Currently in private beta testing, opening to the public in Summer 2012.

What is The Gifting Earth?

Imagine eBay.com, but with GIFTors and GIFTees instead of sellers and buyers. If you become a member, you will always have a dual role. You will be both a GIFTor and a GIFTee.

In your role as a GIFTor, you will register your offer of GIFTS to others within the community. In your role as a GIFTee, you will also register your NEEDS for what you would like to receive as gifts from other members within the community. Gifts can be Goods, Services, Expertise, or Compassion.

The GIFTor is always the ACTive partner in a synergic help exchange. GIVING is a verb. The role of GIFTee is always the passive part of a synergic help exchange. Receiving is passive. A GIFT is a noun.

As a GIFTee, your list of NEEDS is available to all GIFTors. Those GIFTors who have GIFTs that match your NEEDS can make you an OFFER of Help.

Also as a GIFTee, the list of all GIFTS being offered is available to you. You can request a particular GIFT that you think might meet your needs. The GIFTor offering that GIFT will be notified that you are interested in receiving their GIFT. They will then have the opportunity to look at your membership history, profile, and comments made about your previous gifting exchanges. They are free to offer or decline to offer their GIFT to you.

As a GIFTor, you decide when, where, and to whom you will offer your GIFT. All GIFTing is voluntary.

As a GIFTee, you will be notified when an offer of a GIFT has been made to you, then you will have the opportunity to take a more careful look at a description of the offered GIFT, and the history, profile, comments about the GIFTor offering the GIFT. You may accept or decline the offered GIFT. All receiving of GIFTs is voluntary.

Once a GIFTor and GIFTee agree to an exchange, they are provided with each others contact information so they can connect and make the exchange in the real world.

A note on privacy: The only information that is public in the system is your name, home town and state. You have complete control over who sees your email address, your street address, and your telephone number. This private information will be given by you to those whose help you decide to accept. And, you will need similar information from those who desire your help. We are moving from Market to Co-Operation. We understand that we are INTERdependent. Sometimes I will need your help, and sometimes you will need my help. Our relationships with each other will be personal and caring. Personal and caring relationships are not anonymous.

Once the exchange is concluded, both GIFTor and GIFTee rate the exchange from one to five stars, and may add a paragraph of text in a comment field. This becomes a part of a both members' exchange histories.

Why should you join The Gifting Earth?

Within an Enlightened CommUnity, humans seek to have Win-Win relationships with each other. They believe in helping each other. They recognize their mutual INTERdependence. They know that sometimes they will need the help of others, and sometimes others will need their help. They choose to WORK TOGETHER and TRUST each other. Enlightened CommUnity is populated by synergists. Synergists choose to trust each other, and work together to solve their problems. Synergists see other humans as family, as brothers and sisters.

Synergy means working together — operating together as in Co-Operation — laboring together as in Co-Laboration — acting together as in Co-Action.

The goal of a synergic union is to accomplish a larger or more difficult task than can be accomplished by individuals working separately. We are committed to a world where I win, you win, others win and the Earth wins. Win-Win-Win-Win.

Synergists believe that you should, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." What is it that most of us want others to do unto us? Synergic scientists answer this question as follows: Help and support others, as you would wish them to help and support you.

Synergists are trying to heal the wounds inflected by those who don't understand how the world could work. This then is the essential challenge to the synergists. Can we work together and act responsibly in time to save ourselves on this planet? ... Only by helping each other.

To help you help others help you help others ... I have designed a synergic help exchange.

A synergic help exchange is not a barter system or "tit for tat" exchange system. It is not charity. I give to others and trust that when I need help, others will gift to me. This is not a philanthropic gift. Philanthropy is defined as the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor. A synergic gift is given without condition to another member of the community to help them meet a specific need, but it is given with the expectation that when I need help, other members of the commUnity will step forward to help me. This expectation is based on trust, and only trust.

Why does The Gifting Earth work?

Because it is based on only one rule: Be Love

If you choose to Be Love then you can only Do Good, and you will discover that you Have Everything!

It is simple really, if you choose to BE unconditional LOVE, if you choose to DO only GOOD, you can then TRUST that others will choose to insure that you HAVE EVERYTHING that you want and need. However one important aspect of Doing Only Good is that you must also be as kind to yourself as you are to others within the community. So act with responsible generosity. Be as generous to others as you can be, but remember to take good care of yourself and your family. Do what feels right, but be responsible in your offers of time and resources.

Be Love, Do Good, Have Everything,

Additional Reading:

Brief Overiew, Read the Specifications for a GIFTegrity, Read the Scientific Basis for the GIFTegrity

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