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Whatever you truly believe, you can manifest. This is very important. Skeptics will say - if IM theory is true, and I believe in the flying ketchup monster, surely I can manifest it? But the point is that they are not actually able to make themselves believe in the flying ketchup monster. Therefore the flying ketchup monster will not manifest. You might find this helpful: Acting Like Godot: An Excerpt from Jose Silva |
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Yup. If you could truly believe it. Once you master that, I suggest you try some other cool tricks, like walking on water or raising the dead. At least one dude in history has done it. What? I hear you scoff? Oh ye of little faith. |
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No, but seriously: Let's say I want to manifest money. Do I just need to think about it and be convinced that it will manifest, or do I have to actually work to get to a certain goal/job/point that allows me to make money?
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| Well, remember that actual physical action is a method through which manifestation can occur. If you choose not to pursue certain actions in your career path that could help in manifesting money and simply want it to come to you without physical effort then that is one venue that you're preventing money from manifesting from. Can you manifest money without physically doing anything and instead just consciously focusing your thoughts/intentions? Try and see.
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But this manifesting thing is often sold as: you can sit in your rocking chair and only have to manifest a check in the mailbox and, voilą!, it arrives in the mailbox. It can't be that easy, or can it? And as for manifesting anything if only you believe it enough is a rather unproven, if not completely bogus, theory. It's obviously one of those theories that cannot be proven wrong (like a lot of religion claims), but that doesn't make them true though. Since it's the one who claims that something exists or works who has to come up with the proof. Not the other way round. It's impossible, for example, to prove that there are no invisible unicorns on Mars. So while I agree that positive thinking and intentions are great to cope with life and to get things done and that they are necessary if one really wants to do something, I completely disagree with this 'subjective reality' premise that EVERYTHING is possible if you only believe it. I've not seen or heard of one event that would really backup that claim. |
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These are two different concepts. | |
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I've been thinking that the manifestation happens in the objective/ego/seperative illusionary physical world of our senses. The LoA operates in the subjective/all is one/nirvana universe/world. At least that's how I've been putting LoA and "reality" ideas into relationship. As far as what you can manifest in this illusionary objective world? I'm no expert in LoA, but the less beliefs you have holding you back the easier it is to manifest or notice how the universe responds to your thoughts/words/feelings/vibe. It seems that taken to the extreme - if you could be so completely enlightened - objective reality could morph for you like crazy. But to be completely enlightened is quite a state that you can't strive for because that striving causes you to not be able to get into that state (some paradox thing). I must believe at some level pretty strongly in this physical (illusionary) world for it to stay the same for the most part - I don't know why I might belive this but if I didn't perhaps it would be really confusing/disoreinting to have the objective world be as flexible as, say a lucid dream. "Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Einstein. |
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It seems dubious to me that the LoA is exclusively present in situations that also can be explained rationally. Quote:
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I included that quote since this thread is discussing what is possible to manifest with LoA. Now - that could also be this question: how real is the physical universe? So the quote is, to me, an expression of how the physical universe is an illusion of some kind that persists by our attachment to being separate (ego/objective world). That kind of thinking (nirvana, heaven on earth, power of now...) has been in spiritual writings as well. I'm not saying belive in this, just that these thinkers have been there and thought these things. "Some things can't be changed" - yeah, well, like I got a certain set of genes to run with that gives me blue eyes. It's all most like this physical world has some kind of momentum that keeps it stable even if, at the level the physicists can try to observe, everything looks like either a particle or a wave and both too - so what is all this coming into out senses anyway? Clumps of vibrating energy that are arranged to have a lasting illusion we can touch/look at? It's all pretty in impracticable, these thoughts. "It seems dubious to me that the LoA is exclusively present in situations that also can be explained rationally." Not following this. Situations that can be explained rationally? Is there a way to explian things irrationally? Not sure what the idea was here. Last edited by wolfgang; 11-30-2006 at 09:34 PM. Reason: typos | |
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| I was serious. Either you believe that Jesus performed miracles, or you believe that he did not. If you believe that he did, how do you think he did it? He probably didn't do it accidentally or while asleep or unintentionally. Ahhhh ... what does that mean? He had an intention. It's all back to IM again. Quote:
Suppose you want a cup of coffee. You think to yourself, "Hmmm, I really feel like having a cup of coffee now." That's an intention. If it is strong enough, reality should alter, such that you receive a cup of coffee. You now have two possible courses of action. Firstly, you could move your ass, go to the kitchen, and fix yourself a cup of coffee. There - your intention has manifested. I believe that there are millions of people around the world whose intention to drink coffee manifest into reality in this way, every morning. Secondly, you could sit right where you are, refusing to move. You could keep thinking to yourself, "I want coffee. I want coffee. A cup of coffee is right before me now." If you choose the 2nd course of action, what may happen is that after some time, your mother may come in and say, "Are you ok, dear? You look a bit strange." Because coffee is on your mind, you'll say, "Mum, I want a cup of coffee." Your mother might reply, "Okay, dear, I'll get it for you now, but you're really looking strange." Anyway she comes back shortly with a cup of coffee. There - your intention has manifested. Or maybe your mother isn't home. You keep sitting there thinking ""I want coffee. I want coffee. A cup of coffee is right before me now." Well, chances are, a cup of coffee isn't going to manifest - because your intention is too weak. After all, if your intention was strong enough, if you really, really wanted a cup of coffee - you would just move your ass, go to the kitchen, and fix yourself a cup of coffee. Then a cup of coffee would really have manifested into your reality. And bear in mind, the movement of your ass into the kitchen, the movement of your hands towards the coffee can, towards the coffee mug, towards the kettle - all that is part of reality. (By the way, there is this guy in India, "Said Baba" - some call him a holy man, others call him a cult leader, others call him a conman - but basically he's been known to manifest objects out of thin air. He has devotees and followers from all over the world. Anyway, I digress). ========= Let me now turn to your specific query: Quote:
Let's say that your true intention is that you wish to earn money without actually having to work for it. This is entirely possible. In fact, there are millions of people around the world who are like that. For example, some of them may own a couple of properties and they just collect rent every month. You'll see that this state of affairs didn't come about randomly either. At some point in time, they must have intended to buy a property, and they must have intended to rent it out. And their intentions must have manifested. What you see though is that the manifestation of intention into reality takes time. (For instance, it may take years before you have enough money to invest in property). How much time it takes for an intention to manifest depends on what you're trying to manifest and how good you are at doing it. (For example, making a cup of coffee in the kitchen normally takes the average person about one minute if he's going for 3-in-1 instant packet coffee). Back to money. Actually I know what your true intention is. Your true intention right now is not to manifest money without working. Your true intention is to find out whether LOA really works. You want to run a couple of experiments to test it. Your difficulty is that you're skeptical. Well, you already know the IM theory. If you're skeptical, you block your own intentions, whether you're trying to manifest a cup of coffee, or free money, or proof of IM. That's your challenge. | ||
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No, I don't believe all that if you believe it's possible, then is possible... You know, some people think they are Napoleon, Julius Caesar and even Superman... (and they don't fly...)... All I know is that Universe needs time to "rearrange" itself once you make an intention. Well, history show us that we don't know what is possible and what is not. I think that everything is possible, but many things need many time to come true. | |
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Sometimes the word "belief" is loosely used, when we talk about IM. It goes beyond belief. It's more like belief + expect, and to make it happen, you need to inject some emotion into it. You must hold that "expect" feeling. You must hold that kind of mental attutude that you would be surprised if the intention you manifested did NOT turn into reality. If you use a Biblical analogy, you need to have faith. Moses parts the Red Sea. When he wants to part the Red Sea, he has to totally expect God to do it (that's called faith). "Expect" is like a very strong form of belief. |
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| @acting: * I don't believe Jesus did any 'real' miracles. Maybe he healed some like other healer seem to do as well today. But I'm convinced he didn't go on water, raise the dead and the like. * Your example of the mother coming in and asking you if you want coffee doesn't prove anything. It's still a coincidence unless such the probability of such an event becomes higher than usual. If you're wishing for coffee once and your mother comes in to bring you coffee I'd say: lucky coincidence. You would have to repeat that a few times, a hundred times. If you then get your coffee in over 20, 30, 50 or whatever percent of situations without moving your ass, then I would say that this becomes interesting and needs further analysis. But surprisingly it doesn't happen like that ... * If Said Baba can manifest objects out of thin air then he should let people film him. If he's not a con man, he's got nothing to be afraid of. * You said: "This is entirely possible. In fact, there are millions of people around the world who are like that. For example, some of them may own a couple of properties and they just collect rent every month. You'll see that this state of affairs didn't come about randomly either. At some point in time, they must have intended to buy a property, and they must have intended to rent it out. And their intentions must have manifested." But where did they get their original properties from if they had no money? Did they just fell out of the sky? * You said: "What you see though is that the manifestation of intention into reality takes time." LOL, of course. Because actually working takes time. So where's the benefit of the LoA? If you work clever you make money. No magic about that. * You said: "Your difficulty is that you're skeptical. Well, you already know the IM theory. If you're skeptical, you block your own intentions, whether you're trying to manifest a cup of coffee, or free money, or proof of IM. That's your challenge." Sure. The unproven, and unprovable, theory cannot fail! It's always the user @jill: * You said: "In other words, if you intend to make money...then get off your ass and make some." I agree. But you need not to invoke that magic LoA. It doesn't help you more than general positive thinking. No magic involved. Only motivation. @songwriter: * You said: "All I know is that Universe needs time to "rearrange" itself once you make an intention." How do you know that? And how would the Universe 'rearrange' itself if two people have contradictory intentions? |
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I think a lot of the confusion is trying look at what subjective reality means while using the ego based seperative objective language. At least what subjective reality is being described as in stevepavlina.com - as there is only one consciousness. The thing is, to be present with that one consciousness is so far from our normal waking state and language and thoughts that when one says "I don't know math - how could I have created rockets?" - is all language of the ego based seperative 'normal' (illusionary) objective world. The speck of consciousness we operate with doesn't really know the one concsiousness as knowledge and experiences that can be shared - that is stuck in the objective/seperative world illusion view. To fathom being one with all that is, is probably not something our minds and thoughts can do. It's an experience to feel at times or tune into as an aura while kicking around as an ego. The power of now, being in the flow, Christ consciousness, heaven on earth, nirvana can touch it. And how many individuals get there - it's enlightenment, man. Trying to explain the Tao with these words will fail. "The Tao that can be named is not the Tao" - from the Tao de Ching. I've been able to barely sustain states that expand my consciousness to the point that there are no boundaries and loose the sense of ego illusion. But that's where the culmination of subjective reality can be experienced. In thoses moments that seem timeless and 'things' are perfectly unfolding into existance to be in awe that there's a way to perceive any of it. And it does feel like all is one - but it's not that I (eog) is everything that is. The one consciousness of everything together is not an I. I've felt it in times when I was focused in the now and had no thoughts of yesterday/tomorrow or pretty much actually no thought, just being. That state can have awareness of the mind, but is not the mind. The watcher that is behind everyone's own subjective view of the illusion generated by what we've come to believe. I don't know why or what I believe a lot, but this physical reality is pretty tough to ditch. | |
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You just dont' think you're smart enough to manifest a rocket because you think the rocket is complicated. Here's another way of explaining it. I once had a dream in which there was a big tree I could see from a window of a house. That tree was filled with thousands of leaves which were all swaying in the wind. Each leaf was moving with the wind, swaying back and forth gently in the summer sun. Each leaf was different, slightly in color and shape just like the trees we see in real life. In my dream, all of a sudden I became lucid and realized that I was dreaming. I didn't wake up though right away, and instead I stared at this beautiful tree in awe wondering how the heck I am imagining this tree in my dream with no effort. Like I wasn't standing there trying to think about every leaf and how it should be reacting to the wind patterns etc. I was just standing there in my dream, relaxed, watching this tree. Something else inside me (subconscious mind) was smart enough to visualize a tree, with thousands of leafs, and smart enough to make the leaves sway back and forth in total perfection to the wind patters in the dream and make it totally believable and real to my conscious mind. How do you know that that same subconscious mind of yours that creates the complicated worlds inside your dreams isn't creating your world right now? | |
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You would need to first imagine a world in which money can be manifested out of thin air without it screwing everything up. For example, if you did do it, if you make $10,000 appear in your pocket right now, the first thing you would do is tell someone. Then that person would try it themselves and they would create $10k out of thin air too! Then pretty soon everyone would be doing it. The news story that night would be "People all around the world are making $10k appear out of thin air. Authorities are discussing the reprecussions of this. Gold stocks have soar and the currency markets are tanking. Scientists are looking at the possibility that paper can't be trusted as a source for currency anymore..." Basically, it would be mass chaos. Our whole way of living would get screwed up. It would be like playing Super Mario Brothers and having unlimited lives. Fun at first but gets boring really fast as there is no challenge. So, you would have to agree that what you're really after is a way to make $$$ in such a way that you can do it, but it doesn't screw up the entire world. Perhaps a way to make money in such a way that it does come to you much easier than the tradional working your ass of to make it, but still carries with it a little bit of degree of difficulty and doubt so that you're not 100% sure if it came from nowhere. Like for example, if you tried to manifest $10k and BAM it appears in front of you, that would mean the world is now screwed up. BUT if you tried to manifest $10k and two days later you get a phone-call from someone who tells you that an uncle you never met died and left you $10k, it would freak you out because of the co-incidence, but it wouldn't really end your world. It would make for an interesting story, but your friends wouldn't necessarily believe you manifested it. They would think it's just co-incidence and then ♥♥♥♥♥ about the fact that they dont' have a rich uncle. So what happens is that everytime we manifest something in this world, while still wanting this world to be the same as it was yesterday without LoA totally ruining everything we've believed so far, we manifest the thing and then we also manifest an "out" along with it. An "out" is an explanation of how the manifestation is possible due to some explanation that doesn't ruin your world. I wrote an article on this "out" as I like to call it here: 'The Out' in a Subjective Reality So, to completely answer your question, you can make money appear out of thin air, however it might ruin your world. Therefore, to start, it might be a better idea to try to manifest money and attract it in such a way that it comes to you in a semi-explainable way so that it doesn't ruin your world. For example, you might want to manifest this: "I would like to manifest $10,000 to come to me in an explainable way that doesn't ruin my world, but also carries with it a little 'wink' that tells me it was manifested and not normally earned." If you try that, the money might come to you in all kinds of different ways. It might be a lottery win, or an unexpected inheritence, or a raise at work, or a bonus, or something like that which you can still explain as co-incidence so your world doesn't get totally screwed up, but you get the benefit of the $10k you created it. That might be a good place to start. Then, once you're ready you might want to create new manifestations that are a little less explainable and see what kinds of fears come to the surface. | |
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Frankly, if I sat at my table and I really manifested a cup of coffee out of thin air - it would absolutely freak me out and I think I'd have nightmares for weeks. | |
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| Oh, it's simply because you know many things without knowing that you know them. Some of these things are in your subconscious mind, others are in your unconscious mind, and yet others are in something called the superconscious mind, which I share with you and everybody else on this planet.
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Or maybe there are some inherent disadvantages about performing "miracles" for fun. Like maybe people will say it's a camera trick, and you're a fraud or whatever. Hmmm, I've always wondered about that David Blaine guy. In a sense, miracles may be nothing more than very, very positive events for which science currently has no explanation. Hmmm. Seen in that light, falling in love would be a miracle too. After all, love can't be scientifically explained. You fallen in love before, Markus? Naaaaaaaah. You can't have. For you, love has not been scientifically proven, therefore it can't exist. Heheh. | |
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The positive intentions set you on your course. It sets the wheels in motion. Sure you can just go out an make money. But if you're not thinking about it and putting all your energy into it, it's going to be a lot harder. | |
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Why is life necessarily any different than a dream? If we can create an entire world when we sleep which we know for sure isn't real, what's to say that life isn't something similar? We just don't know. And it's pretty exciting to think about! | |
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1. How would I have to formulate/intend it? In a way so people here cannot say later: Well, dude, you did it the wrong way! Of course it didn't realize! 2. How long would I have to wait for it to become true? Because if I inherit $10000 in 2015 because of the death of my uncle, who has no children, then I wouldn't attribute it to the LoA because it's not such a big surprise. 3. Not normally earned AND statistically very improbable! Even if the chances of the lottery are 1:200.000.000 to win if there are several hundred million people participating one or more HAVE to win at one time or the other. So no real surprise there neither. of course the winner will be amazed that HE's the winner, what were the odds for that??? Quote:
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As I've already mentioned, I tripled my annual income in three years. To me, that's extremely powerful evidence, for me. Coupled with my other successful manifestations, I am quite utterly convinced of LOA. But if you tripled your own annual income, you might not be convinced. For example, maybe given your current career situation, it is quite easy to triple your annual income, and you can easily see how it could be done without resorting to any weird stuff like LOA. So it all depends on yourself. Go design a different experiment then. Think about what it would take to convince you, then go manifest it. As for what people on this forum might or might not say about your experimental results or non-results - stop using that as an excuse. Whether your experiments work or do not work, you always have the choice to tell or not tell the people on this forum about it. Quote:
Your true fear is that LOA might be true, and then the safe, predictable, logical world as you knew it will collapse. How could I be mad? If I were insane, could I possibly analyse your mind and identify your fears, with such startling precision? | ||
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Markus74, you know the saying "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". If you really are interested in the LoA, I-M or subjective reality, do some "testing". Anyway, we need people like you here on this forum, because your interventions help us to better formulate our thoughts and intentions. |
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