wisewords Money Myths Filmmaker Katie Teague Uncovers
Our Misperceptions by Linda Sechrist
K
atie Teague’s in- spiring documen- tary, Money and Life
(MoneyAndLifeMovie. com), provocatively asks: Rather than disastrous, can we view economic crises as brimming with opportunities to shift our thoughts about money and thereby improve models of economic exchange?
Why did you produce a documentary on the subject of money?
As an in-depth psychotherapist familiar with observing humanity, I felt that I
could use the simple lens of storytelling to chronicle the complexity of money and economics. Because I had no experience in economics or filmmaking, I was often brought to my knees in the crucible of all I was learning, a vir- tual crash Ph.D. course. In interviewing Da-
vid Korten, economist,
author and former professor at the Harvard Business School, he soothed my worries by pointing out that because I hadn’t been indoctrinated into the world of economics and its jargon, my language of metaphors
and analogies would help lay people better recognize and understand con- voluted economic concepts. As a therapist, I repeatedly see
how disconnections due to eroding relationships with ourselves, our natu- ral world and each other are wreaking havoc on people and the planet. I rou- tinely see that money isn’t a root cause of a person’s issues, just the container for them. Most frequently the issues I hear about result from setting dreams aside “for later” and squelching the sparks of individual genius, usually because of a perceived scarcity of money. I became curious about what role our relationship to money plays in such disconnections.
What are the effects of awak- ing to what money is and isn’t in our lives?
In considering this from the perspec- tive of healing and tending the soul, asking, “Where are we most wounded in our modern world?” I had my own quantum awakening to the fact that I’m not separate from the subject matter I’m exploring: What is my own story with money? Have I given up healthy self- government to the money god? What are my opportunities to reclaim my own power? I discovered that the core principle
of the economy, money and currency is relationship itself, and that we’ve unwittingly disempowered ourselves by entrusting too much power to middle- men like central banks and financial consultants, but are now realizing that we don’t need them.
One clear example is that more
individuals are having a direct experi- ence of the divine. Also, entire com- munities are investing their time, energy and money in their local economies, where they have established relation- ships and can see the results. I believe that the technologies supporting our emerging new economy reflect our own consciousness coming online.
Were you surprised at what you learned? I did not know that the U.S. and global economies are based on debt and scar-
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