Paul, I've seen "What the Bleep..." too and found it a pretty interesting film, kind of like a more scientific version of "The Secret". The point they made about us only noticing a tiny fraction of what our senses observe is definitely worth thinking about. Even if you don't believe in the LoA it still makes sense that if you put your attention on the stuff you do want, you're more likely to notice it when it shows up because your brain won't filter it out as 'noise'.
cdn2wheeler, I've tried experiments like yours and also failed, and I think I'm beginning to see why. Firstly, like you, I put a very specific time limit on what I wanted to attract. Secondly, rather than staying detached from the outcome, I was actually doing the complete opposite, because I was expecting this to be either proof or disproof of the LoA. It reminds me of a quote from Marc Allen's book The Millionaire Course. He says to state your intentions daily and follow them with the words "...in its own perfect time...". I think this means you should send out your intentions and then put yourself in a state of acceptance, so that you are ready to receive the things you want, rather than becoming impatient when it doesn't show up immediately.
As mentioned above, another thing I noticed is that when I do manifest something I intend, there is almost always a logical explanation for it (e.g. "Well I didn't manifest that apple, Sarah gave it to me"). But I think that this is the manifestation process in action - you send out your intentions to the universe, and then it figures out a way to deliver them to you, and the easiest way to do that might be to just get someone else to give it to you. Although this is 'explainable', that doesn't mean it wasn't you who manifested it.
I like the sound of keeping a list of my intentions and the things that manifest. I've been keeping a diary for the last 11 months where I keep track of how my life is going, and I think this would be an extension of that.
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