Look at this picture again carefully….

The Player is on the other side of The Field, from which all things are created. All power resides in the Infinite I, and a Player has no power to create anything.

Said the other way, everything we have, everything we see, everything we experience has been created for us by our Infinite I’s.

This is the first and most important concept to understand, especially about money. But it’s also the most difficult for the ego to accept. The ego would like to think the Player could create something, manifest something, make something happen. But it’s simply not possible in a holographic universe, since we – the Players – are on the other side of The Field, with and in the hologram. Only an Infinite I can create a hologram, and only an Infinite I can create money in that hologram.

But if an Infinite I chooses certain specific experiences from The Field it wants its Player to have – and the only reason an Infinite I would create a Player is for that Player to have experiences – wouldn’t the Infinite I also give its Player all the tools it needs to have those experiences as well? Does it make sense any Infinite I – with infinite resources at its disposal – would want its Player to have a certain experience and then not give it everything it needs to have that experience, including all the money required, especially since the Player has no power to create anything on its own?

So the first thing to understand about money is that it is created by your Infinite I, and if your Infinite I wants you to have any particular holographic experience, it will have to provide all the money you need to have that experience as well.

(The exception to this, of course, is if your Infinite I wants you to experience not having money for some reason; but it’s still providing all the money you need for that experience, even though “all the money you need” might mean “not enough” as far as you are concerned.)

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It’s true most Players think they “make money,” and they have developed all kinds of beliefs about how that money has to be “made” – by working, by selling something, by getting loans or gifts, by inheritance – by many different methods.

The truth is the Infinite I is the one who creates the money for its Player; but it can only “send” that money to its Player in ways that the Player thinks it can receive it. This is where the Player’s beliefs come in.

So let’s look again at that list of beliefs about money we had above….

~ I have to earn money

~ I have to work for money

~ I can’t afford everything I want

~ There’s a limited supply of money available to me

~ Every time I spend money, my supply of money decreases

~ Nothing I really want is free

~ If I want more money, I have to work harder, or smarter, or deliver more value

~ I’ve got to have a plan to make money, invest it wisely, and build wealth over time

~ If I have money, I have to protect it or I could lose it

~ I have to be “responsible” with my money

~ I must be fully, totally, and truly committed to making money

~ There’s never enough money

~ There’s something “dirty” about money and those who have a lot of it

~ Money is the root of all evil

~ The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

~ More money is better

~ Money doesn’t grow on trees

~ Some have the “gift” of making money and others don’t

~ Money doesn’t come easy

~ You can’t have money and be spiritual

~ Money comes from “out there,” and you have to go “out there” to get it and bring it “in here” to you

If you happen to have any of these beliefs and think they are true, then that’s the only way your Infinite I can “send” you money, since you will only be able to perceive that money based on your beliefs.

An Infinite I could create a million dollars in a Player’s bank account “out of thin air,” and the Player would think it was “some kind of mistake” if their beliefs say it can’t happen that way, or think they can only get money in other ways.

One woman owed her bank $10,000. One day she got a statement saying her balance was $0. She immediately called the bank, which was very quick to agree with her that it was definitely a mistake and sent her a new statement restoring the $10,000 balance. (True story.)

Another woman, who understands how money works in a holographic universe, owed her bank $30,000. When she received a statement that her balance was $0, she simply expressed her deepest appreciation to her Infinite I and went on with her life. (True story.)

I like to call these beliefs we have about money, “stories.” A Player needs a “story” to explain how they get money. The Infinite I needs no “story” to explain its creation of money; only the Player, with its limited mind and limited beliefs and limited thinking, needs a “story” to receive it.

This is exactly how it is supposed to be in the first half of the Human Game, because requiring a story creates a lot of limitation. If there are only a few ways you believe you can get money – earning it, winning it, or inheriting it, for example – then there are severe limitations put on how you can get money and how much you can get.

The Infinite I has no such limitations on how much money it can create for its Player; and in the second half of the Human game – when a Player is no longer exploring how limited it can become – it is time to leave behind all the beliefs, all the stories we have made up about money.

Notice I said “leave behind all the beliefs.” I didn’t say, “change the beliefs;” and this is a very important point.

All these self-help techniques, all these “secrets” someone tries to share with you about manifesting more money and more cars and more… everything, are all based on several skewed premises, which is why they don’t work for most people most of the time. For instance…

~ They say you have the power to manifest anything you want. You don’t. It’s that simple. Despite what your ego wants you to believe, only your Infinite I can manifest something in your holographic experience; not you.

~ They say you can attract money and cars and such into your life by meditating or praying or visualizing them, or repeating certain affirmations. You can’t; at least, not on a consistent basis. (We’ll talk more in a minute about why this might work occasionally.)

~ They say all you have to do is to change your beliefs, like the “power of positive thinking.”

What’s wrong with the “power of positive thinking?” Again, nothing “wrong” with it. It’s perfect for the first half of the Human Game because it leads into such limitation; first, because it’s “thinking,” which belongs to the first half while “feeling” belongs to the second half; secondly, because the Player has no “power;” and thirdly, because it simply trades one belief for another.

True, a positive thought might be “better” than a negative thought if you’re in the first half of the Human Game. But in the second half, that’s a judgment; and as we’ve seen, judgments keep us limited.

Underneath all beliefs are judgments. If there was no judgment, there would be no need for a belief and it would cease to exist. But if you try to “change your beliefs” without changing the judgment, nothing really changes at all. You’re just substituting one belief for another while the judgment remains intact.

If there really were a “secret” to manifesting everything we want, it would work for all the people who use it all the time. The actual result from all this self-help is that when it doesn’t work – which means for most people most of the time – the person feels worse about themselves than when they started, thinking there is something wrong with them, that they can’t do it “right,” that they’re deficient or defective somehow. The ironic perfection is that’s exactly what every first-half technique or religion or theory is designed to do – make you feel more limited.

So I am not suggesting you “change your beliefs” at all. I’m suggesting you see your beliefs for what they are – limiting filters on your perceptions – and leave them behind altogether. Even in the powerful example Dr. Lipton used in his seminar, where people saw one picture of FEAR with one set of glasses and another picture of LOVE with another set of glasses, it was still trading one filter for another; and neither filter allowed you to see the whole picture.

As Players in the second half of the Human Game, we don’t need beliefs; we don’t need stories. What we need to do now is to see the whole picture – both FEAR and LOVE – end our judgments of both of them, and – like Triumph and Disaster – start to “treat those two imposters just the same.”

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