I think everybody is reacting strongly to what cdn2wheeler said (he had a bit of an assertive style), but are missing the essential point:
He feels great now. I know that feeling, too, the feeling of knowing what the playing field looks like and exactly where the ball is. Much more clarity and simpler than this whole detachment/you dunno your beliefs/somin subconscious/etc business. If IM is indeed true, then this is a much, much better place to be manifesting from than doubt about whether your entire enterprise is faulty or not. I hope you will remember some of the lessons from your IM journey as worthy. Many/most of the individual parts of IM can be found in more traditional PD books, too, like Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins and the like. Perhaps, ironically, once you stop trying to use IM to influence the world, you will start influencing the world.
I felt a little like that when I realized that limiting IM to simply thoughts taking direct action is controlling the how, and I'm supposed to simply focus on what I want. And if I'm not willing to take actoin (ether I do or not is a different matter), then I don't really want whatever it is I'm intending for. So, my solution around the problem (and I PMed ALG about this a little while ago) is to allow intentions to manifest from all the routes, including my own physical action, subconcious action, synchronsity and whatever. Its all fair game, because the point is to get what I want.
If that's what works for you, great. I hope that your IM journey has been an interesting side-track on your journey of personal growth. And if there's some validity to the magical aspects of IM, I'm sure you'll discover them sometime in hte rest of your life, should you choose to remain in this path of PD. We're all going to live for a long, long time.
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