The Secret Life of Money: Enduring Tales of Debt, Wealth, Happiness, Greed, and Charity

The Secret Life of Money: Enduring Tales of Debt, Wealth, Happiness, Greed, and Charity

by Tad Crawford
The Secret Life of Money: Enduring Tales of Debt, Wealth, Happiness, Greed, and Charity

The Secret Life of Money: Enduring Tales of Debt, Wealth, Happiness, Greed, and Charity

by Tad Crawford

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Overview

The Secret Life of Money leads readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the sources of our monetary desires. By understanding why money has the power to obsess us, we gain the power to end destructive patterns and discover riches of the soul. Midas who can turn all to gold, fishermen who will not share their catch, Dorothy and her companions on the golden road to the Emerald City, Scrooge who cannot give, the hunter who shares not only food but also debt, money that falls from the skies, buried treasures that can be spiritual wealth or be stolen, how debt can be like inheritance, the symbolism of the bulls and bears of Wall Street, the all-seeing eye on the back of the dollar bill—all these and many other stories and myths from around the world are given delightful retellings and searching analyses in The Secret Life of Money.

Chapters include The Many Forms of Money: Understanding Its Symbolic Value; The Almighty Dollar: Why Money Is So Easily Worshipped; Money and Sacrifice: When Money Feels More Important Than Life; Hoarding Money: Why the Life Energy of Misers Is Stolen; The Source of Riches: Gaining a New Understanding of Supply; Inheritance: The Actual andSymbolic Wealth of Our Parents; Indebtedness: How the Debtor’s Tower Connects Earth to Heaven; Changing Symbols: Money, Credit Cards, and Banks; Bulls and Bears: How the Stock Market Reflects the Renewing Cycles of Life.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621538042
Publisher: Allworth
Publication date: 01/18/2022
Pages: 312
Sales rank: 1,101,448
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Tad Crawford is the author of many nonfiction books and his writing has appeared in venues such as Art in America, the Café Irreal, Confrontation, Communication Arts, Family Circle, Glamour, Guernica, the Nation, and Writer's Digest. The founder and publisher of Allworth Press, he lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

2022 Introduction ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 The Many Forms of Money: Understanding Its Symbolic Value 1

Chapter 2 The Almighty Dollar: Why Money Is So Easily Worshipped 19

Chapter 3 Money and Sacrifice: When Money Feels More Important Than Life 42

Chapter 4 Hoarding Money: Why the Life Energy of Misers Is Stolen 69

Chapter 5 The Source of Riches: Gaining a New Understanding of Supply 100

Chapter 6 Inheritance: The Actual and Symbolic Wealth of Our Parents 123

Chapter 7 Indebtedness: How the Debtors Tower Connects Earth to Heaven 155

Chapter 8 Changing Symbols: Money, Credit Cards, and Banks 194

Chapter 9 Bulls and Bears: How the Stock Market Reflects the Renewing Cycles of Life 224

Epilogue 243

Notes 255

Selected Bibliography 273

Index 277

About the Author 289

Acknowledgments 291

What People are Saying About This

Joe Dominguez

"The Secret Life of Money is an absorbing exploration into the history and nature of money." (Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, authors of Your Money or Your Life)

Jacob Needleman

"An insightful examination of the kind of cultural lore we all need in order to discover a new attitude toward money." (Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life)

L. William Seidman

"The Secret Life of Money showcases Tad Crawford's ability to tell a good story, make a point, and weave it all around the history of money. This book will surprise you with how much you can learn in such a pleasant way." (L. William Seidman, author of Full Faith and Credit and Chief, Commentator on CNBC-TV)

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