when yesterday ended..(cont).Ch.3:

At first,..the immediate fluxual differances seemed a real chaotic mess. Transportation,..for a time,..meant foot-powered only. In the deep energy-feild of the cities of then,..much technological breakthru was missed. In an ever more layered intention-grid,..solutions came and went.Inventions found their way to the countryside where folks were willing to listen to the sound of the future thru the words of many from the past. And though we had posseessed various means of zero-point energy by that time..and our farm trucks and all had long ago been converted to hydrogen or alternative-engine coil designs..our friends in the Big Places hadn't yet the time or hearing to learn yet. And there were hard times in part, due to this lack of what to us,..had become basic information.

 There were transportation standstills. People whom found themselves far from home when the change occurred,..had long learning roads ahead of them.(People began to stay closer to home,..in general at that time i believe..)

And people went hungry in many places. Trains didn't bring coastal goods inland,..nor most trucks and docks all over were paralyzed by the idea of union-free labor."Free" labor ,in general, was a frowned upon, but eventual tool in digging the first trenches in the war against ego.

The war against self.

That was the only thing left to fight against.

Payed militias from the fertile Crescent to the streets of London dropped their weapons and left for home too. (No pay,..no play.)Wars all over just ended.Who and how would they be funded now?The reasons for fighting, themselves,..had never actually been enough.Not to mention,..now that there was no money,..people were needed home in the feild and garden to "make" what before they had purchased.

Areas though,..that could not even agriculturally sustain a people, were left as ghost-towns..what we now call the "Sleepers Lands". The places where they used to live while asleep at their own consciessnesses. When people awoke, the argument to stay in unsustainable places was abandoned. Business was simply not business as usual anymore.

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Thankfully, not too many were lost, before sanity and calm began to grow and flourish where fear and anger had spread. Foods and staple goods were distributed and re-distributed by necessity.Trade and barter were applied aptly by those with the means. Basic kindness and earnest appreciation for gifts as they changed hands though,..was a welcome replacement for many a handful of coins in the past. The old mindset of money grew into loosely structured levels of need and appreciation in turn. Items in markets the land over began to show worth placements in numbers of hours spent making and bringing said item into manifested being.The seller would state what he or she was looking for in return,..whether that be exchanged, worked hours,..or similarly-hour-worthy goods.A 15 hour pair of handtooled leather shoes might be seen to be exchanged for three woolen hats and some good, hardy seed.

Yes,..Many things besides cities were abandoned in this time of flux. One I cannot leave out is how the people learned to abandon the most basic dysfunctional and destructive mechanisms of ego, which had rather inadvertantly lead many a well-intentioned-soul down the path made of other people's backs.

It was a time of many painful realizations.For those whom had allowed money, and the push to keep it nearly destroy everything...there was much sorrow.when they learned what EVERYTHING entailed,..when they realized that their narrow and angry, frightened ways had nearly destroyed consciessness itself...those with nothing took to comforting those whom had ctreated the nothingness. They had been trading in things unknown and unforeseen. trading in commodoties they were ultimately unaware of affecting.

Money,..for consciessness.

Prestige for knowledge.

In essence,..the awareness of Eternity for the softly padded(yes, the locked kind..)room of the fattened and fatteneing Ego. The basic argument for keeping Ego as a protective sheild was also eventually left behind in the funny-things-we-used-to have/do-file. Communication came forward as the tool of merit and choice.Equinimity in trade and exchange took center stage for a good long while until established trade paths and relationships were grown strong and viable between local societies. Transparent, but evident well-intentioned works were quickly and industriously implememnted in the coming days..even though money was long gone.