John Cali

Here’s a question Joseph and I recently received:

Some of my relatives and friends have been spending beyond their means and have thus ended up with much credit card debt. What has gone wrong with their seeking of joy? It does seem that the seeking of joy still needs to be balanced with some self-restraint.

Chief Joseph

As we view humans from our perspective, it’s clear there are two main areas of your lives that can be the most fruitful, or the most devastating, for you on your personal paths of growth.

Those two areas are money and sex. You have many hangups with both. Today we’ll talk about your hangups with money.

Money is obviously a necessary part of your lives. You all need money to physically survive. Money provided by you or by someone else.

Money is simply energy, only that, nothing more.

Have you ever thought about what money really is?

Money is simply energy, only that, nothing more. Energy manifested in the form of lira, dollars, Euros, francs -- whatever form it takes.

Energy is limitless. Therefore, money is limitless. And, of course, all the other forms of abundance you want for yourselves are also limitless -- bursting good health, loving relationships, fulfilling work, and so on.

Friends, you live in an abundant universe. A universe overflowing with everything -- every thing -- you’ve always wanted for yourselves. Including money.

Yet your modern world’s perception of money is riddled with fear and lack. Fear that there is never enough. Your “authorities” -- your governments, teachers, religious leaders -- often promote this fear of lack. Or, as a friend of ours recently said, they promote fear-mongering.

You are experiencing a powerful manifestation of this fear today, with your food prices skyrocketing out of the reach of many.

And yet there is an abundance of food available, an abundance of money available to all of you today. But it is the fear of lack, the fear of there not being enough for everyone, that create the appearance -- and the experience -- of lack.

That’s a rather long-winded way of introducing our response to the original question about debt and the seeking of joy.

As we observe you from our perspective, it’s clear many of you take on debt because you do not trust in your own abilities to create the money you want. Taking on debt is often an easy way out. It’s easy to borrow money in your world today. It’s just as easy to create money for yourselves without debt. But you don’t believe that.