The Debt Abyss: A Portal to Satori

By Tommy Rothmann

How did I get myself in to this mess? How am I ever going to get out of it? Its just too much to deal with; so many people depend on me!
Life preserving sustenance oozes from my soul and evaporates around me. Im too weak to take the next breath.
The debt abyss symbolizes a powerful collective human condition, that lures, traps and feeds on indebted minds.
So much of your energy or your thoughts are anxiously engaged to counter the powerful pull from within the debt abyss. Once in its grip, the abyss has the potential to devour anything and anyone in its path, like the relentless flow of lava down the once green slopes of a mountain.
Only the effect of opposing natural forces such as cool air and water can slow down its momentum and eventually stop its flow all together, but not before it has done almost irreparable damage.
This work is such a natural force.
I sensed a guiding awe within the creative realms of this work, in pondering how humanity can ever break free from the pull within the debt abyss. A precise quantity of souls across the expanses reach has become wearisome, their feeling devoid of a sense of being, disconnected, overburdened with the prospect of living with themselves for another day.
The sobering truths in this book will arm you with a different perceptive of why you are within the abyss, and that you have the hope of options.
Together we deflate the burden by exploring reasons for and effects of indebtedness. We unpack the more common excuses used to remain within its grasp. By asking, what now, the solutions and tools are offered to improve your mental fiber and help you rise above its pull, once and for all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Nov 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452542553

Tommy Rothmann

Tommy Rothmann’s purpose in life is to lift the hearts of the weary and merely-subsisting suburban soul. He wishes to serve, provide encouragement to anyone hanging on for dear life to not give up. Even if your world is not that shadowy, you might suffer more mundane challenges. Tommy’s wish is to sit at the feet of the masters with you, in search of an inspired destiny. His greatest credential is his experience as a husband and father of four children. He is neither from impoverished beginnings nor a privileged station in life. He is a typical, suburban citizen, yet there is nothing ordinary about his work. He provides a balanced look at issues affecting suburbia, in a way that improves awareness, understanding, and the power to act. He is an educated and seasoned corporate finance professional, who has counseled extensively in his community, over many years. Tommy is a keen student of behavioral sciences and has a deep desire to reach out, to be connected and to help. He has traveled extensively across the world, experienced many cultures—making him acutely aware of the exciting nuances within the kaleidoscope of societies, threading the inspiring tapestry of humanity together. He wishes to continue his infinite quest for learning, enhancing himself in the process of lifting others. Please join him on his extraordinary journey through the streets of suburbia.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Resources and Tools to Gain Knowledge and Inspire You to Action

About the Author

In search of inspired destiny, together…

-Tommy Rothmann

Introduction

So, here you are, presented with the information before you for a reason—there are no coincidences in life! You have sought out this message among billions of others because a loving and nurturing intelligence watchfully orchestrated your world to this end.

As William James says, The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way … We are spinning our own fates, good or evil.

You might say to yourself, How did I get myself in to this mess? And how am I ever going to get out of it? It’s just too much to deal with; so many people depend on me. Life-preserving sustenance oozes from my soul and evaporates around me. I’m too weak to take a deep enough breath to replace it. My stomach is constantly in a knot, and I can’t seem to concentrate on anything else. I’m worn out and tired of dealing with these mountains of debt and constant demands. I guess I always knew this day would come, where things catch up with me. If I get one more call from someone I owe money, I’ll … I can’t live like this anymore; I feel so drained.

So much of your thought is consumed by this quandary you’re in—a mountain of debt spiraling out of control, like the relentless flow of lava down the once green slopes of a mountain, slowly and deliberately devouring everything in its path. Only the effect of opposing forces in nature, such as cool air and water, will eventually stop its flow—but not before it has done almost irreparable damage.

You so desperately want to live a better quality of life, but you’re paralyzed to act. Sadly I’ve seen great heartbreak unfold where what was once a good and devoted father, drawn in to the spiraling abyss, took the lives of his entire family, including two small children. He saw no other way out of his quandary. What despair he must have felt in his final moments?

My sincerest hope is that some soul that feels lonely and despondent will find this message. It’s not the ultimate elucidation and authority on the subject of coping with debt, but it is projected from my heart to throw you a lifeline, give you hope that this single point in your life should never be seen as the be all—and surely not the end all. I know you can’t possibly see it this way right now, however I assure you that this seemingly dark space has the potential to be transformed in to an emancipating moment in your life, a catalyst for new beginnings!

You will make it through this chapter of your unfolding. This does not have to define who you are in the long run or even categorically in any of your present moments. Armed with the appropriate perspective, the brawn you have to act will be enhanced with an increased understanding of why you are where you are right now and that you indeed have options.

Perhaps the best point of departure as we unpack this issue would be a few suggested root causes that might provide a milieu for your current state of affairs. Some identified causes will not be comfortable to read, but chances are more than one will ring true for you. They are not provided to make you feel even shoddier, but to help you understand from where your predicament might have originated. Please remember, the fact that you’ve stumbled upon this content is no fluke. I have sensed a guiding awe every time I’ve entered the creative realms of this book, a knowing that this expression of source energy is meant for a precise group of souls across the expanse, precious souls whose reaching has become wearisome, who are feeling devoid of their own sense of being, disconnected, shackled and overburdened with the prospect of living with themselves for another day.

You have nothing to lose, so let’s work through this together.

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Chapter 1

What? At the Heart of the Problem

When probing why so many of us find ourselves in too much debt, we’ll often hear annotations such as:

It was so easy to get the finance approved; I thought the bank would protect me from disproportionate debt. Surely they know what they’re doing.

The slump in the property and asset prices meant that I unexpectedly had more liabilities than assets.

I lost my job due to the wide-ranging downturn in the economy.

I want to make my family happy, so I spend on their well-being and very little on myself.

I had so much to do, I thought we’d be okay and things would get better.

All might have sounded like valid reasons in the moment. They are by and large peripheral in nature, things that happen around us that we feel are outside of our control.

Let’s focus for a moment on reasons that have their origin from within us. The idea of within is something that so many are still completely unaware of. It is a place where the essence of who we are lies dormant in wait for our predetermined satori, or awakening. We don’t always see a clear correlation between the inner state of our being and the outward manifestation of it, a desperate financial condition. Even less evident to us is the potential devastation a lack of awareness and attention to these root causes have until it’s almost too late. Yes, I stress almost too late. If you’re reading this book, it’s not too late.

We live in a society where constant energy flows swoop and coil around us, infiltrating our sense perceptions with messages of more, exclusive, bigger, and faster. Messages of division, of us and them, of have and have not’s. The disparaging power of this energy field, which we’ve given birth to one thought at a time, is not palpable to the naked eye. If it were, we would be dazed at the velocity and ferociousness with which it consumes unconscious thought patterns, mostly harbored and emitted by human beings. It wants to consume, it must consume to satisfy a ravenous desire for expansion. The paradox is that consumerism, society’s brand placed on the attitude of continuous acquisitions and its associated energy, does just that—consumes all in its path, both