
In preparation for the artistic retreat I attended last weekend, my mentor had the entire individuals learn The Soul of Cash: Reclaiming the Wealth of our Interior Assets by Lynne Twist. Ms. Twist, a very long time fundraiser and activist for The Starvation Project who has labored intently with a few of the most resource rich and resource poor individuals and communities on the planet, places forth some revolutionary ideas about our capability to experience abundance irrespective of the place we’re in the world and what our access to money is like. She actually challenges us to let go of the money myths which have grow to be the foundations of our Western capitalist culture (“there isn’t enough to go round so stockpile as a lot as you may for you and yours”) and change them with a liberating, and historical, fantasy of abundance (“there’s sufficient for all of us”).…