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Silent Lucidity · 05-03-2008, 10:41 PM

I would have to a agree with missing, in this situation. When you try intention-manifestation, and it works for you, great, you're more likely to believe in that... you can 'feel' the results... I'm darned good at manifesting... but it's like battling the wall of my life-circumstance.. it's as tall and immovable as the world of the inorganic beings in Carlos Castenada's The Art of Dreaming.

I know many people on both ends of the scale. Actually my ex-partner is one of those people that doesn't believe in PR at all, believes in fate, and random chance. He was successful in life, and blames it entirely on luck. He caught on to a lucrative business opportunity at a young age, rode it, and now doesn't have to work. He claims that distribution of the world's wealth is a result of luck more than anything else.

I believe in personal responsibiltiy and intending results. I've got bad eyes, chronic athsma, chronic pain since I was six, and yet I worked to overcome all that, always got the marks, had lots of friends, made physical health/beauty/intelligence into a religion... stayed up until 10pm doing homework, it took longer b/c I couldn't see. Dealt with teasing, eyestrain headaches.... used dance to teach myself physical grace, Meditation helps with stress, etc.. and have I now have two degrees with honors. I chose the wrong field, though, for those degrees, and am now facing huge competition with regards to the art-proff job market, competeing with over 300 people for each potential job that starts at only 40k/year. I've spent my entire life working so hard... eight years of academia... for this? to have my professors reassure me I would get a job for sure.. and now nothing.

Now the health issues are worse. The drugs for the FMS and athsma cause daytime sleepiness, moodiness and apathy. Two years since then. I can't adjust to being out of school, to it not going they way I thought it would. No job, no car, had to move back home, no public transit, no friends here yet. My fiance didn't work out. Turned out to be emotionally controlling. I'm trapped here at my parents house on the mountainside. Yes, sometimes I just don't do anything, due to mental and spiritual exhaustion.

(I did just land several little jobs / projects recently so that's something).

There's no point trying to explain this to others... they would say, as people on here would say, that I'm not taking responsibility for my life.

I found your post so refreshing, someone that actually thinks there are other circumstances that people have to work with at times.

Who else thinks that karma, Intention-Manifestation, etc inflict psychological damage? I wonder how many of us here....

05-03-2008, 10:41 PM	#44 (permalink)
Silent Lucidity Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 73	Real-world examples I would have to a agree with missing, in this situation. When you try intention-manifestation, and it works for you, great, you're more likely to believe in that... you can 'feel' the results... I'm darned good at manifesting... but it's like battling the wall of my life-circumstance.. it's as tall and immovable as the world of the inorganic beings in Carlos Castenada's The Art of Dreaming. I know many people on both ends of the scale. Actually my ex-partner is one of those people that doesn't believe in PR at all, believes in fate, and random chance. He was successful in life, and blames it entirely on luck. He caught on to a lucrative business opportunity at a young age, rode it, and now doesn't have to work. He claims that distribution of the world's wealth is a result of luck more than anything else. I believe in personal responsibiltiy and intending results. I've got bad eyes, chronic athsma, chronic pain since I was six, and yet I worked to overcome all that, always got the marks, had lots of friends, made physical health/beauty/intelligence into a religion... stayed up until 10pm doing homework, it took longer b/c I couldn't see. Dealt with teasing, eyestrain headaches.... used dance to teach myself physical grace, Meditation helps with stress, etc.. and have I now have two degrees with honors. I chose the wrong field, though, for those degrees, and am now facing huge competition with regards to the art-proff job market, competeing with over 300 people for each potential job that starts at only 40k/year. I've spent my entire life working so hard... eight years of academia... for this? to have my professors reassure me I would get a job for sure.. and now nothing. Now the health issues are worse. The drugs for the FMS and athsma cause daytime sleepiness, moodiness and apathy. Two years since then. I can't adjust to being out of school, to it not going they way I thought it would. No job, no car, had to move back home, no public transit, no friends here yet. My fiance didn't work out. Turned out to be emotionally controlling. I'm trapped here at my parents house on the mountainside. Yes, sometimes I just don't do anything, due to mental and spiritual exhaustion. (I did just land several little jobs / projects recently so that's something). There's no point trying to explain this to others... they would say, as people on here would say, that I'm not taking responsibility for my life. I found your post so refreshing, someone that actually thinks there are other circumstances that people have to work with at times. Who else thinks that karma, Intention-Manifestation, etc inflict psychological damage? I wonder how many of us here....