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Acting Like Godot · 11-29-2006, 02:48 AM

Heheh. Well, my two cents again.

We have before us some kind of IM theory. There are slightly different versions of it, depending on whether you read Steve Pavlina, or Jose Silva, or Napoleon Hill, or Deepak Chopra, or Gary Zukav, or Brian Tracy, or Buddhist teachings on karma, or Christian teachings on prayer.

We struggle with IM as a concept. We ask questions like "What about a victim of child abuse? How could the child have created this event for himself?" Then we ask questions like, "What if two people manifest the same competing intention, eg to win first prize in the same lottery?".

If we expand further, we could surely think of other interesting questions eg "What if a person is insane and truly believes that his mother is out to kill him, when she isn't? How come his thoughts don't manifest into reality?"

These are conceptual difficulties. The question is whether you need to resolve all the conceptual difficulties you can see, before you can accept LOA.

That is analogous to refusing to accept anything in life, unless you are 100% certain about it. Which, as you can probably see, is also not a particularly intelligent way of living.

The good thing about LOA is that it is perfectly possible to run your own experiments. All the resources you need to do your own experiments are immediately available to you. (In that sense, it is somewhat different from theories about genes or nuclear fission or the migratory paths of humpback whales).

So go run your own experiments.

You could even be very systematic about it. Set out your personal methodology; manifest your intentions; record what you've done, and then as time goes by, keep checking on the results (or lack thereof) and record those as well.

I have been using IM erratically and unsystematically for the past three years. I've found that the use of IM is itself a learning process, with twists and turns and obstacles. Nevertheless, in the past three years, I've achieved very excellent results in my personal life. My monthly salary has almost tripled, for instance.

When I first read stories of such incidents happening to other people (mainly from Brian Tracy's books), basically I thought it was hyperbole and nonsense, like multi-level marketing garbage. How could people's income double or triple in a year or two or three? I was skeptical. Brian Tracy's writing style (filled with endless suplerlatives like "amazing", "phenomenal", "outstanding", "absolutely incredible success") did not impress me.

Anyway I thought I'd give it a shot. Nothing to lose. Well, my monthly salary has really almost tripled (and let me tell you, to start with, three years ago I wasn't exactly earning peanuts). If you include bonuses, my annual income has more than tripled.

The thing is - it can't be conclusively proven that my early (and clumsy) IM attempts had actually caused, or contributed, to my salary increase. One might say that perhaps Godot is just a very clever guy, and would have made lots of money anyway, even if he had never heard of IM.

I accept that logically, this could be true.

So to investigate LOA in a more scientific way, I have decided to make 2007 my year of the Great Experiment. I am going to record my use of IM in writing (some in a private diary, and some on my blog), I am going to record the intentions that I manifest, and I will keep specific track of the results (or lack thereof) that occur in my life, over the next 13 months (till end of 2007).

You're all welcome to visit my blog and check in on me from time to time.

I am still learning to use IM. I know much more than I did three years ago, but I still have so much more to learn. One day, if I can walk on water, then I know that I probably have nothing left to learn about IM.

11-29-2006, 02:48 AM	#67 (permalink)
Acting Like Godot Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 9,613	Heheh. Well, my two cents again. We have before us some kind of IM theory. There are slightly different versions of it, depending on whether you read Steve Pavlina, or Jose Silva, or Napoleon Hill, or Deepak Chopra, or Gary Zukav, or Brian Tracy, or Buddhist teachings on karma, or Christian teachings on prayer. We struggle with IM as a concept. We ask questions like "What about a victim of child abuse? How could the child have created this event for himself?" Then we ask questions like, "What if two people manifest the same competing intention, eg to win first prize in the same lottery?". If we expand further, we could surely think of other interesting questions eg "What if a person is insane and truly believes that his mother is out to kill him, when she isn't? How come his thoughts don't manifest into reality?" These are conceptual difficulties. The question is whether you need to resolve all the conceptual difficulties you can see, before you can accept LOA. That is analogous to refusing to accept anything in life, unless you are 100% certain about it. Which, as you can probably see, is also not a particularly intelligent way of living. The good thing about LOA is that it is perfectly possible to run your own experiments. All the resources you need to do your own experiments are immediately available to you. (In that sense, it is somewhat different from theories about genes or nuclear fission or the migratory paths of humpback whales). So go run your own experiments. You could even be very systematic about it. Set out your personal methodology; manifest your intentions; record what you've done, and then as time goes by, keep checking on the results (or lack thereof) and record those as well. I have been using IM erratically and unsystematically for the past three years. I've found that the use of IM is itself a learning process, with twists and turns and obstacles. Nevertheless, in the past three years, I've achieved very excellent results in my personal life. My monthly salary has almost tripled, for instance. When I first read stories of such incidents happening to other people (mainly from Brian Tracy's books), basically I thought it was hyperbole and nonsense, like multi-level marketing garbage. How could people's income double or triple in a year or two or three? I was skeptical. Brian Tracy's writing style (filled with endless suplerlatives like "amazing", "phenomenal", "outstanding", "absolutely incredible success") did not impress me. Anyway I thought I'd give it a shot. Nothing to lose. Well, my monthly salary has really almost tripled (and let me tell you, to start with, three years ago I wasn't exactly earning peanuts). If you include bonuses, my annual income has more than tripled. The thing is - it can't be conclusively proven that my early (and clumsy) IM attempts had actually caused, or contributed, to my salary increase. One might say that perhaps Godot is just a very clever guy, and would have made lots of money anyway, even if he had never heard of IM. I accept that logically, this could be true. So to investigate LOA in a more scientific way, I have decided to make 2007 my year of the Great Experiment. I am going to record my use of IM in writing (some in a private diary, and some on my blog), I am going to record the intentions that I manifest, and I will keep specific track of the results (or lack thereof) that occur in my life, over the next 13 months (till end of 2007). You're all welcome to visit my blog and check in on me from time to time. I am still learning to use IM. I know much more than I did three years ago, but I still have so much more to learn. One day, if I can walk on water, then I know that I probably have nothing left to learn about IM.