Is this vow also saying something about ownership? If you pay for something in a free currency, will you still feel that you own it?

Ownership is one of the marks of fabric of pyramidal collective intelligence (the form of collective intelligence that prevails in modern societies).

From the consciousness perspective, the sense of ownership is an intermediary step in the developmental ladder of a human being.

As pyramidal collective intelligence, and ownership as part of its paradigm, are at the heart of all societies since the invention of writing, it is likely that most individuals will not go beyond this stage in their personal development, because nothing encourages them to do so. They remain entangled in the social fabric of their time. Those who want to pursue the spiritual journey and the path to freedom realize that ownership and possession are illusions, a mental emanation of archaic mechanisms of fear and separation.

The relationships we establish with material goods is influenced by the means we use to get to them: robbery, conquest, barter, purchase, present, gift, loan...

As conventional money is scarce, it has to be conquered. Each purchase, as neutral as it may seem, is affiliated with a conquest of scarce money. This spirit of conquest, competition, proprietarization, possession, is in the air, in the culture, to the point we don't think about it anymore. It infuses every transaction made with scarce money. That's not the case with sufficient currencies, which are in direct proportion with our capacity to exchange (like the air we breathe, we use only what's necessary for us). It is even less the case in a gift economy where we receive what we need to be, and where we offer what we can offer, without the need to have it be based on a market and direct exchanges.

Therefore the very nature of a currency triggers states of consciousness. These states can be predatory, archaic, or conquering in the case of scarce money; open and generous in a case of sufficient currencies; compassionate in the case of currencies regulating a gift economy. The chances of being obsessed by possession in a free currencies economy are lower than in the one of scarcity.

Quickly people will realize how free currencies represent a step in the evolutionary path of humanity, as step that may be as momentous as was the step taken when we created writing.