[themusicgod1]

> How do I get my money from my bank account into the Stellar network?

In addition to using gateways, as diyang suggests, there is another way, but you first need two things

1) Someone on the network who you trust. This may be your bank, but it could also be something else. I'm not going to tell you who or what you should trust, and to what extent, that is a decision that should be always in your hands

2) A path between the entity you trust and an entity that either you or your bank has access to.

Until #2 exists, you can do what the poster below just said: use a gateway. This is not recommended, as they are probably going to track you and it may not be always possible to deal with them in a humane way.

So really it depends on what your bank is, whether it makes sense to draw money from your bank into another form/service that is compatible with a service that stellar can talk to. What bank? What country? These things are going to matter on the global scale.