It’s time to kick this off! I wished I’d had time to get it together earlier, but since diving into Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can’t Win
I’ve decided to call it “expanding” because that’s what I feel like I’m doing in a way I’d never imagined possible. Since I started reading the book about 4 weeks ago, my inner world has gone from one of a routine of both subtle and gross limitations to a landscape bubbling with enlivening experiences. It all stems from a very special realisation which is: Money is not real. There you have it! (Isn’t that provocative?)
I was given the book serendipitously, and most everything I’ve experienced since diving into it has been a continuation of that, though now I’m more prone to seeing intentionality in it. After getting it, I let the book sit for about three weeks. This was an odd period because I had a sense that I’d get a lot out of taking a look, but I was busy reading some other things and working through the emotions from a recent tragedy. That period gave me some marker time; time to feel what things were like for me in general and REAL particularly about money. We’ve been living in what I can call, in moderate language, an uneasy financial situation for a while now. Our ability to be positive and creative about this had been growing in the three weeks before I started the book, and it took on a whole different meaning when I began to realise what the book is really about. (Money is almost the last thing it’s really about.)
So what I’ve done is read the book twice. The second time through I started making notes and collecting citations; separating the telling from the core of the matter. On one level the book is a quick read. From my point of view this is a massive mistake. In my second reading I have poured over passages soaking up the essence of the ontology, mechanics, experiences being proposed. This reading felt like standing under a powerful waterfall or being on the receiving end of a fire hose, getting drenched with unfathomable refreshment and at the same time knowing that it’s rolling by, and that it has to sink in somehow. Anyway, it won’t surprise me if I don’t read it again a few times. And now I have my notes readily available for quick reference.
At the end of the day, the reading isn’t what’s important. It’s the experience you bring about through a shift in perspective and applying the tools proposed in the book. And this place is about my experiences, because I’ve found them amazing. If you’d like to follow along and contribute you might consider getting the book and doing the work yourself. There is some very specific language and principles developed there, and if you’re going to really get something out of it, you need to experience it for yourself, of course.
Welcome to my expanding experience!
