The Three Initiations of Money - Jon Eden Khan

Something that has been downloading for me for a while is that there are different initiations around money related to the different levels of our being.

I call them the personality, soul, and monadic initiations of money.

Our field is very lucky to have had some of the ‘higher’ initiations of money land in it.

And something I feel like I see again and again is people attempting to draw on those higher mysteries of money to resolve issues that would be better addressed through the more grounded and foundational level approach. The result is often a mess, with people desperately repeating the mantra of those higher levels while their financial reality doesn’t shift and they experience fear, shame, and guilt.

Having watched this for some years, and having experienced my own and witnessed other people’s journeys around these different initiations of money, I’ve come to feel it’s helpful to track each of the levels below.

*It’s important to acknowledge that some the skills listed below are arising within a present economic system that although it has certain gifts and evolutionary significance, is also systemically unjust, scarcity-based, filled with massive wealth inequality, racial privilege, abject poverty, and perpetuates a society that is hostile to soul, monadic life, and the true voice of the body.

Listing the below initiations the way I have isn’t to say that huge shifts in our economic system don’t also need to happen. They do, they must, and they will. That said, in every situation possible, initiates do not wait for conditions to be ideal to enter the battlefield, evolve, and serve. They understand that facing adversity is a fundamental part of how evolution happens on Earth, and they embrace it, while also dedicating right energy to alleviating conditions of systemic injustice where they can.

**The below contains various generalisations about how people's lives unfold. I get this absolutely doesn't and cannot cover the reality of all people's situations and challenges. These are orienting generalisations to attempt to cover the territory as I sense it.

So, let’s get into it.

Personality: here, we are asked to develop the skills and capacities of our personality, and then unfold enough self-awareness, self-worth, and self-respect to trade those skills in the marketplace for a level of compensation that honours the time and energy we put in and that allows us to rightly care for ourselves.

The evolution possible here is that we learn to engage the trade and exchange dynamics of the marketplace (economic or relational) to ensure our security with skill, consideration, and respect for self and other.

Alternatively, people might maintain themselves through trade and exchange relationships, such as traditional gender roles that remain prevalent over much of the planet.

Obviously, as long as the personality realm remains deeply disconnected from the love and consciousness of the soul, huge levels of systemic injustice, racial inequality, inequalities of privilege, and fields of trauma exist in it.

For those with enough privilege to financially individuate though, this also entails basic money management skills, such as budgeting, financial planning, time management, business development, paying one’s taxes, dealing with financial bureaucracy, and for those with greater privilege can also extend into areas like investing, stocks and shares, crypto, etc.

Soul: here, we discover our soul purpose and unfold it to a point where it can be expressed in manifested offerings that we bring to the world.

The soul initiation around money is no longer centrally focussed on learning to rightly value ourselves and our time, but rather that we now learn to rightly value the service coming through us.

*A point to consider here is that of course not all expressions of someone’s soul purpose might bring financial return (e.g. a deep soul calling to be a parent). That said, the soul often has more than one stream of its desired creativity, with at least one of those streams able to bring income, or with the soul’s intelligence playing out in the relational field through which money can flow to support the soul's expression.

This stage often begins with a phase where we purify our motivation through volunteering our time and energy without much financial return. Once pure (enough) motivation is established and the soul’s energy is flowing into manifested forms though, it’s important for the individual to recognise that it is only through them setting up enough financial return from their service that they can stably continue to serve.

This stage involves the beginning of the individual starting to free themselves from the economic system, with a recognition that financial security doesn’t truly reside in employment positions and contracts but rather in the individual’s fidelity to their alignment with soul. This can be seen in the huge rise in self-employed digital nomads around the world over the last decades, who often are earning income from their soul work in some form.

Such beings realise that life brings innate support to those that are seeking to live from alignment with their soul, and they learn to relate to financial challenges not as signs of failure but as evolutionary tension arising to serve a breakthrough to their next stage of embodied purpose expression in service.

This innate tendency of life starts to offset the forces of systemic and racial injustice and inequalities of privilege that pervade our economic system, with beings from various backgrounds finding their way to break free and establish themselves in some level of financial security not by ‘playing the game’ but by accessing a whole other level of life – the soul.

How such individuals price their products, services, or offerings also shifts here. While the personality level operates through straight trade and exchange dynamics where pricing is not relational or based on love, the soul approach to money invites more flexibility and relationality. Sometimes, offerings stay at a stated price. In some other situations the price might be raised or lowered based on the ethics of love and relationship involved.

Monadic: here, the individual learns the nature of true wealth, which is the abundance present in the life principle itself.

In the monadic initiation around money, everything centres on entering experientially into the transmission of the life force that vibrates through all matter - gross, subtle, and formless - which carries this revelation of pure abundance.

The individual realises that true wealth is not firstly about money, but rather is a reality that through all matter, and that money is simply a construction that humans have created as a symbol for that abundance as it vibrates through the Earth and nature.

They realise however, that money and our economy have become fundamentally distorted reflections of the abundance of the life force, with the scarcity and lack pervading them not actually true to reality.

The individual realises that even though the world seems to spin around money, it is actually true wealth that people are really seeking, and as they deliberately allow their embodied layers (particularly the physical body) to be charged with the abundance of the life force, that transmission radically resets the core fears around scarcity in the base chakra and radiates out and attracts in those ready to offer their money to be closer to the flow.

In this way, the individual learns to become self-sustaining in their generation of wealth. The flow of money to them may seem to come through horizontal channels (offerings, products, or services) but they know that this is secondary, and the true source of their wealth is the transmission of abundant life as it vibrates through their bodies. This is true financial freedom.

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Something worth noting about these initiations is that they don’t always happen in the same order. Some people develop their personality first (by natural inclination or systemic pressure) before they break open to their soul (if that happens at all in this life). These beings tend to establish some foundation in the personality initiation of money before opening to the soul initiation. The gift here is learning the ways of the world. Their challenge is often what to do with the structures (financial, work, relational) they have created as a personality once they start to open to soul. Some aspects of their life will be able to be upgraded. Others will need to die and be released. This can be an agonising process.

Other beings come into incarnation with some remembrance of who they are as souls and resist the pressure of finding their place in the matrix as just another cog in the economic machine. The challenge for these beings is that while they may have some genuine connection to their soul purpose and life’s innate impulse to support them, as long as they haven’t mastered some of the personality level pieces, things often stay pretty messy.

As we enter the Aquarian Age, which we understand will express in a culture and systems with monadic life at the centre, somehow I imagine the essence of the abundance transmission in the monadic initiation will actually come first. People will then be welcomed as souls, each being here with some gift for the collective. The next step will be learning to establish a solid foundation in the world though developing their personality. Once they had done that, perhaps they would consciously enter the soul and later monadic initiations of money as actual developmental stages. I guess we’ll see.