Whats going on and what to do

[Buruso]

hey sorry guys for repeating Whitecrows post,
I got too excited
Cheers

[JoyAnna]

The full text of the book from which this is excerpted can be found at:
http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/text.php
Payment for the download is optional.

[Emman]

Buruso,

This essay really resonates with me. I googled the author Charles Eisenstein and found his website: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/text.php

I feel that this is really where we ultimately need to go. I am a small business owner for the last 10 years. Over the last 18 months I have been feeling a pull away from doing the normal way of business. Up until early this year I was receiving some business coaching and participating in small business owner roundtables that focused on profit buidling. I have been sensing that what is coming in terms of a paradigm shift will change the ways we fundamentally do business. I discontinued participating in these business seminars and coaching. Not bad stuff. I just wasn't into it anymore. My focus went to my children and spending as much time with them that I can. I am a professional musician. I focused on practicing my craft as a bassist. I devoted time to practicing, which I wasn't doing much at all when I was hustling for gigs and bookings. It's a trade off. My business is an entertainment agency. I still run my business because I have to keep cash coming in, but I am not feeling into the hustling part lately. The sales and marketing hustle that is. My feeling in participating in these business seminars was that these traditional methods of doing business seemed hollow. I was feeling a disconnect. I was feeling a sense that what is coming will change how we do business in a radical way. I didn't and don't know what exactly.

When I saw Marcia Shafer's video interview on Camelot, I looked her up and made an appointment to talk to her about what I was feeling. If you saw Ms. Shafer you know that she has a different take on business consulting. She is an ET contactee and intuitive. I had a 90 minute phone consultation session with her. I wanted to get a grasp about what I was feeling and how I can adapt to the coming changes in our world in terms of business. It was interesting. The session for me is another step in discovery and learning.

This essay really made sense to me. It is not about how to commoditize my services and find a way to make money off of what I offer. The gift concept is what it is about. The indigenous native Americans do not have a concept for ownership of property, air, land, and water. The so-called civilized western world has done what it could to eradicate these people and their concepts. Genocide. We are shifting back towards truth. The question as the author of the essay says is not what do we do to prepare for this collapse, but, rather, what beautiful thing can we do? I love that. As a musician/artist it has always been a challenge to try to convert my services into a market value. I learned how to do it. I am a fulltime working musician with emphasis on "working". Most musicians never understand how to do the business part. Sales didn't come naturally to me, but I learned it in order to do what I love to do fulltime. My day gig is booking gigs that I play on. But, the hustle gets tiring. I know that there is a better way. A way based upon spiritual truth and not upon the commodifiying of everything in order to make it a product to sell. In the system as is now, if it isn't tagged with a price, it isn't worthy. That's backwards and upside down. Time to right everything forward and right side up.

Thanks.