[Adam]

Symbolism helps me a lot. When I speak the intentions, I form symbols of the concepts I'm trying to attract in my mind's eye. When I'm doing creative visualizations, the landscape is fairly littered with symbols that I've chosen very carefully.

I'm going to try a thirty day experiment soon of making physical symbols to represent the objects that I'm trying to attract... If we are in a subjective reality, and the physical realm is made up of our dominant thoughts, then it would follow logically that creating a physical symbol would also create what we are using for our intentions.

Actually, now that I think about it, I'll be using two different thirty day trials to test physical symbols; one with ritual and one without.

The first test will be to intend gathering loyal visitors to my blog... I'll create paper dolls, a theater, and on the stage will be a representation of my server. Each day, I'll make five dolls to represent my loyal visitors (I estimate that I only have about 10 loyal visitors) for the thirty days.

I'm still working out the details of the second test, though I want to make it as similar to the first as possible. I'll be doing it with a different target, rather than my blog, so that I can separate out the results. The ritual will be simple; as I create each doll, I'll give it a name and a (healthy) purpose. When I put each doll in the theater, I'll do a ritual that shows it finding an answer to help its purpose and wanting to come around again whenever there is another showing. (I'll probably use Jeff Lilly's blog, druidjournal.net)

The first 'showing' will be tonight, and I'll try my hardest to *not* draw conclusions until after each trial period is over, so sorry folks, but you'll have to wait a month to see the results.