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ROBERT SCHEINFELD

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Mind-Blowing Strategies

for Changing the Rules

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ROBERT SCHEINFELD

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

FROM THE MONEY GAME

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FOREWORD

Jack Canfield vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi

INTRODUCTION xiii

CHAPTER 1. The Rules of the Game 1

CHAPTER 2. The Three Haunting Questions 11

CHAPTER 3. Leaving Hollywood in the Dust 25

CHAPTER 4. The White Knight Comes Riding In 33

CHAPTER 5. How Money Really Gets Created 43

CHAPTER 6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 55

CHAPTER 7. Turning on Your X-Ray Vision 63

CHAPTER 8. The Treasure Hunt of the Century 73

CHAPTER 9. Jumping into the Drivers Seat 83

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CHAPTER 10. Putting Your Foot on the Gas 95

CHAPTER 11. Busting Loose 117

CHAPTER 12. Postcards from the Road 137

CHAPTER 13. Playing without Limits or Restrictions 163

CHAPTER 14. The Dialogues 189

CHAPTER 15. The Invitations 207

APPENDIX Adding Fuel to the Fire 217

NOTES 227

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F O R E W O R D

Throughout history, across ages and generations, there havebeen beliefs and assumptions that people of the time acceptedas true and never questioned for their ultimate truthfulness oraccuracy.

Then, later in history, it turned out many of those beliefs andassumptions werent true, so people had to revise their views of theworld and adopt a new set of beliefs and assumptions.

For example, there was a time when people thought the worldwas flat. But we later found out that was wrong.

There was a time when people thought the Earth was at thevery center of the Universe and everything else revolved around us.But we later found out that was wrong, too.

If you study the history of the medical profession, you find all kinds of beliefs and assumptions about how the body works,what disease is, and how to heal the body that we later found outwere false.

If you study science, whatever branch you choosephysics,chemistry, biology, astronomy, and so onyou see the same patternrepeating. You see a stream of beliefs, assumptions, and models sci-entists were once absolutely certain were truthful and accurate, butwhich later turned out to be false. As a result, scientists constantlyrevise their theories and models.

So presumably, if history is any guide, most of what we take forgranted about the world simply isnt true. But in any given age or

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generation, we get so locked into the prevailing beliefs and assump-tions (without even realizing it) that we often blind ourselves toThe Truth.

One of the largest sets of beliefs and assumptions weve allaccepted as true and never questioned is what Bob calls The MoneyGame. The beliefs and assumptions underlying The Money Gamehave been in place for as long as there has been money. In fact, theymay have survivedfully intactlonger than any other set ofbeliefs and assumptions in history. You could say The Money Gamehas been something of a sacred cow.

In Chapter 1, Bob discusses the beliefs, assumptions, rules, andregulations underlying The Money Game. As you participate in thatdiscussion, it will seem perfectly normal and reasonable to believetheyre all truthful and accurate. Of course thats how it works,youll probably say to yourself.

However, as youll soon see, none of the rules and regulationsyouve been taught about The Money Game, and none of thebeliefs and assumptions underlying those rules and regulations aretrueno matter how natural, logical, or reasonable they may seemat first blush.

Ive spent most of my life playing The Money Game. In fact, Istarted playing it at the age of 10 when I began a newspaper routein my neighborhood. Six months later, I began pumping springwater into gallon jugs at a nearby park and delivered the water tothe homes of neighbors in my wagon.

I later became a masterful player of The Money Game. Howev-er, as Bob says, No matter how well you play it, and no matter howmuch money you pile up as you play, theres always a major price topay in the form of stress, anxiety, pain, loss of something else thatsimportant to you, or disillusionmentif you play according to therules, regulations, and structure youre taught growing up.

In my own life, despite numerous achievements Im very proudof, like the Chicken Soup for the Soul series having sold 100 millioncopies in 41 languages around the world, a Guinness book worldrecord, and numerous honors and awards, and despite being able toaccumulate lots of money, I always did pay a big price, like the many

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times I spent six or more tiring months on the road, away from fam-ily and friends, launching a new book series or other project.

As a result, like Bob and so many others, the better I got at play-ing The Money Game, the more I noticed a growing desire to finda new way of playing and a new set of rules that would still enableme to create and experience abundance, but also empower me towrap it up in a decidedly different packagewith zero price to pay!

When the time comes for an old set of beliefs and assumptions togive way to a new one, it always starts out with a single individual say-ing No, thats not right. This is whats true. Invariably, that individ-ual is resisted, criticized, even attacked viciously. But a few peoplestill listen and see The Truth, then a few more, then a few more, untilit reaches a critical mass. Then the old way of thinking collapses andthe new way of thinking explodes into mass consciousness.

My prediction is that the transformational insights and BustingLoose Process youre about to discover will be the start of a revolu-tion that ultimately collapses the old beliefs and assumptions aboutabundance and The Money Game and creates a worldwide explo-sion of new possibility and opportunity.

Interestingly enough, although Bob is a lone voice speakingabout a new Truth at the moment, hes not being resisted, criticized,or attacked. Quite the contrary. People all over the world are res-onating with his message of an alternative to the traditional MoneyGame and joyously exploring a new way of creating and experienc-ing total abundance.

Have you ever said words like these to yourself: I wish someonehad told me that a long time ago? If so, you know what its like todiscover something that radically changes your life in the blink ofan eye. As you prepare to read this book, take a deep breath, buck-le your seatbelt, and get ready to blink!

JACK CANFIELD, CEOChicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises; co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series; co-author of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

This book could never have been written without the help,influence, and inspiration of many people. Its not possible tothank everyone who contributes to a work of this scope, butId like to make special mention of a number of people.

First, Id like to express my appreciation for my good friend andmentor B. W., a master player of The Human Game who took meunder his wing and supported me brilliantly, beautifully, and magnif-icently as I moved deeper and deeper into Phase 2. Hes an intense-ly private man and per our agreement, Im keeping his identityprivate. However, I could not write this book without acknowledg-ing his contributions to me and what youll discover in the pagesthat follow.

Second, words cant possibly express the appreciation I feel forArnold Patent who reminded me of many extremely powerful puz-zle pieces and supported me so beautifully in opening up to who Ireally am. Arnold, Ill be eternally grateful!

Id also like to express my appreciation for my friend Dr. JohnDemartini who helped open my eyes and primed the pump for myunderstanding of many of the scientific insights I share with you.

Id also like to express my appreciation for Amit Goswami, LynnMcTaggart, and Michael Talbot for the puzzle pieces they gaveme through their books and the clarity those puzzle pieces helpedme reach.

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Special thanks must also go to my good friend Dale Novakwho did the beautiful illustrations youll see throughout the book,and Vaughan Davidson, designer extraordinaire, for designing thebig, bold, bright image that visually depicts Busting Loose fromThe Money Game on the cover of this book and on my BustingLoose web sites. If you like his style and need help with covers ofany kind or web site design work, you can contact Vaughan [email protected].

I must also express my tremendous appreciation to my editor,Richard Narramore, at Wiley for believing in me, believing in thisproject, getting it approved, and helping me carve the creationyoure about to experience.

Finally, I cant utter the word inspiration without simultaneous-ly mentioning Beauty (my wife Cecily) and my two kids, Ali andAidan, who inspire me on a daily basis and support me so perfectlyin opening up to even more abundance, joyfulness, and appreciationin my life.

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasntthought he saw Peter Pans sailing ship in the sky? I willteach you to see that ship.1

Roberto Cotroneo, When a Child on a Summer Morning

Truth has a way of reaching the soul of the seeker, eventhough the outer garments may temporarily distract thegaze.2

Joseph Whitfield

W hat Im about to share with you in this book is going to goagainst the grain of everything youve learned since child-hood, and most likely everything youve believed to be trueall your life.

As you read the first seven chapters, you may feel like youveentered the Twilight Zone or a science fiction movie. You may alsohave thoughts like these:

What does this have to do with money?

Get to the point, will you?

Is he crazy?

He cant be serious!

This isnt what I expected when I bought this book!

No way!

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Or my personal favorite:

Bullshit!

You may chuckle, but please take these words seriously becausein a few short minutes (if you continue reading right now), thoughtslike that may come up for you and I dont want them to distract youor delay your progress toward busting loose from The Money Game.

You may feel, at times, overwhelmed, disoriented, skeptical,angry, or uncomfortable. Thats all to be expected. You cant bustloose from The Money Game without a radical shift in your per-ceptions about yourself, other people, the world, and the strategiesyou use on a daily basis. The process of making a radical shiftlike that pushes all kinds of buttons. Thats why I subtitled thisbook: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game YouCant Win!

However, if youre like most people I speak with about the Bust-ing Loose Process, no matter how much resistance you may feel fromone part of yourself, another part will be whispering to you, Thatstrue and somehow Ive always known it. No matter how far outthere what Ill be sharing may seem at first, the journey Im goingto take you on and the ultimate destination you can reach after tak-ing it are very real. My friend and mentor, whom I refer to as B. W.because he prefers to remain anonymous, busted loose from TheMoney Game. I busted loose myself into the new way of living Idescribe in Chapter 13, and Ive been quietly teaching others fromaround the world to do it, too. Busting loose is very real and verypossible for you to do also.

If you follow the action steps I give you at the end of the bookand you still want or need it, youll be able to get all the proof youwant of the truthfulness and validity of what I share from your ownexperiences. This is a key point Ill be discussing in greater detail inlater chapters.

This book has six sections:

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1. Background on how I made the discovery and breakthroughthat led to it.

2. The Rules of The Game.

3. The philosophy that opens the door to busting loose fromThe Money Game.

4. The science that documents and validates the philosophy.

5. The specific, practical, simple, yet incredibly powerful actionsteps flowing out of that philosophy and science that can betaken to transform your life and finances in ways you canteven imagine right now. In this section, Ill also be sharingreal world stories to illustrate what everything I shared in thephilosophy and science segments looks and feels like.

6. An Invitation for you to take a leap of faith, apply what youdiscover here, prove its validity and power to yourself, andopen up to a new and radically different way of life.

Well begin with the background in this Introduction. Please goback now and re-read step number five before you continue. Why?Because its going to take me a while to go through the philosophyand science that make the practical action steps possible. You mayfeel impatient for me to get to the meat from time to time. I wantyou to remember were ultimately headed for extremely practicalapplication in your daily life. And I promise you that when we getto the practical aspects of the Busting Loose Process, youll under-stand and be extremely grateful for the foundation I laid to makethem possible.

Many people who enter my orbit and discover what youreabout to discover in this book, ultimately ask me Where did youget this stuff? I reply by saying this:

The only way I can answer you is to compare it to the assembly ofa jigsaw puzzle. You take a piece here, a piece there, another piecehere, another piece there. By themselves, they dont look likemuch, but as you assemble more and more pieces, the big picture

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starts to come into view. Then, as more and more pieces get as-sembled, the complete picture ultimately pops into clear view. Noone person or source gave me all the pieces, but I kept searchingfor, collecting, and assembling the pieces. Then, one day, thecomplete picture youre about to discover popped into viewandblew me away, as itll blow you away if you allow it to.

The first puzzle pieces came from the amazing grandfather I hadgrowing up. His name was Aaron Scheinfeld. He took a simple ideaand turned it into a Fortune 500 company youve probably heardofManpower, Inc.the worlds largest temporary help service. AsI grew up, I became aware there was something very unusual behindthe gigantic success hed created and the fortune hed amassedsome mystery about it that either no one in the family knew or theywerent talking about.

When I was 12, every chance I got, Id pepper him with ques-tions, trying to uncover what the big secret and mystery was. For thebetter part of a year he put me off. Then, while the extended fami-ly was on a trip to Crans, Switzerland, to celebrate my grandfathers70th birthday, he invited me to join him for a cup of hot chocolateand finally told me his story.

On that day, he started me on the path of understanding twocritical Truths that changed my life forever:

1. There are hidden forces driving what happens in the worldthat few people ever find out about.

2. By understanding and learning to tap those hidden forces,tremendous power can be unleashed and used to create lit-eral miracles in your life.

Books, tapes, and lectures throughout history have been filledwith similar messages. But the way my grandfather defined hiddenforces and the specific ways he went about tapping these forceswere very different, so if those words sound familiar, stick with mebecause Im going to take them in a decidedly different direction.

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Good news and bad news came from that first meeting with mygrandfather in the small cafe in Crans, Switzerland. The good newsis he began teaching me about the true nature of the hidden forcesand mentoring me on how to tap them. The bad news is he diedseven months later before he could complete my education. So, Ispent 35 years applying what he taught me and following the manyclues he left, working diligently to find the missing puzzle pieces andassemble them into the complete system I believe he would havegiven me had he lived to do so.

During those 35 years, I found many of the missing puzzlepieces. I assembled them into a system I applied to become amaster at playing The Money Game. In the early days of mycareer, I applied the system to become a top salesperson for a com-puter reseller, and produced extraordinary results as a sales man-ager, corporate communications manager, regional manager,director of marketing, vice president of marketing, consultant,and entrepreneur.

I later applied the system to create and execute a marketingmodel that packed rooms at Tony Robbins multimedia seminars,and fuel the growth of a computer store franchise company calledConnecting Point of America from $90 million to $350 million invery profitable sales . . . in less than three years.

As I continued applying my system, I amassed my own fortune,but then crashed and burned and ended up $153,000 in debt. I laterrecovered and rebuilt my fortune even bigger than before. Amongthe many projects contributing to my second fortune, I grew BlueOcean Software from $1.27 million to $44.3 million in just fouryears, resulting in the company being named three times to Inc.Magazines Inc. 500 list. That tremendous growth, accompaniedby staggering profitability, led to Blue Ocean being acquired by soft-ware giant Intuit for $177 million, a substantial chunk of whichwent into my pocket as a reward for my efforts.

Along that journey, I wrote two bestselling books that revealedthe puzzle pieces Id collected at the time. My first book was TheInvisible Path to Success and the second was The 11th Element.

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A year after selling Blue Ocean Software, however, after Idpiled up even more money from a series of business successes thatfollowed it, I watched as large chunks of my wealth started disap-pearing again. I stopped myself and said, This doesnt make anysense. There must be something Im missing here. To use a popularphrase from Alice in Wonderland and the movie The Matrix, I real-ized I had to go even deeper down the rabbit hole.

When I crashed and burned the first time, it was just me. Nowife, no kids. Losing everything was excruciatingly painful, but Ivealways had a high threshold for pain. However, I now had a wife andtwo children and wed carved out a life and lifestyle that made usextremely happy. If I crashed and burned again, I knew the painwould be unbearable and would be felt by my family too, so I wasscared and became obsessed with finding out what I still didntknow. I went exploring again, absolutely committed to finding thefinal missing puzzle pieces I believed my grandfather had but whichI obviously didnt. Eight months later, I found them, and in thepages of this book, Ill be sharing them with you.

What I discovered through my own experiences and my rela-tionships with hundreds of extremely wealthy people (includingsome of the wealthiest in the world), is that The Money Game is agame you cant win. As youll soon see, no matter how well you playit, and no matter how much money you pile up while playing, TheMoney Game always leads to failure in the form of stress, anxiety,pain, loss of some kind, or disillusionmentif you play according tothe rules, regulations, and structures you were taught growing up.

It doesnt work to simply play The Money Game better and pileup more and more money, which is what most of the experts outthere teach. You have to actually bust loose from The Money Gameentirely and start playing a new game with a new set of rules and reg-ulations of your choosing. Thats when things truly transform, staytransformed, and life gets really exciting!

One more key point before we move on. When reading books,some people start at the beginning and read to the end, sequential-ly. Others skip ahead, jump around, skim parts and dip down and

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read other parts. My intent is to support you in busting loose fromThe Money Game. To do that, I have to give you specific puzzlepieces in a specific order and support you in assembling them in aspecific way.

If you follow my lead, a magnificent big picture will pop intoview and youll be empowered to bust loose from The Money Game.If you dont, youll be left with a bunch of funny-looking pieces ofcardboard sitting on a table, youll short-circuit your access to realpower, and youll stay locked in the limitation and restriction of TheMoney Game. In short, please be patient, read the chapters sequen-tially at the pace you feel inspired to move, trust me, and follow mylead. I know how to bust you loose from The Money Game and Ican help you do it, but only if you follow the map Im in a uniqueposition to share with you.

You must also understand, from the start, that I cant bust youloose from The Money Game in the pages of this book. I can onlyshow you the way, open the portal to a new world, help you jumpthrough the portal, and show you what to do in the new world youfind on the other side. To actually bust loose from The MoneyGame, theres work you must do. Ill show you exactly what to do,when and how. Ill offer you tremendous support along the way, butit is a journey and it will take time to reach the ultimate destination.It will also require tremendous commitment, patience, persistence,and discipline on your part to arrive.

If you make the commitment and do the work, the rewardsyoull receive are beyond anything you can possibly imagine rightnow. I can say without the slightest doubt that once youve bustedloose, money will become a total non-issue in your life. Youll neveragain worry about bills, cash flow, or the balance in your checkbook.

No more asking Can I afford that? or Should I buy that? Nomore worrying about the in and out flow of money in your life,about your assets and liabilities, personal income, savings, debt,profits, or taxes.

No more of the confusion, stress, and complexity that comewith trying to manage, protect, and grow whatever amount of

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money youve piled up. No more working your butt off to makeends meet or carve out a little pleasure or luxury in your life.

Once you bust loose from The Money Game there will beabsolutely no limits or restrictions of any kind for you as it relates tomoney. No matter how sexy or attractive this may sound to youright now, it isnt even in the ballpark of what really happens andhow your life really changes when you bust loose. Busting loose fromThe Money Game is something you must experience to understand.

I call it The Money Game for a very specific reason. To discov-er that reason and the rules of the Game, please turn the page tobegin Chapter 1.

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C H A P T E R

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The Rules of the Game

Three strikes youre out, being caught off base, committingan errorthose are baseballs rules, rules of that game, butthey dont apply outside the game.1

J. C.

If youre like most of the people I speak with, youve probablynever thought of money and the pursuit of wealth as a game.When I talk with people and ask them about it, they generallysay something like this to me: Money is definitely not a game. Itsserious business.

The first step in the Busting Loose Process is to really get thateverything within your financial worldincome, net worth, invest-ments, savings, taxes, expenses, invoices, accounts receivable andpayable, profits, and so onis part of an amazing, elaborate, gigan-tic, unique, and complex game. I introduce the basic rules of TheMoney Game in this chapter and then go into more detail in laterchapters.

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2 Busting Loose from the Money Game

If you take a close look, most games have rules, regulations, anda clear structure. They also have definite start and stop times and aclear definition of what it means to win. Everyone who chooses toplay a game agrees to follow the rules and regulations and observethat games structure. This is required to make the game work.Although theres a career and income component to playing gamesat the professional level, most people play games for the sheer funand pleasure of doing so. People who enjoy watching games (fans)do so for the same reasons.

For example, football is played with a leather ball thats shaped,sized, and constructed to meet rigid specifications. The playing fieldis 100 yards long. You play four quarters lasting 15 minutes each. Atouchdown is worth six points, kicking the ball through the goal-posts after a touchdown is worth one point, a field goal is worththree points, and a safety is worth two points. A first down is 10yards. You may only have a certain number of players on the field atany given time, and they must each play a specific position. Thereare rules about what players can and cannot do on the field, and ifthose rules are broken, the offending team is penalized. The teamwith the most points at the end of the four quarters (or overtime ifthe score is tied at the end of regulation time) wins the game.

Baseball is another example. It is played on a field that is a cer-tain shape and sizea diamond. Only nine players per team areallowed on the diamond during play, and like football, each playerhas a specific position. The game is played with bats, balls, andgloves that meet precise specifications. There are nine innings dur-ing which each team is allowed three outs. Batters get four balls andthree strikes. The pitcher stands on a slightly elevated mound thatis a specific distance from home plate where the batter stands. Thebases are specific distances from each other. When a player toucheshome plate after touching each of the other bases, he earns a runor a point. The team with the most runs at the end of nine innings(or extra innings if the teams are tied) wins the game.

Golf is our final example. The golfer plays on a course. There area certain number of holes, greens, fairways, roughs, sand traps, and

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water hazards on the course. The player uses clubs with L-shapedmetal ends to hit precisely constructed balls into small holes. Thereare specific rules as to what players can and cannot do while playing,and if the rules are broken, the player is penalized. The player withthe lowest number of strokes at the end of the course wins.

If you take a close and objective look at football, baseball, andgolf, you see that the rules, regulations, and structures appear com-pletely arbitrary and dont make much sense. Consider this:

Football: Run while holding an inflated piece of leather or throwan inflated piece of leather from one person to another as youtry to cross a white line and score points. Or try to kick thepiece of leather through two metal posts to score points.

Baseball: Try to hit a round piece of rubber and leather thatscoming at you at high speed with a wooden stick. Then, if youhit it and no other player catches it with a big piece of leatherwrapped around his hand, you run around trying to touch threesquare pieces of cloth placed on the ground before touching afinal piece of cloth to earn runs.

Golf: Try to hit small rounded pieces of rubber and titaniumwith L-shaped pieces of metal trying to get the round pieces intotiny shallow holes hundreds of yards away with the fewest possi-ble hits or strokes.

You see what appears to be the same sort of arbitrariness if youlook at the rules, regulations, and structures of other populargamesbridge, Monopoly, pool, chess, checkers, blackjack, and soon. You could easily ask yourself, How did anyone ever think upsuch weird games, rules, regulations, and structures? Although therules, regulations, and structures appear arbitrary on initial exami-nation, hidden from view is the intelligence, plan, and intent usedto create them.

Players rarely question the origins of the games they play, or theapparent arbitrary nature of the rules, regulations, and structures.

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They begin playing games that were invented long ago, and doexactly what theyre told by the powers that be.

The same is true of The Money Game. When examined close-ly and objectively, the rules, regulations, and structure of TheMoney Game appear arbitrary and dont make much sense either,as youll soon see. However, in later chapters youll see that theresa mind-blowing intelligence, plan, and intent behind the design ofThe Money Game, and I promise, when you find out what it is, itllrock your world! It also opens the door to busting loose from TheMoney Game.

As we pass a certain age growing up, we become players in aMoney Game thats already in progress. Like athletes and othergame players, we never question what were taught about playingThe Money Game. We just accept the rules, regulations, and struc-ture were taught and play as if it was all etched in stone andabsolutely nonnegotiable.

Here are three of the primary rules, regulations, and structurepoints weve been taught are real when playing The MoneyGame. There are actually dozens of others (including many relatedto taxes, governments, investing, etc.), but the following are theones were most familiar with and the ones that do the most dam-age, as youll soon see:

1. Limited supply. Theres a limited supply of money available toyou (and/or the world) and every time money goes out,that limited supply decreases. Therefore, you must find waysto constantly replenish your supply or youll run out. Youmust also be prudent and responsible and protect yourmoney to ensure that you dont run out of it. Because thecore supply of money is limited, you must also have a long-term plan to save, invest wisely, and build assets over time toprovide for your retirement years.

2. Money moves. Theres a flow of money in and out. Money isout there, somehow separate from you, and you must go

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out to get it and bring it into your life. In addition, as youspend money, it moves away from you to others and then youhave less. You have income and expenses and you must man-age the movement of both so your income exceeds yourexpenses (profits). You must increase profits if you want toraise your quality of life.

3. You must work harder or smarter to increase your supply ofmoney. You cant just have anything you want in life. Every-thing costs you. You have to pay for everything you want.You have to earn money. There is no free lunch. You dontget something for nothing. So, if you want more money, youhave to find a way to add more value or work harderorsmarterto get it. And you must develop the moneymakingskill and be totally and truly committed to making money oryoull never have much.

In support of the traditional Money Game rules, regulations,and structure, here are some common beliefs that have also beenaccepted as true:

Money is the root of all evil.

Theres something dirty or bad about moneyand the peoplewho have it.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Theres never enough.

You must control money or it will control you.

More money is always better.

Money doesnt grow on trees.

Some people have the money-making skill and others dont.

You cant play The Money Game well and be spiritual.

Net worth is the true measure of wealth and success.

You must save for a rainy day.

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It might shock you to hear me say that none of the rules, regu-lations, or beliefs I just related, and the many subset rules, regula-tions, and beliefs that flow from them, are true. Not one. Theyreall made up, as are the rules of all games. We all just accepted thatthey were true.

Here are two key points Im going to plant seeds for now andthen grow tall in Chapter 3:

1. You cant win The Money Game.

2. The Money Game was specifically designed to create utterand total failure.

You cant win The Money Game because:

Theres no clear definition of winning. How do you know if youvewon The Money Game? Did you ever ask yourself that question?Do you win when you get comfortable? When you become amillionaire? A multimillionaire? A billionaire? When you sur-pass some other income or net worth goal you set for yourself?From my experience, while many people have financial goalstheyve set for themselves, few people have clear definitions ofwhat winning The Money Game actually means. If you dontknow what the target is, how can you possibly hit it or knowwhen youve hit it?

Your money is always at risk. No matter how much money youpile up, it is always at risk. You can lose all or huge chunks of itthrough poor management, overspending, a stock market crash,bad investments, embezzlement, theft, divorce, lawsuits, busi-ness failure, bank failure, tragic accidents, and so on. Plus, zeroisnt the end. You can go way below zero into debt. The moremoney you have and the more intelligently you manage it, thegreater the illusion of security, but the reality is, money is nevertruly safe, no matter how much you have or what you do withit. History is filled with stories of people who amassed enormous

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fortunes and then lost them (in one generation or over multiplegenerations).

Theres no official ending point. When does The Money Gameend? When you reach some milestone you set for yourself? Thatdoesnt work because even though you may temporarily reach orpass such a milestone your money is always at risk, so you couldslip backward and lose what youve accumulated. When youretire? That doesnt work either. Your money is still at risk andyoure still at the mercy of the other Money Game rules, regula-tions, and structures, even if you stop working. When you die?Well, maybe The Money Game ends for you at that point, butit continues for your family and heirs. If theres no official end-ing point for this game, how can you possibly know if or whenyouve won? Can you say youve won a football game if youreahead at the end of the third quarter? Can you say youve wona baseball game if youre ahead at the end of the seventh inning?Can you say youve won an 18-hole golf tournament if you havethe fewest strokes after 12 holes? No!

Theres always a price to pay. You also cant win The MoneyGame because even if you make a lot of money, keep a lot,spend a lot, manage it brilliantly, invest wisely, grow your networth, live like a king or queen, and provide for a comfortableor even luxurious retirement, playing the game according tothe traditional rules and regulations always leads to some veryintense form of stress, pressure, dissatisfaction, pain, or lossespecially when it comes to free time, health, and relation-ships. Im sure youve experienced this yourself, or seen orknown someone who succeeded in piling up a ton of moneybut ended up:

Sick

Lonely

Dying young

With migraine headaches or other debilitating ailments

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An emotional basket case

Feeling empty inside

Living in the lap of luxury but thinking, Is this all there is?

Theres always another level of success above yours. With only afew exceptions of people at the highest levels of financial suc-cess, theres a trap built into The Money Game that most peo-ple fall into at one point or another. The trap gets sprung whensomeone at a specific level of financial success compares him-or herself to someone at a higher level of success and developsnew desires that appear attainable but far away at that mo-ment. For example, someone making $250,000 a year and feel-ing pretty good about herself sees how someone making $1million a year lives and suddenly feels inferior by comparison.Or someone traveling first class on a commercial airline seessomeone traveling by private jet, or someone with one beauti-ful home sees someone with two beautiful homes. Any of thesecan set a pattern of dissatisfaction in motion. This sort ofpattern goes on and on as we move up the food chain of finan-cial success.

Imagine playing or watching any other game with rules, regu-lations, and a structure like the one I just described. Imagine play-ing or watching a game where theres no way to know whoswinning; theres no official ending point; no matter how good youget you know theres always another team or player better than you;you always end up losing (due to the price you had to pay) even ifyou think youre winning.

Would anyone want to play or watch a game like that? No way!For the players, it would be an absolute nightmare. No one wouldvolunteer to play a game like that. And no one would show up towatch either. What would be the point?

Despite all of this, billions of people show up every day to playand watch The Money Game, completely oblivious to the truthabout whats really going on. Many of those people believe theyre

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winning The Money Game, believe theyve won, or believe otherpeople they see around them or in the media have wonbut its allan illusion.

In Chapter 7, I reveal an even bigger reason why you cant winThe Money Game. But first I have to provide you with a few morefoundational pieces of the puzzle.

What you were never told is that The Money Game is very dif-ferent from the other games we play. When it comes to The MoneyGame, nothing is etched in stone and absolutely everything is nego-tiable. You dont need to accept the traditional rules, regulations, andstructures of The Money Game. You actually have an alternative!

Since theres no way to win you have only two choices:

1. Continue to play according to the traditional rules, regula-tions, and structure, knowing youll lose and pay a big price,no matter what you do.

2. Bust loose from The Money Game entirely, create a newgame for yourself, choose your own rules, and transform yourrelationship with money forever.

However crazy or pie-in-the-sky it might sound to you, I guar-antee that once you finish this book youll be empowered to take thesecond option and bust loose from The Money Game entirely.

To continue your journey, discover three questions that havehaunted you your entire life, and learn how to answer them in a waythat empowers you to bust loose from The Money Game. Turn thepage and continue on to Chapter 2.

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The ThreeHaunting Questions

Living is my job and my art.1

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne,Essayist (15331592)

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to belaid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where onemight dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the firesof the heart.2

Edmund Wilson, Critic andWriter (18951972)

Throughout recorded history, three questions have hauntedhumanity:1. Who am I?

2. Why am I here?

3. Whats my purpose?

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As youll soon see, even if it doesnt seem clear immediately,without practical answers to those three haunting questions, bustingloose from The Money Game isnt possible. You might also find itinteresting to know that many of the puzzle pieces Ill be sharing inthis chapter (and the two chapters that follow) were the very piecesmy grandfather shared with me over that fateful cup of hot choco-late in Crans, Switzerland. Because of the respect, even awe, I feltfor my grandfather and his achievements, I accepted the conceptsyoure about to discover without question. However, they didntbecome real for me, I didnt fully understand their significance orpower, and I wasnt able to take any practical action from them untildecades laterafter Id assembled more puzzle pieces and had moreof the experiences Ill be sharing with you in the pages that follow.

My belief is theres no way to know the absolute Truth about theanswers to those questions. Why? Because there are certain myster-ies that are so huge and complex that theyre beyond our under-standing at our present level of consciousness and evolution. Sincewe cant be absolutely certain about the answers to the three haunt-ing questions, all we can do is create models that approximate TheTruth closely enough to give us practical benefit in our daily lives.

Therefore, what Im going to share with you in the next fewchapters is a working model that can truly empower you to bust loosefrom The Money Game. Is the model perfect? No. Can you pick holesin it if you try? Yes. What I can tell you is, despite its admitted weak-nesses, it works extremely well. As I share the philosophical compo-nent of the model in this chapter and the next, if it seems a bitairy-fairy or warm and fuzzy to you, keep two thoughts in mind:

1. These are important puzzle pieces, no matter how they mayseem at first glance. Once you reach Chapter 6, youll under-stand how important they really areand once you turn thelast page of the book, your understanding of their signifi-cance will deepen further.

2. In Chapters 4 and 5, Ill be sharing the cutting-edge sciencethat documents and validates the philosophical componentsof the model. That will be valuable for you if you have any

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challenges believing or accepting what I share in this chap-ter and the next.

Lets take a look at the first haunting question.

Who Am I?

If youve had exposure to books, tapes, or seminars about whatsbeen called new age, metaphysical, or spiritual thought, youve nodoubt heard something like this: We are spiritual beings having aphysical experience. I agree with that statement, and it aligns per-fectly with the model Im presenting to you.

Who you really are is an infinitely powerful and magnificentbeing. Snap your fingers and boom, anything you want instantlymanifests. No concept of power youre familiar with comes evenclose to the infinite power and omnipotence of who you really are.All the forces of nature and man put together and multiplied a bil-lion times are but a speck compared to the power at your disposal.Depending on your history and the beliefs you formed livingthrough it, this is something that may sound or feel alien to you. However, its also one of the things youll be able to prove toyourself and actually experience if you follow the guidance I offer in this book.

Because you have the power to create absolutely anything youwant, your natural state is one of Infinite Abundance. In your nat-ural state you dont lack anything. Nothing is missing. No desireever goes unfulfilled. As an Infinite Being, youre also in a constantstate of joyfulness and peace.

As an infinitely powerful, wise, and abundant being, you havean unlimited desire to express creatively and fully experience theexpansion and joy that comes from that expression. In fact, as youllalso soon see, all of human life is essentially about creative expres-sion, no matter what it looks like.

Now lets take a look at the second haunting question.

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Why Am I Here?

You came here to play a game! In your daily life, you go about yourdaily routine. Then, from time to time, you step out of your routine to play games of various kinds. When I say games, I mean sports, board games, cards, mountain climbing, bike riding, bungee-jumping, driving cars at high speeds, watching TV or movies or plays, reading a great novel, painting, singing, listening to music, or whatever you really love to do. You choose to play games for fun, enjoyment, entertainment, to challenge yourself, to explore whats possible, to stretch and expand.

The same is true when it comes to why youre here. Comingfrom the place of being an Infinite Being, at another level of Con-sciousness, you decided to take time away from your daily routine toplay a game, too. That game is called The Human Game of whichThe Money Game is a major subset.

Does this surprise you? Does playing a game seem too trivial areason to be here or to explain what we call the pain, hardship, andcomplexity of human life? If so, stick with me as more and more puz-zle pieces are revealed.

Lets now look at the third haunting question.

Whats My Purpose?

You have a general purpose and a specific purpose. The general pur-pose is to play The Human Game and receive the benefits peoplereceive from playing all games: fun, enjoyment, entertainment,challenge, stretching, expansion, exploration, pushing the envelopeof whats possible, and so on.

Your specific purpose is to play The Human Game in theunique and precise way you choose as a unique Infinite Being. We all play The Human Game, but we do it in completely different ways. Even when it looks like were doing the same

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things, doing things the same way, or for the same reasons, were not. Everything is custom designed for us as unique Infinite Beings, as youll clearly see after completing Chap-ters 4 and 5.

In The Creating Cosmos, Barbara Dewey said (using the termCreating Cosmos where I use the term Human Game):

In the final analysis, I dont suppose the Creating Cosmos has apurpose greater than the joyful expression of creative possibility.Solely in the service of that purpose it is a design of the most sub-lime construction. It is breathtaking both in its simplicity and itsopportunity. It grants total freedom within a context of coopera-tion and partnership. There are no winners and losers in the Cre-ating Cosmos concept. Because each plays a game of his ownchoosing there are only winners.3

As we discussed in Chapter 1, all games start out with a con-cept. Then a playing field is built, then necessary tools and supportresources (like golf clubs, footballs, baseballs, tennis rackets) are cre-ated, then rules, regulations, and structures are developed to whichall players must strictly adhere if they want to play. Its the samewith The Human Game.

Lets now discuss the concept that drives The Human Game.Im a big fan of the Star Trek television and movie series. In that show, theres a concept called the Prime Directive. The Prime Directive is a core principle that guides the actions of the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they explore space. The Human Game has a Prime Directive, too. Its to fully explorewhat happens when you limit unlimited power, when you limitthe infinite ability to express creatively, when you limit the infinite wisdom, abundance, joyfulness, and peace thats your natural state. Im going to introduce this concept from a philo-sophical perspective in this chapter and then continue the discus-sion from a nuts-and-bolts, day-to-day, practical perspective inChapter 7 after a few more important puzzle pieces have beendelivered to you.

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All the games we play were originally invented by someone whohad a specific reason and motivation for creating them. The HumanGame is no exception. From an expanded and infinite perspective,imagine that one Infinite Being thought, Wouldnt it be interest-ing to see what would happen if I limited myself, restricted myself,hid all my power, wisdom, abundance, and joyfulness? Could I actu-ally convince myself it was gone? Could I actually convince myselfIm the exact opposite of who I really am? What then? What wouldthe whole journey and experience be like if I could pull it off?

Since youre an Infinite Being, if you want to play a game of lim-itation and restriction, you have to create an alternative Self or Per-sona to be the main player of that game. You must then hide allawareness of who you really are and all your power, wisdom, abun-dance, joyfulness, and peace from that Persona. You must then cre-ate other players to play The Human Game with you, a playing fieldon which to play, and a helper who can secretly guide you whileyoure blind to The Truth about who you really are and whats real-ly going on.

The Persona who plays The Human Game is the part of youwhos reading this book right nowthe part youve always thoughtof as you. The other players, as well discuss in detail in Chapter6, are the people you see around you and interact with. The play-ing field is what we call the Universe or physical reality or three-dimensional reality. The helper who secretly guides you is the RealYou, your Infinite Self, whom Ill be calling your Expanded Selfthroughout this book.

Words get tricky here, but its important to understand thatwhile the Persona and Expanded Self aspects of you feel and appearseparate, theyre actually one and the same Infinite Being thats uni-fied at a very deep and profound level. The apparent separation is anecessary part of the illusion created by sleight of hand in Con-sciousness well be discussing in the next three chapters.

From the moment you, the Persona, is born, you actually beginhiding your tremendous power, wisdom, and abundance from your-

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self and constructing an alternative reality (playing field) on whichto play The Human Game. Before we continue our discussion oflimitation, restriction, and The Human Game, allow me to plantthe following seed in your expanding awareness which also comesfrom Barbara Dewey:

We mistakenly believe, therefore, that we are at the mercy of liferather than its creators. Such beliefs make us feel impotent andwe have hastened to fill in for these perceived weaknesses withtechnological aids. We are not encouraged to use our natural tele-pathic capacities. We have phones. We do not need total recall.We have computers. We do not need our homing instincts. Wehave maps. We do not need to practice health. We have doctors.4

In addition to hiding your power and creating an alternativereality on which to play The Human Game, you also convince your-self the hiding places are so painful, dangerous, scary, and deadlythat they should be avoided at all costs, which well also discuss inlater chapters.

Just as a baseball game has nine innings, football games havefour quarters, and golf has 18 holes, The Human Game has twophases.

Phase 1

During Phase 1 of The Human Game, your Expanded Self uses allyour power, creativity, and ingenuity to hide all awareness of whoyou really are and what your natural state isand to keep you fromfinding it at any cost. Everything possible is done to convince youthat the Persona and the three-dimensional playing field are real,and to limit and restrict you more and more until youre absolutelyconvinced youre the exact opposite of who you really are. In thepopular success and self-help literature, this process is defined verydifferently and is generally called programming or conditioning.

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As you ponder this, ask yourself if you think its any accidentthat The Human Game begins with us being born as helpless infantswith no power, knowledge, or abundance of any kind!

Phase 2

After forgetting who you really are and deeply immersing yourself inseverely limiting and restrictive experiences in Phase 1 of TheHuman Game, your Expanded Self starts nudging you into Phase 2.At that point, you begin to feel incomplete, like youre missingsomething, like nothing makes sense any more, like there must besomething else going on you dont know about. You then start look-ing for answers and a higher purpose for your life.

At that point, you still dont remember who you really are orhow much power, wisdom, and abundance you actually possess, butyou begin searching for The Truth nevertheless. Your Expanded Selfthen flips roles, takes you on the Treasure Hunt of the Century andsupports you in reclaiming all the power, wisdom, and abundanceyou hid in Phase 1. Once you reclaim your power, wisdom, andabundance, you can then start playing The Human Game withoutlimits or restrictions of any kind. I call that crossing the BustingLoose Point which well be discussing in later chapters. Thats whenthings get very cool.

By the way, its no accident that you found your way to thisbook. You wouldnt be reading my words here unless, on some level,you wanted support in jumping into Phase 2 or youre getting readyto jump into Phase 2 and are using this book as basic training orwarm up.

As youve been following along with me, this thought may havecrossed your mind: Why would anyone want to play a game likethat? Have so much power, abundance, and wisdom, hide it, thenfind it again. It sounds crazy.

If thoughts like that did cross your mind, let me ask you twoquestions in response:

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1. Why does anybody play any game?

2. If you take an honest and objective look, are the rules, regu-lations, and structure of The Human Game really any morearbitrary or crazy than those of golf, baseball, basketball, soc-cer, football, chess, checkers, or Monopoly?

As we discussed earlier, people play games for the sheer fun,challenge, and exhilaration of playing, no matter how crazy theymay seem at first glance or how difficult playing gets at times. Peo-ple spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and money trainingfor, playing, and watching games of all kinds and feel its a perfectlylegitimate activity. Why would it be any different for an InfiniteBeing with much more power, wisdom, and abundance?

Or think about this: Why would someone willingly leave theirwarm and comfortable home to experience pain, hardship and riskof death to participate in activities like climbing Mt. Everest ordriving a high-speed racing car?

Heres the answer to all the questions like these that haveoccurred or may occur to you: Who you really are is a wonderfullyadventurous spirit, ever eager to expand Itself and Its experiences.The Human Game of limitation is no big deal to the Real You. Thereal challenge of The Human Game is forgetting who you really areand hiding all your power so you can play in the first place!

Plus, consider this. Imagine youre an architect and youre hiredto design an amazing building for a client. You visualize it in yourimagination, then draw up the plans. Thats a lot of fun and veryrewarding, but its even more exciting to see the building actuallyrise up in three dimensions and become real. The challenge, fun,and reward that come from embracing The Human Game idea, thenseeing it manifest in three dimensions, then actually playing it isenormous. Just let this thought incubate for a while as I offer youmore and more puzzle pieces.

The following may also have occurred to you: Okay, maybe Ican buy the idea of life being a game, but why would someone will-ingly choose to experience such horrors as abuse, sickness, poverty,

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struggle, starvation, rape, murder, and death as part of playing?Those things dont seem particularly fun or entertaining to me.

Ill be discussing this in more detail in the chapters that follow,but for now, let me share a few thoughts: Who you really are seesno horror in any of those experiences and is actually having anabsolute blast playing The Human Game. The Real You knowsnone of those experiences are real and it is all just a gamejustlike you know whats happening up on the screen in a movie isntreal. The movie may scare or exhilarate you, but you know its allmade up and no one really gets sick, hurt, lives, dies, or makes amillion bucks.

The Real You knows all experiences in The Human Game aresimply made up to create a game and a playing field on which toplay. The Real You knows all your experiences only seem real andhorrible to the Personas who are totally immersed within them andconvinced theyre realand thats the whole point of The HumanGameto make it all seem real when its not.

Making the illusion appear real was the biggest challenge in thedesign of The Human Game. However, beyond appearing real, TheHuman Game must be fascinating and hold our interest. Considerwhat Sol Stein, a master editor of some of the most successful writ-ers of our century, wrote about the art of crafting truly compellingfiction:

When the baseball, football, or basketball season is at its height, aconsiderable portion of the American male population and a notinsignificant number of females deploy hours away from workwatching their sport on television. What the baseball fan, for in-stance, hopes for, consciously or not, are the moments of tensionand suspense when a ball is hit but not yet caught, when a runneris headed for a base and has not yet reached it. The same appliesto other sports as well. The spectator rooting for his hero experi-ences tension, suspense, anxiety, and pleasure, all things the read-ers hope for when they turn to a novel. The reader is enjoying theanticipation and excitement that are often worrying in life but apleasure when they are happening on the ball field or in a book.5

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The same is true for us as Infinite Beings in our Human Gametotal immersion movie experiences. We too want to experience ten-sion, suspense, anxiety, and pleasure through our experiences. Steincontinued by saying:

But let us remember that when a teameven the team we arerooting foris winning too easily, our enjoyment of the game de-creases. What the sports spectator and the reader enjoy most is acontest of two strong teams, a game whose outcome hangs in thebalance as long as possible.6

Steins wise observations also shed light on why Phase 1 life isntperfect and why we therefore create ups and downs, challenges, andthe illusion of conflict in our total immersion movie experiences.

The metaphor Id like you to keep in mind for this going for-ward is the sun and clouds. Who you really are is an infinitely pow-erful, wise, and abundant being. Compare that to the sun. Whenyou think about the sun, you think about enormous amounts ofenergy and power, right? Its a good fit.

When you play The Human Game, however, you must createillusions that convince you youre the exact opposite of who youreally arethat is, convince you youre a severely limited, restrict-ed, vulnerable, fragile, poor, and weak creature who gets tossedabout by people, places, and things you have no control over. Thatsthe equivalent of creating a bunch of clouds, putting them in frontof the sun, and convincing yourself theres no sun, the clouds arereal, and the clouds are all there is.

To extend the metaphor, if its cloudy out, is the sun still shin-ing? Yes. When theres a hurricane blowing, is the sun still shining?Yes. If its raining, is the sun still shining? Yes. No matter what hap-pens on our planet, the sun is always shining.

Its the same with you. No matter whats going on in your life,no matter what the circumstances look like, who you really aredoesnt change. Youre still an Infinite Being whose natural state isinfinite power, abundance, wisdom, joyfulness, and peace. You just

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convinced yourself the opposite is true, and I explain exactly howyou did that in Chapters 4 and 5.

If you start out as an Infinite Being and in Phase 1 of TheHuman Game the goal is to limit yourself and convince yourselfyoure exactly the opposite of who you really are, things cant workperfectly. You must have problems. Things cant make sense ifexamined closely and objectively. Youve got to be uncomfortablea lot of the time. You cant experience true financial abundance, or at least not without a huge cost as we discussed. You cant feelconsistently peaceful, satisfied, fulfilled, or happy. Its just not possible.

Blocks and resistance to achieving your goals and fulfilling yourdesires must be common in Phase 1. The feeling theres somethingmissing or something wrong must nag at you, loudly or quietly.Why? Because thats the whole point of Phase 1to convince your-self youre the exact opposite of who you really are. If the goal is tolimit, you dont expand. If the goal is to restrict, you dont open up.Thats the way it works.

To make Phase 1 of The Human Game work, all Truth must be

distorted or skewed to keep you away from itandyour power.

As we discussed, the whole goal of Phase 1 in The HumanGame is to convince yourself youre the exact opposite of who youreally are. Therefore, whenever any teaching attempts to explainwhat The Human Game is all about or how to play it in Phase 1,that teaching must be skewed or distorted or something importantmust be left out.

In addition, to keep you away from your power and The Truth,the techniques offered in association with that skewed and distort-ed Truth must be sabotaged so they dont workat all or consis-tently. If you accept my challenge in Chapter 12 and leap throughthe portal into Phase 2, youll see this everywherein the self-help

KEY POINT

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literature, philosophy, metaphysics, mysticism, science, and reli-gion. Youll look at whats being taught, track it, and say, ThatsTrue, thats True, thats True, oh. . . . And youll see exactly whereit got skewed or distorted or something was left out. Its actuallyquite fascinating.

For example, when studying the popular self-help techniquecalled visualization, youre taught you have unlimited power andcan create any result you want if you just see a vivid picture of theresult in your minds eye. Its true that you have unlimited power inyour natural state. However, you hide that power from yourself inPhase 1 of The Human Game so its not really available to you, thestar of your movie. Its true that You (meaning who you really are,your Expanded Self) can create anything you want. However, thatprocess doesnt take place in the minds eye you have as the Per-sona and star of your movie. It takes place somewhere else, as youlldiscover in Chapters 4 and 5.

The whole idea of visualization, affirmations, manifestationtechniques, the Law of Attraction, and other popular self-helptechniques are brilliant Phase 1 creations. Why? Because wecreate them, we convince ourselves theyre real, we apply them,but they dont work consistently, and that creates confusion, frus-tration, and limitations that perfectly support the goals of Phase 1.

As I mentioned in the Introduction, I created a similar dynam-ic with my own Invisible Path to Success and 11th Element work. I hada clear lock on a lot of The Truth but to play in Phase 1 of TheHuman Game, I had to skew it ever so slightly so my System wouldultimately fail and keep me locked in limitation and restrictionuntil I was ready to enter Phase 2.

Phase 1 of The Human Game is designed to take you to thepoint where you feel enormous frustration and pain, where you startto feel incomplete, like somethings wrong, that there must be moreto life, that something else must be going on that you dont knowabout. Reaching that point at a very high level of intensity is thesignal youre ready to move into Phase 2 (or at least expand yourview of whats possible for yourself).

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Part of the Phase 1 strategyinvolves teasing yourself into

believing you can fix things, improve things, getthings running smoothly, get everything you want,become wealthy and happy. By design, however,that can never happen while youre playing Phase 1of The Human Gamedespite what all the self-help, success, personal growth, and spiritual gurusclaim. This is a subtle but very important distinc-tion to get.

Remember, whenever you decide to play a gamewhether itschess, checkers, football, basketball, high-speed racing, mountainclimbing, or whatever, you have to play by the rules, follow the reg-ulations, and respect the structure or you cant play.

When playing The Human Game, true power, happiness, abun-dance, joyfulness, and peace dont return until youve been play-ing in Phase 2 for a while, which Im going to show you how to do.Its in Phase 2 that a gateway opens and allows you to bust loosefrom The Money Game. I call that gateway the Busting Loose Pointthat well be discussing in detail in later chapters, after Ive laid asolid foundation for you.

When youre ready to discover more of The Truth about TheHuman Game and the true nature of the playing field we designedto play it on, turn the page to begin Chapter 3.

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Leaving Hollywoodin the Dust

All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merelyplayers. They have their exits and their entrances, and oneman in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It1

Id now like to introduce two additional metaphors that will sup-port you in understanding the true nature of The Human Game,The Money Game, the field on which we play those games, andprepare you for the scientific documentation that follows in thenext chapter. The metaphors revolve around amusement parks andmovies.

An amusement park is a place that was specifically designed tooffer rides and attractions to entertain you. You go to an amusementpark by choice. Nobody drags you or forces you to go. You generally

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go with people you know. You experience the rides and attractionsthat appeal to you and ignore the ones that dont. You arrive andleave as you prefer. You go once or return multiple times. I nowinvite you to look at the world or what we call three-dimensional real-ity as if it were a gigantic amusement park.

If youre an Infinite Being and youre going to play a game, youcant just play any game. Youd be bored out of your mind. It wouldbe like a professional basketball team playing an eighth-grade bas-ketball team. There would be no challenge, no point, no real game.If you, as an Infinite Being, are going to play a game, it must be theultimate game. It must be extremely sophisticated and complex andcleverly designed to keep you riveted, challenged, and on the edgeof your seat at all times. Thats no simple task!

Therefore, continuing the metaphor, to play The HumanGame, a gigantic amusement park had to be created that would offera wide variety of extremely complex rides and attractions (games).One of the star attractions in that amusement park is The MoneyGame. However, unlike familiar amusement parks such as DisneyWorld, the amusement park in which The Human Game and TheMoney Game are played was designed to offer a rare breed of ridesand attractions that I call total immersion movies.

Lets take a look at Hollywood movies for a moment. In Holly-wood movies, nothing is as it appears. Every scene is carefully script-ed and planned before its filmed. Nothing ends up in the final cutof a movie unless it perfectly supports the telling of the story exact-ly as the creators of the movie envisioned. Nothing is random oraccidental in the final cut of a movie you see on the screen. Everyaspect is carefully crafted in order to have a specific impact onyoumake you laugh, cry, angry, open your heart, and so on.

Everything in a Hollywood movie looks real and substantial, butit isnt. Its all made up. Its all an illusion and special effects extendthe illusion to an incredible degree. You know its an illusion as yousit in the movie theater, but you temporarily suspend your disbeliefin order to be entertained. If you went behind the scenes to see howa movie is really made, what the sets actually look like, how the spe-

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cial effects are created and applied, what happens in the editingroom, and you then looked at the final cut you saw on the screenand compared them, youd be amazed by the complexity and thetime, energy, and effort thats involved. As you know, Hollywoodillusions are absolutely convincing and must be or wed walk out ofthe theater or never plunk down our hard-earned money to see themovies in the first place.

All of this is true for your life and The Human Game as well. Inyour movie, nothing is as it appears. Every scene is carefully script-ed and planned before you experience it. Nothing ends up in yourmovie unless it perfectly supports you in having the precise HumanGame experience you want to have. Nothing is random or acciden-tal in your movie either. Everything has been created exactly the wayit is to support you in playing The Human Game exactly the way youwant to play it, no matter how you might label or judge it at themoment. Its all carefully crafted to have a specific impact on you(especially The Money Game)limit you and convince you yourethe exact opposite of who you really are.

Just like in a Hollywood movie, everything in your world looksreal and substantial, but it isnt. Its all made up. Everything youperceive with your five senses is an illusionall props and specialeffects designed to create an alternative reality that allows you toplay The Human Gameand your own special effects extend theillusion to an incredible degree, too. When I take you behind the scenes to show you how total immersion movies are made inThe Human Game amusement park, youll be amazed by the com-plexity, time, energy, and effort thats involved. It must be thatway. The illusions created to support the playing of The HumanGame must be absolutely convincing or The Human Game wouldend abruptly, the equivalent of you walking out of the theater dur-ing a boring or poorly crafted movie.

As youll see after turning more and more pages in this book, thespecial effects required to make The Money Game appear realwould put every special effects and animation studio in Hollywoodto shame.

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With Hollywood movies, millions of dollars are spent, thou-sands of people are involved, extremely intricate and expensivecomputers and other equipment are used. It sometimes takesmonths or even years to move from the start of a project to themoment it appears on the screen. Why is all that time, energy,effort, and money invested? To make money, you might say. Thatstrue, but what must happen before Hollywood can make money?You must be entertained, right? And for you to be entertained, whatmust happen? You must feel something.

Just about everyone I know loves movies. If for some reason youdont, follow along with me and youll still get the point I want tomake. Why do so many people love movies? When I ask people,most of them say:

Theyre fun and entertaining.

They provide a diversion from the daily routine.

You can learn and grow from them.

They enable you to see different points of view and have uniqueexperiences.

Makes sense, doesnt itespecially in light of what weve beendiscussing in this chapter? However, beneath the surface of thoseinsights is a secret few people ever uncover or fully understand. Thesecret is feelings. We love movies because of the feelings they stim-ulate within us. The truth is, we dont really care about the actionon the screen. We just care about how the action on the screenmakes us feel.

By the way, thats also why people enjoy reading books, playingand watching sports, listening to music, going to the theater, play-ing video games, riding roller coasters, going skydiving, climbingmountains, bungee-jumping, and so on. Its always about feelings.The external experiences only matter to the extent that they trig-ger inner feelings.

Think of something you really love to doa game you love toplay or watch, a task you enjoy doing, something you find extreme-

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ly enjoyable. Then ask yourself, Why do I love it so much? Whatsthe real appeal? Youll see that what you really love is whats goingon inside of you, and whats going on outside is just the trigger.

Its the same with The Human Game. At its core, The HumanGame is all about feelings and everything that happens on thescreen of your total immersion movie is also just a trigger to set spe-cific feelings into motion that support you in playing in The HumanGame amusement park the way you choose to.

At their core, movies, TheHuman Game, and The Money

Game are all about feelings, not thinking, logic, orintellect.

Let me give you an additional illustration to deepen your under-standing of this key point. Ive never been a fan of baseball, but Ionce spoke with a friend who was fanatical about baseball. I said, Iprefer football. Theres more action and a faster pace. To me, base-ball is slow and boring. Why do you love it so much?

Baseball is primarily a mental game, he said. The fun comesfrom watching the possibilities. Whenever something happenstheres a strike, a ball, an out, a bunt, a single, double, triple, orhome run, whatever it isit creates a whole new set of possibilities.Watching the possibilities and the movement of what would hap-pen if . . . scenarios is where the fun comes from.

The Human Game was designed to operate in a similar way. Ittoo is about exploring what would happen if . . . scenarios becauseevery time one thing happens, everything changes and theres awhole new set of possibilities to consider and play with. Thats partof whats required to keep us interested and wanting to continueplaying The Human Game.

Now, heres the really interesting part. When youre in a movietheater, youre just watching a movie. You may get very involvedwith the story and closely identify with the characters, but you stillknow youre you. You still know youre sitting in a theater watching.

KEY POINT

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You still know its not real. You still know the action is taking placeoutside of you. In short, theres a distance between you and theevents taking place in the movie.

When playing The Human Game in Phase 1, however, youdont just watch, you totally immerse yourself in the story line. Imag-ine sitting in a theater, seeing a movie scene start to play on thescreen, stepping through the screen into the scene, forgetting whoyou really are and actually becoming one of the characters for awhile, actually believing youre that character and everyone andeverything else in the movie is real. Thats what I mean by totalimmersion and what happens when you play The Human Game.

Lets now take a look at how a Hollywood movie is made. Thenwell bring it back to how your total-immersion Human Gamemovie is made. Before a Hollywood movie can be made, a subject ofinterest must be chosen. The movie must be about something. Theremust be a story someone wants to explore. Then, a script is writtenthat contains the details of how the story will unfold. Then a direc-tor, cast, and crew are hired and filming starts. When the storyreaches its end, filming stops.

Its the same thing with The Human Game. You have to pickspecific rides or attractions in The Human Game amusement parkto write stories about. I call this a mission or life purpose. What doI mean by rides and attractions? Everything you see in the physicaluniverse and on our planet is a ride or attraction. If youre playingthe role of being a parent, thats a ride in the amusement park. If youhold a job in a company, the job and company are attractions. If youteach physics in a high school, teaching and the high school arerides. As I explained earlier, The Money Game, in all its complexi-ty and splendor, is an attraction. On and on it goes through every-thing you see happening in what you call the world.

After you choose specific rides and attractions to play with,metaphorically, a script is written that details how your total immer-sion movie experience will unfold as you play in The Human Gameamusement park. Just like in Hollywood movies, a director, in theform of your Expanded Self, is then hired to oversee your total

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immersion movie experience and guide and protect you on yourjourney. A cast is then hired, the other people playing small or largeroles in The Human Game with you. Filming starts, which is theequivalent of you being born; and filming ultimately ends, which isthe equivalent of you dying.

As a quick but important review, everything you see on thescreen in a movie is a combination of the writers intent, the pro-ducers decision to make it real, the directors sensitivity to the over-all purpose of the proposed project, and the various performersabilities to support the entire effort. In other words, what you see onthe screen is the final expression of a great deal of creative activityyou do not see. Yet, its the unseen creative activity thats the truecause and source of the story you see unfolding. Its this unseen cre-ative activity my grandfather opened my eyes to when I was 12, theunseen creative activity I spent decades understanding and learningto fully tap, and the unseen creative activity Ill be sharing with youin the pages that follow.

When youre ready to discover The Truth about the unseenactivity that creates what you experience, the unseen activity thatpresently keeps you locked into the limitations of The MoneyGame, the unseen activity that can ultimately bust you loose fromThe Money Game, turn the page and continue on to Chapter 4.

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C H A P T E R

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The White KnightComes Riding In

Theres no out there out there.1

John A. Wheeler, Physicist

Idumped a lot of philosophy on you in the last two chapters. Per-haps you resonated with all of it. Maybe some of it soundedwoo-woo to you, or you didnt see how it could relate to moneyor busting loose from The Money Game. As youll soon see, the phi-losophy is a critical part of the Busting Loose Process, and it set usup perfectly for a discussion of the cutting edge scientific researchthat documents, validates, and expands the potential of the philos-ophy to provide practical value in your life.

Thousands of volumes have been written on the scientificresearch Ill be summarizing and interpreting for you here. Therefore,

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Ill introduce the key concepts and then refer you to additionalresources in an Appendix if you want to delve more deeply into them.

To play games, including The Human Game and The MoneyGame, we must have tools, support resources, and a playing field onwhich to play. Take baseball for example. After the inventor of the game first thought it up, he then had to physically create a diamond, bats, balls, and gloves before people could actually playthe game.

The same thing is true for The Human Game. Its one thing tothink or talk about creating a gigantic amusement park where totalimmersion movies can be created and experienced, but quite anotherto actually build the amusement park and make it work. So what weregoing to discuss now is how our amusement park (three-dimensionalreality) is created to support us in playing The Human Game.

Throughout history, people have been trying to figure out howour physical universe is structured, how it really works, and the lawsthat supposedly govern it. To solve such mysteries, scientists havebeen breaking the physical universe into smaller and smaller piecesto understand what the core building blocks are and how they inter-act with each other.

As scientists looked deeper and deeper, they started findingsmaller and smaller particles that were given names like cells, mol-ecules, atoms, protons, and electrons. When they penetrated moredeeply into the subatomic world, however, scientists began to noticeeven smaller particles that didnt seem to behave according to theknown laws of physics. Those discoveries led to a series of break-throughs that are now called quantum physics.

When I was first introduced to quantum physics, I couldntunderstand it at all. It fried my brain. It was very dense to read andwade through. But I had a sense there were important puzzle piecesfor me there so I persisted. Finally, the light began to turn on, Iclearly saw the puzzle pieces that were there for me, and I addedthem to my collection. Im now going to share them with you.

One scientist, David Bohm, was on the forefront of the firstbreakthroughs in quantum physics. Bohm concluded that the only

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way to explain the strange behavior scientists were seeing with sub-atomic particles was that the tangible reality of our everyday lives isan illusion. Bohm asserted that underlying what we call reality was adeeper order of existence, a vast and more primary level of reality thatgave birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical universe.

Michael Talbot summarized this in his book The HolographicUniverse:

Put another way, there is evidence to suggest that our world andeverything in itfrom snowflakes to maple trees to falling starsand spinning electronsare also only ghostly images, projectionsfrom a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond bothspace and time.2

Inspired by Bohm, numerous scientists kept looking for thedeeper order he asserted was there. They ultimately found it in theform of a gigantic field of intelligent energy that has many namesbut is most often called the Zero Point Field (hereafter referred to asThe Field) within the scientific community.

The Field exists as energy with infinite potential that hasntbeen formed into anything yet. However, from that infinite poten-tial, literally anything can be created. As scientists continuedresearching The Field, they developed a theory to explain how thephysical universe is constructed from it. The theory involves fourcomponents:

1. The Field

2. Particles

3. The physical universe

4. Consciousness

Ive already defined The Field and particles for you. You knowabout the physical universe. Consciousness is what physicistscall energy, and what others have called Mind, Source,Brahma, God, and a host of other names throughout history and

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across cultures. Its not physical, but its the creative force behindeverything that appears in what we call the physical realm.

For the purposes of the model were working with here, Imgoing to define Consciousness as the Real You, you as an InfiniteBeing, which Ive referred to previously as your Expanded Self. Inother words: You are Consciousness.

Depending on the beliefs you currently hold, you may be able toaccept this easily. If you have a strong belief in God or a SupremeBeing, however, you may need to slightly modify this concept to saythat God or a Supreme Being endowed you with Consciousness andpower to play The Human Game. There isnt really any conflict orproblem here. It just depends on how you choose to look at it. Real-ly getting that your Consciousness is creating everything you expe-rience is absolutely critical to busting loose from The Money Game.

Heres how the scientific theory unfolds. The Field exists in astate of infinite possibility, which means anything is possible andanything can be created from it. However, when Consciousnessfocuses on The Field with a specific intent to create something, thatstate of infinite possibility collapses into a single possibility deter-mined by that intent. In quantum physics terms, its called collaps-ing the wave form.

Once a collapse takes place, the illusion of the physical universeis created, physical particles appear in that illusion and combine inspecific ways to build the intended objects and living things weinteract

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