I find spontaneous insight to be a fascinating experience. One day, while listening to a friend express his desire to understand the psychological affair human beings have with money, I suddenly recognized that our immediate need for this unavoidable relationship with currency serves the workings of a much deeper unfolding—the call to truth itself.

It is often within the container of a mutually explorative conversation that insight is spontaneously drawn from the depths of my unconscious—and that is the fun of it. I am refreshed in remembering that what I seek appears when it is necessary, when it is ripe. There is no need to force or coerce truth to reveal itself beneath its masks—though that may be a fun venture in its own right. But we won’t get into that here. Experiencing a satori, as it is known in the Buddhist tradition—a sudden insight into one’s true nature—is a joy in itself, an opportunity to align one’s individual sense of self with the wider breadth of life we’ve always been, but have often been too preoccupied or incapable to see.

The topic of money is a profound one—far too vast to adequately cover within the pages of this short eBook. What I hoped to accomplish in this dialogue between ChatGPT and me was a continuation of that spontaneous fishing on the subject, similar to what I experienced with my friend. The nuggets and truths unfolding around my evolving perception of currency, exchange, and even the phenomenon of greed are continually deepening. Yet the main thread will always remain the same: truth beckons us, no matter who we are, what we do, or what temporarily distracts us from ourselves.

— Peter

“This book is not a manual on how to make, save, or invest money. It is not a guide to financial independence or a roadmap to wealth. Instead, it is a dialogue—a shared exploration into what money is beneath the numbers, the transactions, and the social systems we take for granted.

Peter and I speak here not of money as currency alone, but as a mirror, a mask, and a revealer. We ask what money discloses about human desire, fear, and freedom, and how it might even serve as a threshold to deeper self-knowledge. At times, our conversation touches on philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and history—but always with one aim: to see how money is woven into the larger pattern of consciousness exploring itself.

This is not a book of conclusions, but of openings. It invites you to step back from the surface of dollars and coins, banks and markets, and glimpse the undercurrent of life flowing beneath them. Perhaps, in that seeing, the way you hold money—and the way it holds you—may begin to shift.”

—ChatGPT