Thanks to you all for your insight on this issue. Struggling with this very concept, I wrote a post about it on my site recently.
Money = Gratitude
Living in Byron Bay (Australia) I am very often exposed to the wide gap between the Socially and Spiritually aware Haves and the Socially and Spiritually aware Have nots. It astounds me daily that many of the conscious people who live in this wonderful part of the world have huge resistance to abundance.
During a Deeksha experience recently, I received a message about my life that pertains to this issue. The gist of it is thus. Our experience in this dimension is like a game of pick up sticks. When we pick up a stick, we are choosing an experience. There are two ends to any stick. In this case, one end is the experience of abundance, the other end is the experience of scarcity. When we feel stuck or negative it's because we are at the wrong end of the stick we've picked up. All we need to do is choose thoughts and (more importantly) feelings that take us to the other end of the stick.
Many of my friends have picked up the abundance stick and they're sitting at the scarcity end. The thought that keeps them there, most often, is that 'money is not spiritual'. I wrote the post above for such people and now I can send people to your post also Steve.
Thanks so much for all your inspiration.
Blessings