See, where I'm getting a conflict is when something is intentionally manifested, or perhaps unintentionally manifested because it's focused on too strongly, vs. the idea of things just occurring because of a random thought.
Now, I'm always seeing skeptics saying that coincidences are just coincidences because of the billion times they don't happen, that the odds are that now and then one will happen. Nevertheless, sometimes they are so weird and there are so many of them, I dismiss the skepticism. But I understand why the skeptics think this way.
I do believe we should be careful about what we say and think. Like, I think we should be careful not to really wish that we could find some other way to hydrate ourselves besides drinking water. Were you wishing that? Or was it just a random thought? I'm more inclined to believe you could bring about the illness if it solved a problem you were wishing a solution for, than just a random thought out of a billion random thoughts.
I remember one day many years ago when I was bored and wishing something interesting would happen. And later that same day I was driving down a highway and the water pump went out on my car. And now when I wish something interesting would happen, I make sure to add a clarifier like "and fun."
Sometimes I think difficulties come as an answer to another wish, such as lately my roof started leaking even though it's only five years old
but this has resulted in my getting to be better friends with a couple of my neighbors who are helping out with this situation, and I probably have been wishing for some closer friendships amongst my neighbors, and since I don't go do it in some pro-active way, the situation gets created some other way.
This past weekend I was leaving to meet up with some friends who were making a two-hour trek up here, and I had a giant pile of work to get done and the only way I could see clear to finish was to put in about 30 hours in two days, and then I thought, why don't I just manifest that I'll have plenty of time without any stress to get it done? So I put forth that intention. Then I left to meet up with my friends. An hour after they were supposed to arrive, they still weren't there, and I started to get very worried about them. Then it struck me that I had intended for plenty of time to get my work done, which could happen if they didn't show up because they had car trouble or something. Immediately I re-intended that this wasn't what I meant -- that I really did want to spend the day with my friends, and I wanted 'plenty of time' to do this work even though I would be taking an entire day off in the midst of it.
Within about 10 minutes, they arrived, and all that had happened was they had gotten completely lost. It was weird. And of course if IM is true, then they had to be co-creators of the situation for some reason. Perhaps because my friend's husband, who was driving, didn't really want to spend an entire day at a cat show
