Dear fellow traveler Spaced,
I would like to add a few things to the discussion. As always, take to heart only what resonates with your soul. I appreciate that money is a really sticky issue and a lot of emotions are bound up with it. Shame and a sense of vulnerability are common. I would advise you to remember what I remember reading in one of Carla's channelings: third density is the density of confusion and ignorance and pain. It's not your fault if you feel like that. So rest easy if you blame yourself for these feelings making you suffer.
I also feel like a lot of people who are into the spiritual journey put way too much stock in free will. I don't think it technically exists, personally. One has no choice about BEING, right? No one asked you if you wanted existence to exist, or if you wanted it to contain suffering and incarnational challenges. I think our bodies and minds only go through the motions of making choices and that adherence to the belief "I am the doer, I am the chooser" on top of that is the cause of tons of suffering and angst. Only in the wake of letting go of the idea that I'm in charge of *anything* have I felt like my actions were truly taken care of by the divine hand. When this illusion began falling away from me I started to get in the flow. It wasn't a matter of doing anything right. And, as a corollary, not being in the flow isn't a matter of doing anything *wrong.* Rest easy on this count, if you please.
I mean, Jesus was MFing JESUS, and he felt abandoned and forsaken in his last moments. It's okay to feel lost now.
As for practical advice, I would consider the example of Bob Kiyosaki's life as the success story of someone who made it through your situation. He's a famous and rich businessman who has authored a whole series of books on personal finance. If my memory serves me right, he tried to start a business, failed horribly, and ended up living out of a car for a while with his wife stewing in self-blame. Even while his business seemed to be doing good, he encountered similar obstacles to your own, but on a business-wide scale - relentless strings of unfortunate events, inability to meet loan payments, and the like. He then took another more successful businessman's advice on how to get out of the slump, which was (to my surprise, as I read the book) to *act* rich and *feel* rich and *risk* money on some of the trappings of a rich man that seem just superfluous, like a nice watch. This is exactly what Rhonda Byrne (the author of "The Secret") said to do in her more evolved, heartfelt, and compassionate book (according to my friend, who has read it and told me about it) "The Secret: The Power." She might be a useful source.
I think a useful activity, therefore, would be to follow Kiyosaki's path. Buy a little something nice, something that feels a little *too* nice perhaps, that you want. He and Byrne advise people to *feel* rich as they do this, like it's nothing to acquire such things. My personal advice would be to work up to it. Do something silly that makes you feel like a king. Make a ridiculous bling necklace out of Cheerios and macaroni wheels and dance with your wife in the candlelight. Adorn each other with these opulent jewels! How could you not feel abundance when you're having so much fun? Be a kid again and feel the way you felt back when a cardboard box was a spaceship.
In choosing to buy something nice, I would recommend a night out at a restaurant you can afford, after which you leave too big a tip for a man with financial worries. There is nobility in having riches if you share them. Feel the power of those few dollars as you disperse them into the global financial grid. You're paying a restaurant, which pays its workers, which pay other workers. Because of your dollars, the shippers who move the raw produce to that restaurant have money. Your dollars pay the farmers. Your dollars even pay the "a**hole speculators" who "pirate" the markets - the relatively small-time speculators who are being crowded out by high-speed algorithms owned by the monster squid financial institutions, but who still exist, and who get paid because speculation by honest traders (who are trying to get RICH) encourages stable crop and material prices and keeps bubbles from forming in the markets and putting people out of work.
You might benefit from looking up Ed Seykota on Google. He is a wise, rich man (VERY rich), who made his living by following spiritual principles, even if he does not call them as such. He was always honest, he appreciated the value of money in terms of how much effort goes into coming by it and how it benefits himself and others to be rich, and he knew how to pull off textbook manifestation. He created this group called the Trading Tribe where he teaches people who want to win in the markets to completely eradicate GREED and FEAR. Seriously, you have to be either a cheater or a Zen master to win in the markets. He's a Zen master. What could be more spiritual than eradicating greed and fear? The guy is a bodhisattva.
It just seems that you feel like the whole system is broken and nobody good is playing in it. There are still wise and good people in finance and business and they feel the same way you do about the system. They know our economy isn't perfect but they do what they can with what's there and use their profits to (actually) provide employment, affordable apartments, and valuable goods and services. I sense a serious disillusionment in your writing and possibly a fear that if you had money, it would taint you with greed, or maybe that it's inherently un-spiritual. This is understandable, especially if you're a wanderer. It's true, money is a third-density relic we will leave behind. But so are our bodies, and we use our bodies to hug and kiss and make love and bring children into the world who will carry forth the spiritual light. Money is like air; we breathe it in and breathe it out. It gets recycled; there is a water cycle and a money cycle to match it.
If I were going to attempt wealth magic in your position, I might do one or more of the following things:
1. Do the necklace and dance thing. I think I'd have great fun doing it if I were in your position. I think your wife will love it too. Get yo' swag on.
2. Pay for a meal whose price tag makes you anxious, and tip 33%. Feel like a boss when you think of all the stimulus money you're dumping into the economy. Consider also buying a pizza and handing it off to some homeless people. Little Caesar's sells them for $5 American. Do you have those up there? Or maybe consider buying them a bag of apples. Very poor people rarely get *real* food, and they can pocket apples for later if they aren't hungry.
3. Play a game of Monopoly with your wife. But try not to beat her, and instead work with her to provide the best housing. Play like you both run a real estate firm and are trying to give people houses. Get toy soldiers or Lego people and put them by the houses and hotels you build so you can see that real people live there. You get to put houses on Baltic and Mediterranean for the people who can afford those houses, and hotels on Boardwalk and Park Street for the people who can afford those. You take their money thankfully and without cynicism for their desire to experience that opulence, and you build more houses for more Lego people. You stimulate the economy. Pat yourself on the back when you max out the real estate on every square. Mortgage your property if your wife runs out of money and give her a loan. Take a loan from her. Learn to barter and charge fair interest rates on side-table loans, maybe. Feel like you're in business.
BEFORE YOU READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH, READ MY POST WHERE I CRITICIZE MY OWN ADVICE.
4. Befriend a wealth spirit. I *really* want to remind you to take *only* what resonates with you as advice here, because I'm about to venture into *religious* ground. I'm Buddhist by learning, and I love their deities (the Tibetan traditions are full of actual worship and propitiation and valuable spirit friendships, unlike Zen and the older schools of Buddhism). Ratnasambhava is the name of their Earth buddha. I like him a lot. He has a mantra that works like a phone number: OM RATNASAMBHAVA TRAH. If you feel anxious about money, dial his number by saying it once or twice in your head or aloud. Feel the vibration of the thought or sound enter your energy and mix with your body and aura and environment, allow your crown chakra to open to him, and trust. I have three years of experience working with these mantras on top of a lot more years of energy work that made me sensitive to that aspect of my body. Mantras work. And desperation is powerful magic. I think it's the only thing that can really spark most people into a spiritual friendship with a spirit or deity. You might get a positive greeting, especially if you use the mantra to express hope that all beings have great riches and material power. These spirits, I can assure you, are real thoughtforms out there in the ether, and they like you and want to help you. This comes from personal experience that only gets more and more real for me by the day. Again - only try this if you really resonate with the idea.
IF YOU READ THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH, BE SURE TO CHECK MY LATER POST WHERE I CRITICIZE MYSELF.
5. Spend a day imagining yourself in a bada$$ business suit with rings on your fingers and a solid gold watch. Stuff your wallet with paper rectangles to make it fat and feel it in your back pocket when you sit down. Just do whatever it takes to feel like you've made it.
6. Literally wipe your bottom with a dollar bill and flush it. Have a laugh. Show the world you can roll this way.
7. Have you ever thought about what you'd do if you won the lottery? I would suggest imagining you have, say, $400 million. You *have* to spend 1/4 of it on yourself.
8. Do a little research. Do you know what a stock is? A bond? An option? A future? Do you know why bonds' interest rates go up when fewer people want them? What might make fewer people want a bond that used to be popular? What might make them want a bond that isn't popular at all? Can unpopular bonds have great hidden value? Do you know about the Dutch Tulip Mania? What was that? What's a credit default swap? Did you know that my friend made 20% returns after a very short time by loaning a little money to a local organic farm? I'm not saying to buy these bonds or stocks, or make a loan, or that this reading HAS to resonate with you, but it may crack your blocked chakras open a bit to just dip a toe into the pool and open your mind to the idea that money is interesting and amazing.
9. I would HIGHLY recommend writing down all your thoughts about money. Just spew into a journal about money and be HONEST and see what comes out. See what's true. Get the thoughts in writing so you can isolate the emotions attached to them and study them from all angles. My big question that I would ask you would be, is money evil? Do you need to steal to make money? Can money damage your soul? Is Ed Seykota right? Is it possible that eliminating greed and fear, that being a spiritual aspirant of the noblest purpose, is compatible with making money? Can spiritual people be rich? If they feel like being rich, should they be? Will the divine hand make rich those who deserve it? Are you sure that your incarnational plan involves constant stress about money? Is it possible that the clouds will break and you'll have an epiphany, an opening of the chakras and a resetting of the energy, that just ENDS this cycle? Why not you? And - why do I like Ratnasambhava so much as a friend? Is DMCubic just delusional? ;-)
10. I would also HIGHLY recommend getting rid of ANY stolen goods in the house. When I deleted 80 GB of pirated music, I felt my chakras release a major blockage *immediately.* You can still find playlists on YouTube and listen to your favorite songs. But in my opinion, stealing will keep you feeling broke and depressed, and I found out directly that digital piracy is definitely stealing because it eased a karmic burden for me to dispose of all that stuff on my hard drive.
11. There is a pair of boxer shorts my mom got me for Christmas which I love. It's decorated with rolls of toilet paper, except the squares are $100 bills, and it says "THIS IS HOW I ROLL" all over it. Try and find them and splurge on a silly item. Wear them with pride.
I feel that the world of economics and finance - of money - is beautiful. Here in 3D, money is an angel covered in superficial stains. She's glorious, but we hate her and lust for her and kill her before she can smile on us. Remember, Spaceship Earth will basically look like third density for another 100 years or so. Even when we all work together, will we still need loans? As we go into 4D's early stages, will it still be useful to have a stock market? Is there anything wrong with a mutually satisfying financial transaction? Will there *ever* be anything wrong with it?
Remember, do only what resonates with you, but my personal hope is that you will engage in these suggested courses of action with talismanic intent, with a true sense that you are a magical being, and that the Divine Hand wants to be your hand moving those Monopoly pieces and stuffing your wallet with paper. Magic is everywhere, and in the Creation, Hope is everywhere. You are not alone and powerful forces will aid you if you take true action in ANY way to break this vicious cycle. I would advise you to keep your expectations open.
I would like to add a few things to the discussion. As always, take to heart only what resonates with your soul. I appreciate that money is a really sticky issue and a lot of emotions are bound up with it. Shame and a sense of vulnerability are common. I would advise you to remember what I remember reading in one of Carla's channelings: third density is the density of confusion and ignorance and pain. It's not your fault if you feel like that. So rest easy if you blame yourself for these feelings making you suffer.
I also feel like a lot of people who are into the spiritual journey put way too much stock in free will. I don't think it technically exists, personally. One has no choice about BEING, right? No one asked you if you wanted existence to exist, or if you wanted it to contain suffering and incarnational challenges. I think our bodies and minds only go through the motions of making choices and that adherence to the belief "I am the doer, I am the chooser" on top of that is the cause of tons of suffering and angst. Only in the wake of letting go of the idea that I'm in charge of *anything* have I felt like my actions were truly taken care of by the divine hand. When this illusion began falling away from me I started to get in the flow. It wasn't a matter of doing anything right. And, as a corollary, not being in the flow isn't a matter of doing anything *wrong.* Rest easy on this count, if you please.
I mean, Jesus was MFing JESUS, and he felt abandoned and forsaken in his last moments. It's okay to feel lost now.
As for practical advice, I would consider the example of Bob Kiyosaki's life as the success story of someone who made it through your situation. He's a famous and rich businessman who has authored a whole series of books on personal finance. If my memory serves me right, he tried to start a business, failed horribly, and ended up living out of a car for a while with his wife stewing in self-blame. Even while his business seemed to be doing good, he encountered similar obstacles to your own, but on a business-wide scale - relentless strings of unfortunate events, inability to meet loan payments, and the like. He then took another more successful businessman's advice on how to get out of the slump, which was (to my surprise, as I read the book) to *act* rich and *feel* rich and *risk* money on some of the trappings of a rich man that seem just superfluous, like a nice watch. This is exactly what Rhonda Byrne (the author of "The Secret") said to do in her more evolved, heartfelt, and compassionate book (according to my friend, who has read it and told me about it) "The Secret: The Power." She might be a useful source.
I think a useful activity, therefore, would be to follow Kiyosaki's path. Buy a little something nice, something that feels a little *too* nice perhaps, that you want. He and Byrne advise people to *feel* rich as they do this, like it's nothing to acquire such things. My personal advice would be to work up to it. Do something silly that makes you feel like a king. Make a ridiculous bling necklace out of Cheerios and macaroni wheels and dance with your wife in the candlelight. Adorn each other with these opulent jewels! How could you not feel abundance when you're having so much fun? Be a kid again and feel the way you felt back when a cardboard box was a spaceship.
In choosing to buy something nice, I would recommend a night out at a restaurant you can afford, after which you leave too big a tip for a man with financial worries. There is nobility in having riches if you share them. Feel the power of those few dollars as you disperse them into the global financial grid. You're paying a restaurant, which pays its workers, which pay other workers. Because of your dollars, the shippers who move the raw produce to that restaurant have money. Your dollars pay the farmers. Your dollars even pay the "a**hole speculators" who "pirate" the markets - the relatively small-time speculators who are being crowded out by high-speed algorithms owned by the monster squid financial institutions, but who still exist, and who get paid because speculation by honest traders (who are trying to get RICH) encourages stable crop and material prices and keeps bubbles from forming in the markets and putting people out of work.
You might benefit from looking up Ed Seykota on Google. He is a wise, rich man (VERY rich), who made his living by following spiritual principles, even if he does not call them as such. He was always honest, he appreciated the value of money in terms of how much effort goes into coming by it and how it benefits himself and others to be rich, and he knew how to pull off textbook manifestation. He created this group called the Trading Tribe where he teaches people who want to win in the markets to completely eradicate GREED and FEAR. Seriously, you have to be either a cheater or a Zen master to win in the markets. He's a Zen master. What could be more spiritual than eradicating greed and fear? The guy is a bodhisattva.
It just seems that you feel like the whole system is broken and nobody good is playing in it. There are still wise and good people in finance and business and they feel the same way you do about the system. They know our economy isn't perfect but they do what they can with what's there and use their profits to (actually) provide employment, affordable apartments, and valuable goods and services. I sense a serious disillusionment in your writing and possibly a fear that if you had money, it would taint you with greed, or maybe that it's inherently un-spiritual. This is understandable, especially if you're a wanderer. It's true, money is a third-density relic we will leave behind. But so are our bodies, and we use our bodies to hug and kiss and make love and bring children into the world who will carry forth the spiritual light. Money is like air; we breathe it in and breathe it out. It gets recycled; there is a water cycle and a money cycle to match it.
If I were going to attempt wealth magic in your position, I might do one or more of the following things:
1. Do the necklace and dance thing. I think I'd have great fun doing it if I were in your position. I think your wife will love it too. Get yo' swag on.
2. Pay for a meal whose price tag makes you anxious, and tip 33%. Feel like a boss when you think of all the stimulus money you're dumping into the economy. Consider also buying a pizza and handing it off to some homeless people. Little Caesar's sells them for $5 American. Do you have those up there? Or maybe consider buying them a bag of apples. Very poor people rarely get *real* food, and they can pocket apples for later if they aren't hungry.
3. Play a game of Monopoly with your wife. But try not to beat her, and instead work with her to provide the best housing. Play like you both run a real estate firm and are trying to give people houses. Get toy soldiers or Lego people and put them by the houses and hotels you build so you can see that real people live there. You get to put houses on Baltic and Mediterranean for the people who can afford those houses, and hotels on Boardwalk and Park Street for the people who can afford those. You take their money thankfully and without cynicism for their desire to experience that opulence, and you build more houses for more Lego people. You stimulate the economy. Pat yourself on the back when you max out the real estate on every square. Mortgage your property if your wife runs out of money and give her a loan. Take a loan from her. Learn to barter and charge fair interest rates on side-table loans, maybe. Feel like you're in business.
BEFORE YOU READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH, READ MY POST WHERE I CRITICIZE MY OWN ADVICE.
4. Befriend a wealth spirit. I *really* want to remind you to take *only* what resonates with you as advice here, because I'm about to venture into *religious* ground. I'm Buddhist by learning, and I love their deities (the Tibetan traditions are full of actual worship and propitiation and valuable spirit friendships, unlike Zen and the older schools of Buddhism). Ratnasambhava is the name of their Earth buddha. I like him a lot. He has a mantra that works like a phone number: OM RATNASAMBHAVA TRAH. If you feel anxious about money, dial his number by saying it once or twice in your head or aloud. Feel the vibration of the thought or sound enter your energy and mix with your body and aura and environment, allow your crown chakra to open to him, and trust. I have three years of experience working with these mantras on top of a lot more years of energy work that made me sensitive to that aspect of my body. Mantras work. And desperation is powerful magic. I think it's the only thing that can really spark most people into a spiritual friendship with a spirit or deity. You might get a positive greeting, especially if you use the mantra to express hope that all beings have great riches and material power. These spirits, I can assure you, are real thoughtforms out there in the ether, and they like you and want to help you. This comes from personal experience that only gets more and more real for me by the day. Again - only try this if you really resonate with the idea.
IF YOU READ THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH, BE SURE TO CHECK MY LATER POST WHERE I CRITICIZE MYSELF.
5. Spend a day imagining yourself in a bada$$ business suit with rings on your fingers and a solid gold watch. Stuff your wallet with paper rectangles to make it fat and feel it in your back pocket when you sit down. Just do whatever it takes to feel like you've made it.
6. Literally wipe your bottom with a dollar bill and flush it. Have a laugh. Show the world you can roll this way.
7. Have you ever thought about what you'd do if you won the lottery? I would suggest imagining you have, say, $400 million. You *have* to spend 1/4 of it on yourself.
8. Do a little research. Do you know what a stock is? A bond? An option? A future? Do you know why bonds' interest rates go up when fewer people want them? What might make fewer people want a bond that used to be popular? What might make them want a bond that isn't popular at all? Can unpopular bonds have great hidden value? Do you know about the Dutch Tulip Mania? What was that? What's a credit default swap? Did you know that my friend made 20% returns after a very short time by loaning a little money to a local organic farm? I'm not saying to buy these bonds or stocks, or make a loan, or that this reading HAS to resonate with you, but it may crack your blocked chakras open a bit to just dip a toe into the pool and open your mind to the idea that money is interesting and amazing.
9. I would HIGHLY recommend writing down all your thoughts about money. Just spew into a journal about money and be HONEST and see what comes out. See what's true. Get the thoughts in writing so you can isolate the emotions attached to them and study them from all angles. My big question that I would ask you would be, is money evil? Do you need to steal to make money? Can money damage your soul? Is Ed Seykota right? Is it possible that eliminating greed and fear, that being a spiritual aspirant of the noblest purpose, is compatible with making money? Can spiritual people be rich? If they feel like being rich, should they be? Will the divine hand make rich those who deserve it? Are you sure that your incarnational plan involves constant stress about money? Is it possible that the clouds will break and you'll have an epiphany, an opening of the chakras and a resetting of the energy, that just ENDS this cycle? Why not you? And - why do I like Ratnasambhava so much as a friend? Is DMCubic just delusional? ;-)
10. I would also HIGHLY recommend getting rid of ANY stolen goods in the house. When I deleted 80 GB of pirated music, I felt my chakras release a major blockage *immediately.* You can still find playlists on YouTube and listen to your favorite songs. But in my opinion, stealing will keep you feeling broke and depressed, and I found out directly that digital piracy is definitely stealing because it eased a karmic burden for me to dispose of all that stuff on my hard drive.
11. There is a pair of boxer shorts my mom got me for Christmas which I love. It's decorated with rolls of toilet paper, except the squares are $100 bills, and it says "THIS IS HOW I ROLL" all over it. Try and find them and splurge on a silly item. Wear them with pride.
I feel that the world of economics and finance - of money - is beautiful. Here in 3D, money is an angel covered in superficial stains. She's glorious, but we hate her and lust for her and kill her before she can smile on us. Remember, Spaceship Earth will basically look like third density for another 100 years or so. Even when we all work together, will we still need loans? As we go into 4D's early stages, will it still be useful to have a stock market? Is there anything wrong with a mutually satisfying financial transaction? Will there *ever* be anything wrong with it?
Remember, do only what resonates with you, but my personal hope is that you will engage in these suggested courses of action with talismanic intent, with a true sense that you are a magical being, and that the Divine Hand wants to be your hand moving those Monopoly pieces and stuffing your wallet with paper. Magic is everywhere, and in the Creation, Hope is everywhere. You are not alone and powerful forces will aid you if you take true action in ANY way to break this vicious cycle. I would advise you to keep your expectations open.
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