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In the early 1990s, I joined a barter system in the Highlands of Scotland. The system wasn\u2019<\/span>t perfect but I valued the principle behind alternative economic systems, then, as I do now. The area was economically challenged, so there was need of my services but not everyone had the cashflow to pay for them. I elected to take part-payment in barter units.<\/p>\n The community in which I lived and worked was full of people trying to find creative ways to move their resources around, whether that was garden produce, sharing expertise, ride\/car-sharing, childcare, housing, car repairs or a myriad of therapies. I really wanted to offer my services by donation as some other people did but, at the time, this practice kept us at subsistence level.<\/p>\n The Opportunity Today<\/p>\n That was 25 years ago. So here I sit, contemplating a pandemic and a world facing economic upheaval. I see it as an opportunity to radically change the way we organize our human systems on our planet. We don\u2019<\/span>t know how long this state of affairs is going to last and, as with so many of you, my cash flow has altered.<\/p>\n Courage<\/p>\n I\u2019<\/span>m feeling courageous, which means I have the opportunity to make some different choices than I have so far in my career. If this virus is going to change life on this planet as we know it, and I believe in my bones that it is, that this is \u2018<\/span>The Shift\u2019<\/span>, then today, right now, I\u2019<\/span>m putting my faith in all of us.<\/p>\n I\u2019<\/span>ve Made a Decision<\/p>\n For the duration of the time that we have to spend in isolation and dealing with the fall-out of the this isolation, I\u2019<\/span>m stepping up and stepping out. I am changing how I charge for my services. I\u2019<\/span>m doing this as an affirmation of a shift into the new multi-dimensional paradigm of which I have been speaking for decades.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the early 1990s, I joined a barter system in the Highlands of Scotland. The system wasn\u2019t perfect but I valued the principle behind alternative economic systems, then, as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powersourcerer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}