[Acting Like Godot]

Basically, 001, you do not understand the LOA. Take it from me. I am not being condescending or patronising or anything like that. You are just new to it, therefore there are many things about it you simply do not know yet.

Let's just consider two comments you have made:

Come on... someone telling you what they intend and you giving it to that person is not the LoA. Are you very stupid or do you just think I am?

You are mistaken here. From a practical point of view, LOA is about manifesting your intentions. That is all.

For example, you could manifest for a new job as an interior designer, and then the next day, you meet a stranger at a party. For some reason, you just say, "I am looking for a job as an interior designer, do you happen to know of any such jobs?".

And the guy says, "Actually, I happen to run an interior design firm! And I have been wanting to hire someone. Would you like to send in your job application and your portfolio?"

That's it.

You should not make the mistake of expecting LOA to always or often happen in some "miraculous" or "magical" way. Such as thunder booming in the middle of the night, and a loud voice coming from the heavens, saying,

"YOU WISH TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER?!! GO TO ADAMS STREET AT 10 A.M TOMORROW AND AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE LITTLE GREEN MAN CARRYING AN INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE."

It doesn't work that way. Why? Because (and this is an important point), your entire reality has been created by your own thoughts. When you start using LOA techniques to play with a few new thoughts (eg "I would like to be an interior designer"), it's not that your entire reality starts crumbling down to be rebuilt anew.

Instead, your new thoughts have to manifest out of the rest of your existing reality. Since your existing reality (which has been created by your thoughts and beliefs) presumably does not tolerate Little Green Men Carrying Interior Design Magazines or Heavenly Voice Giving Loud, Divine Instructions in the Dead of Night

... such things simply will not happen. To you.

What will happen, if your intention manifests, is that it manifests in a way that is consistent with the rest of your thoughts and reality.

For example, suppose it is believable and "realistic" to you, that you could be invited to a party. Suppose it is also believable and "realistic" to you, that you might meet a stranger at a party, and talk to him. And it is believable and "realistic" to that such a stranger might conceivably be in any number of different occupations, such as running an interior design company.

Then your intention could well manifest in the manner I have described above. Essentially, your LOA intentions will always manifest in a way consistent with your reality as you currently know it.

Any other way is just not possible, and would in fact violate the Law.

Side point - Importantly, your thoughts are always changing, and therefore your reality never quite stays the same. Everything is impermanent, yet at any given point in time, eg right at this moment, your reality has to behave in a manner consistent with all your thoughts right up to this moment.

Your next comment:

In my opinion you were probably just noticing these things because you were looking for them...

You may know about the reticular activating system (RAS). It's a part of the brain cortex that alerts you to the presence of things in your environment which you would be interested in.

For example, if you are a doctor, you would be more likely to notice if you hear someone cough or sneeze. If you are a heterosexual man, you would be more likely to notice if a beautiful woman walks by. If you are a businessman, you are more likely to notice business opportunities. If you are an ad designer, you are more likely to notice ads.

And if you program your mind to notice XYZ, you will be more likely to notice if XYZ appears in your environment.

See, we all live in a complex, rich environment, full of stimuli. Our brains cannot process all this sensory data, so automatically we are filtering our perceptions all the time. In my lifetime, I have walked in and out of supermarkets numerous times, yet it was not until I was about to become a daddy that I perceived supermarkets to have a baby section and perceived the existence of such a stunningly wide range of baby-raising paraphernalia and equipment.

Some people make the mistake of dismissing LOA as an effect of the RAS. That is, they believe that LOA works simply as a result of the person becoming more attuned to things that were already there, but which he simply hadn't been noticed before.

This is an inadequate explanation for LOA.

I believe that LOA does regularly work by RAS. If you want something, and in fact it is already present in your environment, the easiest thing for the universe to do is to alert you to its presence. However, LOA is not merely RAS. Those of us who have used LOA long enough know that it is not.

RAS explains the kind of situation where you want to be an interior designer, and suddenly you start noticing job ads for interior designers.

RAS wouldn't explain the kind of situation where you want to be an interior designer, and suddenly out of the blue, before you even start applying to be an interior designer, people start calling you and asking you whether you wish to work for them as an interior designer.