Gaian System

Purpose

So how might we, a small group of committed people, make a significant impact? Our belief is that there is nothing more powerful than LOVE ORGANIZED.

We are setting out to articulate in practical detail a potential path to massive transformation that is intelligent, peaceful and sustainable.  While we may not choose this path exactly, because God laughs at our plans, Our hope is that by thinking it through, we can see the kind of boldness of structures we need to create and prioritize this level of work in our change efforts.  We all have an important piece to contribute to the whole.

Mohamed is 26 years old and lives in California with his wife Mandi.  

He commits to 3 years of part time coding and receives 33,000 SeedS (Ss) in his GAIA Seeds account and 33,000 USD. The SeedS are issued by the governing economic circle/holon, to do the work of governing the system and creating core infrastructure.  Mohamed coded part of the learning and earning platform called HoloGaia. 

This platform has a job board where you can apply for tasks and roles that the system needs and you can sign up to learn the skills needed to perform those jobs.  When you demonstrate you possess a certain skill it is added to your skills profile which makes you eligible for more jobs and you can even get Certification Badges by different formal (AlterNative) Institutions that are fully trusted and respected by the Glocal Community.  People can also trade the skills and resources they have in the LocalScale Marketplace.

Annie offers to teach Reiki to Mohamed and he pays her 333 SeedS and 333 dollars. A portion of each financial exchange could go to the core Gaian System to fund salaries and infrastructure if members agree. But mainly we will propose a membership fee.

Mohamed wants to buy a house so he chooses the Gaian (Mortgage) Mutual Social Aid Coop and gets an apartment in the Gaian Condo in his city of choice. He can pay a % of his mortgage payments in SeedS. He has a low downpayment and an affordable monthly mortgage rate.  His wife Mandi  works as a teacher in the public school system and her salary can cover the money part of the mortgage and car loan and telecommunications.  His SeedS buy them holistic education for their kids, an organic food box from the Ecovillage just outside of the city, and interesting community activities and upcycled clothes available in his neighborhood.

They feel good that their monthly mortgage payments earn their home ownership and the profits go to making more sustainable housing around the world.   Over his life, Mohamed saves up 300,000 SeedS which is enough to pay for his spot in the Gaian Retirement Care program.  So he has spent his life contributing to a brighter future and earned a good living and retirement in the process.  His wife’s teachers’ pension pays for her spot in regular money.

What needs to change?

The governance, finance, education and justice systems we use today were created with the intention of economic growth benefiting the colonizing class and race,  at the expense of all else.  We are now bumping up against the many systems boundaries that we were blind to when we created our institutions. These institutions cannot cope in their current forms.

Today if we map the flow of value in the modern economies, we see people spend most of their energy creating a career so they can afford a house and an enjoyable life with high levels of consumption.  Tax money goes to governments who use it to maintain the existing infrastructure, much is wasted on inefficiency and trillions are spent on the military.

Mortgage payments become bank profits where much is blown on very high salaries and billions in profits are paid out to retirement pensions and in the stock market to wealthy people. Fossil fuel profits flow to billionaire families who spend 100’s of millions on slowing down climate change mitigation efforts.  Big agriculture is locked in with debt for heavy machinery, one time use seeds, and fertilizers.  Every step of the way, the way in which we create wealth degrades ecosystems and community health, which are the foundations of life.

We need to transfer these value flows of billions, into the coffers of new companies and institutions whose purpose is to build sustainable habitats, provide holistic health and education to the masses, offer comfortable and beautiful retirement accommodations and feed us healthy food using regenerative agriculture.  The purpose is also to provide transparent and accountable governance and true justice and healing for all people.

We will model distributed decision making practices where decisions are made at the most local level possible and issues are addressed with all the relevant stakeholders around  the table rather than siloed sector leaders.  Citizens are empowered to enact solutions in their place and all voices are respected and space is made to process tensions with deep healing, finding each person’s place for a generative contribution.

We will create an economic model using a mixture of alternative currencies and fiat currency to recognize the value of our conscious networks and motivate more and more people to work on co-creating the Gaian Life system.   The value of the currencies will be to exchange goods and services among conscious co-creators who can save up for end of life care.

You can contribute a mix of capital as goods, money funds and /or time depending on what you have to give. In return you get the equivalent in Gaia Currencies / tokens, a community, a possible paid job, a pension scheme and you will be contributing meaningfully to a positive transformation of the world.

Perhaps we choose one to three cities and key rural areas on each continent to start. We reach out to the sustainable service providers in that area including restaurants and conscious entertainment offers to join the movement and accept payment in Gaian currencies (Seeds).

We start to link, buy and create businesses that create a sustainable world.  If there are 144 thousand conscious people aligned with this vision of working together for transformation, and 1% of us invest 10k per year we would have 14.4 million dollars to work with to do the following.  These SEED investors (members) could receive the greatest rewards, benefits and priorities.

You take on a job that you have the skills for and ask for training in the skills you need next. If you can also train someone in the skills they need. Gaia Unión Network, the Global EcoVillage Network, Core Nexus and others may have large parts of this architecture built out. 

Holochain developers have been working on the digital side of this for some time.  We would fund and support these innovators to collaborate and prototype and get these systems up and running. 

Rural and war torn and oppressive places may be able to use it to subvert an oppressive government or chaotic social system.  It may need different forms for different levels of the spiral dynamics world views. and global life conditions.  This will be explored and prototyped. Ideally the background data is all the same and interoperable but the interface with users works differently in different contexts.  The local people would be paid to learn and teach the technology and processes.  Maybe like the telephone lady microenterprise  example in Bangladesh, a few people can learn and handle the data side of the system while community members use shells or paper to easily see and trade.

We will need legal and financial support, technical programmers and designers to build a robust, secure system that obeys complex international tax laws.  People who decide to join the system get a similar level of care as a citizen of a nation, including education, healthcare and old age pension.  

This is currently a gap, how can we motivate these professionals to get involved?  Will SEEDS be enough of a payment for them? 

3.2 Create Highly profitable endeavors.

We will also need a few traditional, highly profitable endeavors so we can pay for the development and maintenance of the Gaian System.

When we have a functioning stable system, we will start to invite more people to bridge from the already obsolete system to the new emergent and required system. We will develop programs to heal. land and navigate in this new (ancestral) culture and system and tell the story to the world in many languages.

 The aspiration is that life will be so much more fulfilling in the Gaian System that
people outside will say “I want to live what they are living!”

Because the Gaian currency is created not through debt or by mining gold or minerals or some random numbers in machines, but rather through producing real wealth, real assets and contributing meaningful human time, effort, sweat, development and performing high quality work towards a regenerative system, it is more precious and shining with golden light.

Perhaps we have finally figured out alchemy. 

It may also be that enough people are living the Gaian System part time or full time now have an embodied understanding of a system that supports each person to thrive.  This will be the new standard for governance. 

Perhaps a leader emerges to get voted into the dominant system of political governance on a platform of shifting it to Gaian processes.   Maybe the provincial leaders feel the demand from parents and see the results from Gaian schools, and decide to rewrite the public school system to be child centered with a focus on emotional intelligence and thriving for life.  Laws start to change to be more like the Gaian System.  A new standard and minimum bar for political leadership is passing a systems thinking and moral maturity test. 

The point is that as the old system collapses, which is assumed to be inevitable without massive intervention, the new system is prepared to catch us and it is not a revolution of the same old consciousness, it is the very best the conscious evolutionaries could come up with to serve all of life. 

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