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Acting Like Godot · 12-19-2006, 02:29 AM

What is the overall success/failure rate with IM?

Let me ask you to try to imagine this. Imagine that you are the universe, and that at any given time, you are aware of the thoughts & beliefs of every human being on the planet. Your mission is to coordinate things and events and circumstances to make their thoughts come true as far as possible. You are quick, powerful, highly intelligent, but what you almost always refuse to do is to change people's thoughts directly - you simply let them think what they want, and then you send into their reality whatever they've been thinking. However, you find it amusing how most human beings don't think clearly, send out inconsistent thoughts, can't sustain concentration on what they want etc.

(I'm not saying that IM really works like this - but it's a helpful model to illustrate what I really want to say).

Now - when we discuss the success / failure rate of IM, consider firstly what you are trying to manifest, and how easy it would be for the universe to arrange it.

I would suggest to you that cabs, empty parking lots etc are quite easy for the universe to arrange. Suppose I intend to get a cab. Somewhere in the vicinity there surely is a taxi driver whose intention is to get a passenger. In this kind of situation, it would be relatively easy for the universe to coordinate.

In contrast, suppose 5,000 people have each bought a lottery ticket, each with a unique number. Each intends to win the first and only prize. Clearly this is going to be a tough one for the universe to coordinate.

Sometimes what is easy or not easy for the universe to coordinate will not be clear to us. For example, you wish to have a really nice, attractive partner and because you are fussy, you have a long list of specifications of what she would be like. Apparently it would be difficult to find someone like that. However, it may be quite easy for the universe to arrange, bearing in mind that the universe is so powerful. So indeed next week someone may move into the apartment next door and she fits almost all of your criteria. She appears there, also because of her own intentions - she had wanted to find an apartment in this area, and this apartment was suitable for her. So there - the universe coordinates.

IM meets its limitations when your intentions clash directly with someone else's intentions. For example, you strongly want your husband to go for a medical checkup and and he strongly insists that he is fine and does not need a medical checkup. In that case, the universe cannot directly bring about your intention, without directly crushing your husband's intentions.

Even in such a situation, the universe will endeavour to reconcile and create as far as possible, with the thoughts sent out to the universe by your husband and wife. For example, while your husband does not want to go for a checkup, he may not mind having an informal discussion with a doctor about his state of health. So for instance, your thoughts may fail to send your husband to the clinic, but they may cause a long-lost doctor friend of yours to bump into your husband. They sit down somewhere for a coffee, and end up having an informal discussion where your husband ends up telling the doctor about his recent symptoms and the doctor tells him about the possible implications.

12-19-2006, 02:29 AM	#13 (permalink)
Acting Like Godot Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 9,613	What is the overall success/failure rate with IM? Let me ask you to try to imagine this. Imagine that you are the universe, and that at any given time, you are aware of the thoughts & beliefs of every human being on the planet. *Your mission is to coordinate things and events and circumstances to make their thoughts come true as far as possible.* You are quick, powerful, highly intelligent, but what you almost always refuse to do is to change people's thoughts directly - you simply let them think what they want, and then you send into their reality whatever they've been thinking. However, you find it amusing how most human beings don't think clearly, send out inconsistent thoughts, can't sustain concentration on what they want etc. (I'm not saying that IM really works like this - but it's a helpful model to illustrate what I really want to say). Now - when we discuss the success / failure rate of IM, consider firstly what you are trying to manifest, and how easy it would be for the universe to arrange it. I would suggest to you that cabs, empty parking lots etc are quite easy for the universe to arrange. Suppose I intend to get a cab. Somewhere in the vicinity there surely is a taxi driver whose intention is to get a passenger. In this kind of situation, it would be relatively easy for the universe to coordinate. In contrast, suppose 5,000 people have each bought a lottery ticket, each with a unique number. Each intends to win the first and only prize. Clearly this is going to be a tough one for the universe to coordinate. Sometimes what is easy or not easy for the universe to coordinate will not be clear to us. For example, you wish to have a really nice, attractive partner and because you are fussy, you have a long list of specifications of what she would be like. Apparently it would be difficult to find someone like that. However, it may be quite easy for the universe to arrange, bearing in mind that the universe is so powerful. So indeed next week someone may move into the apartment next door and she fits almost all of your criteria. She appears there, also because of her own intentions - she had wanted to find an apartment in this area, and this apartment was suitable for her. So there - the universe coordinates. IM meets its limitations when your intentions clash directly with someone else's intentions. For example, you strongly want your husband to go for a medical checkup and and he strongly insists that he is fine and does not need a medical checkup. In that case, the universe cannot directly bring about your intention, without directly crushing your husband's intentions. Even in such a situation, the universe will endeavour to reconcile and create as far as possible, with the thoughts sent out to the universe by your husband and wife. For example, while your husband does not want to go for a checkup, he may not mind having an informal discussion with a doctor about his state of health. So for instance, your thoughts may fail to send your husband to the clinic, but they may cause a long-lost doctor friend of yours to bump into your husband. They sit down somewhere for a coffee, and end up having an informal discussion where your husband ends up telling the doctor about his recent symptoms and the doctor tells him about the possible implications.