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• Daniel Suelo, 51, left his last $30 in a phone box and walked away
• Friend who wrote his biography, said: 'I first assumed he'd gone crazy'

Footage has revealed the sparse and yet contented life of Daniel Suelo - the man who has chosen to live without money for the past 12 years.

Suelo, now 51, renounced money in 2000, left his last $30 dollars in a phone booth and walked into the desert to start a new life in Moab, Utah.

His way of life has become an inspiration to thousands of Americans who have suffered in the economic crash and activists like the Occupy movement, disillusioned with a society consumed by avarice and greed. Daniel Suelo, 51, left his last $30 in a phone box and walked away
Friend who wrote his biography, said: 'I first assumed he'd gone crazy'

Sundeen said: 'Here's someone who is saying I don't know what the solution is but I'm going to disobey.

He continued: 'Our financial system is so big we can't control it and in so many ways we feel enslaved by it. Worse, we feel powerless to change it.

'The fact is, if everyone lived like the average American, the world would actually collapse more quickly than if everyone lived like Suelo.'

On his blog Suelo describes his philosophy: 'I don't use or accept money or conscious barter - don't take food stamps or other government dole.

'My philosophy is to use only what is freely given or discarded and what is already present and already running (whether or not I existed).'

'Our whole society is designed so that you have to have money,' Suelo added.

'You have to be a part of the capitalist system. It's illegal to live outside of it.'

As well as quitting cash, he threw away his passport and driving license and changed his legal name, Shellabarger, to Suelo, Spanish for ‘soil’.

Ever since then Suelo has lived outdoors, camped in the wilderness, lived in caves, stayed in communes and spent nights in stranger’s homes.

For several years Suelo set up home in a cave, 200 feet across and 50 feet tall, on the edge of a cliff in the Arches National Park, Utah.

Here he carved a bed out of rock, foraged for food, drank from springs and bathed in a creek.

Any hikers were welcomed to stay with him to share his ‘home’, his books and the wildflowers and cactus seeds that he ate.

Born into an ultra-conservative fundamentalist family, Suelo took his faith extremely seriously growing up.

At college, however, he re-examined his beliefs and decided that money and the divide it creates between those who have it and those that don’t was both unchristian and wrong.



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Source : dailymail