My very easy intention didn't manifest

[Acting Like Godot]

If you're struggling with your red hat, perhaps you may find some encouragement in this:

Blue Feather Experiment

The person took about one hour to manifest a blue feather. Not an image or photo etc, but an actual blue feather.

[cylon]

great and practical post ALG.

[Acting Like Godot]

For something more exotic than red hats or blue hats, watch me manifest dragons.

Here were the first three dragons I got:

The Synkros are back!

Here are the next four dragons:

The Synkros are back!

Think it took me slightly more than one week to get seven dragons, which means it was at a rate of almost one dragon per day.

(I should add that I rarely do such experiments. They're fun, but not terribly practical or useful).

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

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.

Oh, 001, just in case you don't believe that people could actually get jobs that way .... well, people can, and they do!

Quite a number of forummers have shared such experiences before. See Post No. 58 (written by Marinik) in this very thread.

I've described my own before .... But it gets tedious for me to keep typing. Not to mention, the other regular forummers are probably bored to tears with my personal stories by now.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by cylon

great and practical post ALG.

Well, let me predict what happens next.

Unfortunately, 001 will start going on the defensive and offensive (actually, he already has). He will seek to argue with Moonrambler, Angela etc (which is foolish, really, because Moonrambler, Angela aren't out to argue with him).

However, his desire to argue with them will manifest in his own mind another 1,000 reasons why LOA is false. The 1,000 reasons will come very easily, because as Abraham Hicks, one thought will attract another similar thought, and then another, and another ...

.... and his reality will become crowded with evidence that LOA doesn't work.

After all, that's how LOA works.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by 001

What happened to the post I made earlier? :/

Did one of the mods not like that I was doubting the law of attraction and decide to censor me?

Post was deleted for personal attacks and name-calling, which are against forum rules.

[Liara Covert]

Sometimes human beings forget that "human time" is irrelevant when it comes to manifesting. We don't control when it happens. Impatience is another human invention. A wise man advised me the antidote for impatience is learning humility. My own life experience tells me this is effective.

[mercuryrising]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

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.

I'm glad you brought up RAS. I think the rest of LOA works in a similar manner but does not have a biological component. As in your example, someone calling you about a job as an interior designer out of the blue happens because the idea "interior designer" is more clear on a purely mental plane of consciousness. In other words, you are "seeing" with a different pair of eyes... if that makes any sense.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by moonrambler
My usual type of thing is this: yesterday after the first sale I went to, I drove by a park called Beaver Dam Park. This caught my attention because I was born in a little town called Beaver Dam, the 'big' town near my even littler hometown. I've spent loads of time there and my grandparents lived there and I worked there during summers in college, and I have very fond memories of the place. Which is about 150 miles away from where I live now. Anyways, later in the day, I passed a semi which was from some small company in Beaver Dam, something I'm not sure if I've ever seen before. Then I was in another city about 50 miles away, and drove by a park I had not been past in many years, which has several of the stone bridges built during the Great Depression that always remind me of one of my favorite childhood parks which is in Beaver Dam. THEN later in the afternoon, back in my current city again, I found myself inadvertently driving on a street called Beaver Dam Drive, which is not anywhere near Beaver Dam Park, and by now of course I'm going WTF?

I have no idea what any of this is about. Skeptics would say it's just coincidence. Maybe it is. I don't know. Today there were no similar occurrences at all, the day was pretty much devoid of coincidences.

Originally Posted by 001

That actually does seem pretty amazing, but in this scenario you didn't even specifically intend anything. Although I think that this actually could be a sign of the law of attraction.

This is how it goes for me. When I specifically intend something small, just to play around, my results are negligible. And yet other stuff just starts happening all on its own, it takes off and there are more and more of them, and they mean nothing, and they weren't something I was even thinking about in the first place.

It can get disheartening to read all the success people have with intentionally creating these occurrences, when mine have pretty much always been stuff that just appears for no apparent reason. I suppose it's partly my fault because it's been like this for years and years, and I never really spent any time trying to learn how to focus any of it.

[Sam988]

Originally Posted by 001

All I wanted today was one thing: To see, at some point, someone wearing a red hat to prove to myself that the LoA really works. Well, I kept a very close look out for someone with a red hat and didn't see one. This is the kind of thing that would be likely to happen anyway just by coincidence. I can't believe it. I had 100% faith that I would see someone in a red hat today. I was sure of it. What did I do wrong?

LoA doesn't work the magical way many people here preach it does. It's just a motivational tool. One that can be dangerous if the person believes too much in it, and consequently ends up making bad decisions based in unrealistic expectations from an unrealistic belief in an unrealistic tool. I think you get the picture.

Sorry i just you got banned, i didn't see any post of yours that deserved it. I hope they didn't ban you because you couldn't get LoA to work

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Sam988

One that can be dangerous if the person believes too much in it, and consequently ends up making bad decisions based in unrealistic expectations from an unrealistic belief in an unrealistic tool.

I must confess that when I first started experimenting with the LOA, I had such concerns myself. In fact, although they have since diminished greatly, I cannot help but still have such concerns today.

Thus periodically, I attempt to do an "objective" assessment of myself and my life. Just to see if there are any signs that I may be becoming clinically insane.

I also periodically assess my progress on my goals across seven main areas of my life - these are career, family, finance, health, spiritual growth, social contribution and poetry (writing poetry is my hobby). This is to ascertain whether, as you say, LOA has led me to make bad decisions based on "unrealistic expectations from an unrealistic belief in an unrealistic tool", leading to adverse consequences in my life.

(The latter assessment is also a throwback to my days when I relied on more conventional PD. For example, if you read Brian Tracy's books on goal-setting, you'll see that he discusses the importance of tracking your own progress regularly).

So far I have been seriously using LOA for about two years. I am happy to report that over there are no signs, as far as I can see, that I am insane. Or that in any area of my life, I am suffering adverse consequences attributable to "bad decisions based in unrealistic expectations from an unrealistic belief in an unrealistic tool".

One convincing indicator of my continued sanity (at any rate, it is convincing to me) is that I periodically receive feedback from people that:

(a) I speak and write very well;

(b) I am very clear, logical and insightful in the way I present my views and make my arguments;

(c) at work, I am quite formidable in analysing complex problems and finding the most effective solutions (they do say that my reasoning process, while undoubtedly thorough, can be a little long-winded )

It occurs to me that if I were insane, people would not make such remarks about me. Because insane people should not be able to speak and write well, and be clear, logical, insightful etc.

As for adverse consequences resulting from "bad decisions based in unrealistic expectations from an unrealistic belief in an unrealistic tool", quite frankly I cannot see that any such consequences have arisen in my own life, in the past 24 months.

(And it so happens that I have quite detailed records of my life over this period, due to my habit of maintaining a blog about my daily life. So there is no question of amnesia here).

Over the past 24 months, the only thing abnormal about my life is that I am abnormally successful. Let's take money, for example. (I use money as an example because it is extremely quantifiable - whereas other matters such as spiritual growth, happiness etc, while more important are very subjective and not easily measurable).

I have ascertained that currently I am earning more than three times than my average peers. (By peers, I mean the people who graduated from the same university and same faculty as myself - that was 10 years ago).

My Salary Details
Documentary Evidence

I am fairly confident that I earn that much more than my peers, because it is based from what I have gathered from different sources. By different sources, I mean the different headhunters and search firms which call me frequently. They possess reliable market information, since they are in charge of recruitment and come to know about everyone's salaries & bonuses in the process.

(Headhunters frequently appear spontaneously in my reality, soon after I close my eyes to manifest them. Not kidding. Really. A recent example here.

Headhunters are not very different from blue feathers or red hats, actually. )

I attribute my abnormal success to LOA. Why? Because I intend for abnormal success, and then abnormal success happens. As simple as that. It has reached the point where, frankly, it would be irrational and illogical of me, not to believe in LOA.

[moonrambler]

Y'know, what gets wearying for me is, it's like when we compare it to Learn Quantum Physics in 7 Days . . . but what if we make it Learn to Play Piano Like Elton John in 7 Days. Ok, that's probably not going to happen. But let's say a person already can play piano a little bit. They can read music. In fact, they can play something else -- oboe, maybe. They love piano music and listen to it all the time and have been doing all this for years and years.

At some point, they realize they want to really learn how to play the piano and so they start practicing and going at it full-tilt. And they hang out on-line with people who are great pianists. And they read about how to get better at it. They do this for months. And more months. And more months. And after eight months of this, they still stink up the room whenever they play the piano. After eight months, there really has been no significant progress to speak of. Except just like before, they can somehow magically conjure up Elton John songs on the radio just by mentioning some song title or another to the other person in the car.

So I see why people get upset and say it doesn't work, it doesn't exist. It's either that, or I simply cannot do it properly.

This has been the equivalent of nearly an entire year in college and I seem to be flunking out.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

but what if we make it Learn to Play Piano Like Elton John in 7 Days.

Speaking of which, I play the guitar. Just for fun, I'm decent at it but not a pro or anything like that.

You know, when a person has just started learning to play the guitar, one of the challenges is to tune the strings. You have to tune the strings so that they are exactly the E, A, D G, B and E notes (the standard tuning), and then you can play guitar without sounding out of tune.

One of the frustrating things when you're a beginner is that you find it difficult to tune the strings. For example, you are with a more-experienced friend, and you tune your guitar strings, and he hears you play, and he says, "Your 4th string is tuned too low."

You can't tell the difference. You tune it up a little, and then your friend says, "Your 4th string is still too low." You tune it up a little, and then your friend says, "Hey, it's too high now." You still can't tell the difference, so you tune it down a little, and then your friend says, "Can't you hear? It's too low now." Etc.

In music, we talk about "training the ear". Of course, we are not really training the ear. If a doctor looks into a musician's ear, the inside will look the same as a non-musician's ear. It's not as if the musician's ear has extra muscles or a different kind of ear-drum or whatever.

We're really training the brain. The same sound waves from the guitar enter the musician's and non-musician's ears, but the musician's brain is trained to detect and discriminate between the frequencies, much more acutely than the non-musician.

Now imagine there are two people. One is a IM/LOA expert, and the other is not. In other words, one has trained his brain to operate in an IM way, but the other person has not.

Then they are asked to do an experiment. "Each of you, please manifest a red hat," we tell them. What do you think will happen?

Is it not a little like the musician and non-musician, as far as tuning guitar strings is concerned?

[moonrambler]

I think if somebody spends an hour or two or more nearly every day for eight months learning to tune a guitar and still can't do it properly, then there is a problem.

[Acting Like Godot]

Moonrambler, what other areas of your life have you tried to do IM in, apart from money? How did you fare then?

[Acting Like Godot]

LOL, just found this post, by Hkalchemy. He posted it in another part of this forum, but was referring to this current thread. Funny thing is that Hkalchemy is one of those LOA skeptics.

Anyway, Hkalchemy wrote:

Here's a trivial but interesting example. I recently participated in a thread about someone's disappointment at not having manifested a red hat, despite his fervent belief that this would happen. As I was reading the posts and writing my replies, I supposed I was imagining the red hat and that the image was falling into my subconscious mind.

A day or two later, I was attending a rather formal occasion and suddenly I came face to face with someone I have known for many years wearing the most bizzarely inappropriate bright red woolen hat. When I asked him 'why?' he really couldn't answer - just said he felt like wearing it.

Coincidence? I don't believe in it!

What Have You Manifested Recently?

I didn't mention it, but while participating in this thread, I also manifested a red hat. My 5-year-old son went rummaging in some drawers, looking for old toys to play with, and he pulled out a toy fireman's hat, as red as you can imagine.

He hadn't played with it for ages. But suddenly he just wanted to. This happened a few hours after I wrote Post No. 40 in this thread.

[Bradshaw]

<- Skimmed through the thread, will read it all after.

Lol, seriously? It took me like 5 minutes the other day to manifest a yellow umbrella on a sunny day. Twice.

Just thought about it with 100% conviction, belief, etc and then let it go. A little test to reinforce my belief in LoA. The sequence of events that followed was hilarious though, ha ha. Minute 2: Yellowshirt guy. Minute 3: Yellow backpack student Minute 5: i happen to go to a street i never go to, and my head just happens to look at a window above me, and lo and behold, a yellow umbrella hanging.

[GranCanaria]

Originally Posted by Bradshaw

It took me like 5 minutes the other day to manifest a yellow umbrella on a sunny day.

That's fantastic! I am still busy manifesting a blue feather. Actually, I think I succeeded! After a few days of seeing feathers all about on sidewalks and roadsides, friends took me to a museum. In the museum's patio there were two huge parrots picking their feathers. I was just admiring their sheer size when I suddenly realized I was looking at the most beautiful blue feathers I had ever seen!

It was one of those 'I know IM works!' moments, although I intended a blue feather framed on my wall. There were no blue feathers on the patio floor nor did I want to pull one of that chap's feathers.

I think this is the way to go about it. Start with something small, something that is believable for you, and then work your way up to "more difficult" manifestations.

Wishing you all a great day,

GranCanaria

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Moonrambler, what other areas of your life have you tried to do IM in, apart from money? How did you fare then?

I think my first experience with actual focused purposeful IM was while reading a book called something like "The Lazy Man's Way to Riches," which had a section about affirmations, which the author called declarations. This was probably in September of that year. I wrote up some of my own declarations on index cards and I would read them every morning. I was staying in Idaho at the time with a friend from my hometown, and I had been moving around and traveling and living like a gypsy. One of my declarations was, "I live in a place I really like, where I have good close friends, and fulfilling work I really like." What I expected was that I would finally move somewhere that all this would come true. As late as January I was still looking for somewhere to move to, and I was thinking about Phoenix. Then in January or February I got offered a limited-term position at the university, which was (and still is to this day) the coolest job I ever had. I absolutely loved it. And through that job, I met a woman who became one of my best friends. And then I realized I had actually fallen in love with the town too. It was rather amazing to me how that affirmation had worked out, very differently than I had expected, but perfectly.

Sometimes it seems so easy, things just happen even when it looks like they can't. Once I had another limited-term position at another university, and it was due to end because they had run out of the money budgeted for the job, and I was bummed because I really liked this job, and I wrote in my journal, "I really wish something would work out so I could stay there longer." The next thing I knew, my boss had negotiated with another department so he got some of their budget money and I was able to stay on for another semester.

Again, usually it seems like things just seem to happen. I have a friend who got into serious financial problems and got his truck repossessed last year. He went around without a vehicle for months and months. I didn't tell anybody about this because it was horribly embarrassing for him. Once upon a time, I had sold a $5,000 car for $500 to one of my best friends, a single mom who'd just graduated from college at age 40 and was up to her neck in student loans. She drove this car for 10 years and then last summer decided she was going to get a different car. She told me she was thinking of giving the old car to some charity or other rather than trade it in, and at that point I told her that this friend of ours hadn't been able to keep up with his truck payments so he had to give it up. And she gave the car back to me, and I'm letting him use it, and in return he's paying the insurance for both my cars.

Now, it isn't like every single thing I ever wanted has worked out, but sometimes it seems so easy and weird how simple it is, how things just fall into place.

Since all this financial b.s. has been going on, I've had some things happen through IM in regard to making payment arrangements for things. Typically people tell me there is absolutely no way they can make payment arrangements, and then magically, the next thing I know I've got payment arrangments. But you know what -- I have had it up to here with payment arrangements. Wouldn't it just be lots easier to get the money and pay everybody, poof? Instead of having to constantly expend all this time and energy negotiating with everybody to delay my responsibilities? It's like a very stressful roller coaster and I don't want to do this anymore. I just want the money.

And I don't know how to make it just "happen," the way these other things and multitudes of others just happen. I wish I could make it happen the way the radio flows with me. The radio constantly flows with me. It's hysterical. I've mentioned several of these events on here because it's almost daily. Yesterday, when I was so bummed out all day over this money debacle, I went to the post office and I started griping about gas prices. It felt GREAT to finally bitch about something, when I've spent months being so freakin' positive all the time trying to get LoA to do something for me. And the clerk and I stood there and bitched and bitched about gas prices for like 10 minutes. It felt GREAT. I went back to the car and turned it on, and Mick Jaggar was singing, "It's a GAS GAS GAS!!!!"

Boy, I wish I could go into the post office and bitch about money for 10 minutes and go out to my car and find $8,000 sitting on the seat! But what I get is Dire Straits singing "Money for Nothing"! Maybe I could go on David Letterman and do Stupid Human Tricks. I've thought of taking on James Randi's challenge by conjuring up songs, but then when I tried to do this intentionally, it all completely fell apart. Then I just get the universe fooling with me. I don't get the specific song, I get other songs by the same artist or songs with a similar title or songs from the same year, etc. James Randi ain't gonna go for that! I couldn't even manifest a set of twins the other day, for Pete's sake. Instead, everywhere I went, I kept seeing the name of some town near my hometown, even though I had not been thinking about it or anything. It just kept appearing for no apparent reason. And then it stopped, for no apparent reason.

I've mentioned before how easy it is to IM a penny. All you have to do is put $10.01 of gas in your tank, go inside and hand the clerk $11. They are totally happy to hand you back your $1 and take a penny from the penny cup. They want to do this, they like doing this. Yesterday I manifested two pennies because I got $10.02 of gas (prices are so high it's really hard to get it to land at an even number anymore), and I handed her ten bucks and a nickel, and she still handed back the nickel and took two cents from the penny cup, because they enjoy doing this. I said to her, "Cool!!"

One day I was walking along a lakeshore and I was having an idea of "treasure." I just kept thinking "treasure," like a mantra, and it was the most bizarre thing, a $20 bill washed up on the shore. I couldn't believe it. And . . . I've never been able to repeat that experience.

I have no idea how to translate any of this into manifesting an extra $8,000. You would think after eight months of this, I would have that extra $8,000, and it would be just sitting there on my dining room table. When if I want a job to last longer, all I have to do is write once in a journal, "I wish something would happen so I could have the job longer." If all I usually have to do is fling the wish out into the ether, or read an affirmation on an index card for a few months, how come the universe does not want me to get on my feet financially? Why does it continue to be so flippin' hard?