Money what's the first thing you think of or feel when you hear that word? Is it grief joy?
anger
Really think about it. Does the word money inspire positive or negative feelings?
Or maybe you're that one person in the bunch who's just like me. I
recently did a survey with people who subscribe to the spirit signs email list and asked a wide number of questions one of which was
What do you struggle most with in life?
The number one highest response was you guessed it
finances
This told me it was time at long last that we have a candid spiritual discussion about money
See if we can't change our relationship with physical resources
I mean think about what would happen if there were like a
Hundred thousand benevolent spiritual millionaires all using their wealth to make massive and beautiful change in the world
Hmm. Well let's talk about it
Allow me to begin today by asking you a question
What would you do with a million dollars if you're anything like me?
You might go to work putting those resources to use benefiting humanity in some way for me personally
I want to work with a big
animation team and video production studio and make an amazing stream of content for YouTube and spirit mysteries and
Maybe even one day launch a worldwide theatrical release of something really special
But hold on we can't even do that at all yet. There's a big money blockage in the way. Ah
But what is this block you might ask?
well, it's a pretty big one and it's existed for thousands of years in the relationship between money and
spirituality within the human consciousness I
Discovered this blockage for myself nearly nine years ago when I created this little cartoon series you might have heard of it
It's called spirit science
Sorry, of course, there's a lot of praise on this series, but a lot of people also warn me with grave and fear
Spirituality and money don't go together if you make money doing is something spiritual you are a sellout
Now I very often take all the comments to heart even these ones and for the last nine years I struggled with this whole
Money and spirituality thing I chose to avoid looking at the conversation in general sometimes
Because I didn't want to upset my audience you guys
but what I found was that choosing that paradigm forced me into a very limited box of reality as
Spirit science grew I had more and more responsibilities, but I didn't usually have much in the way of resources to delegate tasks
So I just had less time to spend on making videos as a result the next thing
You know people were mad at me for not making more videos
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place
The reason I'm telling you this story is because I know that I'm not the only one who is has or will one day
Struggle with this problem, but I have good news for you
We can transform the entire dynamic and it all comes down to the relationship that we have with money
and our spiritual selves
This applies to anything really literally any problem can be healed and transformed if we understand it fully
If you are someone who has ever struggled financially you've come to the right place
Today everything begins to change
Understanding money actually begins with a conversation not about money but with God
You could call it spirit the all the source field the energy that makes up all of the particles and waveforms of reality
Whatever floats your boat you see spirit is found in all things
There is nothing separate from the eternal oneness
We have this conditioned idea in society that God and the heavens are always above us and beyond us in some way
But what about inward? What about outward? What about even downward? Oh, no, no, sorry. Don't think of downward
That's the devil's lair, right?
Well, even the devil is not separate from the supreme oneness at the deepest level
we have to understand that everything is
Spiritual because all things are connected through this infinite field that makes up reality that goes for money, too
Now I understand that
It may be difficult to comprehend the idea of God or spirit and that's often the point the hermetic philosophies describe
God to be unknowable and indescribable because the imperfect and
impermanent cannot easily apprehend the eternally perfected but fear not because with every day
Every moment each of us has the opportunity to explore deeper the mysteries of life and the connection we have to this
underlying substance behind reality
Substance is a very key word here
It will be critical in bridging the gap between this cosmic discussion and money
You see there is a substance underlying all things
We understand scientifically that when you zoom in close enough to the bits of reality. We find a seemingly never-ending field of energy
Continuous field of energy that is never depleted or empty
so even if we are experiencing lack in our lives the energy substance that makes up everything is
Never lacking in anything
The lesson here is that through the awareness that energy is everywhere and constantly permeating all things. We come to know that there is this
Foundational abundant stability at the basis of everything in a very spiritual perspective
We can perceive this as if the whole of God is present at every moment through all of space and time
Limitation as we know it does not actually exist
What does exist however is the consciousness of limitation there are pockets of poverty there are victims of deprivation
absolutely and
Simultaneously there is an infinite and universal energy from which all things descend
We exist within this energetic field just as a fish exists in water with that mindset
Can you ever truly run out of ideas and opportunities for health love and prosperity?
The key then to limitless wealth. Is that this?
Endless substance can move through you if you open yourself to being a conduit for it and it can take so many different forms
It can take the form of creating happiness health food money or any other kind of experience that you want
Generally speaking
We open ourselves to experiencing this abundance through our creative ideas
Ingenuity and will to do good work with a loving heart
So with all of that as a primer what specifically is money?
well the simplest way to look at it is energy a
reflection of a value exchange that you can create in the world with others as
You create value others are willing to exchange their own energy for it and money is the physical reflection of that energy
But be warned not all money is created equal money can be created in a positive or a negative way
You can have a thousand dollars of selling heroin to addicts, which is well
Pretty dirty money actually or a thousand dollars of supporting people in creating deep personal transformation in their lives
much cleaner money
The biggest lesson I've learned about money lately has been that in order to start creating it
We have to be willing to shift our mindset
Change our belief system about it and look at it differently doing this
we open ourselves up to a new paradigm where we exist with a spiritual fullness that creates wealth as
You have to be willing to love money just as much as you love other aspects of life
Not that you're making money into like the thing that you're all about
but honoring it as another foundational aspect of life along with other things like food, or
Growing a garden or I don't know going to the gym or watching a movie
Now not to get super biblical, but there is an interesting quote that I want to share from Jesus
Who says for where your treasure is there? Will your heart be also?
We must remember not to base our security on that which is physically manifested but on the inner energy within you
when spiritually rooted making money is not the end goal but happens as a result of one's good works in the world and
Supports you in continuing the good work at greater levels
Now the conversation of money is actually a really big one and my intention is to keep this flow going with new episodes more
Regularly, so I'm gonna call this one right here for now and we'll see you again very soon for yet another
Exploration into the wonderful world of money if you want to get more into this in the meantime
Please check out the book spiritual economics much of this conversation. Today was based on chapter 1
It's absolutely brilliant and a wonderful way to start shifting your money mindset right now
You can find a link to that book in the author comments below have a beautiful week and we'll see you again soon