God, Money, and Power

In a world obsessed with what we can earn, control, or own, it’s what we accumulate internally that determines the peace and fulfillment we get to keep.

We all come from the same source code of spiritual energy.

Then we get dropped into this physical experience we call life, the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game.

We enter it through different “hardware suits”, skin color, gender, geography, family structure, and cultural codes. We arrive inside a tradition (team) that does its best to explain the rules of the game to us.

For instance, I entered this world as a red-haired, pale-skinned meat suit in 1975 into an East Coast American family steeped in working-class values and a Catholic tradition. I was taught the stories, recited the prayers, got the sacraments, and kneeled.

But where your story begins doesn’t define your life. It just shapes your origin story. As a young adult, I embarked on a philosophical expedition, reading voraciously, studying science, numerology, and exploring other religi…