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Originally Posted by Tim Brownson  Why can’t a great manifester prove it to the world by stepping off a tall building and manifesting a safe landing? Or maybe winning lotto 2 weeks on the trot? I saw a post by a person below that said she was scary good at this. Really??? Why not manifest an end to violence in her hometown or even on broader scale. Again I know it involves others so why not manifest all guns to stop working or food to arrive to feed the hungry? |
The simple answer is that the world has never been short of examples. Throughout the history of mankind, we've had all sorts of (alleged or actual) mystics, psychics, holy men, yogis, shamans etc performing (or allegedly performing) all sorts of paranormal-looking deeds, or (actually or allegedly) having all sorts of paranormal-looking experiences ...
From Jesus to Osho to Matthew Manning to Nina Kulagina to Aleister Crowley to Uri Geller to Swami Rama to Joan of Arc to Said Baba Baba to Saint Francis of Assisi to Jane Roberts/Seth to Moses to Scott Russell Hill to ....
Oh, let's not forget our very own Erin Pavlina.
Some of these people do (or allegedly do) some very grand things, and some of them do or (allegedly do) less-grand things. Some of these people are more famous and some of these people are less famous, and some of them obviously are not interested in fame at all
(Matthew Manning, for example, deliberately started withdrawing from publicity in the 1980s and explicitly stated that of his very wide range of alleged psychic abilities, he was no longer interested in using any, except for the purpose of healing sick people).
Now my point is this - no matter how many "miracles" are performed, and whether they're fake or not, you're going to get (a) people who believe them, and (b) people who don't believe them.
And the simple reason is that people's realities are created by themselves. If your belief system really cannot adapt to accommodate, say, a healing miracle created by mindpower, then basically such healing miracles will not exist in your reality - you just won't believe it. Any such thing you see or hear about in your reality will simply be construed by your mind as a fraud, or a stage illusion, or a strange coincidence, or just one of those things that science can't explain yet, etc etc.
So in the end, as far as LOA is concerned, we are back in the position which I've explained many times. In the end, you will just have to convince yourself, either of its truth, or its false-ness. And the way you do that, is to play with it yourself.
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Finally, I don't think that an IM practitioner can be equally "good" in manifesting all sorts of things. Because every chap has a unique belief system. In a sense, IM/LOA is about deliberately tweaking your belief system, but it doesn't change the fact that there is still an underlying belief system to start with - which heavily determines what you are able to manifest.