Busting Loose from The Money Game
Busting Loose from The Money Game by Robert Scheinfeld is a love-it-or-hate-it book for most people.
It’s correctly subtitled, “Mind-blowing strategies for changing the rules of a game you can’t win.”
“Mind-blowing” is an understatement.
Even if you finally land in the “love it” category, you may first spend days, weeks or even months scratching your head, wondering if the author is on the level.
Author Robert Scheinfeld takes you step-by-step through the process of deciding if life is really a game… in recent Star Trek terms: a huge, complex, and very impressive holodeck. (Or, if you’ve thought that your life may be something like The Truman Show, this book will confirm it.)
If you’re ready for the possibility that nothing is really real — it’s all virtual — few books present that case more methodically and clearly than Busting Loose from The Money Game.
Removing yourself from the “victim” role in the game can be tremendously empowering. To get there, you need to know how to change the rules of the game.
This means completely dismissing almost everything you believe is true. Scheinfeld talks about this as the “Phase Two” part of the game; in Phase One, you got the idea that your powers were limited, and almost everything’s a trade-off.
In Phase Two, the gloves come off, you take everything less seriously, and you step back into your true sense of power. It’s like saying, “Okay, that was fun. Now let’s get to the high-powered exhilaration I was expecting from this game.”
If you felt let down by The Secret, “Busting Loose…” will explain why that’s a Phase One approach. The Secret won’t work if you want true Phase Two abundance.
If you can suspend disbelief (and I am struggling with that), you may agree with Jack Canfield (author of the “Chicken Soup” book series), “This book will show you a joyful new way to create and experience total abundance.”
My opinion? This book is either total genius, or it’s a textbook study of dissociative disorders. I’m not sure there’s any halfway point between those two interpretations.
Just in case author Robert Scheinfeld is right, I recommend reading this book.
If he is right, most of our planet is edging towards Phase Two right now. To make the most of it — and prevent the panic, depression and frustration that can accompany this kind of shift in reality — Busting Loose from The Money Game is a book to own.
Ordinarily, I’d recommend reading a copy from the public library. However, this book is so wacky and so disturbing, you’ll read about half a page of it and put it back on the shelf.
The quirky thing is: If you give the book half a chance, you’ll probably want to keep a copy on your bookshelf.
It’s a book you’ll keep returning to, and each time you’ll wonder a little more seriously, “What if he’s right…?”
Pros
- Concepts presented gradually and logically.
- Author seems wholly committed to this belief, and has been through the process himself and with clients.
- Using an “Easter egg” approach, the reader can transform his or her reality at a fairly comfortable pace.
Cons
- The premise is difficult to accept: Almost nothing is real… not as you’ve thought about it, anyway.
- The book seems to start out excessively slow, until you’re at the edge of the precipice and ready to reject the whole thing.
- Most people will need to re-read the book several times over a period of months before they digest these extreme ideas.
Summary
If you’re seeing weird patterns and flaws in the “reality” around you, and you’ve begun to wonder if this is all a holodeck, this is the book you’ve been looking for.
However, if you reject the concept that life may be a game and only a game, you’ll probably reject this book, too.
I’m not rating this book because I can’t make up my mind if it’s a no-star book or a five-star book. There is no in-between rating I can give it.
As Alice might have said if she’d read this book, “Curiouser and curiouser…!”
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