We talked in Chapter Twenty-Four about “virtual reality”….
If part of your computer-generated “virtual reality” experience was to look at your bank account and see a million dollars in it, I wonder whether you would say, “This must be a mistake. I didn’t earn that money.” Most likely you would realize it was created out of thin air by the designer of your “virtual reality” experience and would not need to figure out how it got there. In fact, you would know how it got there.
But according to quantum physics, life itself is a “virtual reality” experience, a holographic universe created for us by our Infinite I’s. If we, as Players, would stop needing some “story” about how money can come to us, it would take away all the limitations we put on receiving money and make the Infinite I’s job so much easier.
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One question I hear a lot from friends, especially peaceworkers…. “How do we get our Infinite I’s to create more money for us, since we want to do ‘good’ things with it?”
The answer may be difficult for some people to take: “The question itself is a lot of the reason you may be having trouble.”
Why? First of all, the thought that you “want to do ‘good’ things with money” is still a judgment. In fact, there’s even one group who thinks there is something innately “wrong” with money and that it needs to be “humanized,”1 which they would be happy to do if you just give it to them.
As far as your Infinite I is concerned, there are not “good” things or “bad” things that can be done with money. Money – like everything else – is neutral. Money does not need to be “spiritualized,” or “humanized,” or “purified” by using it for “all the right reasons.” There are no “right ways” or “wrong ways” to use money; that’s just another judgment to let go of.
As you recall, in the first half, the game was to see how much limitation a Player could experience on the outside so the Infinite I could have an “inner experience.” That means the Infinite I can use money, for example, as a tool to create limitation. For some people, it might mean not having much money, or none at all. That alone can produce a great deal of limitation. For other Players, their Infinite I might choose to give them all the money they can have – even more than they can spend – and experience the limitations that come with wealth, like realizing that peace and joy are not the result of having a lot of money. I’m sure you know people who are wealthy but very unhappy at the same time. In fact, having money can often be more limiting than not having it.
Or maybe an Infinite I gives its Player money, and they lose it and experience limitation that way. Or maybe a Player is very comfortable financially, but something happens to the economy and the Player feels victimized by “powers beyond its control” when the fortune they think they worked so hard to create is suddenly gone. All of these possibilities and more can lead to limiting experiences in the first half of the Game.
The bottom line is that it is the Infinite I who decides how much money you’re going to have based on the experiences it wants you to have and the best way it decides it can create those experiences.
That’s true in the second half of the Human Game as well.
In the second half the Infinite I wants you to enjoy infinite abundance, and that includes having all the money you want and need. But this isn’t going to mean that as soon as you start playing the Second Half your bank account is automatically going to be full to overflowing, because you still have judgments about money that you developed in the first half, and beliefs about how you can get that money that have to be dealt with. Better said, in the first half of the Game you assigned a lot of power “out there” in relationship to money – who creates it, what you have to do “out there” to bring it “in here,” and so on; and as we’ve discussed, the first thing you will be doing in the second half is having experiences that show you where you have assigned this power in order for you to “reclaim” it and recognize the true source of abundance – your Infinite I.
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So can we just ask our Infinite I for money, or pray for it? Yes, you can. You can send a message to your Infinite I in any way you feel is appropriate that you would like some money. You should feel free at any time to let your Infinite I know your wishes – which it probably already does, but it doesn’t matter. Ask anyway.
By the way, you only need to ask once. Your Infinite I will hear you the first time and doesn’t need a reminder! Asking more than once looks a lot like a judgment that something’s wrong because you haven’t gotten it yet. Remember, your Infinite I may decide not getting what you ask for is the most appropriate experience for you and it, even in the second half; so you cannot have any expectations attached to your request when you ask, no need to have your wish fulfilled. Perhaps your Infinite I has something else in store that might make you even more joyful and more abundant than what you were asking for!
This was certainly true for me. My Infinite I knew how much I loved the ocean, and sailing, and whales and dolphins. I often dreamt of living on a boat, but I had no money to make that happen. Instead of giving me a couple million dollars, my Infinite I created an experience for me sailing around the east Atlantic Ocean on an eighty-foot sailboat with some of my best friends, swimming with the whales and dolphins, playing music, and having the time of my life for a year; and it didn’t cost me a penny. I could never have created that on my own, or even thought about that possibility.
So why ask for money in the first place? If you want to ask for something, why not ask instead for what you know you’re going to get anyway – whatever experiences your Infinite I wants you to have, along with all the money needed for those experiences; and if you’re still in the phase of recognizing where you have assigned power “out there” about money, you really should be asking for experiences when you don’t get the money you want so you can clearly see the limiting judgments and beliefs you still have about money.
“But wait a minute,” a good friend says to me. “I decided I wanted a motorcycle; so I used The Secret, visualized what I wanted, and I got one!”
Fantastic! I am sincerely happy for you and glad you got what you wanted. But I have to disagree with you about how you got it, since you have no power to create anything, and neither does some secret law of attraction. Only your Infinite I could create a motorcycle for you, and I can think of a lot of other explanations of how and why you got what you wanted.
For example, since I know you, I know what a really good man you are; and if I were your Infinite I, I would give you a motorcycle too, just to reward you for what a great job you’re doing as my Player. I can also imagine it happened the other way around – that your Infinite I wanted you to have a motorcycle, and has wanted that for a long time, but your beliefs made it difficult to get one for you until you decided you could “manifest” one using a secret formula. (That, by the way, is the one benefit of The Secret and the “Law of Attraction” – that you expand your beliefs about how things can come into your reality.)
Or maybe your Infinite I wanted you to begin to realize that it was the source of all your experiences, and deepen the connection and communication with you; and the best way it could find to do that was give you a motorcycle, and then later give you this paragraph in this book to let you know where it really came from.
The possibilities are endless. The only possibility that is not possible (what?!) is that you “manifested” the motorcycle, because it simply cannot be something you did independent of a holographic experience created by your Infinite I. Recognizing that fact is an important step to take in the cocoon.
Despite what the ego would like us to believe – that we have the power to create a motorcycle, for example, or money, or a house, or anything because of something we, as a Player, did – this is one of those beliefs inside the movie theater that can only lead further into limitation. By design, it’s important the Player misassign the true source of its experiences in the first half or the illusion would be broken and the Game would be up.
As I said, since I know you, I also know you’ve tried to manifest other things before using this same “secret,” and they haven’t worked. What’s important to understand is that it wasn’t you who did anything wrong in those other cases. In fact, you – and all of us – have done everything perfectly as Players, whether we realize it or not. The techniques we have used to try to make our experiences different are what do not work. Yes, they all contain some truth and some workability some of the time for some people; but they are anywhere from slightly skewed to way off target in order to make the first half of the Game possible.
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Now that we’re playing in the second half, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth can be revealed; and as Players we will be given new opportunities to experience something very different. For instance, off the top of my head I can think of six general ways in which we blocked the flow of money in the first half of the Human Game that we might have to take a close look at in the second half in order to start behaving in the opposite way:
1. Having judgments and beliefs about money
2. Wanting money because you think something has to be fixed, changed or improved in your experiences or “out there”
3. Thinking you have the power to create money
4. Thinking you have to “do something” to get money
5. Thinking money has to have a “story” of how it comes to you
6. Not trusting the Infinite I
We’ve talked a lot about most of these already, so let me just make a few additional comments….
I know so many people who want money because they want something “out there” to be different. Maybe it’s to save the whales, or end poverty or hunger, or create world peace. Noble thoughts, all of them; but still judgments that something’s wrong and needs to be fixed, changed or improved. Remember that the whales, poverty, hunger, war and violence are showing up in your holographic experience, created by your Infinite I, for a reason. In the first half of the Game, the reason was to create more limitation. In the second half, it’s to show you where you assigned power “out there” and forgot the fact your Infinite I was creating everything in your hologram and none of it was “real.” So in the second half it’s doubtful your Infinite I – who wants only infinite joy and abundance for you – will financially support the continuation of these first-half judgments.
One of the biggest beliefs to let go of is that we, as Players, not only have the power to create money, but that we have to go out and “do something” in order to get it – in other words, to be “pro-active,” especially when it comes to money. But, literally, there is nothing we can do. Our Infinite I is doing it all for us, and our only part is to leave behind our judgments and beliefs and therefore be more able to receive the abundance trying to come our way.
The fact is that we only think we have to do something because we have these made-up stories of how money can get to us. When we let go of those stories, money can start to flow in many different ways we can hardly imagine. Let me offer two examples (based on actual experiences) from a different gender perspective, beginning with "ladies first"....
Your parents are about to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and you've been working for months to collect pictures of them since they were very young to make into a movie celebrating their lives together. You found the final picture you wanted last night, and now you're ready to start creating the video.
There is this really cool software program you ran across on the Internet to make videos with music and voice-over and animation and everything, and it costs $119.95. When you paid your credit card bill last time, you knew you only had about $150 in available credit, and you also need some new shoes for work. But you are so excited about this gift for mom and dad that you decide to buy the software anyway and worry about the shoes later.
The video is a total success and your parents are very touched.
When your credit card statement arrives, you still have $150 available credit. This doesn't make sense. You look and see your credit limit had not been raised; and then you notice the charge for the software program is not on the statement, although you had received confirmation of the charge from the company.
Concerned that the company had not actually been paid, and not wanting to do anything unethical, you call them. "Yes, we received payment for your purchase. No problem."
So you decide to wait, expecting the $119.95 charge to be on the next credit card statement. But it's not. Nor is it on the next month's.
You really need those shoes by now, so you purchase them on the same credit card. They don't show up on the next few statements either. In fact, none of the charges you make on this credit card are showing up on any statements, although the merchants and vendors are getting paid.
Finally, as a second half Player, you realize your Infinite I is creating money for you in a new and very inventive way, and you express your deep appreciation.
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And now from a male perspective....
You decide to go out to dinner with some friends, and you look in your wallet and see you’ve got $10. You get to the restaurant, look at the menu, and your mouth waters when you read about a T-bone steak. Your entire body is filled with joy at the thought of eating this T-bone, and your excitement grows with each passing minute.
Then you see the price of the steak: $14. You remember you only have $10. Next you remember the news story last night that red meat is bad for you, and you decide you really shouldn’t eat the steak anyway. Then you look across the table at a woman you have been dying to hook-up with and realize she’s a vegetarian who only eats organic food; and since you want to impress her, you don’t want the steak after all. With each new thought, your excitement level goes down and down, until you’re no longer happy you came to dinner.
Finally you decide on a Caesar salad (with no grilled chicken), which costs $7, so you’ll have a little left for a drink and tip and tax. But no beer, because your doctor said you have to lose weight, although now you really want one.
You leave the restaurant an hour later, without the woman of your dreams, sad and lonely and unsatisfied, and $10 poorer. On top of that, the Caesar salad was terrible and the waitress was rude. You regret the whole evening.
Or…
You decide to go out to dinner with some friends, and you look in your wallet and see you’ve got $10. You get to the restaurant, look at the menu, and your mouth waters when you read about a T-bone steak. Your entire body is filled with joy at the thought of eating this T-bone, and your excitement grows with each passing minute.
Then you see the price of the steak: $14, but you remind yourself your Infinite I wants you to follow your excitement and joy, and will reward you when you do now that you’re playing the second half of the Human Game. So you order the steak, and a beer.
The woman sitting across from you eating her baked potato and broccoli leans over and whispers, “Strange... I really wanted a steak tonight, too. I wish I had ordered that!” After dinner, saying she really enjoys being around you because you’re such a free and happy person, she gives you her phone number. The whole night was a total success; the food was prepared perfectly, and the service was impeccable. Best of all, you wake up the next morning having lost a couple pounds.
But wait! How did you pay for the steak? When the bill came, you looked in your wallet and there was $20, not $10. Well, you think, you must have miscounted before you left the house.
Maybe. But just maybe your Infinite I changed your hologram and downloaded $20 into your wallet instead of $10 when it was clear you weren’t going to let your judgments and beliefs get in the way of your excitement. After this happens to you a few more times, you finally accept the fact your Infinite I has found another way to create money for you.
Do this a few times – give your Infinite I the opportunity to support your excitement financially – and your life will never be the same. Soon you’ll be “finding” money in places you never dreamed of, receiving money in ways you never thought possible, and forgetting to look at your bank balance because you know it’s not real anyway and can be changed in the twinkling of an Infinite I.
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"Are you serious? Does this really work?”
Yes, it does. At least, it has for me and many other people I know who understand how money works in a holographic universe. I’m not saying I always have a lot of money in my pocket or in my bank account. But I know without a doubt I have access to an unlimited supply of money through my Infinite I, and that I will always have all the money I need to have the experiences my Infinite I wants; and that’s a fantastic place to be, because I never have to worry about money again.
It’s really pretty simple… if my Infinite I wants me to have an experience, it will give me all the money needed for that experience. If I, as the Player, think I want to have an experience, but my Infinite I disagrees with me, the money won’t be available no matter what I might try to make happen. You can’t get any simpler than that!
But I don’t think that’s really the question. Most probably the real question on your mind is, “Will this work for you?”
Specifically, in the first half of the Human Game, we believed we had to be “pro-active,” believed we had to “do something” to “make something happen.” Out of that belief came others related to money, like having to work for it, or go “out there” and get it, or make other people give it to us in one form or another. In fact, the only ways we thought we could get money were totally dependent on other people, to whom we assigned a lot of power. In reality, even in the first half, our Infinite I was creating all the money we were getting as part of the holograms it downloaded to our brains, the amount of money limited of course by our judgments and beliefs about the ways it could come to us. It just looked like we were “making money.” It just looked like we were dependent on other people to give it to us.
In the second half, we can leave all that behind with the absolute certainty that all the money we need for any experience will be part of any hologram our Infinite I downloads to us.
But please don’t misunderstand. I’m not suggesting that all you do in the second half is sit in your chair and wait for the money to be magically deposited into your bank account, unless that’s what brings you the most joy and all you’re motivated to do at that moment. I am suggesting that whatever you feel excited to do, whatever brings you joy, is where you should focus all your attention and energy, rather than doing something that doesn’t bring you joy because you feel you “have to make money.” Maybe the resentment and other discomfort you feel working at a job you don’t like simply for the money is your Infinite I’s way of saying “Stop it!” and find out what excites you to do the most, regardless of the money.
The only thing stopping most people from doing just that is fear. But who knows? Perhaps what really excites you would bring in more money than whatever job you hate now.
There’s only one thing I can guarantee you, based on my own experience and the results of testing and challenging this model: Once you’ve processed your judgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears about money, your Infinite I will have a much easier job getting the money to you to follow your excitement; and you will grow to trust your Infinite I completely that it will provide all the money you need to have the experiences it wants.
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I could give you quite a few examples from my own life when money appeared in my bank account or my wallet for absolutely no reason – exactly the amount I needed to do something, and exactly right on time – with the paperwork to prove it; and I have no idea where the money came from. In fact, now I’m so used to money showing up out of thin air that I’m no longer surprised when it does.
However, an Infinite I’s financial support doesn’t always take the form of cash or credit card charges that never show up on the statement. Sometimes your Infinite I, in its infinite wisdom and power, has a better way to create an experience for you that you thought was going to take cash. The year I spent on the whale and dolphin research ship is a good example, where it didn’t cost me a penny, nor did I have to find a half-million dollars to build the ship.
I will admit, however, there are times I wonder how my Infinite I is going to “pull this one off.” For example, it became very obvious recently that my Infinite I wanted me to go back to the United States for a while. I don’t yet fully understand why, or for how long; and I was very surprised because I am so happy living in Europe. But it seemed like the flow was in the direction of “home” from reading all the ripples in the Universal ocean, including almost magical “coincidences” of finding the perfect flight at the perfect time for the perfect price. But I still didn’t have the money to pay for the ticket.
I wasn’t worried about where the money was coming from. In fact, if the money didn’t show up, I would simply have understood that I was reading the ripples incorrectly and I wasn’t supposed to go back to the States after all. But I did wonder, when the ripples became clear, how my Infinite I was going to come up with a fairly large sum of money this time.
In the past, as I said, it has just “appeared” in my bank account, and I expected something similar in this case. But that’s not what happened. Instead, a friend loaned me the money. Normally I don’t like borrowing money from people. I used to do that inside the movie theater, but hadn’t since I walked out the back door, making it clear to my Infinite I that I wasn’t totally comfortable with that method of getting money to me – a judgment of mine about “other people’s” money.
However, my Infinite I chose this opportunity for me to let go of this particular belief on how money can come to me, letting me see the judgments and fears and layers of the ego underneath, and reminding me “other people” are in my hologram “to set something in motion to support me.” In fact, I could accept this “loan” from my friend because I also knew with certainty it was what his Infinite I wanted to happen for him, although I may never know why.
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Here’s the best way I can come up with to explain this in a nutshell….
We’re playing a very sophisticated video game, using the “Earth Environment” template, but designed uniquely for each Player by their Infinite I. That Infinite I has certain experiences it wants its Player to have – “outer experiences” in order for the Infinite I to have the “inner experiences.”
In most good video games, a Player needs certain things to play, stay alive, and make it to the final destination – such as weapons, ammunition, energy packs, special tools or skills, keys, clues, and so on. In our video game, we need a lot of things as well, but mostly we need money so we can buy everything else.
In a video game, the designer creates everything and makes it available during the game so all the player has to do is find it and grab it and add it to their inventory. In our video game, the same thing is true. All the money we need to play, stay alive, and make it to our final destination is created by our Infinite I – since we, as a Player have no power to create anything – and it’s all right there for the Player to take.
So it’s the job of the Infinite I to create the money we need and make it available. It’s the job of the Player to find it and grab it. “Finding it,” however, is made difficult when the Player believes the money can only be in certain locations, and they can only get it if they work for it or win it or inherit it or….
When a Player lets go of these belief systems about money, they can begin to see it in many different places and their Infinite I can make it more easily available. But it’s still the Player’s job to reach out and take the money. That’s what’s meant about a Player having total free will over their reactions and responses to the experiences created for them. I could have, for instance, not taken the loan from my friend to buy my airline ticket back to the States, choosing instead to hang on to my judgment and belief about “other people’s” money. In that case I would not have been able to ride the ripple and follow the flow in the direction my Infinite I was offering.
So there are two basic reasons I can give for this phenomenon I experience with money. First, I have let go of virtually all my judgments and beliefs about money; and secondly, I have taken off almost all the limits on the ways my Infinite I can get that money to me, giving it many more possibilities. I will admit, however, having money just appear in my outstretched hand would still freak me out. Maybe one day….