The Monetary School

The Story

After a 20-year banking career and a 15 year consulting career to farmers in distress, former banker Benjamin Gisin has launched the world's only Monetary School for the lay public. He is joined by Michael Krajovic of Pennsylvania who has a distinguished career in economic development.

The school is an informal affair where people of all walks of life can come to relax in a beautiful Western setting next to the famous Snake River adjacent to miles of greenbelt and the falls. There are no prerequisites. Handbooks with supporting information virtually eliminate the need for notes. The school has an easy schedule over the course of two days so participants can enjoy the setting and have time to meet others and exchange ideas.

"In my banking career, I was often called upon to be the final undertaker of the family farm," said Gisin. "I was an executing agent for a larger financial process that has, since 1935, financially disposed of over 70 percent of family farms by number. Unfortunately, the same financial processes that brought rural America to its knees have applied significant downward pressure on jobs, family businesses and even core industries."

Gisin explains the nation is wrestling with a delicate situation — it can't afford to employ large segments of people and yet it can't afford to care for the people it can't employ. There is also the dilemma every person and enterprise faces of having to be organized for financial efficiency. This efficiency encourages humanity to cut so many corners ecologically that planetary imbalance looms.

While the nation looks to government policy as the solution, policy must bow down and be limited in its expression to the same limiting volume of financing activity that has millions of people, underemployed. Unfortunately, the limitations of the financial sector have worked the world into such intense competition that, out of desperation, many are ready to lay the planet bare for less than living-wage jobs or a fleeting temporary job.

"The Monetary School is designed to allow the lay person, absent political emotion, to examine the mechanical and metaphysical functions around which the world, and its problems, are organized," said Gisin. "Participants will be taken on an extraordinary journey into how the nation's mediums of exchange called money come into form, transform into capital to create empires of debt and then struggle to come out of form to satisfy debts owed to banks."

The processes behind the mediums of exchange we call money are foreign not only to the lay public, but to most experts as well. This misunderstanding creates opposing philosophical camps that often argue over which myth is true — polarizing the nation into camps of ill will towards each other. The Monetary School was formed to promote understanding, and, in so doing, open new frontiers to peace and prosperity.

"The two-day curriculum is designed to give participants a top-of-the-world view of how modern civilization is organized," said Gisin. "Attendees will leave with a 'monetary consciousness' that in today's world is indispensable — whether one is a business manager, social entrepreneur, policy maker or interested in the spiritual science of connecting faith with works.