A New Vision on Money

Introduction - A New Vision on Money
When money becomes an end in itself, it also becomes a source of problems on its own. For example, it is well known that one of the main causes of relationship breakups nowadays is money.
First Part - Undoing Our Vision of Money
Lesson 1: Why do we have needs?
The Course describes Heaven not as a place but as a state of mind in which there is a complete absence of needs.
Lesson 2: The desire to possess
Before we can explain where the idea of money comes from, it is necessary to take a small detour to explain the desire to possess.
Lesson 3: The root of all evil
Somehow, we have ingrained in our subconscious the idea that money is the cause of the many problems we experience. Who has not thought that without the unjust systems imposed by money, we would have a better society and a better world?
A new vision on money (intro for Dev.to)
Today I can see more clearly that the feeling of agency they lacked in their lives can be attributed to the idea that we need money to succeed.
Lesson 4: Money at the service of the body, and the body at the service of money
The dreaming of the world takes many forms, because the body seeks in many ways to prove it is real; we think that "[the body] is _cause_ and not effect, and you are _its_ effect and cannot be its cause."
Pleasure and Pain
The Course teaches us that what shares the same purpose is the same. In this sense, pleasure and pain are the same, as they share the same purpose, and that purpose is to keep us separated from God.