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The Human Game - Journey
To The Infinite Premise
and Process You are an infinite spiritual
being and you came to this Earth plane to play the Human Game!
Coming from the expanded and
infinite state I just described, you decided you
wanted to play a game -- for the sheer fun, pleasure and challenge of
playing.
That game is called "The Human Game" and it's a game that's played
entirely in consciousness – in "the mind" if you will. I
realize
you've been taught the human experience is a lot more "serious" than
a game, but if we're going to work together, you must understand my
perspective.
Like any other game, The Human
Game has its own set
of unique rules, regulations and structure which I'll discuss in a
moment. I'm
fond of comparing the mechanics of creating and playing The Human Game
in
consciousness to the making of a movie and often call the human
experience a
"Total Immersion Movie Experience." I'm a big fan of the TV and
movie series called Star
Trek. In that show, there's 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. It's to fully explore the experience of
limitation
and restriction – to explore what happens when you limit the
unlimited power,
infinite ability to express creatively, infinite wisdom and abundance
that's
your natural state. As a result, The Human Game is
designed to be jam
packed with all sorts of limiting and restrictive ideas and
experiences.
Concepts like death, poverty, loss, fear, pain, shame, struggle and
sorrow have
been created in The Human Game like hurdles on a track. The game, then,
is for
you to play The Human Game, experience severe limitation in the
creation of
consciousness called "3 Dimensional Reality," then eventually jump
over the hurdles and back into full awareness of the infinite nature of
who you
really are. To play a game, you must have
"players."
The Human Game works the same way. Players take the shape of Parents,
siblings,
relatives, neighbors, teachers, friends, enemies, associates, etc. The
roles
other Players play in your Game are very similar to the roles actors
and
actresses play in the making of a movie. That is, they say what you ask
them to
say and do what you ask them to do to support you perfectly in playing
your Human
Game exactly the way you want to play it. There's an unconditional
commitment
from each Player to support every other Player in playing The Human
Game. Since who you really
are is an Infinite
Being, in order to play The Human Game, you must use all your power,
creativity
and consciousness to wipe out every last trace of memory of who you
really are,
how much power you have, how much wisdom you possess, and your natural
state of
infinite abundance. As a result, to play The Human Game, you must
create the
Illusion of splitting yourself into two parts: 1. Your
Expanded Self --
which is who you really are with all your power, wisdom
and abundance, who manages all aspects of The Game from behind the
scenes 2.
The
Player -- who totally immerses himself/herself within the
illusion of The
Human Game and doesn't remember who he/she really is or what he/she is
capable
of. The Player is the part of you who's reading my words right now.
It's who
you've always thought yourself to be. Words get tricky here, but it's
important to
understand that while The Player and Expanded Self feel and appear
separate,
they're actually one and the same Infinite Being that's united at a
very deep
and profound level. The apparent separation is all an Illusion created
by what
you might call "sleight of hand" in consciousness. As part of "the forgetting
process"
that's required to play The Human Game, your Expanded Self chooses the
form of
a helpless, tiny infant who's totally dependent on conditions outside
its
control to begin The Human Game. Once you (The Player) are born (and in
some
cases while you’re still in the womb prior to being born),
your Expanded Self
starts creating experiences that begin the process of forgetting,
limiting and
restricting you. In the popular success and self-help literature, this
process
is called "programming" or "conditioning." From the moment you're born, you
actually begin
"hiding" your tremendous power, wisdom and abundance from yourself,
and convincing yourself you're actually the complete opposite of who
you really
are. You also convince yourself those hiding places are so painful,
dangerous,
scary and deadly that they must be avoided at all costs. The process of
forgetting, limiting and restricting yourself is what I call "Phase 1"
of The Human Game. It's vital at this point for you
to understand that
every living thing in the human experience chose to be here and chose
each
circumstance and condition it experiences. Though accepting this is
just a
first step, it's a major hurdle for many people to get over. Most
humans have
decided to agree that outer forces or influences play an inevitable
part in our
lives, and that we're at the mercy of powers and conditions we can't
control.
That's simply not true. Our Expanded Selves choose
and create absolutely
everything we experience – down to the smallest detail. After having the limited and
restrictive
experiences in Phase 1 of The Human Game, your Expanded Self starts
nudging you
into Phase 2 of The Game. At that point, you begin to feel
"incomplete,"
like you're "missing something." You start looking for
"answers" and a "higher meaning" to your life. At that
point, you still don't remember you've hidden your real Self and power,
but you
begin a search for The Truth nevertheless, and you begin a quest to
reclaim the
infinite power, wisdom and abundance that's your natural state. At that
point,
The Human Game really becomes fun – and that's where a Coach
like me becomes an
invaluable ally. The Coach knows you've hidden
your Expanded Self
awareness and power. The Coach knows your Expanded Self knows all the
hiding
places. The Coach can therefore support you in following the clues that
lead to
the hiding places and reclaiming your power and wisdom from them. Because the Coach doesn't have
the emotional
involvement you created around the hiding places, he/she can support
you in
returning to them without fear to reclaim your power. Eventually, the
totally
committed Player comes face-to-face with its Expanded Self and "wins"
The Human Game. At that point, you begin living in the human experience
with
full awareness of your Expanded Self power, perfection, knowledge and
abundance. You begin living in a state of total trust in yourself,
incredible
joy, unimaginable peace, infinite abundance, and unconditional love for
yourself, others, and the experiences you choose to create. At that
point, as
the old adage goes, "You are in the world but not of
the
world." OK. Let's step back a minute and
look at this from
a different perspective. You may be asking yourself the following
question: "In general, why would anyone
want to play a
game like The Human Game as you've just described?" Why does anyone play any game?
For the sheer fun,
challenge and exhilaration of playing, no matter how "difficult" it
may seem at times. Who "made up" football, basketball, golf, soccer,
or any other game – and why? Who made up all the crazy rules,
regulations and
structures that go along with all the games we play? Why would someone
willingly choose to leave their warm and comfortable home to experience
the
pain and hardship involved in a "game" like climbing a massive
mountain like Who you really are is a
wonderfully adventurous
spirit, ever eager to expand Itself and Its experiences. The Human Game
of
limitation is no big deal to The Real You. The real trick of The Human
Game is
hiding and then forgetting all your power and wisdom so you can play! You may also
be asking yourself this question: "To be more specific, why would
some Expanded
Selves choose to play The Human Game by going through such horrors as
abuse,
sickness, poverty, struggle, starvation, maiming, murder and death?" Expanded Selves see no horror in
any of those
experiences. Your Expanded Self knows it's all just a Game being played
in consciousness.
Your Expanded Self knows such experiences aren't real, that they're
just
"made up" to create a Game and a playing field on which to play it.
Your Expanded Self knows all your experiences are just "total immersion
movie" experiences – and that they only seem real and
horrible to those
who made them up, are totally immersed within them, and convinced
they're real. When we talk about the power of
your Expanded Self,
who you really are, we're talking about power beyond anything you can
imagine
right now. We're talking about the power to create absolutely anything
– any
experience. We're talking about the ability to fully appreciate and
love
yourself, everyone else and everything else -- under all circumstances
and
conditions. We're talking about the power of absolute trust in the
perfection
of the Universe. We're talking about the gentle, peaceful power of
harmony, joy
and beauty. No concept of power you're
familiar with in The
Human Game comes even close to the infinite power and omnipotence your
Expanded
Self must hide to allow you to play The Human Game. All the forces of
nature
and man put together and multiplied a billion times are but a speck
compared to
the power you possess in your natural state. So where in the world do you
hide power of that
magnitude? In the only place capable of handling it: within the human
experience itself – right inside all the limiting and
restrictive experiences
that compose The Human Game. In order to create everything you
experience in
The Human Game, tremendous amounts of power and wisdom must be invested
to make
everything appear real and convince yourself it is real. Let me give you a
few examples. In your
natural state, you're in a constant state of peace and Joyfulness. You
can't
and don't feel anything else. However, while playing The Human Game,
you'd say
you feel sadness, depression, anger, fear and a host of other so called
"negative emotions." However, feeling such emotions isn't possible.
You can't feel sad, depressed, angry, or afraid. The only thing you can
do is
create the Illusion of such feelings in The Human Game and invest
tremendous
power convincing yourself the Illusion is real. As another
example, when playing The
Human Game, many people choose to experience what they'd call pain,
neglect,
poverty, shame and sorrow. In your natural state, you're in a constant
state of
Joyfulness, peace and abundance. You have the power to create anything
you
could ever want or imagine -- instantly. Therefore, it's not possible
for you
to really experience pain, neglect, poverty, shame
or sorrow. The only
thing you can do is create the Illusion of such feelings and
experiences in The
Human Game and invest tremendous amounts of power convincing yourself
the
Illusion is real. As you know, as
Players in The Human
Game, none of us goes gladly into such experiences as pain, neglect,
poverty,
shame or sorrow. You can therefore see that the disguises, myths and
Illusions
we create are VERY convincing! Plus, as The Player "grows up," so
grows the belief in the reality of the Illusion. We lead our lives
carefully
negotiating around events and circumstances that would cause us to
interact
with any of these "painful conditions." Inevitably, however, our
lives are filled with the very conditions we try hardest to avoid. There's an old
adage that reads like
this: "Our worst fears befall us." Your Expanded Self counts on this
so you can have the experiences you came to The Human Game to have! Your Expanded Self
knows what's true and
real. You, The Player, however, are always confused. The more you play
by
"the rules" of The Human Game you've been taught and the more you try
to avoid "painful" conditions (whatever they may be), the more you
seem to experience them – and the more out of control and
powerless you feel.
That's all part of your Expanded Self’s plan and what Phase 1
of The Human Game
is all about. Even though The Human Game may
seem excruciatingly
painful at times, your Expanded Self, The Real You, is reveling in the
sheer
joy of playing! Your Expanded Self must keep
you, The Player, from
remembering who you really are in order to stay and play The Human
Game. To
maintain the myth of limitation, your Expanded Self creates a "voice"
within you that discourages any attempt to go near the hiding places of
your
power and wisdom. That voice tells you to avoid this or that, warns you
of
impending "danger," scares the hell out of you if you try to pull
back the disguises to see what’s really going on. That voice is your diligent,
constant companion,
ever vigilant in guarding you from your real knowing and power. That
is, until
you're ready to know. It's very supportive to acknowledge the presence
of the
voice your Expanded Self created for you, and to recognize and
appreciate the role
it plays in your life. Your Expanded Self knows when
you're ready to
re-discover your power and wisdom. So, your Expanded Self guards the
hiding
places of power and wisdom until there's clear evidence you're ready to
rediscover The Truth. At that time, your Expanded Self displays the
same
diligence and consistency supporting you in finding and reclaiming your
power
and awareness as It did when hiding it. The process of reclaiming your
power is
called "Phase 2" of The Human Game! Once we've established that you
chose to play The
Human Game and experience limiting and restrictive events and
circumstances,
you can then look at your life and begin to see what your Expanded Self
chose,
and how you hid your power and wisdom to play The Human Game in those
specific
ways. This is also where a Coach can be so helpful. If there's a history of poverty
and neglect in your
life, for example, you can see that such experiences were the choices
your
Expanded Self made to help you play the Human Game the way you wanted
to play
it. We can all look at the things in our lives that seem to keep
re-occurring
(despite our best efforts to prevent them) and see they're precisely
what we
came here to experience. We can also begin to appreciate the brilliance
behind
how it was all setup and worked so well for so long. Many people experience war,
famine, peace and
prosperity, but even though we may describe such experiences with the
same
label, the actual experience is unique for every individual. Though it
appears
that outside circumstances and outside events thrust you into your
experiences,
you can be sure it was all well orchestrated by your Expanded Self with
absolute support from the Universe. Giving up the "victim" role may
be the
hardest part of transitioning into Phase 2 of The Human Game. Many
people are
really attached to the desire to have someone else fix them; fix the
conditions
of their lives; or somehow manipulate circumstances to make things
"better." In most games, there's a clear
signal when changes
or shifts are made. In football, there's half time. In baseball the
innings
change. In golf, there's a new hole to be played. So it is with The
Human Game.
No matter what experiences you chose to have in The Human Game, from
what's
viewed as the most negative to the most positive, whether from rags to
riches
or riches to rags, whether fame and fortune or infamy and disgrace,
there comes
a time when you, The Player, says, "Wait a minute; there has to be more
to
this. There must be more going on than what I’m seeing." That’s the signal you
give your Expanded Self and
that’s when your Expanded Self knows It has an opportunity to
start revealing
The Truth to you. That’s also when you begin to entertain the
possibility that
you can experience a wider, more expansive, more loving, joyful and
unlimited
view of who you really are. That's also a signal to your
Expanded Self that
His/Her role is about to change. In Phase 2, your Expanded Self shifts
His/Her
message from fear and trepidation to confidence and trust. Your
Expanded Self
knows when you're ready and fully committed to opening to your natural
state of
power and awareness. Your Expanded Self knows the support He/She gives
you will
now shift to pulling back the curtain on the Illusion of The Human Game
and
letting you see – and experience – The Truth. Your Expanded Self then takes
you on a guided tour
of who you really are, what's really going on, and exactly how you
convinced
yourself The Illusion was real in Phase 1 of The Human Game. Through
that
process, you're also led, as if on a gigantic Treasure Hunt, to the
places
where you hid power so you reclaim it and expand back into who you
really are.
Reclaiming your power and wisdom and returning to your natural state is
an
amazing experience that can't be adequately described in words! The clues on the Treasure Hunt
are obvious and
numerous. Each experience you have in Phase 2 is in complete and
perfect
support of your commitment to remember who you really are. For
instance, if you
have an experience that angers and confuses you, it's precisely in that
anger
and confusion that your Expanded Self has hidden your power. So, you
dive into
that experience, using what I call "The Process" to
“transform” and
expand it in ways you’ll soon discover. Look at your life. Are there
"dark" places
you taught yourself to stay away from? Those places are precisely where
your
Expanded Self hid your power and wisdom! If asked, nearly every soul
immersed within The
Human Game would say he/she would like to experience more abundance,
freedom,
joy, peace, fulfillment, satisfaction, etc. To really experience such a
transformation, however, it takes a massive commitment to move beyond
his/her
limited belief systems about itself and others. The willingness to view
one’s
life from a totally new perspective can be daunting, especially if the
Player
thinks it is safer to keep the status quo in place. In other words, a
desire
for spiritual understanding is a lot different from the absolute
commitment to
experiencing it! Many Players have reached the
point where they want
to make their life "better" – and they feel embracing the
"Spiritual" side of life can enrich them with increased wealth,
happier relationships, greater peace of mind, improved health, etc.
Tapping
into the Spiritual side of life (which has been my life's work) can
help create
the Illusion of producing results like that. However, for those who
want to go
all the way; who want to reach the true pinnacle of The Human Game; for
those
who want to "go for the gold," it takes a commitment like no other. To take a quantum leap forward
and actually win The
Human Game, it takes a commitment to trust your Expanded Self (even
when it's
tough to do so) and reclaim power from every limited belief system you
ever
created within The Human Game. It takes a commitment to acknowledge,
accept and
appreciate the power and magnificence of who you really are. And
that’s just for starters! There's no prescribed time or
place for making a
commitment like that and entering Phase 2 of The Human Game. Each
Player has
the opportunity to do it if and when he/she chooses. However, it's
supportive
to know you can go for the gold -- and you can
"win" it. Let
me take a minute to clarify what I mean by "the gold." The term
"the gold" in The Human Game is generally used in athletics as an
accolade achieved when one individual (or team) "beats" another
individual (or team) in a competition. The exact opposite is the true
meaning
of "the gold" as used here. As it relates to The Human Game,
"the
gold" means getting to the point where you play The Human Game without
limits or restrictions. It means playing The Human Game with full
access to
your infinite power, wisdom, abundance and peace. There's no
competition to do
that. One doesn't win while another loses. We all have the ability to
"win"
and will "win" when we choose to. I can't tell you exactly what
getting the gold means for you or what it'll look like. Why? Because
we're all
different and it will unfold as your Expanded Self chooses and designs
for you. You don't "achieve" the gold.
You don't
somehow, through good works and being nice or persistent, "earn" the
gold. You simply commit to accepting that the gold is what and who you
really
are. You simply commit to opening to The Real You and accepting that
everything
about you is the energy and perfection of the Universe. It's not my role to urge you to
play The Human
Game. You already are, whether you acknowledge it or not. It's not my
role to
encourage you to enter Phase 2, remember who you really are, and begin
reclaiming your power (although I doubt you’d be here if that
wasn't your
intention). This work is not about what’s right and wrong.
It's simply another
of the unlimited ways your Expanded Self has provided to support you in
playing
and enjoying The Human Game to the fullest. To me, moving into Phase 2 of
The Human Game and
"going for the gold" as I just described is the ultimate game and I'm
on fire with passion, excitement and joy to be playing it. I also love
supporting others who wish to join me on that journey. The goal of this
work is
to help you: · Understand what Phase 1 was really all about and the mechanics behind how The Illusion was
created and sustained ·
Move Into Phase 2 Of The Human Game ·
Understand what Phase 2 is all about ·
Rediscover who you really are ·
Reclaim your power ·
Have an ongoing dialogue with your Expanded Self to support you on your
journey ·
See everything you experience through the lens of Truth instead of
Illusion ·
Go for the gold in the most supportive way for you · And so much more – all custom-designed to meet your unique wants and needs
Robert's book on the above topic, Busting Loose From The Money Game is highly recommended.
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