Busting Loose from the Business Game

[On A Lark]

I wanted to start a new thread on this as I'm interested in the thoughts of those who've read both "Money Game" and "Business Game". I've just completed BG (read MG first back in December) and wanted to share some thoughts/comments and hear yours as well:

I would not attempt to read BG without first having read MG. While some of the content is the same, I don't feel the underlying subjective reality foundation is laid quite as thoroughly in BG as it is in MG, and there are far fewer "real life" examples given of the actual Busting Loose process in BG. I think if I had just picked up BG first I would have been highly confused.

Robert has redefined some of his metaphors (he uses LOTS of metaphors!) in BG and some of them I like. I do not like the "clouds" metaphor nearly as much as I liked the "eggs" metaphor in MG. Just personal preference I suppose, but I can't help but think of how clouds always seem to shift, and if I truly need to tunnel through all of them to find my ES, I'll never get there as things will be constantly shifting back into the space I just cleared.

This brings me to my biggest gripe with Robert, from MG and BG: He seems to be SO vested in things being hard, taking time, taking effort. It just doesn't resonate with me. Once you've got the enlightened idea of who you truly are then you should always be operating from that perspective, and why should it take thousands of repetitions of doing the Process to reach that same perspective? I like once and done better. Just my opinion, and truly this is the only part of his books that gives me pause (and discomfort...so yes, I have done the process on this feeling but there just doesn't seem to be anything there, no big aha! or source of power for me personally).

Finally, RS promises some extra chapters that got cut from BG, and you can get them, but to do so you first have to sign his mailing list. Just LAME, again IMHO.

[Firefly101]

Yes, I am struggling with the impression I have that he is constantly striving, striving, working, working.....it is as if he never STOPS. As in big-time workaholism....I don't get the sense of calm and flow that I am interested in for my own life..

Just finished MG, waiting on BG. So, I'm new to this.

[James81]

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[Gaia333]

I'm a huge fan of BG (so my recent posts on the older thread on the MG). HUGE. And I agree that reading MG and then BG was extremely beneficial to me. And I'm sure you don't have to struggle. He says everyones experience is different. I'll just speak from my experience - any time I felt pain, struggle, fear that was my GPS (sort of opposite Abraham Hicks) on where to find my power. Once I did The Process that feelings disappeared. And the more I was detached from changing my hologram, the quicker something new manifested that completely erased whatever was causing the drama. Like instantly. Once I had that experience a few times I began to trust the process (small & big "P"). I find the egg, reclaim my power and every once in awhile, I feel the sun beam through as if a large section of cloud cover has been removed. I know once I have the courage to feel the pain, stay in it & do the Process I will be rewarded. And I do see/feel/experience having much more power to create than ever before...and I was pretty "good" at it in my Phase 1 days.

All of this to say, when I finally surrendered to all of his ideas, I was really being taught to trust my expanded self. And it's amazing. Indescribable. Truly. So worth it.

[On A Lark]

I'm feeling too, the more I sit and digest BG, that previously I was thinking of my ES as some "God force", something greater than or outside me. What I'm feeling now is that I'm absolutely 50/50 partners with my ES, with she doing the planning and me here doing the DOING/FEELING, etc. So feeling less like a puppet and more a true partner.

I still don't like RS's assertion that you can't focus on changing the hologram...I still feel like there are certain games I want to play and certain variables I want to change so I will just directly ask my ES to make the change, while simultaneously doing the Process on things that bring me discomfort in my current hologram.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by Firefly101

Yes, I am struggling with the impression I have that he is constantly striving, striving, working, working.....it is as if he never STOPS. As in big-time workaholism....I don't get the sense of calm and flow that I am interested in for my own life..

He retired.

[On A Lark]

Originally Posted by cylon

He retired.

No, he's back. All his latest blog entries (from this month) state he is "returning from his sabbatical", which lasted since April I believe.

[Firefly101]

Originally Posted by On A Lark

No, he's back. All his latest blog entries (from this month) state he is "returning from his sabbatical", which lasted since April I believe.

Thanks Cylon and OaL. I'm excited by the book and it feels true. Just trying to incorporate the "go go go go" energy I get from him into my understanding of where he's coming from.

[SunnyDays]

Originally Posted by On A Lark

Finally, RS promises some extra chapters that got cut from BG, and you can get them, but to do so you first have to sign his mailing list. Just LAME, again IMHO.

Haven't read BG but found the Bonus chapters online without signing up anywhere

http://www.bustingloosefromthebusine...ookgifts2.html

[On A Lark]

Originally Posted by SunnyDays

Haven't read BG but found the Bonus chapters online without signing up anywhere

http://www.bustingloosefromthebusine...ookgifts2.html

Yes, but how he tells you to get them in the book requires signing up. Not cool IMHO.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by On A Lark

Not cool IMHO.

Well, that's how you created him.

[On A Lark]

Originally Posted by cylon

Well, that's how you created him.

I know, it ticks me off! Seriously, I went from not really caring about him to being blown away by the info, to now just being really irritated with him. Gotta process it, but starting to seem like he's a BS artist.

[Wax Frog]

Somehow or other I manifested a reality in which I didn't have to sign up for anything. Not being a wiseass here, I really don't recall having to sign up for anything. Maybe I just missed or glossed over that part of the book?

On the matter of irritation - I experienced this with both RS and Michael "Presence Process" Brown, after correspondences of vastly different length. I'm awake enough now to be grateful for this lesson in "nobody can change my life but me, because it's ALL me anyway."