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Author’s Note: I wrote this about ~2 months ago. It was a flash of Light during an otherwise-heavy time. Re-reading it now, it feels like it was a glimpse of things to come.
Over the past year, my near-daily prayer was to ask God for groundedness, heart-opening, and humility.
A beautiful prayer.
Yet…
I realized today that while a man can’t really have too much heart-opening and humility in their pure, balanced forms…
It is possible to have too much groundedness.
I believe I’ve actually become over-grounded.
Be careful what you pray for. 😅
Over-groundedness feels like being heavy, bogged down, tired, over-earthy, stuck in the mud.
I had been praying for groundedness due to realizing a few years ago that I had become excessively ungrounded: I was ‘flying so high’ from various spiritual-psychedelic breakthroughs that I became somewhat aloof, spiritually arrogant, prideful, inflated, grandiose. And there were consequences of this. Icarus flew a little too close to the sun and needed to learn some hard lessons.
Yet as so often happens, when we become disillusioned with one pattern, we pendulum-swing too hard toward the opposite extreme.
In my disillusionment with being ungrounded, I allowed myself to become over-grounded.
I trust that it’s all in Divine Order and this was an initiation I needed to go through.
Yet I’m happy to say that upon recognizing this over-groundedness, I’ve now started praying for Divine Lightness.
I’m praying for a healthy balance between groundedness and transcendence.
Being grounded and available for service on this Earth, while also allowing myself to be substantially transparent to the Weightless Innocence, Lightness, Peace, & Joy of God.
“In the world yet not of the world.”
And WOW!
Literally within hours of shifting my prayerful-focus in this direction, I’m feeling a shift!
I’m feeling a lightening of spirits.
I’m feeling more in touch with causeless joy.
I’m feeling like it’s okay to let myself float again.
My roots have now earthed deep enough that I don’t presently need to be too concerned about floating away.
I can begin once again to open myself more fully to the Formless Dimensions of Divinity which lie beyond materiality.
And wow, this is exciting!
I already feel this expanding sense of Possibility and Acceleration.
A sense of beginning to enter the Upward-Spiraling Vortex of Abundance.
There’s a feeling that all forms of abundance—including money—can start to flow more easily again.
Yes, wealth-building requires groundedness.
“I had to be grounded before the money came.”
— Kota the Friend, Clinton Hill
Groundedness, pragmatism, discipline, the capacity to be frugal, spend less than you earn, and save: These are essential foundations for long-term wealth-building.
Yet energetically, especially as an entrepreneur, money loves movement and inspired action and sacred enthusiasm and divine charisma and lightness and an effulgent overflowing feeling of assuredness.
Money likes when you’re not feeling needy and overly worried about money.
Now, you might need to go through phases where you are feeling needy and worried—and that can be a blessing because that medicine might be what moves you to actually ground down and get real and get disciplined and make spreadsheets and make a plan and get your financial foundations in order—yet eventually, if you are meant to evolve in wealth mastery, you’ll start to let go of the fear, worry, scarcity, and neediness.
You’ll start to let yourself feel prosperous.
Feel a sense of lightness and ease and joy in relation to money.
And this can really be an accelerator.
It can really help things to multiply.
I’ve experienced this in the past, but I became too ungrounded and didn’t have my disciplined, long-term-planning-based foundations in place.
So I crashed, and experienced something of a financial meltdown in 2022.
I’m grateful to share that I’ve painstakingly ‘turned the ship around’ in the past year—thanks to God, the generosity of others, plus some good ol’ fashioned elbow grease, grit, will, discipline, and work ethic.
I’m now some thousands of dollars back in the ‘green numbers.’
And rising.
(November update: And now I am totally debt-free, ~$10k+ ‘in the green,’ and rising! Hallelujah!)
And making far more solid plans for how I’m going to be sure to save up and always keep a 6-month buffer of liquid cash-savings (likely stored on wise.com where I can earn ~4.3% interest on a USD savings account), then start to invest everything above that into a diversified portfolio of relatively conservative investments that I can strongly trust to grow steadily over time.
I’m aware that the next cryptocurrency bull run is likely to start in mid-2024, since the next Bitcoin halvening is coming up in ~April of 2024, and every historic BTC halvening has correlated with a massive bull run in the ~1 year following the halvening. Read more on this in my free Telegram channel here. (Not financial advice; DYOR; crypto is volatile.)
Presently I’m totally over-exposed to the crypto market, since I had virtually all my savings in crypto when the market crashed in 2022. I didn’t pull my funds out of crypto at that time because I felt it would be foolish to do so during a bear market, and I trusted another bull market would eventually come.
I’m excited for the likely bull market of 2024-2025 because my hope is to substantially increase my current crypto holdings, then exit from crypto in a pretty big way. I’ll likely continue to invest ~15-20% of my wealth in crypto—maybe more over time; let’s see—yet in general, crypto now feels overly volatile and high-risk to me. I had a higher risk tolerance before becoming a father. I’m becoming more of a ‘conservative old man’ when it comes to my financial thinking.
The biggest barriers I see in crypto are 1) government intervention and regulation, as well as 2) the massive greed of the crypto community, which results in a lot of scammy behavior that hurts the reputation of the space and diminishes the number of people who are actually building truly solid technology that could genuinely form the foundation of a parallel financial system—technology that is actually approachable, accessible, seamless, and smooth enough to attract the masses into crypto.
These factors give me some pause, and as such I’m keen to distribute my future investing activities across a more diversified portfolio, likely involving things like index funds, gold, silver, stocks, and eventually perhaps land/property. We’ll see. I am also pretty keen on holding some funds at Nexo, where you can earn up to 14-16% interest holding stablecoins like USDT or USD coin. (Again, not financial advice. There is inherent risk in trusting a centralized crypto exchange, as well as the organizations behind these stablecoins.)
Anywho, didn’t expect to go on that tangent about money—but hey, I guess that just happened and I hope it was valuable to someone!
What I mostly wanted to share in this post was…
LIGHTNESS!
POSSIBILITY!
JOY!
ABUNDANCE!
WOW!
LET YOURSELF FEEL THE UTTER WEIGHTLESSNESS OF GOD’S PEACE.
WOW.
IT’S OUTTA THIS WORLD.
LITERALLY.
Yet closer than your bones.
If you feel the call…
Pray for it.
Open to it.
Let yourself melt into it.
Dissolve into it.
Become transparent to it.
You are a window.
You are an aperture.
Let the LIGHT shine through.
With Love,
J
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