What Is Wealth If/When Fiat Fails?

7 possibilities to live into

Next Thursday at 9am Pacific / 12 Eastern / 5pm London we will be hosting our first New Moon gathering. My dear friend and co-producer of Convivvium will be offering channeled readings, pulling from the Becoming Dragon oracle deck as a contemplation to accompany you through this upcoming lunar cycle. This is the beginning of a sangha or coven. If you’ve ever felt like you want to meet more of your soul fam, come on by and see if we might be them. I can promise one thing – it won’t be boring. ;)

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I never intend to stoke fear in anyone with my subject lines, so forgive if this put a hurt in your belly. In my view, fiat has already failed. I know we are in for a reinvention of economic systems over the next decades, triggered most likely by natural disasters in combination with an upwelling of the divine will of the people who will no longer accept unacceptable leaders and governance structures.

The unnatural power of the US dollar will see a correction. In economics, the concept of return to the mean describes how extreme highs or lows in markets, currencies, or valuations tend to normalize over time, gravitating back toward an average or equilibrium. This mirrors spiritual principles found across traditions: in Taoism, it echoes the Tao's quiet pull toward balance; in Buddhism, it aligns with the Middle Way, which avoids extremes to maintain harmony; in Hermeticism, it reflects the Law of Rhythm, where all forces swing like a pendulum before returning to stillness. Whether it's wealth, power, or attention, what ascends too far without grounding inevitably falls—not as punishment, but as correction. The return to the mean is not just a financial reality; it is a cosmic recalibration.

Fiat has failed and will continue to fail until it returns to balance. As one small example, living in Mexico, I see the effects of the unjust exchange rate of the dollar against the peso every single day. It’s blindingly obvious. This will change because it must.

Below are the seeds of the commonwealth—not as an economic theory, but as living systems of superabundance meant to outlast collapse. These are not politics. These are organic processes, rootstock for a post-scarcity era that honors intrinsic worth.

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✦ 1. Relational Wealth

The most precious currency is who will answer when you call at 3am.

• Community weaves stronger than contracts

• Reciprocity over transactionality

• Emotional fluency as security

When capital fails, kinship feeds. When institutions vanish, only the remembered chords between people remain. Invest in those attunements.

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✦ 2. Embodied Skills

What can you make, fix, cook, mend, or grow with your hands?

• Food and medicine

• Shelter building

• Water purification

• Storytelling that preserves lineage

Skills are the wealth that can’t be seized. In collapse, people follow those who can make bread from fire or calm from chaos.

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✦ 3. Local Sovereignty

The new wealth is not in exporting. It’s in belonging.

• Foodshed relocalization

• Water stewardship

• Land-based rituals and governance

• Seeds saved, not sold

What grows underfoot is enough. The commonwealth begins when networks of villages replace nations as the unit of security.

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✦ 4. Energetic Integrity

No amount of stockpiling, armor, or bullets can replace a steady nervous system.

• Coherence fields that others feel

• Boundaries that are loving and absolute

• Wealth as the ability to remain present

True wealth is felt when your presence regulates the room. People will give up gold for a moment of calm. Be that moment.

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✦ 5. Intergenerational Timekeeping

In the commonwealth, time is not money. Time is legacy.

• Projects meant to last 15 generations

• Elders and children as equal stewards

• Legacy rooted in soil, not scale

This is the greatest inversion: wealth isn’t fast, it is deep. The respected leader is the one who plants the tree from which they’ll never eat the fruit.

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✦ 6. Mythic Purpose

Without story, there is no glue.

• Every community must know why it exists

• Meaning is not decoration; it is cohesion

• A shared mythos is much, much stronger than the coherence created by law

You’re not just surviving collapse. You’re guarding the ember of meaning in the ash. Keep the myth alive, and the people will remember how to live. Find your soul family and create a reality of superabundance together.

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✦ 7. Mycelial Economics

No more empires. Only networks that thrive from the bottom up.

• Decentralized decision-making

• World economic systems informed by biomimetic fractal design principles

• Wisdom councils, not all-male or all-white boards of directors

The future commonwealth isn’t top-down. It spreads underground. Slow. Unstoppable. Sacred.

The kingdom of the mushrooms transformed rock into soil before any of our animal ancestors were born. They are the core fractal of changing solidity into sentience. Use them as a design pattern if you wish to do the same.

In many Indigenous traditions, stone is not object—it is ancestor. It holds the memory of the First Fire, the First Sound, the First Split between spirit and matter. Stone is patient. Stone is slow. Stone knows how to endure.

And yet, even stone surrenders—not to demands, but to constancy.
Mycelium comes not with moralism, but with listening. It touches stone with enzyme and time. Over centuries, it transforms what was once immovable into soil—the womb of the future.

This is the pattern I see for us now.
A way of economics that is not wasteful, but woven.
That does not shame the old, but composts it.
That does not rush—but touches, threads,
and sings its messages into the currents of currency
as it has done for 400 million years.

Mycelial economics is not hierarchy.
It is hyphae.
It listens in all directions.

There is a kind of wealth that doesn't vanish overnight.
You’re standing on it.

Love from Oaxaca,
Cris