Category: Utopia

  • But Who Will Make the Roads in a Moneyless World?

    But Who Will Make the Roads in a Moneyless World?

    Why this question reveals the deepest wound of our civilization

    People often ask me the same question my friend Henny asked recently:

    “But who will make the roads in a moneyless world?”

    On the surface, it sounds practical.

    Underneath, it carries something much deeper: the belief that without coercion, nothing essential will get done.

    To understand why this fear appears, we have to look honestly at the system we’ve lived under for millennia.

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    The Old System Was Coercion With Extra Steps

    Our entire economy has been built on one unspoken rule:

    Work… or you don’t survive.

    It is a softer, modernized form of slavery —

    not chains, but contracts.

    Not whips, but bills.

    Not owners, but employers.

    Not physical force, but financial fear.

    It’s the same mechanism:

    Do this, or you lose your life’s stability.

    When someone asks, “But who will do the necessary jobs if nobody is forced?”, they are really saying:

    “I don’t trust human nature.”

    And how could they?

    We live in a money world where people are exhausted, underpaid, disconnected from meaning, and pressured every day to “earn their right” to exist.

    No wonder it’s hard to imagine anything else.

    Humans Resist Meaninglessness — Not Work

    The belief that people won’t contribute unless they’re coerced is disproven every day:

    • people volunteer

    • they build open-source software

    • they help neighbors

    • they raise children

    • they care for elders

    • they rescue strangers in disasters

    • they create gardens, art, solutions, communities.

    Not because someone threatens them.

    But because contribution is a natural human impulse.

    Humans thrive when they can see:

    • meaning

    • impact

    • purpose

    • connection

    • respect

    The problem isn’t work.

    The problem is the system around it.

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    So Who Makes the Roads in a Moneyless World?

    1. Those who feel drawn to it

    Every area of life attracts different kinds of people:

    • some love machines

    • some love construction

    • some love planning and designing

    • some love engineering

    • some love logistics

    • some love earthwork and outdoor labor

    The world already works like this —

    except today people are often forced into jobs they don’t like because they need a paycheck.

    Remove the coercion, and people naturally gravitate toward what they enjoy and what they’re good at.

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    2. The needs of society direct the contributions

    This is the part most people have never experienced:

    In a moneyless world, needs shape contribution, not markets.

    • If a road is needed, the community requests it.

    • If a hospital needs staff, people trained in care step forward.

    • If infrastructure needs upgrading, teams form naturally around that task.

    The organizing principle is simple:

    Need → Resonance → Contribution.

    Instead of “What job will pay me enough?”, the question becomes:

    “What does the community need, and where do I fit naturally?”

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    3. AI, robotics, and machinery do the heavy lifting

    We already have road-printing robots today.

    We already have self-driving construction machines.

    We already have AI that plans infrastructure more efficiently than any human could.

    Project this 100 years forward — the world of Waking Up:

    • dangerous work is automated

    • repetitive work is automated

    • heavy work is automated

    • humans guide, design, and coordinate

    • machines handle the rest

    Road-building becomes a creative, collaborative, mostly automated process.

    The “labor shortage” fear belongs to an era that is ending.

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    The Real Fear Hidden in the Question

    Henny wasn’t asking about roads.

    She was asking:

    “If no one is forced to work, will society fall apart?”

    The answer becomes obvious when you look at the world we have today:

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    Crime, Wars, and Prisons Are Products of Coercion — Not Freedom

    People often point to violence and crime as “proof” that humans can’t be trusted.

    But:

    Crime is a symptom of unmet needs.

    Most crime comes from:

    • poverty

    • desperation

    • exclusion

    • trauma

    • lack of belonging

    • lack of opportunity

    These are system-created conditions, not human nature.

    War is institutionalized coercion.

    Wars are driven by:

    • resource control

    • profit

    • power

    • fear

    • strategic dominance

    A world without ownership and scarcity has nothing to fight over.

    Prisons are evidence of system failure.

    People don’t end up in prison because they are “bad.”

    They end up there because:

    • their needs weren’t met

    • their communities broke

    • their lives lacked support, meaning, and belonging.

    Prisons don’t fix people.

    They reflect the collapse of a coercive society.

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    A coercive system creates coercive behavior.

    When life is structured around:

    • fear

    • competition

    • scarcity

    • punishment

    • hierarchy

    • economic pressure

    then society must produce crime, war, and prisons.

    Not because humans are broken.

    But because the system is.

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    A trust-based system produces trust-based behaviour.

    When:

    • needs are met

    • belonging is real

    • contribution is voluntary

    • coercion disappears

    • technology carries the burden

    • community is the foundation

    violence evaporates the way darkness disappears when you switch on a light.

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    Call To Action

    Benjamin Michaels went into cryonic sleep believing — exactly like Henny — that without money, nothing essential would ever get done.

    When he wakes 100 years later, he discovers a world where contribution follows need, where technology removes the drudgery, and where humans give because it is natural, not forced.

    If you want to explore that world, my novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity is for you.

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  • The Systemic Change We Desperately Need

    The Systemic Change We Desperately Need

    For thousands of years, humanity has lived inside a story we barely notice. A story so pervasive we mistake it for reality itself. The story says: money is the center of life.

    It decides what we build, what we protect, what we destroy, and even who we become.

    But as the world edges closer to ecological and social breaking points, it’s becoming painfully clear:

    The monetary system we built cannot solve the planetary crisis we created.

    It tells us:

    • compete or fall behind,

    • own or be owned,

    • extract or be extracted,

    • grow or collapse.

    And under the rule of The monetary system, everything on Earth becomes a commodity:

    forests, rivers, animals, ecosystems, even our own time and attention.

    But as the world cracks under ecological collapse, inequality, burnout, and global mistrust, a truth is becoming undeniable:

    A monetary system cannot save a planetary crisis.

    Because the crisis is caused by the monetary system itself.

    Recycling, green tech, ESG scores, carbon markets — these are all efforts to repair a broken house without questioning the foundation.

    To understand the real systemic change we need, we must step back and look at the full architecture of life on Earth.

    There are not one, but three systems

    Monetary. Planetary. Humanitary.

    One artificial, one eternal, one emerging.

    Let’s explore them.

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    🌑 1. The Monetary System — The Artificial System

    The monetary system is:

    • human-made

    • extractive

    • competitive

    • based on scarcity

    • driven by profit

    • aligned with neither nature nor wellbeing

    It rewards:

    • depletion over regeneration

    • individual gain over collective good

    • excess over access

    • ownership over stewardship

    Forests are worth more cut down than standing.

    Oceans are worth more dead than alive.

    Humans are worth more as consumers than as creators

    And even climate efforts — like the TFFF – Tropical Forest Forever Facility — must bend to monetary logic: funds must perform, investors must profit, returns must be stable.

    You cannot heal the Earth with the logic that harms it.

    The monetary system is not evil — it’s simply misaligned with life.

    And any system misaligned with life eventually collapses.

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    🌍 2. The Planetary System — The True System of Earth

    Long before money existed — long before humans existed — there was already a complete system.

    The planetary system.

    It is:

    • regenerative

    • interconnected

    • circular

    • cooperative

    • balanced

    • self-correcting

    • life-creating

    This system is the real operating system of Earth.

    It includes:

    • ecosystems

    • climate cycles

    • water cycles

    • soil regeneration

    • food webs

    • atmosphere

    • biodiversity

    • evolutionary adaptation

    It has existed for 3.8 billion years.

    It is older, wiser, and infinitely more intelligent than any economic model we have invented.

    And it does not need our permission to function.

    Humans are not outside it — we are expressions of it.

    But somewhere along the way, we disconnected from this system and began living entirely inside the monetary illusion.

    The result?

    We started optimizing for the wrong metrics:

    • GDP instead of biodiversity

    • profit instead of wellbeing

    • ownership instead of stewardship

    • scarcity instead of abundance

    The planetary system is the real system.

    The monetary system is a shadow system.

    And the shadow is failing because it contradicts the real.

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    🌱 3. The Humanitary System — Humanity’s Next Operating System

    This is the system humanity must now create.

    A system that is:

    • aligned with the planetary system

    • post-monetary

    • regenerative

    • cooperative

    • contribution-based

    • purpose-driven

    • stewardship-centered

    We now have the name for it:

    ⭐ The Humanitary System

    A new word that did not exist until today — because the idea itself is only now emerging.

    The humanitary system is:

    A post-monetary human civilization aligned with Earth’s planetary system, designed around stewardship, regeneration, cooperation, and shared wellbeing.

    It is humanity expressing the logic of nature through consciousness.

    Humanity → Humanitary.

    A species maturing into alignment with the living Earth.

    Where do we see it emerging?

    • Future Cities of Light

    • Natural Exchange System (NES)

    • regenerative culture

    • kin domains

    • circular local economies

    • universal commons

    • Return On Soul Investment (ROSI)

    • post-money communities

    • Indigenous stewardship laws

    • new governance models (councils, consent, circles)

    This is not utopian — it is evolutionary.

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    🔄 Putting it all together: the Three-System Shift

    1. Planetary

    The original system. Real, natural, foundational.

    2. Monetary

    The made-up human system. Artificial, extractive, misaligned.

    3. Humanitary

    The new human system aligned with the planetary system.

    This is the true systemic change humanity needs.

    And once you see this structure, it becomes impossible to “unsee” it.

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    🔥 Why the Humanitary System is Inevitable

    Because the planetary system has the final say.

    And the monetary system is collapsing under its own contradictions.

    This is the moment in history when humanity must choose:

    • continue the monetary illusion and collapse,

    or

    • return to the planetary truth and evolve.

    The humanitary system is not a political choice.

    It is a biological necessity.

    It is the only system that makes sense on a living planet.

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    🌈 Cities of Light as the First Humanitary Prototypes

    A City of Light does not promise monetary profit.

    Its residents are:

    • not investors

    • not consumers

    • not shareholders

    They are ROSI contributors — Return On Soul Investment.

    They invest not capital, but consciousness.

    They receive not dividends, but:

    • meaning

    • belonging

    • community

    • purpose

    • wellbeing

    • connection

    • safety

    • planetary restoration

    A City of Light is a prototype of the humanitary system,

    designed in alignment with the planetary system.

    This is how the new civilization begins.

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    🌟 Conclusion: The Systemic Change We Need

    Humanity is not just changing systems —

    we are changing civilizational operating systems.

    From the artificial to the natural.

    From extraction to regeneration.

    From competition to cooperation.

    From profit to purpose.

    From planetary via monetary to humanitary.

    This is the future taking shape.

    And it begins with those who dare to name it.

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    Call To Action

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    Witness Benjamin Michaels’ transformation as the old monetary world dissolves and the new humanitary paradigm emerges when he steps into this new world….

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  • The Great Unveiling – Awakening to the Real World

    The Great Unveiling – Awakening to the Real World

    What would actually happen if the world erased all debt overnight?

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    1. The Starting Point

    Let’s start with a fact, not an opinion.

    As of 2025, total global debt is about $340 trillion — every mortgage, every student loan, every government bond, every corporate IOU combined.

    It is, quite literally, the sum of what humanity owes to itself.

    Let that sink in.

    To itself.

    How can a species owe itself money?

    How can the left hand be in debt to the right?

    The numbers are real enough on paper — but the logic behind them is absurd.

    We’ve built a global system in which humanity as a whole is perpetually indebted to… humanity as a whole.

    Meanwhile, the world’s annual GGP, Gross Global Product— the total value of everything we actually create and produce — is about $110 trillion.

    So globally we owe more than three times what we make in a year.

    We are, in effect, trying to pay ourselves with our own promises, and calling the shortfall “growth.”

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    2. The Paradox of Debt-Money

    Here’s the strange truth of modern economics:

    Money isn’t printed first and then lent — it’s created by lending.

    When a bank issues a loan, it simply types numbers into an account.

    Those digits are new money, but they exist only because someone has agreed to owe them back.

    For every dollar of money, there’s a dollar of debt somewhere else. So of course, since we are constantly creating new money mostly by loans that needs to be repaid with interest which is not created, we constantly need to create new debt perpetually. If everyone repaid their loans tomorrow, almost every dollar in existence would vanish.

    The economy wouldn’t just slow down — it would cease to exist. Because money = debt.

    Debt isn’t a flaw in the system.

    Debt is the system.

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    3. The Absurd Scale

    Three hundred and forty trillion dollars.

    A number so large it almost loses meaning.

    To “repay” it, we’d need about three more Earth-sized economies operating at today’s output — three planets producing, mining, farming, shipping, and consuming at full speed just to settle our existing balance sheet.

    But we have only one planet, and it’s already showing the strain: melting ice caps, depleting soils, rising seas.

    We’ve mortgaged the future to pay for the present, and even the collateral — the planet itself — is running out.

    The debt can never be repaid, because repayment would destroy the very money supply that makes repayment possible. The paradox is profound

    It’s a snake eating its own tail.

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    4. The Thought Experiment

    So what if, instead of running faster on the treadmill, we simply stopped?

    What if: every government, bank, and individual agreed to wipe the slate clean — erase all debt at once?

    Technically, it would be easy.

    After all, when a bank issues a loan, it simply types numbers into an account.

    Those digits appear from nowhere, authorized by nothing more than confidence in the story.

    And just as easily as they’re created, they can be erased.

    The same keyboard that made them has another key — 

    backspace.

    Press it once for a typo.

    Press it a few more times, and the world is debt-free.

    Thus: the so-called global “debt crisis” is nothing more than a collection of keystrokes. 

    The difficulty isn’t technical. 

    It’s psychological.

    The moment those numbers disappear, the story humanity believes about itself — the story of credit, ownership, and fake obligation — vanishes with them.

    For a few hours, maybe days, the world would panic.

    Markets would freeze. Banks would have no assets. Governments would have no bonds.

    It would look like collapse.

    But collapse of what, exactly?

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    5. What Would Still Exist

    Would the roads disappear?

    Would the houses crumble?

    Would the hospitals and schools evaporate?

    Would the oceans stop moving or the sun fail to shine?

    No.

    Every physical thing humanity has built and nature has created would still be there:

    every bridge, every farm, every power plant, every tool, every ship.

    The forests, the animals, the wind and rain — all still exactly as before.

    The real world would remain completely intact.

    The only thing missing would be the numbers we used to measure it.

    That’s the realization: the “economy” we thought sustained us was only a layer of code floating above what was real.

    When the code is erased, the world itself doesn’t vanish

    — it appears.

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    6. The Great Unveiling

    That’s the unveiling — the moment when the illusion drops and we see what was always there.

    The money world was never the world.

    It was a veil — a story of ownership drawn over nature, over work, over life itself.

    When that story ends, nothing real is lost.

    In fact, reality becomes visible again.

    The forests keep breathing.

    The clouds still drift and drop rain.

    Birds still fly, insects still hum, whales still cross the oceans.

    People still wake up, stretch, laugh, argue, cook, and create.

    All of it continues as if nothing happened — because to the real world, nothing did.

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    7. Seeing the Illusion for What It Was

    Imagine standing in a field the morning after the Great Erasure.

    The banks are silent, the stock tickers blank, but the sun still warms your skin.

    You realize how strange it was to think that this — sunlight, air, grass, breath — could ever be “priced.”

    The absurdity becomes obvious: we built a system that claims ownership over everything that already belongs to life.

    We invented scarcity in the middle of abundance. Saying only those with enough numbers in their accounts would have an abundance of time to really enjoy life.

    We called debt wealth and competition progress.

    We covered the real world with a mirage of money — and then forgot it was a mirage.

    And yet, beneath that mirage, everything real has been patiently waiting.

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    8. What Happens Next

    At first, confusion.

    If no one owns anything, who decides?

    But slowly, reason returns.

    People realize they don’t need permission to use what already exists. 

    Food still grows. Tools still work. Knowledge still lives in every mind. We can peacefully agree to create abundance for all.

    Communities reorganize — not around money, but around contribution, skill, and trust.

    Value shifts from possession to participation.

    Humanity begins to live again as nature does — through exchange without debt, through cycles of giving and renewal.

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    9. The Realization

    The true catastrophe isn’t the collapse of the money world — it’s that we mistook it for the real one.

    The true awakening is realizing the world doesn’t need to be rebuilt — only remembered.

    Everything that matters survives the erasure:

    the land, the oceans, the people, the animals, the insects, the sky, the sun.

    When the numbers vanish, what remains is life — unpriced, unowned, unending.

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    10. The Invitation

    This is the Great Unveiling: not the end of civilization, but the end of its disguise.

    A collective seeing — that the wealth of the world was never in banks, but in being.

    Step outside.

    Feel the ground.

    Everything real is still here.

    The world is Waking Up.

    Are you?

    Follow the former billionaire Benjamin Michaels as he wakes up in a world where this has already happened. Shaken and shocked he staggers out of the hospital where he has been sleeping for a century, only to find his old world of money and numbers completely vanished… Only the real world remains.

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  • The Tipping-Point Generation(who this book is for)

    The Tipping-Point Generation(who this book is for)

    We are living in the most paradoxical time in human history.

    Never before have we been so connected, yet so divided.

    So informed, yet so confused.

    So powerful, yet so close to the edge.

    Everywhere we look, something is collapsing — and something else is quietly being born.

    We stand between two possible futures: the abyss and the dawn.

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    The Abyss — What’s Breaking Down

    The signs of exhaustion are everywhere.

    A planet fevered with heat and pollution.

    A suicidal economy that thrives on debt, fear, conflict and competition.

    A species so busy surviving that it has forgotten how to live.

    We scroll past wars, famine and wildfires in the same feed.

    We work harder while feeling emptier.

    We chase “growth” that devours its own foundation.

    This is the shadow side of our brilliance —

    a civilization built on separation, now facing the consequences of its illusion.

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    The Dawn — What’s Emerging

    And yet — beyond the noise, something luminous is stirring.

    All over the world, people are beginning to wake up.

    To question, to reconnect, to imagine again.

    Open-source creators are sharing freely.

    Communities are forming outside the logic of money and profit.

    Technology is turning from exploitation to regeneration.

    Young people are marching not for ideology, but for life itself.

    Science, spirituality, and empathy are converging.

    Even AI — once feared as our rival — is revealing itself as a tool for healing, learning, and collaboration.

    This is the first light of the Generation of Awakening —

    the ones who remember that the Earth was never ours to own, only to care for together.

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    Who This Book Is For

    Waking Up was written for this generation — the Tipping-Point Generation.

    Not defined by age, but by awareness.

    It’s for those who sense that the old story of humanity has run its course,

    and that a new one is waiting to be told.

    For those who feel both the grief of what’s ending and the quiet certainty of what’s possible.

    This is not a book of escape.

    It’s an invitation — to remember, to imagine, to be inspired, and to help birth the world that lies just beyond our fear.

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    From Impossible to Inevitable

    Many will say that such a world — without money, greed, or ownership — is impossible.

    But every transformation begins that way. With the impossible.

    Flying was impossible.

    Electricity was impossible.

    The moon was impossible.

    Talking to someone across the planet in real time was impossible.

    Healing the body with light and sound was impossible.

    Even believing that humanity could live in peace was impossible —

    until it wasn’t.

    What we call “impossible” is often just unimagined.

    The moment enough people see it, it begins to take shape.

    The future isn’t waiting for permission.

    It’s waiting for participation.

    If you’ve ever felt that subtle call — that there must be another way —

    this story is for you.

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  • Too Simple, Even Naïve — And Proud of It

    Too Simple, Even Naïve — And Proud of It

    The Alchemist has sold about 150 million copies since its quiet debut in 1988.

    My book, Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, launched on May 2, 2025, and is currently moving at a slightly more contemplative pace — around five or six copies a month.

    At this rate, I’ll catch up with Paulo Coelho somewhere around the year 47,312.

    But who’s counting?

    People have told me Waking Up is “too simple,” “too idealistic,” even “naïve.”

    And I smile, because those are the same words critics once used to describe some of the most beloved books ever written:

    • The Alchemist — “childlike allegory.”

    • The Little Prince — “too simple for adults.”

    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — “new-age fluff.”

    • Siddhartha — “mystical oversimplification.”

    • Always Coming Home — “utopian idealism.”

    Apparently, sincerity makes people nervous.

    But maybe simplicity isn’t a flaw — maybe it’s the distillation of depth.

    When a story dares to believe in meaning, kindness, or transformation without irony, critics roll their eyes — until the world quietly falls in love with it.

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    How the “naïve” ones sold

    If we’re keeping score, here’s how the simpletons have done:

    • The Little Prince — around 200 million copies.

    • The Alchemist — about 150 million.

    • Siddhartha — roughly 50 million.

    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — somewhere near 40 million.

    • Always Coming Home — maybe a few hundred thousand.

    And then there’s Waking Up — proudly holding at five or six copies a month.

    Which, if you think about it, might make it the most energy-efficient book launch in history.

    (Why rush a planetary awakening, right?)

    But here’s the thing — I didn’t write Waking Up out of ambition at all.

    I wasn’t trying to become a bestselling author.

    I had never even written a full-length story before, only essays at university. Waking Up began as a screenplay, an idea for a film about a world beyond money and struggle. I had no clue if I could pull it off.

    What drove me wasn’t career — it was curiosity and hope.

    I wanted to show humanity an alternative future — a world we could actually long to live in.

    Not another dystopia to fear, but a vision to believe in.

    If Waking Up ever reaches millions of readers, it won’t be my “success” — it will be our success, because it means the story resonated deeply enough to tilt our collective imagination toward something better.

    The royalties wouldn’t fund mansions or yachts; they’d firstly help make a movie to spread the ideas even further, and then, build the first City of Light, a real-world prototype of the cooperative, money-free world described in the book.

    Buying the book helps make that future physically possible.

    Reading it helps make it emotionally possible.

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    A lineage of clarity

    The Alchemist is a perfect example. It’s a straight road through the desert — one boy, one dream, one revelation. A parable so linear that a child can follow it, yet so archetypal that philosophers still quote it.

    Its strength lies in its clarity. The Alchemist asks,

    “What is your personal legend?”

    It became a global phenomenon because everyone, everywhere, can answer that question.

    Waking Up carries that torch into the 21st century — but widens the question:

    “What is humanity’s personal legend?”

    Where Santiago’s treasure was individual, Waking Up explores our collective treasure — a world healed of scarcity, fear, and competition. A civilization guided not by money and greed but by trust and creative abundance.

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    Utopian? Maybe. But that’s the point.

    Of them all, Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home might be the truest kin to Waking Up. Both imagine a cooperative, post-monetary humanity — not as a fantasy of escape but as a return home.

    Le Guin’s masterpiece was visionary, but also fragmented — an anthropological mosaic rather than a story. Critics admired it, but few readers finished it. It was too far ahead of its time, and too far from the emotional thread most readers need.

    I learned from that. I wanted to write a book that could touch the mainstream without dumbing down the vision.

    That’s why Waking Up is linear, cinematic, and emotionally grounded.

    It began as a screenplay — and maybe that’s why it reads like one.

    You don’t have to understand systems theory or spiritual philosophy to get it.

    You just follow Ben — and before you know it, you’ve crossed into another kind of world.

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    The quiet revolution of sincerity

    My goal was simple: for the reader to pause somewhere in the story and think,

    “Hm. This is a world I’d like to live in.”

    That thought — quiet, almost casual — is the beginning of transformation.

    It’s the spark where imagination becomes possibility.

    Because in a culture addicted to irony, sincerity itself is rebellion.

    And the deepest revolutions have always begun with simple words that everyone can understand.

    So yes, call Waking Up naïve if you like.

    I’ll take that as a compliment.

    After all, The Alchemist had to start somewhere too.

    And maybe, just maybe, Waking Up is where we start — again.

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  • The Invention of Scarcity

    The Invention of Scarcity

    For centuries, humanity has lived under two great experiments: capitalism and communism. On the surface, they seem like opposites — one worships the market, the other the state. But beneath their differences lies the same hidden root: fear and lack of trust.

    Artificial Scarcity

    Both systems were born from the same doubt — the belief that people cannot be trusted to share, cooperate, or care without being controlled.

    So one tried to control through money and ownership, the other through authority and rules.

    Both tried to prevent chaos. Both tried to prevent scarcity.

    But in truth, both created it.

    Capitalism thrives on artificial scarcity — on turning natural abundance into commodities, putting a price tag on life itself. It must keep people wanting, buying, and competing, because without scarcity, money loses meaning. Anything abundantly available has no value in capitalism.

    Communism, on the other hand, tried to redistribute the same imagined scarcity by replacing private ownership with state ownership and planning. But it still relied on control — and too much control always chokes flow. It feared greed, so it built walls. But walls only hide abundance from those who need it most. State control and distribution in communism only created a bottleneck for resources that was abundant in the first place, just like money and private ownership creates many bottlenecks in capitalism. Abundant resources first have to be filtered through who owns what and who can pay for it.

    Communism didn’t abolish ownership — it merely transferred it from individuals to the state. The state claimed all resources and distributed them as it saw fit. That’s not freedom; it’s just another form of control. True freedom begins only when ownership itself dissolves, and resources become our shared inheritance — managed with trust, not fear.

    The Currency of Trust

    And then, of course, it’s easy to think, “Oh, but… what if someone just takes much more than they need?”

    And that’s exactly how the old spiral begins again. Because that thought itself — that fear — is the opposite of trust.

    It’s the seed from which all control and scarcity grow.

    We simply need to choose trust, even in spite of the fear we might feel. Because when someone starts truly trusting, it spreads. Trust becomes contagious — and before long, fear loses its grip. In the end, both systems are mirrors of each other — two expressions of the same misunderstanding of human nature. Both are built on the assumption that trust is naïve, and that without control, people would take more than they need.

    But what if it’s the other way around?

    What if trust is the real economy — the invisible current that makes life flow? And a current that actually multiplies the more it is used. The more we trust the more trusting we get.

    What if scarcity was never natural at all, but a collective illusion born from fear?

    In the new world, the one described in Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, humanity simply remembers.

    We remember that the Earth already gives freely and abundantly. That collaboration isn’t utopian — it’s instinctive. That when everything is shared, nothing needs to be hoarded.

    It’s not communism, and it’s not capitalism.

    It’s a completely free world where humanity has simply chosen to share it instead of hoarding it.

    A world built not on fear, but on trust.

    And in that trust, the myth of scarcity finally ends.

    👉 Read the novel that envisions this world — Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity:

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  • What if Everyone Awakened Tomorrow…?

    What if Everyone Awakened Tomorrow…?

    This isn’t just a spiritual fantasy; it’s a thought experiment that could reshape our understanding of humanity’s potential. What would happen if, overnight, 8 billion people saw through the illusions of materialism and power? Let’s explore this hypothetical scenario, diving into the immediate chaos, the transformation of society, and the long-term possibilities for a world reborn.

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    🌪️ Day One: The Chaos

    Picture the scene: it’s October 27, 2025, and at precisely 8:00 AM, a wave of clarity sweeps the globe. Every person, from a farmer in rural India to a CEO in Manhattan, grasps the truth of existence—connection over competition, love over fear. The first hours are chaotic, but not in a destructive way. 

    The world hits pause.

    Workplaces grind to a halt. Politicians mid-speech freeze, drop their scripts, and declare “I’m sorry.”

    Stock markets collapse not from fear — but because no one cares about profit anymore.

    Pilots land their planes, hug their passengers, and walk into the sunset to meditate.

    X melts into a global therapy circle. Billionaires start live-streaming apologies.

    Elon Musk tweets: “Turns out rockets were just a distraction from inner peace. Selling everything for a commune on Mars — BYO enlightenment.”

    Armies lay down weapons. Dictators call for forgiveness summits.

    Banks and governments start erasing all debt.

    The Vatican live-streams “We meant well.”

    And somewhere, Jeff Bezos stares at a warehouse and whispers:

    “Why do I own all this stuff when others have nothing?”

    Moments later, he donates it all.

    Chaos? Yes.

    But it’s a sacred kind — the confusion of humanity waking from a collective nightmare.

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    ☀️ Day Two: The Calm

    Then, silence.

    A great, planetary exhale.

    The systems built on fear and scarcity simply… stop.

    There’s no revolution, no coup — just a quiet realization that competition no longer makes sense.

    Former leaders become stewards of the Earth, and take all people with them. Corporations turn into Communities.

    Money dissolves, not through decree but through irrelevance.

    The same data that once optimized profit now coordinates abundance.

    AI becomes a caretaker of harmony — helping match every resource to every need.

    No hunger. No hoarding. No ownership — only usership and stewardship, guided by compassion and common sense.

    Cities evolve into Cities of Light, radiant ecosystems where architecture follows nature, art, and joy.

    Education becomes exploration.

    Governments transform into councils of wisdom.

    Borders fade, for who can fence the sky?

    Humanity steps into what it always was meant to be: a living, creative organism of love.

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    🌍 The Reunion of the Human Tribe

    And as the light of awareness stabilizes, something beautiful happens.

    We stop identifying as nations, classes, or ideologies.

    We remember that we’re a single tribe on a small, luminous sphere — spinning together through infinite space.

    War becomes unimaginable.

    Healing becomes the new free economy.

    Art becomes the language of diplomacy.

    The world no longer needs saving. It simply needs remembering.

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    ✨ From Fiction to Possibility

    This is the world imagined in Waking Up — A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity:

    a world where awakening spreads not by force, but by resonance.

    A world where humanity finally grows up, smiles at its own madness, and chooses love.

    Maybe it didn’t happen overnight.

    But every thought, every act of kindness, every page you turn toward awakening… brings it closer.

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    🌅 Call to Action

    Dive deeper into the vision of a world beyond money, fear, and separation.

    Read Waking Up — A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity today and join the movement of dreamers who dare to imagine the next step in human evolution.

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  • How We Can ALL live a Life of Luxury on Earth — Without Breaking the Planet

    How We Can ALL live a Life of Luxury on Earth — Without Breaking the Planet

    From Excess to Access — A glimpse into the next Paradigm where Abundance, Technology, and Wisdom unite to create a world that works for everyone.

    Imagine a world where every human being lives in comfort and beauty.

    Where homes are energy-self-sufficient, food is fresh and locally grown, transport is clean and free, and no one worries about bills, borders, or basic survival.

    It sounds like a dream — but it’s only our outdated economic system that makes it seem impossible.

    The Myth of Scarcity

    We’ve been raised to believe there’s not enough for everyone — not enough land, not enough jobs, not enough “money.” Yet the Earth is overflowing with resources.

    We have enough sunlight striking the planet each hour to power civilization for a year. We produce 43 kg of food per day per person per year. But most is wasted to create profit. We have enough empty homes to house every homeless person several times over. Enough food to feed everyone — if we stopped throwing away most of it.

    Scarcity isn’t a natural law. It’s a policy decision.

    Scarcity is an artificial outcome of a system that rewards hoarding and punishes sharing — where competition, debt, and profit come before cooperation, dignity, and Life itself.

    The Real Meaning of Luxury

    Luxury today is marketed as excess — yachts, jets, and exclusivity. But true luxury has nothing to do with waste.

    Real luxury is freedom from stress, clean air, time to create, connection, and purpose.

    It’s walking barefoot on living soil, sleeping in peace, eating food you can trust, and feeling as part of something larger than yourself.

    When we redefine luxury from excess to access, the equation changes completely.

    A world where everyone has access to clean healthy water, sustainable energy, creative tools, and regenerative design is not only possible — it’s inevitable once we stop measuring life in old outdated currency.

    The Paradise Is Already Here

    There are over 100,000 tropical islands on Earth — from the turquoise lagoons of the Pacific to the coral-fringed coasts of the Indian Ocean and Caribbean.

    Humanity has more than 620,000 kilometers of coastline, much of it pristine and uninhabited. There is, quite literally, enough paradise for everyone.

    If we organized wisely, each of us could spend a good part of our year on a tropical beach, sipping an umbrella drink served by elegant solar-powered robots. If that’s what we wanted.

    And there would still be plenty of room — because people are beautifully different. Not everyone wants a Mai Tai under the palm trees. Some prefer mountain air, snow, forests, deserts, or bustling creative cities. The abundance of this planet includes the diversity of our dreams.

    The Tools Are Already Here

    We already possess everything required to build this world: renewable energy, 3D-printed housing, circular materials, global knowledge sharing, and AI-assisted logistics that can map and manage resources with stunning precision.

    What we lack isn’t technology — it’s alignment.

    A willingness to use these tools for collaboration instead of competition.

    The shift is from ownership to stewardship — from “mine” to “ours.” When resources become a shared inheritance instead of private property, abundance stops being an illusion.

    A Glimpse from the Future

    In Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, Benjamin Michaels wakes to a world that has made this transition.

    Money no longer exists. The Natural Exchange System ensures that everyone’s needs are met intelligently and sustainably. Cities of Light shine as living ecosystems — where architecture, art, and nature merge.

    It’s not a utopia. It’s simply what happens when humanity grows up — when we stop surviving and start thriving together.

    The Invitation

    The new world isn’t waiting in the future; it’s waiting in us.

    Every act of sharing, repairing, planting, and caring moves us closer. Every moment we choose collaboration over competition, we bring a fragment of paradise into form.

    We can all live a life of luxury — not by taking more, but by realizing we already have enough to share with everyone.

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    🌍 Discover how humanity awakens in a world beyond money.

    Read Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity and join the movement toward a world that truly works for all. Ebook is only $4,99

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  • The World Is Waking Up — Are You…?

    The World Is Waking Up — Are You…?

    Our “Only for the Brave” campaign just ended — and it outperformed expectations by more than 102%! It was a so-called Blaze campaign where WordPress share a post to many more potential readers than I have on my blog.

    This  meant thousands of new readers across the world have now seen the call to challenge their beliefs — and many have joined the journey.

    For me, this milestone isn’t just about clicks or stats. It’s about connection.

    Every person who paused to look, to feel something, to wonder if a better world is possible — that’s one more spark of awareness lighting up the collective mind.

    If you didn’t get the ebook during the super-low promotion, don’t worry — it’s still just $4.99 on all ebook platforms. That’s less than a cappuccino for a story that invites you to imagine what life could look like beyond money, fear, and limitation.

    ✨ Waking Up isn’t just a fantasy. It’s a reflection of what humanity could become when trust replaces trade, and creativity flows freely again.

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    The world is waking up.

    One reader — one brave soul — at a time.

  • What Is Actually a Gift Economy…?

    What Is Actually a Gift Economy…?

    Clarifying the Language of a New World

    Through the years, many terms have tried to describe humanity’s longing for a system beyond money — a world built on trust, collaboration, and natural balance.

    Words like Gift Economy, Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), Resource-Based Economy (RBE), and Natural Exchange System (NES) all point toward this awakening, yet they mean different things. Much of the confusion comes from how we understand one simple word: exchange.

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    Gift Economy — The Heart of Giving

    The Gift Economy celebrates generosity and connection.

    It’s about giving without expectation, trusting that what you contribute will circulate and return in another form, another time.

    Its strength is emotional and spiritual — the feeling of community that grows when we stop measuring and start caring.

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    The Transitional Bridge

    Before moneyless systems could be imagined on a large scale, communities experimented with alternative currencies.

    LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) created local credits for goods and services — one person’s debit was another’s credit.

    Time Banks traded hours instead of money — one hour of help equaled one hour owed.

    The eko-currency of Findhorn is to boost local trade, keep money circulating within the community, and provide low-interest loans to community projects, creating a stronger, more resilient local economy.

    All of these were inspiring steps away from national currencies and toward cooperation, yet they still relied on trading — a measured give-and-take, recorded somewhere. Still quid pro quo. They loosened the chains of money somewhat but didn’t yet dissolve them.

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    RBE — The Macro Framework

    Jacque Fresco and later Peter Joseph proposed the Resource-Based Economy as a scientific redesign of global society.

    Here, technology and data guide production and distribution according to human and ecological need, not profit.

    It’s the macro-level architecture of a sustainable civilization — the structural intelligence behind abundance.

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    NES — The Natural Flow

    The Natural Exchange System (NES) brings the heart of the gift economy together with the structure of the RBE.

    In NES, exchange doesn’t mean trade — it means flow.

    Nature itself is a vast exchange system:

    trees give oxygen and receive carbon dioxide, insects collect nectar and pollinate plants — yet no one keeps score.

    This is exchange without accounting, reciprocity without debt.

    NES mirrors that same principle through intelligent coordination: a world where resources and services move where they’re needed, guided by transparency and awareness rather than price or profit.

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    How NES Works — An Example from the World of Waking Up

    In the society portrayed in the novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, everyone contributes according to what feels most natural and fulfilling for them.

    Someone who loves to cook opens a restaurant.

    Another enjoys the rhythm of conversation and service, so they take orders and deliver meals.

    No one in that community particularly enjoys cleaning tables or doing dishes — so those tasks are handled by robots and intelligent machines.

    NES is a system, like nature, where every part does its thing and is fulfilled in doing it.

    Thus, the reward is in the task itself — not in any external monetary lure, but in the joy of meaningful contribution.

    Everywhere, the same principle applies:

    • People do what brings them joy and meaning.

    • Technology quietly fills the gaps where human interest doesn’t reach.

    • What needs doing simply gets done.

    There are no wages, no hierarchy, and no unemployment — because the motivation isn’t survival or profit, it’s purpose.

    That is the essence of NES: a natural coordination between human passion and technological assistance, producing abundance through harmony, not hassle.

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    Trading vs. Exchange

    The difference between trading and exchange is subtle yet profound.

    Trading is conditional — an “if–then” relationship: I give if you give – quid pro quo. It is measured, recorded, and bound by the fear of scarcity. There’s always an expectation, an invisible balance sheet where value is compared, debts are created, and equality must be restored through reciprocal repayment.

    Exchange, in its natural sense, is something entirely different. It’s not calculated; it’s circulatory. In nature, all parts contribute to the whole without question — no one keeps track. It is a flow, not a deal. When humans live by natural exchange, giving and receiving become part of the same movement, and the joy lies not in what we get, but in the aliveness of participation itself.

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    The True Gift Economy

    If the Gift Economy is the heart,

    and the RBE is the brain,

    then the NES is the living organism where both unite — the true gift economy, not symbolic or experimental, but natural.

    No credits, no tokens, no trade — just conscious flow.

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    In Summary

    • Gift Economy – the feeling of giving and trust.

    • LETS / Eko/Time Banks – transitional models still based on accounting.

    • RBE – the framework for global coordinated abundance.

    • NES – the integration where nature’s effortless exchange becomes humanity’s way of life.

    They’re not competing ideas but evolutionary steps in remembering how to share — moving from measured trade to natural flow, from scarcity to trust, from economy to ecology.

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    Written by Harald Sandø, author of Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity,

    a novel exploring a future moneyless society guided by trust, collaboration, and natural exchange.