Money is Never About Money
About the Book
A visionary and visual guide about:
- the lesson we’ll never get in school
- ten months of living, travelling, and working without money
- the wonderful idea that money essentially is
- the world that is possible
» 450+ hand-drawn illustrations
» Freely readable on this website
» Also available as an eBook, audiobook & paperback
What people say
“This is probably the only book about money that brought me closer to myself.”
Ayla Verheijen, The Circle of Light
“Authentic and immensely powerful.
Anyone who wonders whether we’ve ‘lost our way’ (and, more importantly, what we can do about that) will find a book packed with useful insights.”
Heidi Leenaarts, United Economy
“I’m deeply impressed. This is essential reading for anyone who yearns for life.”
Willem Vreeswijk, MaatschapWij
Why this book exists
How do we break free from ‘yes, but’ and ‘that’s just the way it is’?
How do we rewrite our ideas of success towards what genuinely drives us?
How do we become the change we wish to see in the world?
In 2016, I (Raymundo, co-founder of Miracle Project, hello ☺︎) lived, travelled, and worked without money for ten months.
Not to prove something, but because I wanted to find out: ‘What’s going to happen to me and the people I’m going to meet, when for a while I don’t touch this thing that so seems to control our lives?’
The experiment became part of a bigger exploration of the wonderful idea that money essentially is—and the door that money becomes when we allow it to.
Premise and build-up
From the moment we start looking honestly at money, we start looking honestly at ourselves.
And when we start looking honestly at ourselves, we become a building block for the world we — deep down — all wish to live in.
Part I, It’s Not Just the Way It Is
About a growing hunger for truth, about what we don’t learn in economics class, about experiments with money, and about ten months of living, travelling and working without money.
Part II, Business as (Un)usual
About the root cause of a system that doesn’t know when more is enough, and about what becomes possible when we dare to unearth the root of this system—and turn it upside down.
Part III, REconomy
About the world that is possible, plus the roads to make it a reality. Featuring living examples, tools, and practices that work for all of life (and not just the so-called happy few).
If you…
have questions about money and what it really is,
long to break free from limiting and destructive ‘never enough’ patterns,
want to explore ways of living, working, and giving that give life…
Video on this page:
Camera & sound: Jelle Wierda
Drawings & animations: Raymundo Resink
Music: Chris Zabriskie