As I prepare to let go of much of my sense of security and to step more deeply into the Gift Economy, I am very grateful to the wisdom that I have gained from the work of Charles Eisenstein. His books, The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics have both been inspirational in helping me to imagine a different way of being in which security is found in relationships and work is about giving ones gifts to the world.
The following video is talk by Charles that provides a much quicker introduction to the gift economy than his two rather long books.