Bernard Lietaer - The Future of Money - Full Book

'A problem cannot be solved with the same type of thinking that created it.'

- Albert Einstien 'We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.' – Anais Nin Humanity and Planet Earth are at a cross-roads.

The next 20 years will either see an irretrievable loss of biodiversity and a deterioration of the quality of life for vast numbers of people, or we will have moved up the next evolutionary step. Given the remarkable motivation power of money, by changing the money system we can gently but surely tilt the direction towards which we are moving without having to completely re-educate or regulate the behaviour of billions of people. This book sketches a road map of how this could be achieved. It deals with money in the world outside us, describing money systems and their social effects.

However, there is still one other dimension to the money issue. To discover it, we need to journey into the imaginal world of money, the one residing inside our own heads. This other road map will provide a grasp of the collective emotions that operate around money. It integrates the 'right brain' symbols and myths active in our unconscious, where the unrelenting power of attraction of money finds its ultimate source.

It is unusual to connect these 'outside' and 'inside' world-views on any topic. To my knowledge, it is the first time that this is attempted for the topic of money. But closing the circle between the outside world and our inner worlds is nevertheless the richest route to our goal. This is the purpose of the book entitled The Mystery of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity.