Principles of True Economy

April 2020 • Revised: 20 September 2026

The first version of this article was written at the start of the Covid pandemic. Since then, the notion of humanity’s Great Transition has become increasingly real. There is a rising impulse in humanity to create new systems, including economic systems, that work for all. Many people I know have been receiving visions in meditation with a new level of clarity, and these “downloads” offer clues that can help us to navigate these turbulent times.

Here are two of the powerful questions that I have been meditating on:

• What is a true economy and what are its principles?
• What is money and how does it support a true economy?

Our answers to these questions, and our often-unconscious beliefs about money and economy, greatly influence how we relate to one another and to life. The time is right to reconsider our foundational assumptions, definitions, and beliefs about value and how society is organized. The next few years are a golden opportunity to source different answers to the above questions by listening to the wisdom that exists within us. The responses we receive can provide a roadmap for thriving in a transitioning world. As we listen deeply and upgrade our notions of money and economy, we can co-create new economic and governance models that are better suited for life in the 21st century and beyond.

What follows is a set of interconnected understandings that came to me as I sat in silence and invited the fully awakened version of humanity to be revealed through the lens of economy and money.

What Is a True Economy?

The most successful economy is an awakened economy, in which businesses and individuals interact with high levels of consciousness and love in ways that support the wellbeing of every being. One possible name for such an economy is “true economy.” When I contemplate the nature of a true economy, I see and feel that it has certain characteristics:

• Activities that benefit all and harm none are naturally supported.
• People and communities have immense freedom to develop their creativity.
• Human communities and ecosystems are uplifted and illumined by economic activity.
• Businesses prosper without compromising the web of life.
• Everyone is supported in realizing true nature.

12 Principles of True Economy

In addition to the characteristics of a true economy, I sourced 12 principles for co-creating such an economy:

1. Anchor Assets: The foundation of economy for each community, and each bioregion, is the health of its ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems attract and sustain life.

2. Leveling Out: A true economy keeps value flowing; eliminates imbalances, including unhealthy inequalities; and ensures that everyone’s basic needs are met ongoingly.

3. Generosity: The participants in a true economy regularly give more of themselves than the minimum because it feels good and right to do so. This quality of interacting increases the wellbeing of all.

4. Value Yourself: When you appreciate your own infinite value within the web of life, you can more readily appreciate the value of others and the value of their contributions.

5. Do What You Love: In a healthy ecosystem, there is abundant energy available to create everything required by doing what you love to do and sharing the results.

6. Life = Value = Life: Life is the apex of value and life experiences are a primary form of value. There are countless forms of life-aligned value, and they all contribute to enhancing the quality of life.

7. Measure Health: By continually tracking and improving the health of individuals and communities, inclusive of nature as well as people, it is possible to incentivize human activities that increase true wealth.

8. Money Spirals: The circulation of money through webs of reciprocity and beneficial exchange stimulates people’s creativity, adds life energy to the economy, and lifts everyone in an upward expanding spiral.

9. Cultivate Wealth (in a deep sense): Grow and nurture assets, intentionally, that gain value as the wellbeing of people and nature increases. Harvest the wealth consciously, distribute it fairly, make adjustments, and repeat the cycle.

10. Protect People and Ecosystems: Cultivate and conserve the upward spiral of healthy interactions between humans and nature. Be vigilant for unhealthy behaviors and tendencies, and prune what cannot be aligned.

11. Mutually Assured Thriving: The structures of a true economy strongly favor activities and interactions that benefit all and cause no harm. The thriving of one requires the thriving of all, and a healthy whole requires healthy individuals.

12. Infinite Bottom Line: A true economy aligns with all of life, creates value for all of life, and enhances wellbeing for all of life, in all domains of life, including for humans, human and nature communities, Earth as a whole, and beyond.

The Fully Realized True Economy

In the fully enlightened true economy, the Whole is always harmonizing optimally with the Whole and there is no need for accounting. From the individual perspective, this is expressed as radical sourcing and sharing. When individuals and collectives are sourcing at all times, there is the experience of always following the yes, of always and only giving when it is a yes to do so, and of always and only receiving when it is a yes to do so. From this field of co-sourcing, an enlightened planetary civilization is born.

What Is Money, and How Does It Support a True Economy?

In response to the question “What is money, and how does it support a true economy?”, the following points emerged:

1. Money is the manifestation and presence of Love. To view money otherwise is to misunderstand and misuse money.
2. A true money system is an expression of the ultimate interrelatedness, which is oneness.
3. Money is an unbreakable agreement amongst all beings to care for one another and the whole of life. If this seems not to be the case, then we are inhabiting an unreality that is not actually happening.
4. The nature of money is unenclosable. Money always finds ways around borders and other limitations.
5. Money streams unlimited creative energy into the world. Such streams can be directed and shaped by individuals and collectives to the extent that they are awake and sourcing. (When it is recognized scientifically that new energy comes into the universe via awakened living systems sourcing from the roots of being, this discovery will redefine cosmology and thermodynamics.)
6. Money is relational. Money connects and weaves individuals, collectives, the planet, and all of life.