Not a million dollars but not bad either...

[fellowtraveler]

Background: My son had a psychotic episode 15 months ago and so has occupied most of my thinking since, trying to figure how to help him. He's 29 now, a software developer who had an extremely promising career with a Fortune 100 company. But he had to quit his job and move in with us. He's improving but isn't quite ready to go back to working. He is well enough that he went back to tutoring math at his old community college. My apologies to whoever already knew that from previous posts, but my posts aren't generally glitzy enough to register on most of the personalities I see in here.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I have been able to manifest (or predict) a couple of things to help him out so far. This latest one will likely sound miniscule, but it is a good example of the "manifestation vs. prediction" quandry I have.

My son had a mentor in the local community college he attended before going to university, a professor who saw something in him and befriended him. A few days ago, a thought of this fellow (who I've never met personally) passed thru my mind in the course of my constant flipping through ideas on how to help my boy. The thought was that maybe he could help get him a job he could handle.

My son hadn't had any contact with the professor for a good 3-4 years (even though he tutors at that same school) but I had a fleeting thought to tell him to contact the guy; I filed that away for my to-do-when-the-time-is-right list.

Well "of course" the professor called my son the other evening out of the blue - just told him to stop and see him, wouldn't tell him why. Part of me was dumbfounded...this was no coincidence. Another part of me (as is usually the case), just smiled and said, "but of course!".

This is another case where I did not "concentrate" on anything...I just thought about it and it happened. The pattern I'm seeing (as I see others do) is that it works when I state my intention, then let it go and run its course.

My only quandry is that I'd like to know whether things like this are truly manifestations of my intention, or am I just picking up on disturbances in the ether, so to speak. I have always been on the intuitive side (a necessity for those of us who live in Neptune's fog and have trouble seeing the physical world clearly). It's entirely possible that I was picking up on a coming event on my timeline, like seeing the waves from a boat far offshore.

Not that it matters, really. "It" is what it is, and deconstructing it like this could make it all fly away like dandelion seeds. Guess it's my propensity for taking things apart to see how they work (often I have parts left over when I put it back together, IF I get it back together, haha).

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by fellowtraveler

My apologies to whoever already knew that from previous posts, but my posts aren't generally glitzy enough to register on most of the personalities I see in here.

Hi there, I remember you. Good to see you around.

My only quandry is that I'd like to know whether things like this are truly manifestations of my intention, or am I just picking up on disturbances in the ether, so to speak.

I would like to suggest the third possibility that it is both, actually.

It is the observer effect all over again. The observer, by observing, always has some effect on the thing being observed.

For example, if you seek to measure the temperature of a glass of warm water using a thermometer, the thermometer itself absorbs some heat from the water, thereby lowering the temperature of the water. What you end up measuring is not the temperature of the water itself, but the temperature of the water after it has lost some heat to the thermometer.

So it is in your case.You have picked up on a certain person, who knows, perhaps at that time, he was thinking also of your son. But at the same time you held the intention that the person should help your son, and perhaps that led to the person actually wanting to meet your son.

[fellowtraveler]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

I would like to suggest the third possibility that it is both, actually.

It is the observer effect all over again. The observer, by observing, always has some effect on the thing being observed.

For example, if you seek to measure the temperature of a glass of warm water using a thermometer, the thermometer itself absorbs some heat from the water, thereby lowering the temperature of the water. What you end up measuring is not the temperature of the water itself, but the temperature of the water after it has lost some heat to the thermometer.

So it is in your case.You have picked up on a certain person, who knows, perhaps at that time, he was thinking also of your son. But at the same time you held the intention that the person should help your son, and perhaps that led to the person actually wanting to meet your son.

Very good...thanks. The thermometer is a great analogy, the kind I like.

Sometimes I don't carry a concept far enough (erm...perhaps distracted by a random shiny object or an errant breeze thru the window, heh) - you're right of course, it's all one thing.