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

by Tad Crawford

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

292 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 18, 2022

About the author

My new novel, A Woman in the Wild, has just been published by Arcade Publishing (distributed by Simon & Schuster).
The novel tells of Thea, a psychologist in crisis who leaves her established practice in the city for an open-ended retreat in the mountains at the Institute for Healing and Transformation. Feeling lost, betrayed, and stricken by guilt not to have saved her daughter from sexual abuse, she hopes to find a new path to ease her pain and uncertainties. Soon after her arrival, a “wild” man who roamed the forest with a bear is brought to the institute. When the man is given to her care, she performs a suspenseful balancing as she seeks to heal him as well as herself. Hiking and meditating each day, she initiates an inner journey that shakes her free from the familiar. As the months pass, she engages her guilt and sorrow, confronts her failures, weighs the limits of therapy and self-forgiveness, and seeks to unleash the healing powers of the unconscious and of love.

I'm happy to do book clubs and library talks about the novel.

Reviews

[Deda Sab]

Too philosophical and repetitive. I expected to read a book in economy and business not a religious take on money. It wasn't my cup of tea.

[Ramesh Naidu · Rating 4 out of 5]

An eclectic journey

I had no idea what I was getting into when I started reading this book . it has certainly been an intellectually rewarding journey but not necessarily a fruitful one money wise