Dreaming & Doing
A secret map (and the many pitfalls on the way) to creating the life of our dreams + Heretic Reading Circle info
⚠️ ATTENTION HERETICS: Our Heretic Reading Circle gathering will be Wednesday, February 26 at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 5am AEDT.
The World is Changing
We all see it.
Some are scared, feeling the chaos of the change. Some are angry and activated toward action. Some are sticking their heads in the sand, ignoring the obvious.
It doesn’t matter what side you’re on. At least—it doesn’t matter to me. Because we’re all on the same side.
We are humans of Planet Earth.
You can draw as many dividing lines between us as you want to, but I’m not going to see them. We’re the same—you and I.
We’re powerful beyond measure and so minuscule that our lives blink out in an instant. We have insane courage and consciousness, yet we’re blind to so much at the same time. We are strong and frail, dark and light, brilliant and ignorant.
We are creatures of paradox and duality. We live in the liminal space between passion and confusion. We are insignificant and deeply meaningful at once.
And I think we’re amazing.
Not because we are fundamentally Good… but because we have the capacity for Choice.
We endure so much and still find glimmers of hope.
Most of all… I’m inspired by humans because after thousands of years of forgetting, we’re beginning to remember again what it means to be connected to the Great Pattern.
I see the signs of it everyday.
So many amazing humans out there are exploring how to navigate these times with grace and magic. Maybe you’re one of them.
I’m interested in the real magic that’s possible for human beings.
The kind our ancestors used when they discovered healing plants and animal symbols.
The kind the great arcane masters used when they worked with archetypes and spells.
The kind that lives buried inside you every day, waiting for you to recognize and train your unique sacred powers and gifts.
A Powerful Community
One of the ways we’re training our magic / superpowers / intuition / otherworldly senses here at Mystery, Magic & Mayhem is through studying powerful books together.
In the Heretic Reading Circle we choose a new magical title every month to study, explore, try on in our lives, and share together at our end-of-the-month gathering.
Last month, our book was such a whopper of a powerful tome that the Reading Circle voted to spend an extra month delving into it’s lessons.
That book was Love Money, Money Loves You, and it goes beyond simply helping us learn the energetic, magical ways that money operates in our world.
It offers a new, hope-filled vision for humanity that lights me up! 💜 ✨
“When your religions start to open up and embrace new approaches to life… and when your social systems are based on the development of unlimited potential in all people… and when your health systems are based on maintaining excellent health rather than fighting disease… and when your defense systems are based on maintaining world peace and happiness not on defending your boundaries or your resources… and when your financial systems are based on the global understanding that wealth is unlimited for all people, you’ll know that you’ve been fully upgraded.
— Love Money, Money Loves You, Chapter 38
I’m constantly blown away by this book.
While some of the ideas are concepts I’ve heard gurus and courses spouting for the decades…
The energy of this book feels revolutionary.
The only time I’ve ever experienced this kind of powerful, freeing relationship with money is with my grandmother.
Learning to Dream Again
My grandmother taught me that if something feels right—you say yes—without knowing how you’re going to do it.
The money… the logistics… the practicalities will all come later.
The only thing that matters is the “Yes”.
From my vantage point, it didn’t seem to hurt that Gammie was the inheritor of generational wealth. My great-great-grandfather was the foreman in a silver mine in the early days of California and Nevada statehood, and according to family stories he was brilliant with money. My great-grandparents inherited at least part of this legacy and invested in properties and mineral rights… investments which naturally passed down through the family line.
Though my grandmother was never rich, she was always well enough off to do what she wanted. Her desires were never extreme; her lifestyle wasn’t lavish, but she had a nice house, bought organic food, and made sure my brother and I had the opportunity to travel.
With privilege like this, dreaming seems possible. So I always assumed that the chicken came before the egg…
I assumed the money came before the dreaming.
But now I’m not so sure.
Love Money, Money Loves You is all about allowing Money into your life. Asking for what you want… creating the positive emotions that lubricate the process… making requests (and not canceling them with doubts and fears)… allowing time to create the connections and relationships that will bring Money in… and contributing to the world at the rate you want to receive.
It’s a detailed and highly logical process. Full of nuance, it’s simple and yet dreadfully difficult for most of us.
Beneath it all—I can see the threads of the way my grandmother’s side of the family operates. That lineage is full of rebels and dreamers, over-educated philosophers, world-travelers, cowboys, and rule-breakers who seem to grab life by the horns without angering the bull.
There’s a magic to that part of the family—an “if you can dream it, you can do it” reality that has as much grit to it as it does privilege.
I know from family stories (and that side of the family tells more stories than most), that not ALL our dreamers were the beneficiaries of financial endowment. If you go back through the line, you find more than a few boot-strappers who travelled the world and seemed to make dreams out of thin air.
They all seemed to carry the same secret. A secret that may feel unwelcome and impossible to those who have never seen its magic in action. A secret that resonates clearly throughout Love Money, Money Loves You.
The secret is: DREAM FIRST.
Enjoy your life. Don’t just pinch pennies and count quarters.
Dream. Dream big. Dream wide. Dream hard. Dream like your life depends on it.
In the great conversation you’re always having with the universe, take an active role—
Picture what you want… ASK for what you want… and expect to get it.
It’s easy to hear entitlement in this expectation… to feel like you’re doing something wrong if it hasn’t worked in the past.
The truth is—it’s hard to flip that switch.
It’s terrifying to make the leap toward real dreaming. It feels somehow safer and more secure to work all your life, scrimping and saving for pittance.
What’s being asked of us in this powerful and challenging new system is nothing short of a total rewiring.
But here’s the trick—the part that seems to get left out of all the systems that tell you to visualize your way into your dream life—
What happens after the dreaming is where the Magic comes in.
After the Dream
Stepping into this new way of being, I find myself challenged in every way imaginable. Perhaps most because it has worked exactly the way the book said it would.
I had the advantage of knowing that putting dreams first can create miracles. I’d seen it over and again in my grandmother’s life, and in my own life—through her lessons.
Yet, no sooner had I engaged with my dreams than I found myself facing an entirely predicable dilemma… something the book warned I might get stuck on!
(Others I know who are working with the book right now are stuck on their own predictable dilemmas, but this is mine.)
Money coaches and courses often teach you to dream. They help you clear blocks and prompt you to take action on what arises.
Yet no one had ever named before the dilemma that ALWAYS arises for me—the physical inability to give any more than I’m already giving!
One of the fundamental principles of Money is that you have to give to receive.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I give a ton… but when my workload increases from busy to impossible—I automatically complain, flounder, shirk, and ultimately give up.
Here’s the picture:
I ask for more money / a bigger life / more *something*.
New potential opportunities and revenue sources appear.
I complain I don’t have time or bandwidth to take on more.
I don’t pursue the thing I think I don’t have time / energy / expertise to do (or I try to do it as if my secret goal is to prove that I really can’t).
My money and life stay the same.
Crazy, right?
It is now CRYSTAL clear to me that my dreams require me to increase my bandwidth… to grow in ways that feel uncomfortable.
This is the exact moment where it’s easy to turn away and say the system is broken. This is where we retreat into feeling like failures… old patterns covering over any possibility of success.
This time I’m choosing something different.
This time I’m leveraging the privilege I was born to—not my grandmother‘s money, but the secret passed down through her line that says “Dream first and do whatever it takes”.
The money isn’t the legacy. The capacity to dream… the willingness to act… and the courage to surrender to life is the true family gift. The money only followed.
I’ve never before had the clarity and support I have now— thanks to this powerful book and this magical community.
I’m playing a BIG game, and I’m excited to have playmates who are playing for real magic as well.
If you’re ready for magic. If you’re ready for more. If you’re ready for dreams. If you’re ready to find out what you’re made of…
Come on over to the Heretic Reading Circle and dream with us.
Oh, and better grab a copy of Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum. It’s not too late, and I can tell you—you won’t regret it.
Heretic Reading Circle
Wednesday, February 26 @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 5am AEDT (+1 Day)
Share the epiphanies and explorations that this month’s magical book open up for you as you embrace the magic that’s waiting for you.
THIS MONTH’S BOOK:
Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum
Going far beyond our everyday concept of money, this book is actually a powerful transmission from the energy of Money itself, teaching us about longing, relationships, value, and the fundamental nature of the Universe. Stepping into these powerful lessons will revolutionize the way you operate—opening new channels of giving and receiving to transform your entire life!
I highly recommend grabbing the audiobook, read by the author with her lovely British accent.
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