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• Origin(s):
  • From Serving Money to Serving Life, A Sacred Story for Our Times [01:24:45] by David Korten
  • Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth by David Korten

Other References:

• Sacred Lilith: The UCCS Expression of "the Sacred Life and Living Earth Story"

POB Forum on utw_1-1: (A forum for expanding SOCIAL consensus on this subject through P.I.I.R.A. APPRAISAL)

MATURING BEYOND ACQUIESCENCE TO MONEY AND MARKETS AS AN INESCAPABLE NECESSITY TO A SACRED REGARD FOR ALL LIFE AND INTERDEPENDENT SYSTEMS OF LIVING AS THE COMMON NARRATIVE OF MEANINGFULNESS PURPOSE IN LIFE

Author David Korten describes the prevailing sense of meaningful contribution in the modern world as “The Sacred Money and Markets” narrative of scarcity subsistence in which Money is the measure of all worth and the source of most happiness. The market is omniscient and competing in it leads to the greatest success. Earth is exploitable as a source of raw materials. Inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain the guiding narrative until replaced by a more compelling story that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it. Korten offers “The Sacred Life and Living Earth” story as an alternative narrative that is grounded in a cosmology affirming that we are living beings born of a living Earth…itself born of a living universe, and our health and well-being depend on an economy that works in co-productive partnership with the processes by which Earth’s community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence—and the just living interests of all things.