The reasons that motivate me to share this workshop are very simple things that we all want. From the global (macroeconomics), to the immediate: our personal life (microeconomics).

 

On a global level. We want to stop the destruction of nature in its countless manifestations. Rather, we want to restore what has already been damaged. We want to alleviate the extreme misery that many millions of human beings suffer. We want to change the current course of our civilization where these crises continue to worsen rather than ameliorate. We want to reverse the progressive transformation of the beauty of life into ugliness, which is inevitably associated with economic development.

 

In our personal lives. We wish, also, to have a harmonious, common life, in abundance, just as it is. We want to share it with our family and those around us. We want freedom. We want our own house. We do NOT want to live to work, nor do we want to work to live: We want to be in love with our occupation or work, and not be slaves. We want to dress our children, cultivate their dreams and ours. We want to enjoy, eat well, walk, have holidays, invite friends, lose track of time in moments of silence by the sea....

 

All these things that we want are in apparent conflict with the current economic system, anywhere in the world. The phrase "Let's be realistic" is key because in the Workshop we crumble the deep origin of our civilization crisis or collapse that we are feeling. A deep origin that is of a cultural-neuronal nature. It is that implicit narrative of SEPARATION, which is even biological in our neurons, that makes us see LIFE in a particular way without being aware of it. "Let's be realistic" is also to realize that the alternatives proposed from the same narrative of Separation do not constitute a solution: You cannot dismantle the masters' house using the masters' tools.

 

"Let's do the impossible" has to do with awakening the deepest passion of our soul, which for centuries has been locked in the cage of the "possible". Passion that is released when we are deeply realistic.

 

"The External Economy is a reflection of the Internal Economy." For example, if I adopt a scarcity mentality that is the reality that I generate around me. This is recognizing that external changes go through internal changes. In other words, that the healing of our economy is not a matter of improving the engineering design of our economic relations, but is intimately linked to the healing of our entire Being. Just as our economy is separated, our being is also illusively separated. Unlocking the boundaries that separate us is a fundamental part of the Workshop: "Expansion of the Separated Being into the Interbeing".

 

"Accept everything as it is so that it can change." We would like something of great magnitude in the world to change, for the good of life all over the world and also for our own well-being. However, the radical changes we dream of are not governed by our will or our intentions. The only way for something to change profoundly is to accept it, is to free it from the expectation that it will change. A beautiful paradox. This is a work of acceptance that we do individually and collectively during the Workshop. Basically, we become close friends with the system as it is, so that it can change without demanding that it change. It's like befriending someone drastically different from yourself. It is to become friends, in reality, with a part of oneself that one rejects.