Part 2 of 46 · Chapter 2 · 9 min 05 sec
You’ve read the books. You know the principles. You can probably quote three different teachers on abundance, and you’ve sat with the idea that “money is energy” more times than you can count. You’ve done the work.
And yet, if something still isn’t clicking around money — if the numbers in your bank account keep contradicting what you know to be true — this chapter is going to land differently than the dozens you’ve already absorbed.
It’s not you. It’s not a willpower problem. It’s not that you didn’t journal hard enough or visualise clearly enough. Most teaching about money starts one layer too late. It tells you what to do with money before telling you what money actually is. And when the foundation is fuzzy, every technique built on top of it wobbles.
Here’s the reframe David offers in this chapter: money is not real. It’s a shadow. A physical representation of something happening inside you — not something happening out there in the world. Only about 4% of the money in circulation exists as paper cash. The rest is numbers on screens, held together by collective belief. The thing creating money isn’t the printing press. It’s the internal value moving between people.
That changes the whole question. The question stops being “how do I get more money?” and becomes “what is the internal value that money is the shadow of — and how do I develop it?”
If you’ve been chasing the shadow for years and wondering why it keeps slipping, this is the chapter that turns the lights on.
What this chapter unlocks
- What money actually is, according to David Cameron Gikandi. Money is legal tender — a physical representation of internal value that rises and falls inside us, not inside things. A car or a house has no value on its own. We give it value.
- Why only 4% of money exists as paper. The other 96% is numbers on screens, held in place by shared belief. When belief shifts, the numbers shift — which is why a $1 million asset can become a $500,000 asset overnight when fear enters the room.
- What “wealth consciousness” really means. It’s the aspect of your internal value that pertains specifically to wealth. It is not the same as self-worth. A wealthy person isn’t more valuable as a human — they’re exercising a higher proportion of one specific internal capacity.
- Why you don’t have to figure out the “how.” David explains that when wealth consciousness expands, the opportunities and coincidences for it to convert into cash arrive on their own. No wealthy person could have predicted the exact sequence of events that led to their wealth — and you don’t have to either.
- The hidden cost of staring at the shadow. Looking at the cash, the bank balance, the bills, the debt — most of the time — is what David calls unwise and unhealthy. You’re focusing on the effect instead of the cause.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If you hear David ask “what is wealth — what causes it, what causes the cause of it?” and something in you leans forward, this is your chapter. That single question — going one layer deeper than every other money teacher you’ve read — is the entire premise of the book. If that question intrigues you instead of frustrating you, keep listening.
Why this chapter matters in the series
This is the foundation chapter. Every technique, exercise and reframe in the 43 chapters that follow rests on what’s established here: money is the shadow, internal value is the source. Without this groundwork, the later chapters on gratitude, giving, and wealth consciousness would read like another stack of techniques to add to your shelf. With it, they become something else entirely — a coherent inner architecture. Next, the series moves into what wealth consciousness actually feels like from the inside.
Read the full transcript
money an illusion a shadow of something else the first step to having wealth is to know what it is and few people know hat it really is in and of itself what it really is in and of itself what is wealth what causes it what causes the cause of it let us start with money the world’s symbol of wealth and then move deeper money is not real money is merely legal tender a form of exchange we use it to exchange value it represents value money is the body of value it is the physical representation of value that rises and falls in ourselves within us not within things outside of us but within us for without
us what can the value of a thing such as a car be to us nothing at least not to us in other words it is we The Observers that place value in things but this value is really value in US we give value to the material things the material things have no money value in themselves we give that to them so money is the external physical representation of a particular section of our internal value within us within you that is why a house or a block of shares valued at $1 million today can fall to a valuation of half a million dollars tomorrow when fear is introduced into the hearts of those involved the fear
kills a portion of the internal values of the participants and that is reflected by the paper money the body of value here is something else physical paper money does not even represent money in full it cannot reasonably do that by some estimates and this varies from Nation to Nation only as little as 4% of the money in the bank exists as paper cash imagine how much cotton linen pulp and metal the world would need so as to make all the money everyone has in his or her bank accounts imagine how much space it would take to store all this money in paper form if you were to stack only 1 million us $1 bills it
would weigh one ton and be 361 ft High neither does money exist as gold reserves anymore this is for exactly the same reason we ran out of the reasonable ability to keep a gold standard in the 1970s so what does it exist as the money that we are always talking about well it is one massive illusion it is all just numbers written on paper and computer storage devices and assign to people and entities such as companies and Investments or more accurately further ecords to put it in another way for ecords to put it in another way for ecords to put it in another way for every $100 or its equivalent in any other currency only
about $4 exists as printed paper notes or coins while the remaining $96 exists as numbers written on papers and computers in in Banks and businesses and other entities the only reason the system does not collapse is that we all believe in it the last time people stopped believing in it to a large enough extent was just before the Great Depression when large numbers of people rushed to their Banks to withdraw their money and found that they could not all get it his is not what caused the Great his is not what caused the Great his is not what caused the Great Depression but in a large way accelerated it so money is not real something
else is money is just the shadow of that other something the first ep to wealth is to know what money step to wealth is to know what money really is or more accurately what it represents learn not to look at the money most of the time as you will soon see it is very rare in a day that you should ever look at money as you know it oday the cash the bank accounts the today the cash the bank accounts the costs Etc this is merely the Shadow and not he real thing looking at the Shadow the real thing looking at the Shadow the physical money as you will soon see is most of the
time very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances look Instead at the value within you and within people and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people our internal value is what creates money money is the shadow of our internal value develop this internal value in yourself and in others and your external money and wealth will correspondingly rise automatically without fail know this however money represents an asset ECT of a person’s internal value but that does not mean that it represents a person’s entire internal value that is very important it is not about self-worth money only represents an aspect of that internal value that pertains to wealth you cannot herefore say that a
wealthy person has therefore say that a wealthy person has a higher self-worth and value than a poor person but you can correctly say that in matters that relate and pertain to money the wealthy person has a higher internal value in that aspect of value or that the person chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this internal value this section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money when exercised is called wealth Consciousness it is available to all people equally and can be developed by and within all people equally like verything else that is important to our everything else that is important to our being alive such as air wealth Consciousness is free to
all but you can choose to develop it or not develop it or to exercise it or not at any time you can change your choice and nothing outside of you can stop you you require nothing outside of yourself to increase your wealth Consciousness and therefore your money all you need is within you right now you may have forgotten it but it is right there you will now remember it and the first step to that is to always remember that money is not real it is the shadow of something else and here’s another Secret wealth Consciousness is simply the expansion of your Consciousness and awareness into the wealthy parts of yourself that is why all that
you need to increase your wealth Consciousness is within you already you are already wealthy but you’ve been taught to choose to not experience your wealth this Insight changes everything like the wealthy people you can now know how to start and choose to start experiencing the wealthy ou you have more wealth capability within you than you can possibly experience in a lifetime you need not worry that you have reached your limit of becoming wealthy in any way or because of any condition neither do you need to know how to convert wealth Consciousness into paper cash money as you will see it will happen automatically all you need to do is expand your wealth Consciousness and exercise
it act on it be it and the situations and opportunities for the quivalent conversion into cash money equivalent conversion into cash money will present themselves automatically Ally to you none of the extremely wealthy people today could have at the time when they were not wealthy possibly predicted and planned the exact sequence of events that would lead to their immense wealth they most probably had a set of goals and a plan but any one of them will tell you that they met countless coincidences and opportunities that joined the dots for them in a way that they could not have predicted their goals were their own doing but the paths that led them coming into being and
exceeding them were amazingly intelligent yet unforeseen you should now see how to make them happen in your life you may not be able to predict heir sequence but you can certainly their sequence but you can certainly make these fortunate coincidences happen to you every day of your life by the way it is not only paper money that is not real a lot of the things around you that you hold so real are really not real at all either you are about to embark on a beautiful empowering and liberating Journey that will show you exactly what your world is in a way that you have never looked at it before it is a journey that will
open your eyes and Free Your Wings you are about to look under the hood of life you are about to learn how to customize your world to liking you are about to attain wealth Consciousness once you do avoiding success and wealth will become very difficult Yes you heard that correctly once you have wealth Consciousness it will be very difficult for you to not have success and wealth success and wealth will follow you automatically wherever you go you will not need to concern yourself with their Quest yet hey will find you you will be free to they will find you you will be free to experience other aspects of life that you may not have ever
dreamt of before dimensions of self and life that are truly amazing the same goes with appiness for you will see it here in happiness for you will see it here in this book as well let us now get started on the real stuff stuff if you are still interested
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