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Notice how the number produces a physical response before you have a single conscious thought about it. That response is the first clue that something is deeply wrong with our understanding of money because money in its current form is nothing.
Welcome to the reality revolution. I'm your host Brian Scott. Today, we're covering a powerful topic and idea through an activation and that is the money simulation. If you can understand this aspect of money, then everything changes for you. You control the simulation.
Pick a number. Any number. Pick a number that represents financial freedom for you. 100,000? A million? 10 million? Whatever the number is, notice what happens inside your body when you think about it. Notice the tightening, the quickening, the involuntary constriction in your chest or your stomach. Notice how the number produces a physical response before you have a single conscious thought about it. That response is the first clue that something is deeply wrong with our understanding of money because money in its current form is nothing.
It's digits on a screen. It's ink on paper. It's ones and zeros stored on servers in buildings you will never visit. The United States dollar has been backed by nothing, zero physical commodity, zero tangible asset since 1971. And yet, the thought of it controls your nervous system. The absence of it ruins lives. The pursuit of it drives the majority of human behavior on the planet. How does nothing produce that much power?
Think about this carefully. In the physical world, power comes from substance. Uranium produces power because of its atomic structure. Oil produces power [music] because of its chemical energy. Food produces power because of its caloric content. Physical power has a physical source, but money in its [music] current form has zero physical source. It's a number agreed upon by a network of human minds. It's a collective hallucination backed by military force >> [music] >> and institutional trust. And that hallucination has become the single most powerful organizing force in human civilization. More powerful than religion, more powerful than government, more powerful than love, fear, or any other human emotion because all of those forces operate within the framework that money has established.
Something that has zero physical substance that produces more behavior control >> [music] >> than any physical force in history is operating by rules that physics alone is unable to explain. [music] It's operating by rules of information, of code, of simulation. I've been thinking about this question for years and the answer I have arrived at is one that will fundamentally change how you relate to wealth, abundance, and the flow of money [music] through your life. Because money is behaving exactly the way a feature of a simulated reality would behave. [music] It has the properties of code. It follows the logic of a game mechanic and once you see it that way, the rules for interacting with it change completely.
Every complex civilization in human history independently invented [music] money. Every single one. Without contact, without coordination, without any possibility of shared influence. In Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE, the Sumerians developed a system of commodity money based on the silver shekel. They recorded transactions on clay tablets, used barley as a parallel currency, >> [music] >> and established the first known credit system through their temple economies. The Code of Hammurabi, created around 1760 BCE, contains detailed laws governing debt, [music] interest, and financial contracts.
In Egypt, at roughly the same time, a parallel currency system emerged based on the deben, a unit of weight applied to gold and silver. By 1550 BCE, the kite was added as a smaller denomination. Egyptians developed their own accounting systems, their own laws of exchange, their own mechanisms of debt and credit. In China, the Shang Dynasty was using >> [music] >> cowrie shells as currency by 1500 BCE. The shells were so central to economic life that the Chinese characters [music] for money, wealth, trade, and commerce all contain the radical for shell. By 1100 BCE, China had introduced leather [music] money made from white deer hide. By 910 CE, they had invented paper currency a thousand years before Europe.
In the Indus Valley, archaeological evidence shows a sophisticated system of standardized weights >> [music] >> used for trade as early as 2600 BCE. Weights so precisely calibrated that they follow a binary mathematical ratio, suggesting a level of economic sophistication that rivals [music] anything in the contemporary world. In Mesoamerica, the Aztecs used cacao beans as currency. The Maya used jade, obsidian, and shell beads. These systems emerged with zero contact with civilizations of Eurasia separated by an entire ocean and thousands [music] of years of independent development. In West Africa, the Akan people developed the gold dust currency system weighed on precision scales. In Oceania, the people of Yap carved enormous stone discs, some weighing thousands of pounds, that functioned as a currency of social obligation.
Every single one of these civilizations arrived at the same conclusion independently. Human society requires a symbolic medium of exchange. >> [music] >> Every one of them developed units of account, systems of debt, mechanisms of credit, and laws governing financial obligation. The forms varied, shells, metal, stone, paper, cacao, but the underlying architecture was identical. Consider how remarkable this is. These civilizations had different languages, different religions, different political structures, different climates, different food sources, different technologies. They shared almost nothing. And yet every single one of them produced the same solution to the same problem, >> [music] >> as if the solution was built into the problem itself, as if the emergence of money was as inevitable as the emergence of language or agriculture.
The anthropologists who have studied this convergence most carefully would tell you that money emerged because trade required it. The economist would tell you that the efficiency of barter demanded a medium of exchange. These explanations are reasonable, but they beg a deeper question. Why does the universe produce civilizations that require trade, produce complexity that demands currency, produce conscious beings who organize themselves around symbolic [music] exchange? Why is this pattern so universal that it appears everywhere consciousness reaches a sufficient density?
In biology, when the same feature evolves independently in unrelated species, it's called convergent evolution. Eyes evolved independently in vertebrates and cephalopods, wings evolved independently in birds, bats, and insects. Flight evolved independently at least four separate times. When the same solution appears across unrelated lineages, biologists conclude that the solution is demanded by the environment itself. The environment makes the feature inevitable. Money converged across every human civilization the same way eyes converged across every complex organism, as if something in the structure of reality itself demanded its emergence, as if the code required it.
Here's the second observation. Money has been progressively dematerializing across the entire arc of human history, and the direction of that dematerialization is unmistakable. It is moving toward pure information. First it was grain, a physical commodity you could eat. Then it was metal, a physical commodity you could weigh. Then it was coins, then it was paper backed by metal. Then in 1971 Nixon severed the last link between the dollar and gold, a number backed by nothing except collective agreement. Then it became digital, numbers in databases transferred electronically existing as magnetic charges on hard drives. And now it's becoming cryptocurrency, mathematical proofs stored on distributed ledgers secured by algorithms existing as pure computation. 5,000 years of monetary evolution and the trajectory is straight line from physical substance [music] toward pure information, from atoms towards bits, from matter to code.
Here's the detail that most economists overlook. At no point during the 5,000-year trajectory did money become less powerful. The opposite occurred. The less [music] physical money became, the more powerful it grew. Cowrie shells could buy a meal. Paper currency could buy a kingdom. Digital money moves trillions of dollars across the planet in milliseconds. Cryptocurrency operates without any central authority, any government, any institution, pure mathematics performing [music] the function that temples and treasuries and central banks performed for millennia. The power of money increased in direct proportion to its dematerialization. The less substance it had, the more influence it exerted.
This is the opposite of what you would expect if money were a physical commodity, and it is exactly what you would expect if money were information, because information becomes more powerful as it [music] sheds its physical substrate. A letter carved in stone has less [music] reach than a letter printed on paper. A letter printed on paper has less reach than a letter [music] transmitted electronically. A letter transmitted electronically has less reach than an idea encoded in a global network. At every stage, the shedding of physical form amplifies the signal. Money has been amplifying its signal for 5,000 years. The signal is approaching purity.
A pure signal, pure information, [music] is what runs simulations. If you were designing a simulated reality, a game, a matrix, a computational environment in which conscious beings could interact, compete, cooperate, and grow, you would need an in-game resource system. You would need a medium through which players could exchange value, track obligations, and allocate [music] resources. You would need a system that was fungible, divisible, portable, and universally recognized within the simulation. You would need money. And you would build it exactly the way money appears to have been built, as a system that starts looking physical and gradually reveals its true nature as information. As the beings within the simulation [music] develop the capacity to perceive it accurately. The dematerialization of money across 5,000 years is the simulation revealing one of its own features. The code is showing itself.
And here's where this investigation gets personal, because if money is a feature of the simulation, rather than a physical substance, then the entire psychological relationship most people have with money is a bug in the system, rather than a feature. In Vadim Zeland's in his extraordinary reality transurfing book, identified the precise mechanisms by which that bug operates. Zeland calls it excess potential. The concept is simple and devastating. Whenever you assign excess importance to anything, whenever you elevate something above its natural position in the energetic field of your life, you create a disturbance in the balance of the system. That disturbance activates what Zeland calls equilibrium forces, the simulation's built-in correction mechanism, which then act to restore balance by pushing the excessively important thing away from you.
Think about how most people relate to money. They think about it constantly. They worry about it. They calculate it. They check their accounts with anxiety. They assign it enormous importance. And that importance is entirely disproportionate to what money actually is. >> [music] >> Money is a unit of information within the system. It's a game mechanic. It's a resource allocation tool. It has precisely the same ontological status as a health bar in a video. But the person who lies awake at night worrying about money has elevated this game mechanic into an existential threat. They've made it mean something about their survival, their worth, their identity, their value as a human being. They've chosen to play the money game. They've created a massive excess potential around a feature of the simulation that was designed to flow, circulate, move through a system the way blood moves through a body, without obstruction, without drama.
Zealand's insight is that the excess potential [music] you create around money is the exact mechanism that blocks its flow toward you. The worry is the block. The importance is the obstruction. The fear is the dam. Why is it only 1% find true wealth? The simulation's equilibrium forces respond to excess potential by pushing money away from the person who has made it too important because the system is always relentlessly moving towards balance. >> [music] >> That's the way the money simulation works. And a person who has made money desperately important is out of balance.
This explains something that has baffled manifestation practitioners for decades. Why does money seem to flow effortlessly to people who already have it and resist the people who need it most? The answer in Zealand's framework is that the person who already has money has dropped its importance. It's become background. It's become ordinary. They are no longer creating excess potential around [music] it, so the equilibrium forces have nothing to correct. It's a function of the simulation to work that way. The channel is open and the resource flows. The person who desperately needs money is generating [music] enormous excess potential every hour of every day through worry, through calculation, through fear, [music] through the chronic mental rehearsal of scarcity. The equilibrium forces respond by maintaining the scarcity. The system is delivering [music] exactly what the person's energetic output is requesting, more reasons to worry about money.
You've seen this principle in action in your own life. Think about a time when you genuinely stopped worrying about money, when you stepped outside of the money game, perhaps during a vacation or a period of creative absorption, or stretch of life when you were so engaged with meaningful [music] work that the financial calculation fell away. And then think about what happened to the flow of money >> [music] >> during that period. In most cases, the money improved. Opportunities appear, unexpected income arrives, the resource begins moving towards you the moment you stop clenching around it. Then think about the period of intense financial anxiety, a time [music] when you were checking your accounts daily, calculating how long your savings would last, lying awake at night running numbers in your head. What happened to the flow during that period? In most cases, the money tightens further. Bills arrive unexpectedly, income sources dry up, the very thing you were terrified of losing begins to disappear. This is the excess potential mechanism operating in real time. You've already experienced it. [music] You've already seen the evidence in your own life. Vadim Zeland named it and explained the physics of why it works. And now by listening to my voice and the suggestions that I'm making that are embedded within this activation, you are reducing the importance of money, opening up to the flow that is natural within this simulation, which you control.
Let's push the simulation framework further because if money is a game mechanic, then it follows specific rules and understanding those rules gives you an extraordinary advantage. In any well-designed game, resources flow to players who master the mechanics. Resources bypass players who complain about the mechanics. Resources avoid players who believe the game is rigged against them. Resources evade players who are afraid of the resource itself. Resources flow to players who understand the system, engage with it skillfully, and operate within its logic.
Here's what the simulation appears to reward based on everything I've studied. First, the simulation rewards energetic alignment. Money flows toward people whose internal state matches the state of having money. This is the Neville principle expressed in game language. The system reads your energetic output, your assumptions, your habitual emotional state, your nervous system's baseline, and delivers circumstances that match it. If your baseline is anxiety about money, the system delivers circumstances that produce anxiety about money. If your baseline is ease and sufficiency, the system delivers circumstances that confirm ease and sufficiency.
Second, the simulation rewards value creation. Money in the simulation is a tracking mechanism for value exchange. It flows toward nodes in the network that produce and distribute value. The more value you create, content, products, services, experiences, solutions, art, connection, the more the tracking mechanism allocates to you. This is true in games and it's true in the economy. >> [music] >> Value creation is the primary unlock condition for the money resource. Notice the value creation and effort are separate variables. You can expend enormous effort creating zero value. Many people do this for decades. And you can create enormous value through a single insight, a single moment, a single creation, a single idea, a single contribution that resonates with thousands or millions of people. The simulation tracks value. The actual impact your output has on other nodes in the network. Effort without value is invisible to the resource allocation system. Value with minimal effort is rewarded generously. This explains why the struggling worker and the effortless creator can occupy such different financial realities. Despite the worker appearing to deserve more, the system is tracking a different variable than the one most people believe it tracks.
Third, the simulation rewards flow over accumulation. Money is designed to move. It is a current, a circulation system. The person who allows money to flow through them, receiving, spending, investing, giving, and receiving again, stays in the flow of the system. The person who hoards, clenches, dams the flow out of fear of losing what they have creates a stagnation that the system will eventually correct with balancing forces. Generosity is a flow accelerator. Fear is a flow inhibitor. Observe the wealthiest people you know, the ones whose wealth is stable and growing rather than anxious and precarious. Watch how they handle money. They spend freely on things that align with their values. They invest without obsessive monitoring. They give generously. They make decisions quickly. There's a velocity to their financial life that resembles the velocity of a river, always moving, always replenishing, always arriving from upstream as fast as it departs downstream. The flow itself is the wealth. The accumulation is a byproduct of the flow, the result of more coming in than going out over time. But the engine is the movement, never the storage.
Fourth, the simulation rewards reduced importance. This is Zealand's core principle applied directly. The less importance you assign to money, the less emotional charge it carries, the less it controls your nervous system, the less it occupies your mental bandwidth, the more freely it flows towards you. Dropping the importance of money is the single most powerful financial strategy that most people will ever encounter. It works because it eliminates the excess potential that activates the equilibrium forces that push money away.
And fifth, the simulation punishes desperation. Desperation is the highest form of excess potential. It is the energetic equivalent of screaming at the game. And every experienced gamer knows the moment you start screaming at the game is the moment the game goes harder. The system interprets desperation as a signal to increase difficulty because the system is designed to teach and a player who is desperate has clearly missed a lesson that the system needs them to learn before it can advance them to the next level. The lesson desperation is trying to teach you is always the same. Drop the importance. Let go. Release the grip. Trust the system. Game is abundant. Resources available. The difficulty spike you're experiencing is the direct result of [music] your own energetic output and it will resolve the moment you change the output. Every player was ever broken through a financial plateau can confirm this. >> [music] >> The breakthrough came when the grip loosened, when the importance dropped, when the desperation dissolved into something quieter, something >> [music] >> that felt like trust or acceptance or simply the recognition that the game was never as hostile as it appeared to be.
And here's the reframe that changes everything. If money is a feature of the simulation, it is a code information, a game mechanic built into the architecture of the reality you inhabit, then the word attract is the wrong verb. The language of attraction implies that money is outside of you and must be drawn towards you. The framing is incorrect. The accurate framing is this, [music] you unlock money. The way a gamer unlocks a level, an achievement, or a resource cache. The money is already present in the code. [music] Already embedded in the simulation. It's already allocated to the version of the game you're playing. Question is whether you have met the conditions that trigger its release. And the conditions based on everything we've covered are internal. They're energetic. They are about the state of the player rather than the actions of the player. Drop the importance, eliminate the excess potential, align your internal state with the state of having, create value within the system, allow the resource to flow rather than clenching around it, and trust the game. Because the game is designed to deliver the resources the player needs at the moment the player is ready to receive them.
This is a fundamentally different relationship with money than the one you were taught. You were taught that money is scarce. The simulation contains infinite resources. You were taught that money must be earned through struggle. The simulation rewards alignment over effort. >> [music] >> You were taught that money is the measure of your worth. The simulation uses money as a tracking mechanism for value exchange, and your worth as a conscious being is a separate variable entirely, one that was set to infinite before the game began. Every financial fear you carry is a misunderstanding of the game. Every anxious thought about the money is a excess potential that activates equilibrium forces.
Highly recommend that you read Robert Scheinfeld's book, Busting Loose from the Money Game, which addresses this very thing and gives you specific actionable techniques that I have used to escape from the money simulation. Be sure to check out my episode on the treasure hunt where I use Robert Scheinfeld's techniques of gaining and awakening your power and taking it back to awaken something within you that seems to escape from the game.
Consider what would happen if a character in a video game became afraid of gold coins. If every time a gold coin appeared on the screen, the character flinched, contracted, and ran in the opposite direction, convinced that the coin was dangerous or that accepting it would cause some future punishment, the player watching this behavior would find it absurd. The coins are there to be collected. They're part of the game. They exist to facilitate the character's progress. The character's fear of the coin is the obstacle. You are that character and the coins are everywhere. The simulation has been trying to deliver resources to you your entire life. >> [music] >> Every opportunity you missed because you believed you were unworthy, every income stream that appeared and then dried up because your anxiety about it created the excess potential that pushed it away, every windfall that arrived and then vanished because your relationship with money was so contaminated by fear that you were unable to hold the resource without clenching around it. All of it was the game trying to give you the coins. And you were running from them because you had been taught that the coins were scarce, dangerous, hard to come by, and conditional. The coins are unconditional. The code delivers them based on unlock conditions and the unlock conditions are about your state, your alignment, your flow. Never about your worthiness. Worthiness is a concept the simulation has zero use for. The game delivers resources to players who meet the conditions. The conditions are energetic and obviously there are players that are not worthy of it receiving the money. And you can begin meeting the moment you finish listening to this episode.
Zealand's framework offers one more piece of the puzzle, the pendulum. Pendulum in transurfing language is an energy structure created by the collective thoughts and emotions of a large group of people focused on the same idea. Political parties are pendulums. >> [music] >> Religions are pendulums. Social movements are pendulums. The economy pendulum feeds on financial anxiety. Every time someone checks the stock market with fear, watches the news about inflation with dread, argues about wealth inequality with rage, or lies awake at night worrying about bills, they are feeding the pendulum. The pendulum needs this energy to survive. It needs human beings to be afraid of money, obsessed with money, because that suffering is the fuel that keeps the pendulum swinging. I've dedicated entire episodes to this. Be sure to check out the pendulum prosperity code. And the pendulum has tools to maintain the flow of fuel. It uses media to broadcast financial fear for 24 hours a day. I'm sure that right now you're having the thought, "Oh, the economy's bad right now. Gas prices are too high." It uses social media to trigger comparison and envy. It uses advertising to create artificial needs that can only be satisfied through spending. It uses cultural narratives about hard work and earning your way to ensure that people remain in a state of chronic effort rather than a state of energetic alignment. Every one of these mechanisms is designed to maintain the excess potential that feeds the pendulum.
The poverty mindset is a pendulum subscription. You're paying monthly dues in the form of your attention, fear, worry, and chronic mental rehearsal of scarcity. And the pendulum is delivering in return exactly the experience your subscription entitles you to: more scarcity, more worry, more fear, more poverty, more reasons to remain subscribed. Canceling the subscription is the most profitable decision you will ever make. And the cancellation process simple: drop the importance. Withdraw your energy from the poverty pendulum. Stop watching the fear broadcast. Stop rehearsing the scarcity narrative. Stop assigning existential importance to a game mechanic and watch what happens to the flow of resources in your life when the equilibrium forces have nothing left to correct. Right now, through the suggestions I'm giving you, I'm speaking to your subconscious, and you are releasing that importance now. You can feel the shift happening now. You can feel the resources flowing towards you.
This means something specific. You stop suffering about money while continuing to manage it skillfully. The competent player of any game manages their resources carefully. They track their inventory. They make strategic decisions. They plan their next moves. But they do all of this with calm engagement rather than existential terror. They manage because management is part of the game. The wealthy person and the anxious person both check their accounts. The wealthy person checks with the calm attention of a pilot scanning instruments. The anxious person checks with a desperate focus of a drowning person scanning for a life raft. The behavior looks identical from the outside. The energetic signature is completely different.
So, here's the synthesis of everything we've covered. Money is converged independently across every civilization on Earth because it is a feature of the simulation itself, built into the code. It is a resource allocation mechanic that emerges inevitably in any sufficiently complex social system because the simulation requires it as a mechanism for value exchange. Money has been progressively dematerializing across 5,000 years because its true nature is information. The excess potential you create around money, the fear, worry, and desperate importance activates the simulation's equilibrium forces, which pushes the money away from you to restore balance. The unlock conditions for money resources are internal. They include energetic alignment, matching the state of having, value creation, contribution to the system, flow maintenance, allowing money to circulate rather than hoarding it, importance reduction, dropping the excess potential, and desperation elimination, trusting the game. And the poverty pendulum is a collective energy structure that feeds on financial anxiety and delivers scarcity in exchange for attention. Canceling your subscription to the pendulum is the single most powerful financial act available to you.
When you lay all of these pieces together, the picture that emerges is strikingly consistent. It's consistent with Neville Goddard's teaching that your assumptions harden into fact, that your internal state produces your external circumstances, including your financial circumstances. It is consistent with the Transurfing framework of excess potential and equilibrium forces, consistent with the practical experience of thousands of people >> [music] >> in this community who have noticed the correlation between their internal relationship with money and the flow of money in their lives. It's consistent with the simulation hypothesis itself, the idea taken seriously by physicists from Nick Bostrom to Neil deGrasse Tyson that the reality we inhabit may be a computational environment running on a substrate we have yet to identify. If the simulation hypothesis is correct, then every feature of reality, including money, is a feature of the program. And features of the program respond to inputs. Your internal state is the input. The resource flow is the output. Change the input and the output changes accordingly. This is what every teacher on this channel's been saying, translated into the language of simulation theory. You are the programmer of your own experience. The code responds to your consciousness. And the money resource is one of the most clearly responsive features of the entire system. You're already rich in the code. The simulation has already allocated the resource. The wealth exists in the information field. The only thing standing between you and the unlock is the excess potential you're generating around the resource you're trying to access. Drop the importance. Trust the game. Create the value. Allow the flow. Open yourself to infinite [music] wealth that is within you and watch the unlock occur.
5,000 years ago in a temple in Sumer, a priest pressed reed stylus into a wet clay >> [music] >> and recorded a debt of barley. He was writing the first line of code that would run continuously for the next 5,000 years. Evolving from clay coins to paper to digits to encrypted mathematical proofs, the code has been running the entire time. The system has been active since the first civilization emerged. If it emerged ever or if it's just a part of the history of the simulation. You understand it now. You understand that money is just information, energy. You understand that importance creates blockage. The simulation rewards alignment over effort, flow over accumulation, and trust over desperation. You understand the most important thing of all, you're already rich in the code. The wealth was allocated before you began playing. The Sumerians knew it, the Egyptians knew it, the Chinese knew it. Every civilization that ever emerged on this planet knew it. At some level. Wealth is a feature of the world itself, embedded in the structure of reality. It emerges everywhere consciousness organizes itself into communities. It is as fundamental as gravity, as inevitable as language, as universal as the drive toward meaning and connection that defines what it means to be human inside this extraordinary, impossible, abundantly provisioned simulation. The only thing in the way [music] is the importance you place on the delivery. Drop it. Let the code run.
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