The Seven Laws of Money

I recall this book from a Whole Earth Catalogue, the summary here is enough I imagine, seems good stuff to me.

The Seven Laws of Money

THE SEVEN LAWS OF MONEY

The following laws were published in 1977 in ‘Seven laws of Money’ by Mike Phillips. Mike, a Bank of America banker, was instrumental in developing Master Charge.

1. Do it! Money will come when you are doing the right thing. The first law is the hardest for most people to accept and is the source of the most distress. The clearest translation of this in terms of personal advice is “go ahead and do what you want to do.” Worry about your ability to do it and competence to do it, but certainly do not worry about the money.

2. Money has its own rules: records, budgets, savings, borrowing. The rules of money are probably Ben Franklin-type rules, such as never squander it, don’t be a spendthrift, be very careful, you have to account for what you’re doing, you must keep track of it, and you can never ignore what happens to money.

3. Money is a dream – a fantasy as alluring as the Pied Piper. Money is very much a state of mind. It’s much like the states of consciousness that you see on an acid trip… It is fantasy in itself, purely a dream. People who go after it as though it were real and tangible, say a person who is trying to earn a hundred- thousand dollars, orient their lives and end up in such a way as to have been significantly changed simply to have reached that goal. They become part of that object and since the object is a dream ( a mirage) they become quite different from what they set out to be.

4. Money is a nightmare – in jail, robbery, fears of poverty. I am not expressing a moral judgment. I am making very clear something that many people aren’t conscious of: among the people we punish, the people we have to take out of society, 80% or more are people who are unable to deal with money. Money is also a nightmare when looked at from the opposite perspective – from the point of view of people who have inherited a lot of money. The western dream is to have a lot of money, and then you can lead a life of leisure and happiness. Nothing in my experience could be further from the truth.

5. You can never give money away. Looked at over a period of time, money flows in certain channels, like electricity through wires. The wires define the relationship, and the flow is the significant thing to look at. The fifth law of money suggests that by looking at the gift in a larger or longer-term perspective, we will see that it is part of a two-way flow.

6. You can never really receive money as a gift. Money is either borrowed or lent or possibly invested. It is never given or received without those concepts implicit in it. Giving money requires some payment; if it’s not repaid the nightmare elements enter into it. A gift of money is really a contract; it’s really a repayable loan, and it requires performance and an accounting of performance that is satisfactory to the giver.

7. There are worlds without money. They are the worlds of art, poetry, music, dance, sex, etc. the essentials of human life. The seventh law is like a star that is your guide. You know that you cannot live on the star; it is not physically a part of your life, but rather an aid to orientation. You are not going to reach this star, but in some sense neither are you going to reach your destination without it to guide you.

hcard and linking stuff

I am still mucking around with Microformats, Id do it on my Psyberspace blog but it is harder to fiddle there on WordPress.com (must change it over to my own server. some time)

Have added a hCard to the bottom of the sidebar in the main view.

Some software will show up what is there eg Operator, Firefox add-on.

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It is not nothing to do with art. Here is a hCard for example for Andy Warhol. It is part of wanting to make maps of connections between paintings, art networks as net artworks. So I am exploring these Microformats and FOAF and JSON all things Google are getting into.

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Making links between painting and so on is definitely art for me, and it is very psyber. I will be blogging and linking these discussions in the Psyberspace blog.

Andy Warhol
Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987

New York
U.S.A.

About – archival

This is the ABOUT page from maybe 15 years ago. I’m thinking of updating it substantially – so posting it here – Saturday, 27 January, 2018 but back dated to 2008

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In the Psyberspace blog my interest in psyche interacts with my interest in cyberspace. Here I reflect about the nature and development of psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and particularly psychotherapy online, the psychological nature of cyberspace, interaction online and many only obscurely related items.

Psyber

The category Psyber is the main one for this blog.

Journal

I write personal notes. Life story. I add them to the Journal category. While there is a central “psyber” theme to this blog, it is also my MAIN blog.

Whatever else I do I will keep tabs and tags on it here in psyberspace.

Other favourite categories

World – Occasionally I am moved to get political!

Movies

Books

Tech – anything geeky that is not particularly psychological.

Psyche – anything psychological that is not particularly cyber related

Art

My exploration of psyberspace took graphical turn in 2006-7 and I did a Thousand Sketches, a project I completed in one year. I now blog my art work at http://walterlogeman.com/art I show case my art work in an online Gallery.

Writing
I have been writing about psyberspace for years, and also about Psychodrama and other things. Storage onlineĀ  has got a bit messy over the years but I am working on making the Writing page on this blog the clearing house for all that I have online.

More about me here.

Brian Grimwood – illustrations – book & chat

I am back from the workshop and had a bit of a browse of the bookstore. The little “Coffee With… series caught my eye… because of the illustrations on the front. (Coffee with Michael Angelo, by James Hall, fun!)

book

On Amazon (click the image) you can see links to the others in the series, I particularly like the Mozart one, interesting use of colour. The artist is Brian Grimwood, I have just been exploring his website with delight. Ok, it is commercial art, but it is art. The image that follows is a good example of artistic exploration. I am in tune with that right now having been doing it solidly for three days. My hunch is that these illustrations are all digital, and he is a lovely digital sketcher!
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Paint, board and stuff…

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Acrylic paint, Gesso, and lots of MDB (Medium Density Board). I looked at a lot more than I bought, it is such a lolly shop out there. I hope this will enable me to mix all I need, at least for the weekend retreat. I then spent the rest of the day priming the boards, more to do tomorrow. The 500 ml of Gesso is almost gone, I’ll need more.

And, yes, that is my coffee.

Workshop Retreat on my mind…

I am getting ready for a painting retreat led by New Zealand artist Jane Zusters. Just as I am thinking of doing oils I think I will be doing acrylics at the retreat. Real media looming after all these digital images and work with the printer.

I am so “self taught” it is weird to go into a space where I will have a teacher. I am enjoying it so far, even though it is still four days away. What is useful is to get advice on materials, options, possibilities. I am going on another shopping spree tomorrow for media! What a blast.