Into the Light

On the other side of our tent flap is a changed world, different from one we knew before. 

What spirituality lies within the pulling back of the flap, the act of boldly striding into an unknown future, of stepping into the light and asking for the truth of what is? 

Is it an act of self love, a place where there is only our intension and the question of whether our actions are consistent?  A place of no right or wrong, only one of what can I learn, how can I grow and how can I making a contribution?

Stepping into community eager to do our part, we seek the answer to our first question, are all souls present and accounted for?  Our eyes squint from the light. 

Stepping into the financial light of our future we ask;

What is Money?

What an obscure question.  In this age, that question has no place. 

In these days of wired and wireless communication, electronic bits moving through out the world at tremendous speeds, our bank account balance an electronic display on a screen or piece of paper, that question becomes barbaric. 

We are in the modern world, the 1^st world; we don’t have time to ponder such ridiculous and unnecessary questions.   Even if we did, the answer would be complicated and obscure and of little value. 

It is interesting however, that our currency today does not meet the test of money.  Is this a passing oddity to be filed away in our “worthless facts folder”?

The list of items that meet all the “tests of money”, {a means of exchange, a unit of account and a store of value}, is tiny.

Our Captain is telling us;

Not only is this not a barbaric question, our financial futures depends on our understanding the answer, literally!!!
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Griffiths says that...“Most western economies can’t get what Lord Keynes said about gold out of their head, he said it was a barbarous relic. And in our western culture it still is a barbarous relic, but we’re moving into a world where the cultures of China and India are going to be more dominant...and they are the engine of the world’s growth. In their culture, gold is real money, has been for thousands of years...and will be in the future

Robin Griffiths is at Cazenove which as a group now manages nearly £15 billion on behalf of their client base and is one of the oldest and most respected names in the financial community, Robin has over 44 years experience. .