{"content":[{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.843464,"top":0.046195,"width":0.009804000000000035,"height":0.016779000000000002}},{"text":"On the other side, there is of course the shadow side of money – the","bbox":{"left":0.205964,"top":0.091925,"width":0.621085,"height":0.019575999999999996}},{"text":"greed, the abuse, the lack, the inequality, and , of course,","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.122543,"width":0.5198769999999999,"height":0.019575999999999996}},{"text":"all the projections","bbox":{"left":0.678415,"top":0.122543,"width":0.16365699999999994,"height":0.019575999999999996}},{"text":"it lends itself to. In short, money creates money complexes.","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.152872,"width":0.54369,"height":0.01957600000000001}},{"text":"The Christian Church attempted to control the money complex by","bbox":{"left":0.205964,"top":0.18349,"width":0.602892,"height":0.01957600000000001}},{"text":"damning it. Money, like sex, was the root of all evil, it corrupted souls and","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.213793,"width":0.6831419999999999,"height":0.01957600000000001}},{"text":"kept them from God. On the other hand, the Church needed money so it","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.24445,"width":0.657561,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"turned to the Jews, at once condemning them for their materialism and","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.275069,"width":0.645327,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"taking their money, a fine example of scape-goating and hypocrisy that","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.305372,"width":0.651393,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"served it well for centuries.","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.336016,"width":0.24973599999999996,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"The Protestant Church changed this. From the puritan fathers there","bbox":{"left":0.205964,"top":0.366319,"width":0.611078,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"emerged a Protestant Ethic that said that worldly success was a sign of","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.396937,"width":0.6451669999999999,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"divine grace. You could and should be clever with money, it was part of","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.427556,"width":0.6601049999999999,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"God’s gift, to be tended carefully. What you should not do, however, was","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.457884,"width":0.672744,"height":0.019575999999999982}},{"text":"talk about it. The subject of money, like the subject of sex, remained taboo,","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.488503,"width":0.689088,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"something to be worked on in the dark for purposes of procreation and","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.518806,"width":0.64535,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"multiplication.","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.549463,"width":0.13430399999999998,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"All this has changed radically in recent times, especially in the past 30","bbox":{"left":0.205964,"top":0.579766,"width":0.644,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"years. Both sex and money are all over the newsstands and the media. In the","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.610384,"width":0.6972510000000001,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"States it’s not only allowed to talk about money, it’s become obligatory. The","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.641028,"width":0.7012539999999999,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"Americans elected a vice president whose annual income is 36 millions","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.671331,"width":0.6526959999999999,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"dollars US , a president whose income counts in the millions also. In many","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.70195,"width":0.684354,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"circles today, we would have to say that money carries the Self, it has","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.732253,"width":0.636752,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"replaced God in the psyche.","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.76291,"width":0.25515699999999997,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"Yet, what do we really know about money? Will reading all those","bbox":{"left":0.205964,"top":0.793528,"width":0.6024999999999999,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"magazines that promise fortune and money expertise really help us to","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.823831,"width":0.636061,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"understand money’s mysteries? More important, perhaps, will","bbox":{"left":0.1471,"top":0.854488,"width":0.568071,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"not","bbox":{"left":0.727418,"top":0.854488,"width":0.030055000000000054,"height":0.019576000000000038}},{"text":"reading","bbox":{"left":0.774837,"top":0.854488,"width":0.06855900000000004,"height":0.019576000000000038}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}