The Eurozone problem is something of a koan; full of paradoxes and contradictions that cannot be understood in terms the prevailing orgrammar (organizational grammar).

The article is an expanded alternative version of the document presented in 2011 at the conference on David Boje’s contribution into organizational studies and especially the Boje’s concept of ante-narratives (stories about the past). The main focus of this article is the overlay of stories about the past on the organizational grammars spectrum.

Financial institutions are special casino, privileged bookmakers, because governments give them the guarantees: in case of insolvency, they will be saved.

Experiences of many levels of Being (soul, spirit and so on) are often dismissed as fantasy.

There are always risks and uncertainties. Any type of financing may be based on assumptions, which in their turn may turn up to be wrong.

Religious leaders have much deeper understanding of the causes of today’s financial crisis than many industrialists, financiers and government officials.