Jun Ee – The path of wealth

Economy is everything, in the sense that our whole lives as individuals are shaped around our economic possibilities. It is a structural environment in which we have a certain freedom to move around, to climb higher or lower; there are niches that can be filled and there is fortune—luck—that can be found. But those are rare. A mostly certain limitation is placed on our lives at any given moment depending on where this economic structure has us positioned. Our happiness is most definitely dependent on how much money we have, as sadly it has become the only means through which we can exchange anything in this modernly imposed structure. The amount of books you can read and how much you can invest in something other than just food is determined by what country you live in and what family you come from.

Regardless of these limitations, this capitalist system provides certain opportunities that wouldn’t be there under another system. For example, there is a whole economy of selling books, amulets, rituals, and courses about how to attract wealth, money, and “abundance” to your life. It doesn’t matter that the system has structurally created so many niches—that it is designed so that many, if not most, don’t make it economically so the “big guys” can—the theology of abundance manifests in all kinds of languages and creates profits for the few lucky enough to fill those niches. Those who buy the courses and the books, who say the prayers and perform the rituals, are happy buying into the belief that it will work. They will never objectively observe if, in fact, it did anything, or if it is even structurally possible to find change just by doing that.

Most of the time it doesn’t make a difference, except for keeping us optimistic about life, hopeful and grateful for the things we receive. Magically, we do receive things that were not expected, and that comes regardless of the product we bought. The rituals are good to manifest our intentions, to focus our attention and keep the right mindset, but that doesn’t require buying anything—and for the most part, copying someone else’s method is not the best option. But we go for it because it is easy. That is the thing today: we choose things, relations, and the path of our lives based on how easy it is, how immediate it is, how digestible and solvable the walk can be. We choose to destroy forests to build a new, wider, shorter road between cities because it is faster and easier to get there, instead of taking the old, longer route.

Capitalism is here to produce all sorts of things and ideas, shows and entertainment to keep us sitting and not walking; to keep us stuck and believing, not moving and doing. Here the true path begins to show, and it’s all one and the same for all of humanity: the true path of wellness, of wealth. Wealth, then, is not something that can be measured by the measuring stick of a specific level in the caste system. No matter how much money you have, your life can be miserable or not; the challenges will come, or not, regardless of what gadgets you can buy that apparently solve them. No gadget, no technology, can truly solve the fact that we need to walk the path of experience, of knowledge, of knowing. Up to here, you are being invited to an advanced stage of it; these readings are read only by those who have walked enough to want to know, instead of believe.

The path to true wealth is walked with the first step of believing in yourself and your own experience—of testing, experimenting, and doing things on your own. For this, other people’s experience and words may have relevance, but they should not be copied. If you do, you will end up in the same place where you must figure it out on your own and test the facts with your own experience. This type of self-acquired knowledge and experience is the true wealth we come to harvest in this world; there is no other. Those who have all the power and the money in the world know this and have not been shy to test every single thing they could, no matter how destructive it was. Now that they have done it and destroyed the world and our humanity, we can now know from our experience where we need to walk. They themselves will find no path forward other than to fix everything they have done wrong—and there, we are all involved.

The path of human knowledge can be a very linear, quantitative one. Out of all the multi-dimensionalities and diversities out there, some kind of measuring tape that indicates which way is forward has always been necessary. Pre-genocide cultures like the Maya and the Incas had a line like this: the Maya knew it as the Sac Be, the White Path; the Incas as the Qhapaq Ñan, the Straight Road. These names were used for the roads they built that connected their ceremonial centers, but it was also the name for this cultural concept of the human road—a path that connects the centers of knowledge and experience and reveals a right way to be, the right relation, a “land without evil.”

The web of right relations was broken as soon as the nemesic paradigm of “right relation” invaded. There was no way a delicate webbing of supreme consciousness could withstand the weight of unchecked hamartia. Since then, we have been sunken there as we have been forced to explore the depths of everything that is wrong and stupid. This trecena appears in our lives as a walkable ladder. Not a hope or belief that salvation will come, but a path we can walk from today that leads out of this hole of “wrong relation” we all find ourselves in. The ladder is so long and so steep that, of course, we prefer to play make-believe down in the hole, thinking it’s better if some giant eagle picks us up and takes us flying. You never know—but you can’t just sit and wait for that. You do have the ladder and you can take the next step. When you do, remember this: wealth is not the destination you will reach by climbing the ladder; it is the ladder itself.

Every rung you claim is a piece of your own sovereignty recovered from a system that wants you paralyzed. You are not just climbing out of poverty or out of a hole; you are climbing out of the “easy” lies that kept you from your own power. Don’t look for the eagle in the sky; look at your own hands on the wood of the ladder. Every step is a transformation, and every breath of higher air is a wealth no bank can ever seize or quantify. Keep walking.