This page contains information about what Sacred Economy project calls “Iterative Riba Removal” — the gradual removal of the rust of Riba or Usury from the economic system, transaction by transaction. The founder of Sacred Economy, Ramala Hubb’Allah, says that the entirety of the seemingly complex socioeconomic system around the world is an amalgamation of localized systems, and that all systems are made up of transactions, codes, and dealings. Which means that to shift the economic system, a concurrent shift is needed in all these levels or realms.
To understand the realms better, Ramala refers to the tool, The Salaam Matrix, which she spontaneously conceived in 2005 and refined the next year, when it was first self-published by her. The coding is done in the Spiritual Zone, and transactions and dealings take place in the other three Zones as per The Salaam Matrix model, i.e. the Personal-Familial, the Socio-Economic and the Ecological-Political Zones.
Ramala reminds that human minds tend to get overwhelmed by the magnitude and variety of socioeconomic transactions, and the minds tend to become foggy and fuzzy and cannot seem to deal with the issue. Or so humans think!
This happens because humans are foregoing the bio-spiritual principles of organizing, remembering (refreshing our inner codes) and alignment. This forgetfulness leads to a breakdown of the human connectivity grid, which is an actual energetic and mindfulness field amongst human beings, and the likeness of which is spread all across in Nature, observable in the behavior and lives of flora and fauna. This grid follows the principles of physics — particularly the principles of synchronization and electricity. The energetic grid, after all, is not a fabrication of New Age but an actual reality (though New Agers may fabricate stories about how this grid forms and is powered and sustained, sustainably).
When humans remember, refresh codes periodically, practice diligently, and scrutinize their transactions carefully and conduct themselves mindfully, then the substance matter that generates evil, folly and foulness in the world, which is composed of human forgetfulness, lack of awareness, and lack of assuming leadership of life, reduces incrementally until it vanishes. Not just this, but in its place is born GOODNESS, value, and virtue.
SOME METHODS TO ITERATIVELY REMOVE RIBA FROM A COMMUNITY:
~ Create local businesses
~ Work with natural products, and moreover, with artisanal products
~ Employ artisans or work as artisan
~ Buy from local businesses
~ Consider creating timebanks and a local currency