Butterflies25

01/13/11 • 26 min

In the second part of Chapter 30 dealing with the question of Money, the author further explains why fads like “The Secret” and the “Law of Attraction” don’t work for most people most of the time, and end up making us feel even more deficient and defective when we fail to manifest what we want. “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.”

Instead, the author suggests “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!”

"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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Chapter 30, dealing with the question of Money, is divided into two episodes. In this first part, explaining that “I have an unlimited supply of money to have whatever holographic experience comes up for me in each moment; and so do you, although you don’t realize it yet. But I don’t ‘make money.’ No one makes money. We only think we do. That’s part of the illusion inside the movie theater.”

He then goes into detail about all the false beliefs people have about money that determine how much and in what way they are able to accept money coming into their holograms. “They are all beliefs people have about money, ‘stories’ they make up to explain why they think they don’t have enough money, or can’t make more money, or in many ways feel like they are a victim of the ‘money game.’ Repeat: All of these beliefs are false in a holographic universe, which should be expected since they were all formed while inside the movie theater. 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.”

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Chapter 31 begins with the question: "You’ve been pretty hard on the ego throughout this book. Isn’t that a judgment in itself?" The author explains that "we have assigned the ego a lot of power during the first half of the Human Game, and we have rewarded it time and time again for the good job it has done, to the point that it seems to have taken on a life of its own. But we should not make the mistake of judging or blaming the ego, or view the transformation into a butterfly as an all-out war with the ego. After all, the ego is simply another piece of the hologram that isn’t real, but only looks and feels real; and it has played its part perfectly in our holographic experiences just like anything and anyone else we have encountered while playing the Human Game."

In Chapter 32, the author tackles the very difficult question of Compassion. "This whole model seems to me a very selfish way to live. Where’s your heart? Where’s your compassion for the pain and suffering of others?"

The author responds that the concept of Compassion, by definition, "belongs in the first half of the Human Game, inside the movie theater, and not in the second half. Why? What’s “wrong” with compassion? Nothing is “wrong.” That would be a judgment. But compassion as it is defined (and practiced) automatically leads a Player to judge the experiences of someone else as “bad” or “wrong,” to think they have the power to change that person’s reality, and to entertain the wish to do so; and none of that is possible or appropriate in the second half of the Human Game. It also inevitably leads the Player who’s trying to be compassionate into frustration, sadness, and sometimes even despair; or, in other words, it leads further into limitation and restriction."