2 years I have been doing lot’s of workshops, retreats, keynotes, radio & newspaper interviews about the evolution of money towards free currencies, and the shift our human species is making from pyramidal collective intelligence to global collective intelligence. Last September 2009 I took the Vow of Wealth. Since then I have walked, step by step, towards the concrete application of the Vow. Last May I gave up my house that was hooking me to a monthly rent in hard money. Now I am a happy nomad. My bank account is not closed yet, but I don’t use it since Sept. 30. It will be closed in the next coming weeks. I will continue to use conventional money in cash form for my personal life until I become fully sustainable and wealthy (in the...
Read MoreFrom the Meatrix to the Moneytrix
I am now reaching the last part of my long 6 weeks trip in the West cost of the US. First week was Burning Man, second week was Boulder, Colorado (that was also burning due to forest fires), then the Bay Area (Sept. 14-30), then L.A. Here is a quick report of how the situation is evolving. I had 2 meetings with Louis Fox, founder of Free Range studios, and creator of worldwide viral hits such as the Meatrix and Story of Stuff. Louis is combining an ultra-creative mind grounded by an extreme pragmatism about how human psyche works, and elevated by a deep spiritual practice. Louis is quite excited about free currencies and about building a piece that can help humanity move to the right currency system. During our meeting he has already voiced many ideas that will...
Read MoreFrom owning to flowing
Our consumer society has built an ideology of accumulation. This is triggered by the scarce monetary system. Rather than sharing the stuff we need, we accumulate it in our basements, garages and backyards. Skis, furniture, toys, lawnmowers, tools, washing machines, books (ah, books!), DVDs, carpets, dishes, clothes… This stuff doesn’t circulate, nor it is shared. It piles up in every house. How would the consumer’s economy be if we didn’t have to reproduce the same artifact a zillion times? How would it be if we shared? How would it be if everything became a flow? Today we unconsciously perceive ourselves as endpoints, as final destinations of whatever object or service the world creates if we need it, just like little children at early...
Read MoreFree currencies: an evening talk with Barbara-Marx Hubbard
This retreat week with Barbara Marx-Hubbard is a blossoming of ideas, visions, insights, states of consciousness. We gave ourselves enough time to cover many topics. This video is a short excerpt of our conversation on free currencies. It is also a wonderful journey shared with Dino Bendiab, who is making the movie. Our collaboration and complicity, his patience and boldness, his wisdom and insights provide quite a container for expression. Immediate expression for Barbara and I, and creative expression through the movie he is going to make out of this journey. It is a blessing for me to see these first footages and excerpts, not just because of the images themselves, but because they come from everyone’s right placement, joy and creativity. This is pure...
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